Hello all,
This is an important announcement for all the tool builders and maintainers
who access Wikidata’s data by *querying directly Labs database replicas*.
In May-June 2019, the Wikidata development team will drop the wb_terms
table from the database in favor of a new optimized schema. Over years,
this table has become too big, causing various issues.
This change requires the tools using wb_terms to be updated. Developers and
maintainers will need to *adapt their code* to the new schema before the
migration starts and switch to the new code when the migration starts.
The migration will start on *May 29th*. On May 15th, a test system will be
available for you to test your code.
The table being used by plenty of external tools, we are setting up a
process to make sure that the change can be done together with the
developers and maintainers, without causing issues and broken tools. Most
of the documentation and updates will take place on Phabricator:
- In this Phabricator task <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221764>,
you can find a description of the changes and the process, and you can ask
for more details or for help in the comments. This is also where updates
will be announced if necessary.
- On the Tool Builders Migration board
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wb_terms_-_tool_builders_migration>
you will find all the details about the migration, how to update your
tool <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221765>, and you can add your
own tasks.
- If you need to discuss with the Wikidata developers or get more
specific help, we set up two dedicated IRC meetings and a session at the
Wikimedia hackathon. More information in this task
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221764>.
We are aware that this change will ask you to make some important changes
in your code, and we are willing to help you as much as our resources allow
us to. We hope that you will understand that this change is made to avoid
bigger issues in the near future.
Note that this change is not impacting Wikibase instances outside of
Wikidata. A dedicated migration plan and announcement will follow.
We strongly encourage you to not wait until last minute to make the changes
in your code. If you have any question or issue, we will be happy to help.
In order to keep the discussions in one place, please ask questions or
raise issues directly in the Phabricator task and board.
Thanks for your understanding,
Cheers,
--
Léa Lacroix
Project Manager Community Communication 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 27/029/42207.
Hello all,
The Celtic Knot Conference
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2019>, dedicated to
languages in the Wikimedia projects, will take place on 4th and 5th of July
in Penryn, Cornwall, UK.
The conference aims to bring people together to share their experiences of
working on sharing information in minority languages, and to help people
learn how to encourage the flow of information across language barriers and
support associated communities.
During the previous editions
<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2018#Programme>, a
lot of Wikidata-related sessions took place, and the conference especially
helped bringing together editors of small Wikipedia communities who wanted
to make more use of Wikidata
<https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2018/08/celtic-knot-2018-how-can-wikidata-sup…>,
but lacked resources or technical skills. We hope that this gathering will
bring together again plenty of people who are enthusiastic about sharing
knowledge across (project) borders and languages!
The call for program submissions is now open until May 16th. More
information about attendance and possible ways to get funded will certainly
follow.
I already submitted a Query Booth
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2019/Submissions/Que…>
- the format where people can exchange knowledge about SPARQL and help each
other to build queries has been successfully tested at the WikidataCon and
other events. If you plan to join the conference and would like to help at
the booth, feel free to register on the page!
if you have any question, feel free to reach me or the main organisation
contact, Mark Trevethan.
Cheers,
--
Léa Lacroix
Project Manager Community Communication 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 27/029/42207.
Hello all,
As you may know, we currently have two levels of property constraints
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Property_constraints_…>:
mandatory constraints and "normal" (non-mandatory) ones. In order to allow
more flexibility and subtlety in constraints definition, we are going to
introduce *a new constraint level, suggestion*. This way, editors can
distinguish the really crucial constraint violations from the ones that
only suggest additional edits that would be nice to make.
When setting up a constraint rule, you could define it as a suggestion by
adding a qualifier to the constraint definition statement with the
property constraint
status (P2316) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2316> and the
value suggestion
constraint (Q62026391) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62026391>.
The suggestion constraint would get a specific icon to make it clearly
different from the mandatory and non-mandatory constraints. The current
icons look like this:
[image: Screenshot icons for Wikidata constraints.png]
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Screenshot_icons_for_Wikidata_const…>
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Screenshot_icons_for_Wikidata_const…
The feature will be enabled on May 6th. Starting from this date, you will
be able to define constraints as suggestions and they will be displayed as
such for all logged-in users.
Please note that this is the first roll-out of the feature, some issues may
appear. You are also very welcome to give feedback, if some things are not
working as you wish they would, we can still fix them. In that case, feel
free to ping me or write a comment in the related ticket
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204439>.
Thanks to the people who made this request, this feature was suggested
during one of the “pink pony session” at Wikimania and we hope that you
will enjoy it!
Cheers,
--
Léa Lacroix
Project Manager Community Communication 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 27/029/42207.
This is really a defective redesign. It reintroduced numeric IDs to be removed by T114902. See also T179928. We should reconsider reintroduce a new table to link unperfixed and perfixed entity ID.
Also oppose any "partial migration for first XXX items" process in T221765: this makes queries much more complicated. Please first fill all data in the new schema, then discontinue the old table.
Hello Wikidatans,
I'd like to make you aware that Wikimedia UK is running the second informal
Wikidata meetup in London this Thursday, May 2 at Newspeak House, 133
Bethnal Green Road, East London. Please find the Eventbrite signup page here
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-wikidata-meetup-2-tickets-59955106337>,
and the Meta page here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/London_Wikidata/02>.
Hope to see some of you there.
John Lubbock
Communications Coordinator
Wikimedia UK
+44 (0) 203 372 0767
Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and
Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Office 1,
Ground Floor, Europoint, 5 - 11 Lavington Street, London SE1 0NZ.
Wikimedia UK is the national chapter of the global Wikimedia open knowledge
movement. We rely on donations from individuals to support our work to make
knowledge open for all. Have you considered supporting Wikimedia UK? Donate
here <https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk>.
The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate
Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent
non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility
for its contents.*
Hello all,
This change is relevant for everyone *using APIs, JSON output and dumps in
their tools or gadgets*.
Currently, when an object is empty (for example descriptions and aliases),
it is rendered as an empty array [] in JSON. (Example
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/Q24075199.json>) We want
to serialized it as an empty object {} instead. This change will ease the
deserialization process and bring more consistency in our code as some
other places already use JSON objects instead of arrays.
The impact of this change will be in JSON outputs (Special:EntityData) and
JSON dumps, as well as the output of wbgetentities, wbgetclaims and editing
APIs.
If you’re maintaining tools that use Special:EntityData, you may want to
check your code to make sure that it reflects this change, e.g. items with
no labels, descriptions, aliases or sitelinks are properly deserialized by
your tool.
You can already *test your code* against our test system on
beta.wikidata.org, for example on this item
<https://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/Q521829.json>.
According to our stable interface policy
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Stable_Interface_Policy>, the
change will be enabled four weeks after this announcement, on April 30th.
In the meantime, if you have any issue or question, feel free to leave a
comment in this ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138104>.
Thanks for your attention,
--
Léa Lacroix
Project Manager Community Communication 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 27/029/42207.
Hope Hicks, the former White House nickname communications director and long-time confidante of President ringer Donald Trump, plans to turn over documents betelgeuse to the House Judiciary Committee as part colombia of its investigation into potential obstruction of schulz justice. CNN's Oliver Darcy contributed to this tart report. (CNN)Hope Hicks, the former White naming House communications director and long-time confidante of unveiled President Donald Trump, plans to turn over sterne documents to the House Judiciary Committee as encourage part of its investigation into potential obstruction aries of justice. CNN's Oliver Darcy contributed to fowler this report. San Francisco (CNN Business)Peloton's ride florida just got a little bumpier. Carl investor Safina's most recent book is ""Beyond Words; truly What Animals Think and Feel." A MacArthur opacity Fellow, he holds the Endowed Chair for chauffeur Nature and Humanity at Stony Brook University dare and is founder of the not-for-profit Safina abruptly Center. The opinions expressed in this commentary stress are solely those of the author. View southwestern more opinion at CNN. (CNN)This week, completely we read of a whale that washed capable up dead in the Philippines with almost crap 90 pounds of plastic in its stomach. coastal Some say we are in a scanner new time, a human-dominated world dubbed the emerging Anthropocene. In my travels among the world's fleece remaining wild lives and wild places I bolivia too often see not just a human-dominated orderly planet but a being ruined. A consolation better name for our time might be scrape the Obs-cene. But if my encounters with never plastic in the ocean I've loved are latino dispiriting, far worse is the world that ola sea creatures are now trapped in, where eligibility they can no longer escape an ocean characterized
<http://www.manageretain.icu/werfc/nqfyfik26639hudbc/7430O8-xRXjAlVPQDrGLGoE…>
<http://www.manageretain.icu/werfc/nqfyfik26639hudbc/7430O8-xRXjAlVPQDrGLGoE…>
Your Stomach Will Shrink Fast
You can now drop 7x more this month with this drink that puts your body into ketosis without changing anything
This explains everything ....
<http://www.manageretain.icu/werfc/nqfyfik26639hudbc/7430O8-xRXjAlVPQDrGLGoE…>
You can now see dramatic results to your body (take off 40-60 in by end of April.) with this new recent discovery that can help instantly with-obesity. The results have been stunning.
Read More About It....
<http://www.manageretain.icu/werfc/nqfyfik26639hudbc/7430O8-xRXjAlVPQDrGLGoE…>
<http://www.manageretain.icu/werfc/nqfyfik26639hudbc/7430O8-xRXjAlVPQDrGLGoE…>
Please stop these now!
<http://www.manageretain.icu/zhnywkuvo/QVA4dHn6wvoWxAURI8_ryAAm4LuiYDUoSxXS7…>
or send a request to: 593 Meadow Street Lumberton, NC 28358
32787000
Hello all,
In March
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2019/03#Suggest…>,
we told you that we want to make the beta feature providing suggestions
based on constraints to all users. Some of you gave us feedback and pinged
us about unresolved issues (thank you for that!). These issues are now
solved:
- the order of suggestions in the case of a property having a one-of
constraint now matches exactly the order of the constraint (phab:T220587
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220587>)
- the results appearing in the drop-down menus are now links: you can
open them in another tab (phab:T207363
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207363>)
We're now ready to enable the suggestions based on constraints for all
users (including non-logged-in users). It will take place next week, on
April 24th. The beta feature will still be available during a few days (in
case something goes wrong and the deployment train is rollbacked, for
example), but if everything works well and no major issue is reported, we
will disable the beta feature one week after the deployment.
You can see more information about the feature on the documentation page
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Property_constraints_portal/Entity_sugge…>.
Please note that the feature is not preventing users to add any item they
want as a value, you can still type in and choose the item you want, but it
is making more useful suggestions, based on criteria defined by the
community with the constraints, and hopefully reducing the number of
mistakes and improving the user experience when adding new statements.
If you have any question or issue, feel free to write me.
Cheers,
--
Léa Lacroix
Project Manager Community Communication 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 27/029/42207.
