*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Discussions
- We need your input about quality criteria for building a tool to
evaluate item quality
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Quality_Criteria_for_Building_a_Tool_to_Evaluate_Item_Quality>
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>/
Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Past: FOSDEM <https://fosdem.org>
- Upcoming: WSDM Cup 2017 <http://www.wsdm-cup-2017.org>
- Upcoming: WikiCite 2017, Vienna, May 23-25, 2017
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2017-February/010243.html>
- Upcoming: A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners, by
Asaf Bartov, February 9th, 19:00 UTC
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2017-February/086238.html>
(livestream on Youtube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVrAx3AmUvA>)
- Scaling the matching of Wikidata to OpenStreetMap with wikimama
<https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/BharataHS/diary/40357>
- Software product management as an internship in the Wikidata
development team
<https://blog.wikimedia.de/2017/01/27/software-product-management-as-an-internship-learning-about-the-real-world-at-wikimedia-deutschland/>
- Being a Volunteer Developer for Wikimedia projects: An Interview with
Greta Doçi
<https://blog.wikimedia.de/2017/02/03/being-a-volunteer-developer-for-wikimedia-projects-an-interview-with-greta-doci/>
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Inspire Campaign on outside knowledge networks launched
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2017-January/086159.html>
- What would you like to talk about during Wikimania Montreal?
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikimania_2017>
- Join the Wikimania program committee!
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2017-February/086234.html>
- OpenStreetMap uses several wikidata-related tags
<https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=wikidata> in its database.
See also the related documentation
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Wikidata>
- Dutch is now the most used language
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/Language_statistics_for_items>
for descriptions on Wikidata (56,7%), leaving English (55,8%) and German
(34,7%) behind.
- An OpenRefine service for Wikidata is waiting for testing:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/openrefine-wikidata/
- WMDE looking for a data analyst to work mostly on Wikidata
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2017-February/010270.html>
- WMF looking for a project manager to work on structured data for
Commons
<https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/584922?gh_src=15wnhc1#.WJj-TN9ifCk>
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: Saros cycle of
eclipse <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3592>, World Checklist
of Selected Plant Families ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3591>, Relations Ontology ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3590>, GCD series ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3589>, WNBA player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3588>, Common Vulnerabilities
and Exposures ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3587>,
CricketArchive
playing ground ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3586>,
UltraSignup
runner ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3585>, ITRA runner ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3584>, Surfline ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3583>, SunshineTour ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3582>, Pro Football Hall of
Fame ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3581>, SIPCA code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3580>, Sina Weibo id
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3579>, autologous cell line
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3578>, Croatian Football
Federation player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3577>, TLG
author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3576>, data size
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3575>, Fangraphs ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3574>, European Handball
Federation ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3573>, ESPNcricinfo
playing ground ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3572>, ESPN
MLB player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3571>, European
Case Law Identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3570>,
Cultureel
Woordenboek identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3569>, OWGR
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3568>, Legends of Hockey ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3567>, Just Sports Stats ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3566>, J.League Data Site ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3565>, Global Poker Index ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3564>, NGA Lighthouse ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3563>, Admiralty number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3562>, pro-football-reference ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3561>, College Football Data
Warehouse ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3560>, maximum
size or capacity <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3559>, USCF ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3558>, World Curling Federation
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3557>, World Curling Tour ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3556>, World Guide to Covered
Bridges ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3555>, World Series
of Poker ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3554>, Zhihu topic
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3553>
- Query examples:
- Places of worship south of 48°S
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20distinct%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fcoord%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ1370598%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Flocation%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP625%20%5B%20psv%3AP625%20%5B%20wikibase%3AgeoLatitude%20%3Flat%20%3B%20%5D%20%3B%20ps%3AP625%20%3Fcoord%20%5D%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3Flat%20%3C%20-48%29.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20%3Flat%20%3FitemLabel>
(source <https://twitter.com/PoulpyWP/status/826929337253363713>)
- Fictional items named after real items
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20fictional%20things%20named%20after%20non-fictional%20things%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FitemDescription%20%3FnamedAfterLabel%20%3FnamedAfterDescription%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ14897293%3B%0A%20wdt%3AP138%20%3FnamedAfter.%0A%20MINUS%20%7B%20%3FnamedAfter%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ14897293.%20%7D%0A%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D>
(source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/828697909831036929>)
Development
- You can now download query results as SVG images
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#You_can_now_download_a_query_result_in_SVG>
- When posting a link to an item to social networks and on messenger
apps that show previews the previews will now be nicer and show an image. (
phabricator:T51859 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T51859>)
- WE published the results of our research around Commons usage: How do
heavy Commons users work? ...and what does that mean for structured data on
Commons?
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HeavyCommonsUserQualitativeResearch.pdf>
- Setting up test system for federation (being able to use Wikidata's
items and properties on Commons)
- Setting up test system for lexemes
- Setting up test system for improved change dispatching (sending
notifications about edits on Wikidata to Wikipedia and co)
- Doing more groundwork for lexemes
- Working on better integration with Elastic
- More work on Federation
- Getting ready to deploy automated sitelinks for Wiktionary
- Fixing a number of keyboard navigation issues based on your feedback
- Working on the new datatype for geoshapes (phabricator:T57549
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T57549>)
- Looking into linking more complicated external identifiers properly (
phabricator:T151329 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151329>)
- Improved the link to the help portal on the query service (
phabricator:T154993 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154993>)
See all open tickets related to Wikidata
<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>
- The Cebuano and Swedish wikis have a lot of bot-created content which
is unconnected to other wiki articles. A good way to tackle that problem is
by checking constraint violations
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Constraint_violations/P1566#.22Unique_value.22_violations>
for property GeoNames ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1566>.
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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.