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Letzter Kommentar: vor 7 Jahren von Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) in Abschnitt Wikidata weekly summary #228
Wikidata weekly summary #225
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Remember that we would love to have your input about data quality on Wikidata and list generation on Wikipedia!
- What would you like to organize for Wikidata's 4rth birthday?
- Events/Press/Blogs
- “Ben Whishaw, Broadway, the RADA and Wikidata” (data integration in the era of semantic web) by Harmonia Amanda
- Hands-on research about Wikidata: My time as a PhD student at Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. by Alessandro Piscopo
- 3 tutorial videos about Wikidata: an intro to Wikidata, how to edit Wikidata and Wikidata Sparql Query Tutorial by Ewan McAndrew, Navino Evans and Sean McBirnie
- Past: First Wikidata workshop in the Czech Republic, Pardubice – imported much open data related to the Czech Republic
- Past: Lydia and Jens from the Wikidata team were at the QTcon to talk about Wikidata and applications (see the slides)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The events page is now up to date. You want to join or organise a meetup with other Wikidata editors? Keep an eye on this page!
- 30K entries from Kindred Britain added in Mix’n’Match
- Welsh Wikipedia includes Wikidata-based article placeholders, like this one
- Wiki Loves Monuments started! You can help by improving the items about heritage buildings or use Wikishootme to find unpictured monuments
- English Wikipedia now has a WikiProject Wikidata to coordinate integration with Wikidata. Why not start one for your local Wikipedia? Add it to Q20855878 if you do.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: parent peak, elCinema person ID, elCinema film ID, TripAdvisor ID, NSZL name authority ID, last line, Redalyc journal ID, NSW Flora ID, cine.gr film ID, CiNetMag film ID, Latindex ID, ALCUIN ID, EDRPOU code, Polish scientist ID, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ID, OpenDomesday person ID, Epguides ID, TOID, Code for China Reservoir Name, OpenDomesday settlement ID, DSSTOX substance identifier, ISzDb dub ID, ISzDb company ID, ISzDb person ID, does not have part, DistroWatch ID, FEI ID, ISzDb film ID, Peakbagger ID, Yelp ID, LdiF ID, Guardian topic ID
- Query examples:
- People convicted of regicide and their victims (source)
- The most common birthday among US citizens (source)
- Things named after Polish people (source)
- Drama schools by number of students (source)
- Average gestation period of genera (source)
- Sir Christopher Lee's filmography (with film directors) (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Armenia, Czech Republic
- Development
- RDF exports now contain page properties, this allows to query by number of statements or sitelinks (T129046)
- Working on unit conversion for RDF exports (T117031)
- Enabling Wikidata data access in user language deployed (T122670)
- Information about usage of entities in other projects will be visible and reusable (T103091)
- Pasting full entity URLs into suggesters will be possible (T117763)
- Added meta descriptions to allow for better snippets in external search engines (T88475)
- We replaced the old parser limit report (an HTML comment) with the new format (T143423)
- Ongoing refactoring of the frontend JavaScript, this may break user scripts accessing private properties (T142694)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
Wikidata weekly summary #226
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Keynote by Lydia Pintscher at DBpedia conference, September 15th, Leipzig.
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop for beginners, September 16, Paris
- Upcoming: Semantic MediaWiki Conference, September 28-30, Frankfurt
- Upcoming: Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) & Liam Wyatt (User:Wittylama) speaking about GLAM-Wiki (including Wikidata) in Warsaw, 19 October. Details tbc.
- Upcoming: Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) speaking & running workshop about Wikidata at SFK 16 ("Software Freedom Kosova Conference") in Pristina, 21-23 October.
- Research on WikiProject Knowledge Organization Systems presented at 15th NKOS workshop at TPDL: Classification of Knowledge Organization Systems with Wikidata: Presentation and Paper.
- Being a Volunteer Developer for Wikimedia projects: An Interview with Tpt
- Sunday Query: The 200 Oldest Living French Actresses, query tutorial by Harmonia Amanda
- How to prototype Wikidata entities (in French) by Poulpy
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- We have new graphic material to present Wikidata. Feel free to use these files in your slides/talks/documents :)
- #SundayQuery on Twitter: every Sunday, you can ask for help or advice about SPARQL queries, how to build or fix it, some SPARQL-ninjas will be there to answer you!
- Researcher? You can participate in the WSDM Cup 2017 challenge and improve Wikidata vandalism detection
- How to build a query by Pigsonthewing
- Wikipedia gets Map links and Geoshapes service using Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Scottish Charity number, Rock Hall of Fame ID, has grammatical mood, Minnesota legislator ID, UGent Memorialis id, enclosure, event distance, Australian Classification, Runeberg book ID, Runeberg author ID, Crossref funder ID, Findsmiley ID, iNaturalist taxon ID, birthday, molecule conformation, repeals, United States Reports ID, CiNetMag person ID, YouTheater ID, elFilm person ID, elFilm film ID, EDb person ID, EDb film ID, SourehCinema person ID, SourehCinema film ID, OFDb ID
- Query examples:
- New templates: {{Denmark properties}}, {{Greece properties}}. Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar template for your country or region.
- Development
- Lowered relevance threshold for ArticlePlaceholder search results from 3 to 2 sitelinks (T144188)
- Added 'otk' as an available language for monolingual text values (T137809)
- Working on making it possible to paste partial URLs into the site selector (T144310)
- A Grafana board now tracks general usage and error metrics of the Query Service UI
- Made progress on showing editors on all Wikimedia projects which articles on their project use data from a given Wikidata item. We will also show in the page information (action=info) which items a given article uses. Also worked on showing which projects use a given item in the page information. (T103091)
- Added meta information to the html header of item pages (T88475)
- Made progress on making ArticlePlaceholders indexable for search engines (T144590)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
Wikidata weekly summary #227
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- We're starting working on lexicographical data! Please read the proposal and give us your feedback :)
- New request for comments: Merging male and female labels
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: State of the map, September 23 - 25, Brussels
- Next Wikidata office hour: Tuesday September 27th, from 18:00 to 19:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2), in #wikimedia-office
- Video of a SPARQL workshop (& materials) organized by Wikimedia Foundation's Discovery and Research teams
- Slides of Lydia's keynote about Wikidata at the DBpedia conference 2016
- Slides of Andreas Thalhammer about Unified PageRank for DBpedia and Wikidata
- #SundayQuery: ask for help on queries every Sunday on Twitter! This week, a tutorial about surnames by Harmonia Amanda, and how to use SPARQL and Python to fix typographical errors by Ash Crow
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Project Grants program is accepting proposals from September 12 to October 11 to fund new tools, research, offline outreach, online organizing and other experiments that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers.
- The RevisionSlider is now available as a beta feature, try it to have a visual overview of your diffs.
- You can also activate ORES the review tool to watch damaging edits more easily!
- There's an infographic on the quality process in Wikidata you can use and edit.
- You can also use and translate this new datamodel representation.
- How to fix taxon common names with Pywikibot, tutorial by TweetsFactsAndQueries and Tobias1984.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Visual Novel Database ID, territory overlaps, Zaragoza monument ID, Patrimonio Web JCyL ID, uses property, Statoids ID, art director, offers view on, World Bridge Federation ID, Olympic.org ID, Cultural Heritage Armenia ID, Harasire ID, Sporthorse data ID, Allbreedpedigree ID, Webpedigrees ID, Horsetelex ID
- Query examples:
- Newest database reports: list of embassies
- Development
- We're working on entity usage on Wikimedia projects, check our different features
- The Wikidata team attended and participated to a lot of conference these past days (WikiCon, ViewSource, DPpedia, SoCraTes, Write the doc) that's why we don't have many tasks to share with you this week :)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
Wikidata weekly summary #228
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: WikiCon 2016
- Past: OASPA conference (slides)
- Past: State of the Map
- Past: National Institute of Health: frontiers in data science lecture series (slides)
- Upcoming: SMWCon
- Upcoming: office hour on IRC
- Blog post about Wikidata and data about Czech trees
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The query examples have been migrated from mediawiki.org to wikidata.org at d:Wikidata:SPARQL examples
- HPI is doing a linked data engineering course online
- TXT Werk is doing automatic entity recognition in text with the help of Wikidata. Previously only German was supported. English is now supported as well.
- Andy has mapped most of the W3C's ontology for vCard to Wikidata properties.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Heritage Lighthouse of Canada ID, Heritage Railway Station of Canada ID, New General Catalogue ID, Vine user ID, data.gouv.fr ID, patient of, Ciné-Ressources person ID, Ciné-Ressources movie ID, UAI code, Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities ID, Northern Ireland charity number, charity number (Isle of Man), JewishGen Locality ID, Federal Heritage Buildings ID, USGS earthquake id, league points system, INA video ID, GS1 Manufacturer code, Last.FM music ID, IMIS person ID, innervates, innervated by, Nobel prize ID, Marburger Professorenkatalog ID, TAXREF ID, VKontakte username, Czech National Bibliography book ID, WSJ topic ID, FANTOIR code, OpenCitations bibliographic resource ID
- Query examples: taxonomy of squirrels (source), good or featured articles about people on Wikipedia but with no picture on Wikidata (source), Nordic Cross flags (source)
- Development
- mnc (for Manchu) will soon be available as a language code for monolingual text values (phabricator:T137808)
- Worked on foreign EntityIds in order to be able to use Wikidata's items and properties on Commons in the future (phabricator:T145516, phabricator:T146030, phabricator:T146274)
- More work on usage tracking UI (phabricator:T145965, phabricator:T143148, phabricator:T145189, phabricator:T144923)
- RFC discussion about Multi-Content-Revisions - another big blocker for structured data on Commons (phabricator:E273)
- Ran a bot to mark dates that need a check of their calendar model (phabricator:T105100)
- Getting unit conversion into the query service soon. We'll start with units for length and then expand based on feedback. (phabricator:T117032)
- Working on extension to automatically link pages between languages on Wiktionary (phabricator:T145412)
- Added the value that is responsible for an error in the error message so it can be found and fixed more easily (phabricator:T144303)
- Working on fix for issue with extremely large or small date values in RDF (phabricator:T146356)
- Expanding references again in diffs (phabricator:T129836)
- Unbroke CopyReferences gadget. More work is needed. (phabricator:T142203)
- Fixed issue with 2 search suggestion boxes showing up instead of 1 (phabricator:T119492)
- Worked on improving the query service documentation (phabricator:T133052)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention