*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Fourth birthday: thank you!
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fourth_Birthday>
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikidataBirthdayMap2016.png>
Map of the birthday parties
Thanks to everyone who celebrated the birthday by organizing or attending
to an event, letting a message on Wikidata or on the social networks,
writing a story or creating a present!
Here's the list of the birthday presents from the community and development
team:
- d:Template:User Wikidata birthday 2016
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:User_Wikidata_birthday_2016> (
Pigsonthewing <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pigsonthewing>)
- A new version of the map showing all the Wikidata items with
geolocalisation
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_Map_October_2016_Normal.png>
(Addshore <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Addshore>)
- Wikidata's 4th birthday logo
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/File:Logo_fourth_Wikidata_Birthday.png> (
Incabell <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Incabell>)
- A new release of the Wikipedia and Wikidata Tools for Google
Spreadsheets
<https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wikipedia-and-wikidata-to/aiilcelhmpllcgkhhpifagfehbddkdfp?utm_source=permalink>
add-on has made working with Wikidata a lot easier
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QuUVFl6x3c1Yj3J7jd_OTHYD2haVFVtebIw2It4KNoA/edit?usp=sharing>
for Google Sheets users. (Tomayac
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Tomayac>)
- A guide to SPARQL and the Wikidata Query Service
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:TweetsFactsAndQueries/A_Guide_To_WDQS>
(TweetsFactsAndQueries
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:TweetsFactsAndQueries>)
- Four new types of charts for the Query Service
<http://query.wikidata.org>: line chart, bar chart, scatter chart and
area chart! Read more and try examples in the documentation
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/Wikidata_Query_Help/Result_Views>
(Jonas <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jonas_Kress_%28WMDE%29>)
- {{#statements:…}}, a new parser function is currently in development
with better features: try it here
<https://de.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Statements>! (Thiemo
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Thiemo_M%C3%A4ttig_%28WMDE%29>,
Wikidata dev team and volunteers)
- Search field added in Scholia <https://tools.wmflabs.org/scholia/>, a
tool to create scholarship profiles (fnielsen
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Fnielsen>)
- Technical documentation about Wikibase for PHP
<https://doc.wikimedia.org/Wikibase/master/php/annotated.html> and JS
<https://doc.wikimedia.org/Wikibase/master/js/> scripts (Ladsgroup
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Ladsgroup> and Jonas
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jonas_Kress_%28WMDE%29>)
- new feature for the graph view in the Query Service: it can now browse
the properties of items. see in the video
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WDQS_-_Graph_Result_View_-_browse.webm>
(Jonas <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jonas_Kress_%28WMDE%29>)
- graph builder tool for the query service to create and export graphs (demo
video
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WDQS_GUI_graph_builder_demo.webm>)
(Jonas <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jonas_Kress_%28WMDE%29>,
[[d:user:Smalyshev (WMF)|Smalyshev)
- d:Module:PropertyPath
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Module:PropertyPath> and d:Template:Show
Path Items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:Show_Path_Items> (
TomT0m <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:TomT0m>)
- Everything is connected
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/everythingisconnected/index.html>, a
knowledge game based on Wikidata and Commons (list of levels
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Everything_is_connected>) (Denny
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Denny>)
Discussions
- New request for comments: Editing descriptions from Wikipedia Android
app
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Editing_descriptions_from_Wikipedia_Android_app>
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Histropedia: “The power of data visualisation combined with free
knowledge” <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/10/30/histropedia> on WMF's
blog
- Presenting the Wikidata Human Gender Indicators
<http://grouplens.org/blog/presenting-the-wikidata-human-gender-indicators/>
by Max Klein
- How the world’s first Wikidata Visiting Scholar created linked open
data for five thousand works of art
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/11/05/wikidata-visiting-scholar-art-dataset/>
on WMF's blog
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Music in Canada at 150 Wikipedia Project
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Music_in_Canada_@_150:_A_Wikipedia_and_Wikidata_Project>,
a multifaceted campaign to increase the amount and quality of content about
Canadian music in Wikipedia and Wikidata
- 400,000,000th <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Diff/400000000>
edit was made.
- The average amount of statements per item
<https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/wikidata-datamodel-statements?panelId=4&fullscreen&from=now-6M&to=now>
became higher than five and is still growing.
- Wikidata entities usage on Wikimedia projects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Entity_Usage>
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: DRÚSOP ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3296>, code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3295>, encoding
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3294>, BALaT image ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3293>, DocCheck Flexikon De ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3292>, DocCheck Flexikon En ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3291>, biography at the Landtag
of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3290>,
Cellosaurus ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3289>, World
Spider Catalog ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3288>, Squash
Info ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3286>, MSC ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3285>, Yahoo! Japan Talent
Database ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3284>, Bandcamp
artist ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3283>, French
National Assembly Lobbyist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3281>, BanQ author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3280>, statistical leader
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3279>, Sandbox-Monolingual text
II <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3278>
- Query examples:
- Continents on Wikidata (All eleven of them)
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fmap%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5107%20.%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ55833%20.%7D%0A%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ2284298%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP242%20%3Fmap%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20%3FitemLabel>
(source <https://twitter.com/PoulpyWP/status/795380477347659776>)
- Sluices on the river "Vilaine" in Brittany
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Felev%20%3Fcoord%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%09%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ105731%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP706%20wd%3AQ842462%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP2044%20%3Felev%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoord%20.%0A%09SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22fr%22%20%7D%0A%7D>
(source <https://twitter.com/EdouardHue/status/795261887265046529>)
- Countries with most cities named after saints
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20countries%20with%20most%20cities%20named%20after%20saints%0ASELECT%20%3Fcountry%20%3FcountryLabel%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fcity%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fcity%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ486972%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fcountry%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP138%20%5B%20wdt%3AP411%20wd%3AQ43115%20%5D.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fcountry%20%3FcountryLabel%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29>
(source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/794172866644373505>)
- Disney characters who share name with their actors
<https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3FfilmLabel%20%3Ffilm%20%3FactorLabel%20%3FcharacterLabel%0AWHERE%20%0A%7B%0A%20%20%23%20Remove%20next%20line%20to%20refer%20all%20works%2C%20not%20only%20Disney%20works%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Ffilm%20wdt%3AP449%7Cwdt%3AP272%20%5B%20%28wdt%3AP127%2Fwdt%3AP749%2a%29%20wd%3AQ7414%20%5D%20.%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%20%3Ffilm%20wdt%3AP449%20wd%3AQ7414%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Ffilm%20p%3AP161%7Cp%3AP725%20%5Bps%3AP161%7Cps%3AP725%20%3Factor%20%3B%20pq%3AP453%20%3Fcharacter%20%5D%20.%0A%20%20%3Factor%20wdt%3AP735%20%3Fname%20.%0A%20%20%3Fcharacter%20wdt%3AP735%20%3Fname%20.%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28%3Factor%20%21%3D%20%3Fcharacter%29%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%7D%20>
(source <https://twitter.com/WDisneyTrivia/status/793152178068287488>)
- 204 items that cite themselves
<https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP2860%20%3Fitem.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D>
(source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/795267729624338432>)
- Statements with two references where one source cites the other
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20statements%20with%20two%20references%20where%20one%20source%20cites%20the%20other%0ASELECT%20%3Fsubject%20%3FsubjectLabel%20%3FpropertyLabel%20%3FobjectLabel%20%3Fsource1Label%20%3Fsource2Label%0AWITH%20%7B%20%23%20subquery%20that%20actually%20finds%20the%20statements%20and%20sources%20%28written%20as%20named%20subquery%20to%20ensure%20it%E2%80%99s%20only%20run%20once%2C%20independently%20of%20the%20rest%20of%20the%20query%3B%20see%20https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.blazegraph.com%2Fwiki%2Findex.php%2FNamedSubquery%29%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fstatement%20%3Fsource1%20%3Fsource2%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fstatement%20prov%3AwasDerivedFrom%2Fpr%3AP248%20%3Fsource1%2C%20%3Fsource2.%20%23%20statement%20has%20two%20%E2%80%9Cstated%20in%E2%80%9D%20references%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fsource1%20wdt%3AP2860%20%3Fsource2.%20%23%20first%20source%20cites%20the%20second%20one%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Fsource1%20%21%3D%20%3Fsource2%29.%20%23%20apparently%20some%20items%20cite%20themselves%3F%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25results%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25results.%0A%20%20%23%20auxiliary%20query%20to%20find%20the%20subject%2C%20property%20and%20object%20of%20the%20statement%2C%20as%20well%20as%20labels%0A%20%20%3Fsubject%20%3Fp%20%3Fstatement.%0A%20%20%3Fstatement%20%3Fps%20%3Fobject.%0A%20%20%3Fproperty%20a%20wikibase%3AProperty%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3Aclaim%20%3Fp%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AstatementProperty%20%3Fps.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D>
(source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/795269047793385473>)
Development
- Stable interface policy update
<https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata%3AStable_Interface_Policy&type=revision&diff=400924854&oldid=382163118>
- More work on federation in order to be able to use Wikidata's items
and properties to describe media files on Wikimedia Commons in the future (
phabricator:T149580 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149580>)
- Worked on first version of Lexeme entity type (phabricator:T148139
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148139>)
- Worked more on linking values in Lua and the property parser function
instead of just returning the label (phabricator:T142940
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142940>) You can test it here:
https://de.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Statements
- Improved map layer colors in the query service (phabricator:T148022
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148022>)
- Improved size of map markers in the query service (phabricator:T148496
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148496>)
- Upcoming: quantity changes
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Changes_to_quantity_precision_handling>
- Worked more on automated sitelinks for Wiktionary (phabricator:T987
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T987>) Test system is coming in the
next days.
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/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Showcase_items>
- Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats>
or proofread pages in your own language!
- Help merge identical items
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge> across
Wikimedia projects.
- 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>
- proposals
needing attention
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Attention_needed>
--
Léa Lacroix
Community Communication 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 27/029/42207.