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Wikidata weekly summary #143

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Closed RfAs: Eurodyne (unsuccessful)
  • Open RfAs: BlackBeast
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: MediaWiki Developer Summit
  • Past: FOSDEM
  • Upcoming: ArtBytes hackathon
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • ATOM feeds for changes in Wikidata Query results. Define your own to keep an eye on changes in specific topics
  • Overview of the number of visual artworks items on Wikidata by creator (>5 items)
  • The Wikidata Free Image Search Tool can now also search Commons (not just follow language links)
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: British Museum person-institution, Sächsische Biografie, equivalent class, LfDS object ID, DAAO identifier
  • Newest WikiProjects: Authority control
• Development
  • Fixed diffs not showing old ranks, qualifiers and references on the left side (phabricator:T87096)
  • Worked on several date and time related issues, like incorrect padding of the year to 11 instead of 16 digits (phabricator:T87764)
  • Further work on header section redesign (phabricator:T75654)
  • Started redesign of statements section (phabricator:T87316)
  • Introduced a hint showing the language when a language fallback is used on an item or property (phabricator:T85105)
  • Working on splitting a Wikibase View component out of the Wikibase Repo code base
  • Currently testing how PHPCS and PHPMD can help raising Wikibase’ code quality
  • Released Wikibase DataModelSerialization 1.3 with language fallback support
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 13:21, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #144

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Open RfAs: BlackBeast
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: Eurpeana Tech
  • Andrew Su gave a talk about crowd sourcing and citizen science for biology including Wikidata (slides)
  • Going to Wikimania? Apply for a scholarship.
  • Internet Archive, Wikidata and Open Education
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikibooks will get access to language links via Wikidata on February 24th. Coordination is happening at d:Wikidata:Wikibooks.
  • Roughly 17000 of the candidate articles that Google identified as potentially being about the same topic but lacking a language link have been merged. About 17500 are remaining and waiting for you to go through them via https://tools.wmflabs.org/yichengtry/
  • Mix'n'Match got a face lift
  • Magnus says every day new images are added to over 1000 items \o/
  • RStats client for Wikidata
  • Reasonator now also supports biography texts in French
• Did you know?
  • Showcase items: Lucy (first name)
• Development
  • Did more work on Capiunto to get it into a state where it can be deployed to Wikimedia sites.
  • Mourned Titan (phabricator:T88550) as its developers were bought up. Began evaluation for which graph database to use instead for a Wikidata query service (mw:Wikibase/Indexing)
  • Further work on header section redesign
  • Tweaks to the sitelink section
  • Worked on making monolingual text datatype accept more languages
  • Finished showing the language when a language fallback is used
  • Started looking into fixing the existing Guided Tours after Guided Tours extension API changes
  • Worked on implementing Lua convenience functions for rendering arbitrary Snaks. This is useful for displaying references or qualifiers. (phabricator:T76213)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 17:54, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #145

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Europeana Tech
  • Wir lieben Freie Software
  • Mapping resources using open knowledge: starting with books!
  • New recommendations outline ways to strengthen Europeana’s future relationship with Wikimedia
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Spiffy new project building on top of Wikidata: inventaire.io. Check out this example entry!
  • You will now see when a language fallback for a label is used on an item or property. The language name will be shown next to it.
  • Automatic descriptions for Wikidata items by Magnus
  • The templates for adding badges (good article, featured article, etc) to articles on Wikipedia in the sidebar are getting removed from articles rapidly in favor of getting that information from Wikidata \o/ German Wikipedia even deleted those templates already. English Wikipedia seems to be getting close.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Journalisted ID, Biography at the Bundestag of Germany, Metacritic ID
  • Newest WikiProjects: Identical Twins
• Development
  • <3
  • We are hiring! Passionate about Wikidata and know your way around Java Script and co? Apply!
  • We'll spend the next week working with Nik and Stas from WMF to move queries forward in Berlin
  • Worked on implementing a Lua interface for arbitrary Snak rendering. This can be used to render eg. qualifiers or references in Wikipedia infoboxes.
  • Did groundwork for Lua convenience functions that render data in the user’s interface language, rather than the content language (for multilingual wikis, like Commons or Wikidata only)
  • Did further work on making the Lua interface code nicer and share code with the parser functions
  • Removed input method selector in the sitelink input as it was hiding the actual input and not very useful there
  • Fixed some issues in diff views showing new data instead of old data
  • Created a few scripts to make it easier for 3rd parties to install Wikibase
  • Fixed icinga notification that tests if dispatch lag gets high
  • Investigated several issues regarding storage of time values and started fixing them
  • Fixed editing of qualifiers
  • Fixed most browser tests after introduction of new header design
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 10:25, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #146

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Asking ever bigger questions with Wikidata
  • Wikidata4Research meetup in Berlin
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • As announced Wikibooks is getting access to Wikidata for their sitelinks on 24th. Coordination at d:Wikidata:Wikibooks
  • ViziData
  • Update on data quality project
  • Update on structured data for Commons
  • Using mw.wikibase.getEntity in a Lua module? Please read this.
  • Number of visual artworks items by property (type, genre, creator...) on Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: operty:P1721|pinyin transliteration]], posthumous name, temple name, courtesy name, SANDRE ID, brand
  • Showcase items:Montblanc
• Development
  • Still looking for an awesome frontend developer to join the team
  • Met with Nik and Stas from WMF in Berlin for a week to move query functionality forward. Made good progress on evaluating backends and languages
  • Worked on RDF mapping/export
  • Introduced mw.wikibase.renderSnak(s) for rendering arbitrary Snaks in Lua. This can be used for rendering for example qualifiers or references.
  • Made it so that links in the “other projects” sidebar are alphabetically ordered
  • Made the diff views for dates easier to read
  • Continued work on the planned Wikibase View component
  • Continued work on header redesign
  • Worked on a new special page that lets you set label, description and aliases in one page
  • Fixed all browsertests to use new header section and adjusted them to use phantomjs
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • d:Wikidata:Glossary could use some serious simplification to make it easier to understand. Can you help?
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 20:45, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

This Month in Education: [February 201

Updates, reports, news, and stories about how Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects are used in education around the world.

• Armenia: Wikimedia Armenia runs WikiCamps with great success
• Greece: Corfu adult school piloting WikiExpeditions and article writing on Wikipedia
• Serbia: High school student advocates for Education Program
• Sweden: Education Program succeeds with high school students
• Armenia: WikiClub contributes more than 300,000 bytes to Armenian Wiktionary in a month
• Egypt: New campus ambassador and new Chinese translation class
• Resources: New education toolkit helps program leaders develop their programs
• Resources: New education learning patterns answer many of your questions
• Communications: Wikipedia Education Program is now on Facebook
• Media: Articles of interest in other publications: Australia, Ireland, Black History Month, WikiWomen and Jimmy Wales

Headlines · Highlights · Single page · Newsroom · Archives · Unsubscribe

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Wikidata weekly summary #147

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • RfC: Reforming administrator inactivity criteria
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Platypus - a speaking interface for Wikidata
  • Past: Wikidata for Research meetup
  • Past: GLAMhack (two of the results: The Endless Story and a family tree)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata reached 200,000,000 edits
  • Welcome Wikibooks! Wikibooks now gets its language links via Wikidata as well.
  • Vote for your favorite Wikimania submissions. Here are the Wikidata related ones.
  • New release of the Wikidata Toolkit with lots of good stuff.
  • There are now over 30,000 objects in OpenStreetMap tagged with a Wikidata ID. Can you add more?
  • Want to see where we want infoboxes to go with Wikidata? Check out the infobox fromage on French Wikipedia. Have a look at the wiki text here.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Naturbase ID, Fach, AllMusic song ID, AllMusic album ID, AllMusic artist ID, Flora of North America ID, Florentine musea Inventario 1890 ID, beats per minute
  • Newest WikiProjects: Cheese, Filming Locations
  • Showcase items: None this week. Yours next week?
  • You can listen to Wikidata (setting at the bottom)
• Development
  • Chaged a number of Lua modules (from deprecated function mw.wikibase.getEntity to mw.wikibase.getEntityObject)
  • Updated the json documentation
  • Always link to Wikidata on client pages that don’t have any langlinks. This affects users without JavaScript and logged out users, logged in users will still see the link item dialog. gerrit:168632
  • Fixes for the Wikibase qunit Jenkins job
  • Made Vagrant git-update also properly update Wikibase and dependencies
  • Fix for phabricator:T88254 (malformatted Wikidata entries appearing in Watchlist RSS feed in clients)
  • Final touches on new header design
  • Investigated how we can provide language fallback also in suggestions when search or adding new statements
  • More work on allowing additional languages in monolingual text datatype
  • Added missing backend piece for quantities with units. Now the remaining piece is the user interface.
  • Enabled Wikibase Client on Wikibooks
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher 12:48, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 10

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 10, January-February 2015
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs)

• New donations - ProjectMUSE, Dynamed, Royal Pharmaceutical Society, and Women Writers Online
• New TWL coordinator, conference news, and a new guide and template for archivists
• TWL moves into the new Community Engagement department at the WMF, quarterly review

Read the full newsletter

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Wikidata weekly summary #148

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Open RfA: Haplology
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • upcoming: Wikidata for Wikipedians at Lokal K in Köln in 17th of March
  • upcoming: Wikidata editathon in Berlin on 24th of March
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Help flesh out landing pages for partners
  • Update on the Wikidata query service progress
  • The automatic description API can now generate infoboxes (currently, "person" and "artwork" on en.wp)
  • Wikidata Skim gives you very simple query functionality
  • Meet Kian, the first neural network to serve Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Information Center for Israeli Art artist identifier, Comedien.ch identifier, oath of office date, Steam ID
  • Showcase items:Symphony No. 7
• Development
  • Fixed edit buttons sometimes not showing up because of caching
  • Added mailto to the allowed protocols in the URL data type
  • Worked on updating the data model documentation
  • Worked on client wiki subscription/notification mechanism
  • Improved handling of scientific notation for quantity values
  • Reworked a lot of code related to time parsing and formatting, e.g. proper support for language independent parsing of YYYY-MM-DD ordered dates
  • Continued working on the new Special:SetLabelDescriptionAliases
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 00:19, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #149

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Successful RfA: Haplology
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Pictures, reloaded
  • Improving data quality on Wikidata – checking what we have
  • Linkin mash
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Simple Wikidata graph generator
  • Please help test the next step for header redesign
  • Provide input about how to improve Wikidata watchlist integration on Wikipedia and other sister projects
  • Items without statements - help by adding "instance of" to some of them
  • Picture of current geocoordinate coverage on Wikidata
  • Query generator spreadsheet
  • Image search now allows the addition of the "grave image" property
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Flemish organization for Immovable Heritage ID, National Pipe Organ Register identifier, Hornbostel-Sachs classification, Watson & Dallwitz family ID, Aviation Safety Network Wikibase Occurrence, Aviation Safety Network accident description ID, category related to list, list related to category, scale, BBC Your Paintings collection identifier, name day, Parlement & Politiek ID, NCI Thesaurus ID, Flora of China, ZooBank nomenclatural act, VASCAN ID, Agassiz et al checklist number, Bradley and Fletcher checklist number, GTAA concept identifier, category for films shot at this location, CiNii book identifer, Merck Index monograph
• Development
  • Got next step for header redesign and other goodies ready for testing (see above)
  • Created gadget for displaying padlock indicators on protected items and properties
  • Preliminary support for statements in the RDF export
  • Fixed "page watched" icon not being updated after an edit that should trigger it
  • Released Wikibase DataModel 2.6
  • Wikidata builds are now prepared automatically each day
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 20:32, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #150

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Editathon at MACBA
  • Past: Wikidata intro session for Wikipedians at Lokal K in Cologne
  • Upcoming: Wikidata editing at Wikimedia Germany in Berlin
  • Upcoming: Office hour on 31st of March (Topics include Freebase migration, dev update, admin inactivity criteria)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Freebase is going read-only at the end of the month and we expect an influx of new people. There is now an FAQ to answer their most common questions.
  • We now have (improved) landing pages for partners at d:Wikidata:Data donation and d:Wikidata:Data access. Could use some help with making them easier to read and more visual.
  • Lots of improvements around MixNMatch. It has a new catalog overview page. ~340K IDs have been matched so far with it and it now has an FAQ for institutions wanting to get their identifiers linked in Wikidata
  • There is a fancy new tool to help with patrolling edits on Wikidata
  • First screenshot of the primary sources tool that'll help with migrating data from Freebase and enriching it with references has been leaked ;-): 1 and 2
  • DBpedia converts Wikidata data to the DBpedia ontology
  • Another 3rd-party SPARQL endpoint has been set up for testing
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: art-name, posthumous name, temple name, courtesy name, school of, possible creator, forgery after, manner of, circle of, follower of, workshop of, attributed to, USDA plant identifier, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System identifier, LMI code, denkXweb identifier, place name sign
  • Newest WikiProjects: Municipalities of Germany
  • Newest gadgets: Image search supports the new "place name sign" property
• Development
  • Fixed property suggestions on empty items
  • Updated database for property suggestions with newest correlations so you should get better suggestions
  • Updated various documentation
  • Continued working on RDF export (among other things a requirement for query functionality)
  • Polishing in the user interface
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 22:44, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #151

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Sex and artists
  • VIAF is Moving to Wikidata
  • Upcoming: IRC office hour on Tuesday
  • Upcoming: Editathon in the pre-program of the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The next steps for the header redesign and bugfixes are live
  • New tool by Magnus that lets you add reference URLs with a single click
  • An update from Freebase (which is going read-only on Tuesday!)
  • The tours are working again thanks to Bene* and Lucie
  • Effort to define a biomedical relationship ontology for Wikidata
  • Eventzoom.net - displaying history from Wikidata on maps
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: ABoK number, Word Health Organisation International Nonproprietary Name, Danish National Filmography ID, Masaryk University person ID, EMLO person identifier, Commemorative plaque image, Wikimedia database name, Maltese Islands National Inventory of Cultural Property identifier, ISO 639-5, International Standard Industrial Classification code, Smithsonian American Art Museum: person/institution thesaurus id, bureau du patrimoine de Seine-Saint-Denis ID, format as a regular expression, category of associated people, category of people buried here, BioStor author identifier, chief operating officer, DVN identifier
• Newest WikiProjects:
• Newest gadgets: Image search can find photos for the new "commemorative plaque image" property
  • New task forces: Dictionary of National Biography (DNB)
• There is a SpecialPage to easily get to the Wikidata item for a given Wikipedia article and another one to get to the Wikipedia article for a given Wikidata ID.
• Development
  • Deployed new code to Wikidata \o/ (and fixed a few issues that popped up)
  • Made good progress on RDF export (needed for example for queries)
  • Did more performance groundwork for arbitrary access
  • Students working on improved constraint reports and checking against 3rd party databases are making good progress
  • Looked into improving suggestions
  • Worked on making dispatching changes from Wikidata to Wikipedia and co more robust
  • Removed backwards compatibility from mw.wikibase.getEntity(), to be deployed April 7 and 8. See also here.
  • Improved support for right-to-left languages, e.g. in the sitelinks view
  • Created a unit test framework for special pages
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add multi-lingual labels for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 20:29, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

This Month in Education: March 2015

Updates, reports, news, and stories about how Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects are used in education around the world.

• Uruguay: A new edition of Wikipedia Education Program kicks off in Uruguay
• Czech Republic: Czech senior citizen program scales up
• Egypt: Cairo University students wrap up their sixth term on Wikipedia
• Israel: Education/Newsletter/March 2015/Educator conference successfully concludes teachers' online courses
• Argentina: Wikimedia Argentina reinforces gender diversity on Wikipedia with several women targeted events
• Mexico: Novel photo projects related to editathon at Tec de Monterrey
• Media: Articles of interest in other publications: Events commemorating WikiWomen History Month, WikiMed and Black History editathons

Headlines · Highlights · Single page · Newsroom · Archives · Unsubscribe

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Wikidata weekly summary #152

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Closed RfC: Reforming administrator inactivity criteria
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • WikiArabia takes place in Monastir, Tunisia, 3-5 April
  • The GLAM-WIKI 2015 conference in The Hague (10-12 April) features several presentations and tutorials about Wikidata for/with cultural institutions.
  • The Library world will use Wikidata to link its information to any and all Wikipedias. No longer English only, but every Wikipedia will be exposed in this way.
  • Freebase, SEO and Wikidata
  • Office hour on IRC covering overall status/development, Freebase and admin inactivity criteria RfC. You can read the log.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Magnus wrote a short tour of Wikidata's tool ecosystem.
  • A first version of the Primary Sources Tool has been released. It'll help with migrating Freebase data and more.
  • Italian Wikipedia's quality festival is focusing on interwiki links and Wikidata this month. Help them out?
  • Lots of new databases have been added to Mix n Match.
  • Screenshots of the current state of new constraint reports and checks against 3rd party databases have been posted.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: choreographer, senat.fr ID, Great Aragonese Encyclopedia ID
• Development
  • Wikidata development started 3 years ago. <3 to everyone who is a part of it.
  • Went through all the feedback we got for improving watchlist integration on Wikipedia and co and posted our assesment
  • Put the infrastructure for creating Turtle-Beta dumps in place. All new Wikidata dumps will be in https://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikidatawiki/entities/ from Monday on (the old * directory will be kept around and receive new json dumps for backwards compatibility).
  • Reduced size of entities pages by removing no longer needed data (to make the UI faster).
  • Fixed bug that sometimes caused dates and other types of values to be cut short when quickly saving. (phabricator:T92831)
  • Fixed issues with setting focus after clicking edit.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 15:12, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

A new reference tool

Hello Books & Bytes subscribers. There is a new Visual Editor reference feature in development called Citoid. It is designed to "auto-fill" references using a URL or DOI. We would really appreciate you testing whether TWL partners' references work in Citoid. Sharing your results will help the developers fix bugs and improve the system. If you have a few minutes, please visit the testing page for simple instructions on how to try this new tool. Regards, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:48, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #153

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata by country, or: The Wealth of Nation's Data
  • Wikidata the Game - one year in
  • Ongoing: GLAM-Wiki 2015
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Build a RSS image feed based on a query
  • Periodic table based on Wikidata data by Ricordisamoa
  • ~8000 biographical items with dates in the description, but no birth/death date statements
  • Magnus says ~8% (~1.4M) of all Wikidata items do not have any site links to Wikipedia etc.; knowledge that exists exclusively on Wikidata
  • Bene* wrote a user script that adds a filter bar above the statement section and lets you filter it
  • Magnus wrote a quick user script to move identifiers into the right sidebar to show how a statement section without identifiers would look like. This came up as part of a longer discussion on the mailinglist about moving identifier statements into their own section. Progress is being tracked at phabricator:T95287.
  • Samsung releases Freebase-Wikidata mappings in CC0: 4.4M pairs generated from Wikipedia links and custom code
  • Thanks to Bene* hovercards now also work for items and properties
  • New tool by Magnus for Wikidata item labels
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: short name, list of episodes, named as
  • New task forces: Star Wars, Open Access
• Development
  • We are going to change the way value suggestions are ranked when entering a new statement. This will help with "male" and "female" not showing up among the top suggestions. Previously we ranked by number of sitelinks. We will change this to the maximum of sitelinks and labels. So if an item has labels in many languages but no sitelinks like "male" and "female" it will still show up high in the suggestions. (phabricator:T94404)
  • Discussed how to move forward with identifiers. Outcome: They should get their own datatype. (phabricator:T95287)
  • Implemented arbitrary access for the {{#property:…}} parser function. This can be invoked on the wikis that have arbitrary access enabled by using {{#property:P123|from=Q42}}. So far this is only Wikidata itself.
  • Did further performance work on the client (Wikipedia and co) in preparation for arbitrary access
  • Improved the performance of wbgetentities significantly when loading a large number of entities
  • Wrote more browser tests for different datavalues
  • Further work on RDF mapping and dumps
  • Fixed in other language box showing old data (phabricator:T90893)
  • Fixed language fallback on Special:Recent changes and Special:Contributions
  • Added language fallback for the tooltip on badge icons
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 21:02, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #154

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Open RfA: Aldnonymous
  • RfC: Review of "change datatype to monolingual" actions for some properties, Adopt Help:Classification as an official help page
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Redirects on Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Tool by Magnus to find wrong nationalities on Wikidata
  • Where am I? (figuring out your location based on geocoordinates in Wikidata)
  • Map of French national parks
  • Histropedia published 5 query generator spreadsheets
  • Wikimedia's monthly GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) newsletter now includes a Wikidata report. The draft for the first edition, covering April, may be edited and your contributions will be welcome.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Baseball-Reference.com minor league player ID, Baseball-Reference.com major league player ID, road number, BAnQ ID, DSH object ID, Open Food Facts food category slug, Open Food Facts food additive slug, genealogics.org personID, Kaiserhof ID, addressee, National Portrait Gallery (London) person identifier, RSL book's identifier, name in kana
• Development
  • Made label, description and aliases special pages easier to use
  • Bene* created a new Special:ListProperties special page to list properties by data type
  • Expanded our set of automated browser tests
  • Made language fallbacks work in more situations and more consistently. In particular, the entity selector now uses language fallback. This should benefit especially people who want to use Wikidata in a variant such as en-gb.
  • Continued work on the planned DataModel 3.0 release
  • Continued discussing and documenting future calendar model support
  • Continued work on our RDF generator
  • Continued work on usage tracking for labels on multilingual sites
  • Addshore worked on various issues regarding redirects
  • Addshore worked on a special page to turn an item into a redirect
  • Work on showing entity labels in edit summaries on history pages
  • Implemented change dispatching based on the new usage tracking mechanism
  • Fixed issue with page deletions on some Wikipedias not being reported to Wikidata
  • More work on straightening out date formatting and parsing
  • Fixed handling of scientific notation for quantity values
  • Term box: fixed bug causing stale info to be show, and another bug causing babel languages to be ignored sometimes.
  • Implemented access to other arbitrary items via the #property parser function
  • Bene* implemented check to make sure two properties can not have the same alias only differing in capitalization
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 09:52, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #155

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • RfC: Opting out of Global sysops 2
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata emerges as central element of GLAM-WIKI 2015
  • ongoing: Coding DaVinci
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The question that started Wikidata has finally been answered! Thank you Markus! ;-)
  • Wikimedia Sverige adapted two brochures about Wikidata, one for GLAMs and one for researchers.
  • Bene* has been working on making Wikidata work nicely on mobile. You can check the current status on a demo system.
  • Amir could use your help with automatic transliteration of human names
  • Commons-WD: a tool to edit Wikidata based on a Commons category
  • Various improvements to the Primary Sources Tool including:
    • Edits made with it will now say so in the edit summary
    • It now uses the URL blacklist to not suggest low-quality references
    • Caching issues were fixed
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Kiev street code, blood type, Perry Index, input set, SSR Name ID, SSR WrittenForm ID, INPN Code, Nasjonalbiblioteket photographer ID, distribution map, anti-virus alias, HathiTrust id, common name, Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online identifier, Swedish district code, investigated by, US Federal Election Commission identifier, PSS-archi ID, Gaoloumi ID, draft pick number, GrassBase ID, electorate, owner of, Roud Folk Song Index, IPI Code, ISWC
  • There are a number of user boxes you can add to your user page to indicate interests and which wiki projects you belong to.
• Development
  • On Tuesday, we are deploying usage tracking (no arbitrary access yet) to Dutch Wikipedia and French Wikisource, and subscription tracking on Wikidata. There should be no noticeable changes for users. These are necessary steps towards enabling arbitrary access in clients.
  • Worked on making language fallback work in the suggester (when adding a new statement or searching for an item)
  • More work on RDF output and the query service
  • Added Special:RedirectEntity for redirecting items
  • Investigated and working to fix JS bug on items with “invalid” values (phabricator:92975)
  • Did work towards having entity ids in revision histories and in diffs linked with their label (like on watchlists or in the recentchanges)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 14:00, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

This Month in Education: April 2015

Updates, reports, news, and stories about how Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects are used in education around the world.

• WMF: Quarterly update from the education team
• Armenia: Teachers and journalists of Armenian community in Lebanon joined Wikipedia and Wikipedia Education program
• Ukraine: First round of WikiStudia wraps up with success
• Greece: Greek Adult school completes wikiexpedition on Greek villages
• Mexico: New to Wikipedia: A personal perspective
• Latvia: Education Program Extension enabled on Latvian Wikipedia
• Russia: Education Program Extension enabled on Russian Wikipedia
• Sweden: Students nominated for their MOOC on Swedish Wikiversity
• Media: Articles of interest in other publications: Studies and news from Harvard to Cambridge, women events and history editathons

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