Wikidata April 2013

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[Wikidata-l] Link to gerrit not working (Re: weekly summary #52)

by Innovimax SARL

Hi all, On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Lydia Pintscher <lydia.pintscher(a)wikimedia.de> wrote: > You can follow our commits at > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(status:open+project:mediawiki/extension… I never succeed in making this link work. Am I the only one? Thanks Mohamed -- Innovimax SARL Consulting, Training & XML Development 9, impasse des Orteaux 75020 Paris Tel : +33 9 52 475787 Fax : +33 1 4356 1746 http://www.innovimax.fr RCS Paris 488.018.631 SARL au capital de 10.000 €

11 years, 1 month

[Wikidata-l] Interlanguage-link-bug?

by Marco Fleckinger

Hello, regarding to the actual discussion of this French Radio Transmission station, I looked up the article on WP. On enwiki it says that there is only a French article ([1]) regarding this topic, but Wikidata ([2]) shows a German one as well, which is also shown on frwiki. So, is this a bug or will it simply take a while, until the page will be rerendered on the squid? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_radio_station_of_Pierre-sur-Haute [2] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10369016 Cheers, Marco

11 years, 1 month

[Wikidata-l] weekly summary #52

by Lydia Pintscher

Heya folks :) Here's your summary of what happened around Wikidata over the last week. = Development = * The first year is over. Thank you everyone for being amazing and helping to build Wikidata and making it more than we could possibly have hoped for already. <3 * Put a lot of work into improved support for Internet Explorer 8 * Worked on improving recent changes code in client * Finished valueview refactoring. Created new extension “ValueView” * Implemented string formatter You can follow our commits at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(status:open+project:mediawiki/extension… and view the subset awaiting review at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions… You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1&list_id=151540&resolu… = Discussions/Press = * RFC for defining the bureaucrats role on Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Defining_bureau… * RFC about statements for items related to software: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Softwarestatemen… = Events = see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events * upcoming: GLAM-Wiki 2013 = Other Noteworthy Stuff = * Deployment of phase 2 on English Wikipedia is currently planned for April 8. The remaining Wikipedias are scheduled for April 10. As usual this might change if we run into problems along the way. * There is now a page showing the current lag for changes propagating to the Wikipedias so they can show up in watchlists and recent changes for example: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:DispatchStats This should ideally be in the range of a few minutes. Right now it is higher because of some abnormally high bot activity but decreasing. Should be down to a few minutes soon. * There’s now a badge you can add to Wikipedia articles to indicate there is data about it on Wikidata: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikidata * We hit Q10000000: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10000000 * A Wikidata item in the wild: http://goo.gl/maps/DyrsA ;-) = Did you know? = * There are a number of task forces that take care of specific jobs or topics on Wikidata: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Task_forces * You can get database dumps to play with: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_download * There are a lot of stats about Wikidata at http://stats.wikimedia.org/ = Open Tasks for You = * Hit a random item and add a missing source? http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Random * Hack on one of these: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&ke… Based on feedback for last week’s call for comments we will continue this newsletter. However more community help will be needed. From now on they’ll be drafted at http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next and your help is very welcome. Anything to add? Please share! :) Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

11 years, 1 month

[Wikidata-l] Usability flaws

by Lukas Benedix

Hi, I had a short look at the current UI and the test-repo and found some usability and design flaws: * when no text is available in the users language the statement section looks like this: http://lbenedix.monoceres.uberspace.de/screenshots/mejpee0fxi_(2013-04-05_1… <http://lbenedix.monoceres.uberspace.de/screenshots/mejpee0fxi_%282013-04-05…> * clicking on the edit-link for a property sets the focus in the wrong input field and adding a qualifier is difficult when you are typing too fast: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwQl_U1jYgI * the tooltips are misleading for some properties: http://lbenedix.monoceres.uberspace.de/screenshots/d6iyzjfoz3_(2013-04-05_1… <http://lbenedix.monoceres.uberspace.de/screenshots/d6iyzjfoz3_%282013-04-05…> * the clickable area for hiding the sources is too wide, especially on touch devices it would be easy to miss the add-sources link and hide it by accident:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMjmwljk2Kw <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMjmwljk2Kw> * the edit column is looking strange. I think you tried to make it look like one column together with the langlink-column, but that is not working well * * there are the change-order separator arrows at the end of the langlink-column:<http://lbenedix.monoceres.uberspace.de/minigal/photos/lwdb47hk6h_%282013-04…>http://lbenedix.monoceres.uberspace.de/screenshots/lwdb47hk6h_(2013-04-05_0… <http://lbenedix.monoceres.uberspace.de/screenshots/lwdb47hk6h_%282013-04-05…> * * and there is a lot of white space right to the edit link: http://lbenedix.monoceres.uberspace.de/screenshots/gu8dxbp5g7_(2013-04-05_0… <http://lbenedix.monoceres.uberspace.de/screenshots/gu8dxbp5g7_%282013-04-05…> * * I think it would look better when the edit-column is separated from the langlink-column by color and the text should maybe right aligned: http://lbenedix.monoceres.uberspace.de/screenshots/gy3icgq1qa_(2013-04-05_0… <http://lbenedix.monoceres.uberspace.de/screenshots/gy3icgq1qa_%282013-04-05…> I hope someone else who is more resilient than me would add these things to bugzilla. Lukas

11 years, 1 month

[Wikidata-l] Wikidata queries

by Denny Vrandečić

We have a first write up of how we plan to support queries in Wikidata. Comments on our errors and requests for clarifications are more than welcome. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Queries> Cheers, Denny P.S.: unfortunately, no easter eggs inside. -- Project director Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. +49-30-219 158 26-0 | http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

11 years, 1 month

[Wikidata-l] Running "Infobox film" import script

by Michael Hale

I've been practicing using the Wikidata and MediaWiki APIs today. Even though the Wikidata API is still being developed, using it was more pleasant than parsing the templates. The good news is I'll probably be able to reuse a lot of that code for other infoboxes that still need to be imported. It's looking through 76000 articles for new statements it can add using Wikidata's currently supported film properties, excluding the IMDb ID because that isn't included in the infobox. So far it has added 691 new statements to 68 movies. I forgot to add a counter for when it finds one that already had all of the information entered. It will definitely have some errors, but I scanned the results for the first 100 movies before I started importing them, and I think the value-add will be much greater than the number of errors.

11 years, 1 month

[Wikidata-l] A question about wikidata for templates

by Jianyong Zhang

Hi, I have a question about how wikidata will behave for template pages. For example, for http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6171351, currently it has interlanguage links as a regular wikipedia page. I'm wondering if wikidata project will also add statements for it. If so, how will it look like and how will people use it in wikipedia articles with that template? Thanks.

11 years, 1 month

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