*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Discussions
- Closed request for comments: Defining account creators
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Defining_account_creators>
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>/
Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Upcoming: IRC office hour on the channel #wikimedia-office, January
30th, at 18:00 (UTC+1). Special topic: how to address the growth of Wikidata
- Upcoming: Wikidata hackathon in London
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wikidata-hackathon-in-london-all-levels-of-experience-welcome-tickets-42426460686>,
February 3rd
- Past: PIDapalooza 2018 <https://pidapalooza.org/> - Slides on FigShare
<https://pidapalooza.figshare.com/>
- Mapping Wikidata to Bibframe
<https://medium.com/@thisismattmiller/mapping-wikidata-to-bibframe-f674a4eab748>
(representation of books)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Breaking change: wbcheckconstraints status parameter
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#BREAKING_CHANGE:_wbcheckconstraints_status_parameter>
- Wikidata-driven infoboxes
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Would_small_Wikidata-enabled_infoboxes_be_useful_on_category_pages?>,
with multilingual labels, are now available on Wikimedia Commons category
pages
- Wikidata vandalism dashboard for Wikipedians
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2018-January/011741.html>
- Grant proposals looking for review: WikidataJS
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/WikidataJS>,
GlobalFactSync
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/DBpedia/GlobalFactSync>
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: cinematografo film ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4786>, CiNii author ID
(articles) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4787>
- Query examples:
- Buildings higher than the Eiffel Tower
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3FsubjectLabel%20%3Fcoord%20%3Fimage%20%20%3Fheight%20%3Fsubject%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%3Fsubject%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ41176%20.%0A%20%3Fsubject%20wdt%3AP2048%20%3Fheight%20FILTER%20%28%3Fheight%20%3E%20300%29%20%0A%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fsubject%20wdt%3AP729%20%3Ftime%20.%7D%0A%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fsubject%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%7D%0A%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fsubject%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoord%20.%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%2C%20fr%22%20%7D%0A%7D>
(source <https://twitter.com/SciHiBlog/status/957677571595960321>)
- Descendants of Charlemagne by year of birth
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AScatterChart%0ASELECT%20%3Fyear%20%28COUNT%28%3Fperson%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20wd%3AQ3044%20wdt%3AP40%2a%20%3Fperson.%0A%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP569%20%3FDoB%20.%0A%20%20BIND%20%28year%28%3FDoB%29%20as%20%3Fyear%20%29%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28%20%3Fyear%20%3E%20700%20%29%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fyear>
(source <https://twitter.com/belett/status/957571805048397826>)
- Cinemas in Berlin
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0ASELECT%20%3Fct%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FitemDescription%20%3FbezirkLabel%20%3FortsteilLabel%20%3FaddressLabel%20%3Fimage%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP131%2B%20wd%3AQ64.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ41253.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP4129%20%3Fct.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP131%20%3Fbezirk%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP276%20%3Fortsteil%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP969%20%3Faddress%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22de%2Cde%22.%20%7D%0A%7D>
(source <https://twitter.com/AndreasP_RV/status/956909575109783555>)
- Things (or people) depicted in the xkcd webcomic
<https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fobject%20%3FobjectLabel%20%28COUNT%28%3Fitem%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20%0AWHERE%20%0A%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP361%20wd%3AQ13915.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP180%20%3Fobject%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fobject%20%3FobjectLabel%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29>
(source <https://twitter.com/johl/status/956170983555002369>)
- Image grid of inductees to WITI Hall of Fame
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0ASELECT%20%3FawardeeLabel%20%3Fimage%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fawardee%20wdt%3AP166%20wd%3AQ55200.%0A%20%20%3Fawardee%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage.%0A%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%7D>
(source <https://twitter.com/WikiDigi/status/956157242855784448>)
- Movies filmed in Austria
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0ASELECT%20%3Fmovie%20%3FmovieLabel%20%3Fplace%20%3FplaceLabel%20%3Fcoord%20%3Fimage%0AWHERE%20%0A%7B%0A%20%20%3Fmovie%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ11424%20.%0A%20%20%3Fmovie%20wdt%3AP915%20%3Fplace%20.%0A%20%20%3Fplace%20wdt%3AP17%20wd%3AQ40%20.%0A%20%20%3Fplace%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoord%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fmovie%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22de%22.%20%7D%0A%7D>
(source <https://twitter.com/WikidataAT/status/955867103797575687>)
- Newest WikiProjects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>:
- Newest gadgets: Mix'n'Match gadget
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/mixnmatch_gadget.js>:
loads all Mix’m’match entries about an item, shows descriptions, lets you
drag’n’drop entries as references
- Newest database reports: tennis federations, Davis Cup and Fed Cup
teams
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Tennis/Lists/federations,_Davis_Cup_and_Fed_Cup_teams>
- Showcase items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items>:
Development
- Constraint violations can now be checked on qualifiers and references (
phab:T168532 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168532>)
- Implemented usage tracking deduplication to reduce database load (
phab:T178079 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178079>). This should
not have any effect on what users see on recent changes and watchlists.
- Redirects on client wikis that are connected to a Wikidata item can
have a tracking category
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Connected-redirect-category>,
if set up (phab:T185743 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185743>).
Thanks, Matěj!
- Improved documentation
<https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Bpageterms>
of the pageterms query module (gerrit:406240
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/406240>). Thanks, Niedzielski!
- Improved empty "content was:" in deletion logs for entities (
phab:T184025 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184025>)
- Fixed links to external user pages in recent changes (phab:T183019
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183019>)
- Fixed user names beginning with a star sometimes being rendered as a
list (phab:T182800 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182800>)
- Fixed constraint check results possibly showing up in the wrong
language (phab:T185688 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185688>)
- Fixed ArticlePlaceholders possibly not showing up in search results (
gerrit:406168 <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/406168>)
- Some of the developers attended to the Wikimedia Developer Summit
2018. You can find some notes on the Phabricator board
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/3119>
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>.
Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed
above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview>
- Suggested and open tasks
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contribute/Suggested_and_open_tasks>
!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Showcase_items>
.
- Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats>
or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge> across
Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next>
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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.
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Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.