Wikidata January 2016

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by Lydia Pintscher

Hey folks :) Here is the summary for what happened around Wikidata over the past two weeks. Sorry I couldn't send out a summary last week. Traveling and the developer summit messed with my schedule. Discussions - Successful request for adminship: Innocent bystander <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrat…> Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - The Reference Wars <http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=378> - Teaching machines to make your life easier – quality work on Wikidata <http://blog.wikimedia.de/2016/01/02/teaching-machines-to-make-your-life-eas…> - Wikidata references from Microdata <http://addshore.com/2015/12/wikidata-references-from-microdata/> - Building applications around Wikidata (a beer example) <http://addshore.com/2016/01/building-applications-around-wikidata-a-beer-ex…> - From Freebase to Wikidata: the great migration <http://www2016.ca/program/industry-track.html#from-freebase-to-wikidata-the…> has been accepted for the industry track of WWW2016 - Gene Wiki and Wikidata: an overview of 2015 <http://sulab.org/2016/01/gene-wiki-and-wikidata-an-overview-of-2015/> - Past: 32C3 in Hamburg - Past: Wikimedia Developer Summit <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit_2016> Other Noteworthy Stuff - A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning <http://www.r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-1/> - The deadline for submissions for Wikimania has been extended to 17th. <https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions> Get your talk proposals in! - IUCN statuses <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P141> have been removed from taxoboxes in Czech Wikipedia in order to display sourced Wikidata data. Check it out with Comodo dragon <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cs:Varan_komodsk%C3%BD>, lion <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cs:Lev>, Siamese fighting fish <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cs:Bojovnice_pestr%C3%A1> or any of almost 3,000 articles. - Migrating identifier properties to new identifier datatype <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-January/007951.html> - Listeria lists can now show arbitrary SPARQL results <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikidata_list/doc> - Mix'n'match <https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/> has new catalogs like UNESCO's Atlas of languages in danger - Initial plans for MetaPipe, a collaborate metadata tool <https://artturimatias.github.io/metapipe/> Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: BugGuide ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2464>, elibrary.ru organisation ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2463>, member of the deme <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2462>, ComLaw ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2461>, Persons of Ancient Athens <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2460>, IBU biathlete identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2459>, Mackolik.com footballer ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2458>, Australian National Shipwreck Database Shipwreck ID number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2457>, dblp identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2456>, Species Profile and Threats Database ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2455>, KNAW past member identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2454>, nominee <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2453>, GeoNames feature code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2452>, MAME ROM <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2451>, Encyclopædia Britannica contributor identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2450>, Turkish Football Federation manager ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2449>, Turkish Football Federation player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2448>, transfermarkt manager id <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2447>, transfermarkt footballer id <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2446>, metasubclass of <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2445>, homoglyph <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2444>, stage reached <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2443>, conversion to standard unit <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2442>, literal translation <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2441>, transliteration <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2440>, language <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2439>, narrator <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2438>, number of seasons <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2437>, voltage <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2436>, PORT person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2435>, Panarctic Flora ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2434>, gender of a scientific name of a genus <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2433>, J. Paul Getty Museum artist id <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2432>, Thyssen-Bornemisza artist id <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2431>, takeoff roll <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2430>, expected completeness <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2429>, RePEc Short-ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2428>, grid global research id <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2427>, Xeno-canto species ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2426>, service ribbon image <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2425>, Berlin cultural heritage ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2424>, FIE identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2423> - Newest WikiProjects <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>: Broadcasting <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Broadcasting> - New feature/gadget requests: disambiguator tool <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2015/12#Disambi…>, tool to move statements from one item to another <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2015/12#Tool_to…> Development - Attending the Wikimedia Developer Summit <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit_2016> - Are you a student looking for a thesis topic with impact? There might be some around Wikidata for you. Get in touch with Lydia <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lydia_Pintscher_%28WMDE%29> if interested. - More work on moving identifiers to their own section and having a separate datatype for them - Fixed the problem where you could add links to non-existing files on Commons (phabricator:T87263 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87263>) - We're adding a "latest" link for the JSON dumps (phabricator:T72247 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T72247>) - Fixed a bug in the monolingual text datatype when changing the language (phabricator:T95419 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T95419>) - More work on making it possible to show all languages for a given item without the label lister gadget - Security review for the ArticlePlaceholder is done \o/ - References in the ArticlePlaceholder are now shown more similar to how they are shown in a regular article (at the bottom) - SPARQL queries display directly when link to query.wikidata.org is opened You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>. Monthly Tasks - Hack on one of these <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/R8GRzX1eH0tb/#R>. - Help develop the next summary here! <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next> - Contribute to a Showcase item <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items> - Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats> or proofread pages in your own language! - Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above. Anything to add? Please share! :) Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 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.

8 years, 4 months

Fwd: [Wikimania-l] WMF Scholarship Deadline for Wikimania is Today

by Federico Leva (Nemo)

-------- Messaggio inoltrato -------- Oggetto: [Wikimania-l] WMF Scholarship Deadline for Wikimania is Today Data: Sat, 9 Jan 2016 14:55:30 -0600 Mittente: Ellie Young Reminder: Scholarship applications for Wikimania 2016 which is being held in Esino Lario, Italy on June 22–27, 2016 are now being accepted. Applications are open until Saturday, January 09 2016 23:59 UTC. Applicants will be able to apply for a partial or full scholarship. A full scholarship will cover the cost of an individual's round-trip travel, shared accommodation, and conference registration fees as arranged by the Wikimedia Foundation. A partial scholarship will cover conference registration fees and shared accommodation. Applicants will be rated using a pre-determined selection process and selection criteria established by the Scholarship Committee and the Wikimedia Foundation, who will determine which applications are successful. To learn more about Wikimania 2016 scholarships, please visit: https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/ScholarshipsTo apply for a scholarship, fill out the multi-language application form on: https://scholarships.wikimedia.org/applyIt is highly recommended that applicants review all the material on the Scholarships page and the associated FAQ ( https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships/FAQ) before submitting an application. If you have any questions, please contact: wikimania-scholarships at wikimedia.org <mailto:wikimania-scholarships@wikimedia.org>or leave a message at: https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Scholarships -- Ellie Young Events Manager Wikimedia Foundation eyoung(a)wikimedia.org <mailto:eyoung@wikimedia.org>

8 years, 4 months

query.wikidata.org and wikibase:Statement ?

by Egon Willighagen

Hi all, after a tweet from Magnus [0] we talked a bit about entries without statements (about 2.5M) and on the question if SPARQL could list all entries in Wikidata that do not have statements. I played a bit with combinations of OPTIONAL and FILTER-BOUND and FILTER NOT EXIST... something like: PREFIX wikibase: <http://wikiba.se/ontology#> SELECT DISTINCT ?entry ?label ?statement WHERE { ?entry rdfs:label ?label . FILTER (lang(?label) = "en") FILTER NOT EXISTS { ?statement ?prop ?entry ; wikibase:rank ?rank . } } LIMIT 5 These queries tend to fail. Now, I'm not at all a SPARQL wizard and maybe there is a simple way to not run into the time outs that I do now. But there was something else I noted... statements are not typed... that would probably kick in some index, rather than the above query, and the documentation actually speaks about wikibase:Statement [1] but if I search for anything rdf:type-d as such, then it finds nothing in the SPARQL end point: https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.s… Did this typing get lost at some point or is the documentation outdated? Greetings, Egon 0.https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/685499058228715520 1.https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/Indexing/RDF_Dump_Format#Statemen… -- E.L. Willighagen Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT Maastricht University (http://www.bigcat.unimaas.nl/) Homepage: http://egonw.github.com/ LinkedIn: http://se.linkedin.com/in/egonw Blog: http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/ PubList: http://www.citeulike.org/user/egonw/tag/papers ORCID: 0000-0001-7542-0286 ImpactStory: https://impactstory.org/EgonWillighagen

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GerardM's made 2 *million* edits

by Asaf Bartov

Hi there. I thought I'd take a moment to note our colleague GerardM has made his *2 millionth* edit to Wikidata some 90000 edits ago. Congratulations, Gerard! Keep up the good work! :) A. -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org

8 years, 4 months

submissions for Wikimania due January 7th

by Lydia Pintscher

Hey folks :) You can now submit talk proposals for Wikimania at https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions I'd love to see many Wikidata submissions from you all. If you need help fleshing out a proposal, don't know if a certain topic is good for a talk there or similar I am happy to help. Just send me an email. Please note: The submission deadline is apparently already on January 7th. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 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.

8 years, 4 months

Music data, Wikidata and FRBR

by Federico Leva (Nemo)

At BEIC, to test the Wikidata ontology and the feasibility of collaborations on music data, I was assigned a seemingly simple test: add in Wikidata all the data contained in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Sugar_(The_Rolling_Stones_song) . Turns out things are not so simple: * the Wikipedia articles, from an FRBR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRBR ) perspective, often mix multiple levels or even all of them (song, recording, album, single, edition of the single) which on Wikidata need to be separate items, but the split is not obvious: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Q21887964 ; * I was unable to properly add information on per-country hit list position. Please give a look to the items I linked, to my https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Music updates and to the open questions I added in https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_Music . In particular, I think librarians will be interested in this proposal for a "performance of" property, which (like the existing "edition of" property) could benefit from being framed in a FRBR perspective by someone more versed in FRBR. https://www.wikidata.org/?diff=287456096 Nemo-BEIC

8 years, 4 months

Teaching machines to make your life easier – quality work on Wikidata

by Amir Ladsgroup

Hey, New blog post <http://blog.wikimedia.de/2016/01/02/teaching-machines-to-make-your-life-eas…> and some analysis is out. It turns out if we use ORES properly it can reduce the workload of reviewing human edits by 99%. If you help and label edits in Edit labels <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Edit_labels>, We can both efficiently revert vandalism and route good-faith newcomers to support and training. Best

8 years, 4 months

Duplicates in Wikidata

by Proffitt,Merrilee

Hello colleagues, During the most recent VIAF harvest we encountered a number of duplicate records in Wikidata. Forwarding on in case this is of interest (there is an attached file – not sure if that will go through on this list or not). Some discussion from OCLC colleagues is included below. Merrilee Proffitt, Senior Program Officer OCLC Research From: Toves,Jenny Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2015 6:02 AM To: Proffitt,Merrilee Subject: FW: 201551 vs 201552 Good morning Merrilee, You probably know that we harvest wikidata monthly for ingest into VIAF. This month we found 315 pairs of records that appear to be duplicates. That was a jump from previous months. I am not sure who would be interested in this but Thom & I thought you might be. The attached report has 630 lines showing what viaf saw as duplicates. So this pair of lines: WKP|Q21518392 =998 $aCharles du Bois Larbalestier$2WKP|Q21341290$3duplicate WKP|Q21341290 =998 $aCharles du Bois Larbalestier$2WKP|Q21518392$3duplicate Shows that those two wikidata numbers are linked to one another by viaf. I don’t think we expect you to do anything with this unless you find it interesting. I suspect there are bots to clean this stuff up but maybe not. --Jenny. From: Hickey,Thom Sent: Monday, December 21, 2015 9:47 PM To: Toves,Jenny Subject: RE: 201551 vs 201552 She probably would be interested. --Th From: Toves,Jenny<mailto:tovesj@oclc.org> Sent: Monday, December 21, 2015 9:35 PM To: Hickey,Thom<mailto:hickey@oclc.org> Subject: RE: 201551 vs 201552 Exact same name + dates. Do you a list of them? Do you think Merrilee or anyone would be interested? From: Hickey,Thom Sent: Monday, December 21, 2015 8:04 PM To: Toves,Jenny Subject: FW: 201551 vs 201552 Noticed WKP duplicates went way up --Th From: Jenny Toves<mailto:toves@orhddb01dxdu.dev.oclc.org> Sent: Monday, December 21, 2015 5:12 PM To: Hickey,Thom<mailto:hickey@oclc.org>; Toves,Jenny<mailto:tovesj@oclc.org> Subject: 201551 vs 201552 REPORT for records Changed 13.51%: geographic 3369217.0 -> 3824513.0 Change in % of 8: NLR at_least_one_match 16% -> 24% Changed 19.83%: NLR all_matches 181437.0 -> 217423.0 Change in % of 88: NLR with_bibs 0% -> 88% Changed 17.99%: WKP geographic 2529990.0 -> 2985194.0 Changed -19.95%: WKP corporate 369224.0 -> 295579.0 REPORT for matches Changed 12.70%: exact corporate name 1021239.0 -> 1150899.0 Changed 14.29%: XR viafid 7.0 -> 8.0 Changed -10.42%: XR expression title to sibling 48.0 -> 43.0 Changed -16.16%: PTBNP forced 229.0 -> 192.0 Changed -37.50%: NSZL forced 8.0 -> 5.0 Changed 38.46%: NLP suggested 13.0 -> 18.0 No longer zero: NLR standard number 0.0 -> 21479.0 No longer zero: NLR exact title 0.0 -> 5166.0 No longer zero: NLR partial date and partial title 0.0 -> 618.0 No longer zero: NLR name as subject 0.0 -> 62.0 No longer zero: NLR partial title and publisher 0.0 -> 88.0 No longer zero: NLR title 0.0 -> 5093.0 Changed -47.66%: NLR forced single date 37125.0 -> 19430.0 Changed 14.29%: NLR viafid 14.0 -> 16.0 No longer zero: NLR partial date and publisher 0.0 -> 15894.0 No longer zero: NLR joint author 0.0 -> 5228.0 Changed -14.49%: LC suggested 7594.0 -> 6494.0 Changed 33.33%: CYT viafid 12.0 -> 16.0 Changed -21.08%: NLA forced 223.0 -> 176.0 Changed 233.33%: LNL forced 3.0 -> 10.0 Changed 12.50%: NLB viafid 8.0 -> 9.0 Changed 16.67%: NLB ngram corporate name 6.0 -> 7.0 Changed 25.71%: VLACC forced 35.0 -> 44.0 Changed 19.13%: DNB exact corporate name 315872.0 -> 376304.0 Changed 14.29%: DNB expression title to sibling 7.0 -> 8.0 Changed 16.67%: BNF expression title to sibling 6.0 -> 7.0 Changed 15.91%: ICCU forced 44.0 -> 51.0 Changed 25.54%: NTA forced 9699.0 -> 12176.0 Changed 28.62%: WKP exact corporate name 224787.0 -> 289112.0 Changed 23.73%: WKP longer corporate name 76057.0 -> 94106.0 Changed 584.78%: WKP duplicate record 92.0 -> 630.0 Changed -18.92%: EGAXA forced 37.0 -> 30.0 REPORT for tags Changed 11.56%: NSZL work links (993) 225.0 -> 251.0 No longer zero: NLR wrote about (955) 0.0 -> 106.0 No longer zero: NLR bibs (999) 0.0 -> 108202.0 No longer zero: NLR was a subject (960) 0.0 -> 16423.0 No longer zero: NLR relator code (941) 0.0 -> 103950.0 No longer zero: NLR language of work (940) 0.0 -> 108193.0 No longer zero: NLR issn (902) 0.0 -> 34.0 No longer zero: NLR bib title (910) 0.0 -> 107895.0 No longer zero: NLR joint corporate author (951) 0.0 -> 24235.0 Changed 146.67%: NLR compared (996) 27448.0 -> 67705.0 No longer zero: NLR rectype + biblvl (944) 0.0 -> 108194.0 No longer zero: NLR country of publication (922) 0.0 -> 108169.0 No longer zero: NLR publisher (921) 0.0 -> 93904.0 No longer zero: NLR isbn (901) 0.0 -> 78978.0 No longer zero: NLR publisher id (920) 0.0 -> 78978.0 Changed 50.05%: NLR matched (998) 19864.0 -> 29806.0 No longer zero: NLR name from statement of responsibility (930) 0.0 -> 72478.0 No longer zero: NLR noise title (912) 0.0 -> 3543.0 No longer zero: NLR lc class number (942) 0.0 -> 1.0 No longer zero: NLR joint author (950) 0.0 -> 69048.0 No longer zero: NLR was a subject (969) 0.0 -> 115.0 Changed -14.29%: XA work links (993) 7.0 -> 6.0 No longer zero: SRP work links (993) 0.0 -> 1.0 Changed 22.50%: BNL work links (993) 551.0 -> 675.0 Changed 11.16%: WKP auth title (919) 45779.0 -> 50890.0 Changed 12.56%: WKP noise title (912) 8249.0 -> 9285.0

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