*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Discussions
- Open requests for adminship: יונה בנדלאק
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%94_%D7%91%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%A7>,
Pyb
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Pyb>
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>/
Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Next IRC office hour on January 5th
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-December/010136.html>
- Past: we were at 33c3
<https://events.ccc.de/congress/2016/wiki/Session:Wikidata_query_and_visualization>
- Scaling OpenStreetMap with Wikidata knowledge
<https://www.mapbox.com/blog/scaling-openstreetmap-wikidata-knowledge/>
- 2016 – A busy year for Gene Wiki and WikiData
<http://sulab.org/2016/12/2016-a-busy-year-for-gene-wiki-and-wikidata/>
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata and the celebrity deaths of 2016 on Buzzfeed
<https://www.buzzfeed.com/katiehasty/song-ends-melody-lingers-in-2016?utm_term=.qg2DqrZqkL#.dh2yJWLJm5>
- Welsh Wikipedia has some 16,000 lists regularly maintained from
Wikidata
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cy:Arbennig:Contributions/ListeriaBot>
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: INSEE
arrondissement code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3423>, INSEE
countries and foreign territories code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3422>
- Query examples:
- Filtered timeline of Spotify artists
<http://www.histropedia.com/showcase/wikidata-viewer.html?query=SELECT%20?person%20?personLabel%20%0A%28SAMPLE%28?birth_date%29%20AS%20?birth_date%29%20%0A%28SAMPLE%28?birth_date_precision%29%20AS%20?birth_date_precision%29%20%0A%28SAMPLE%28?death_date%29%20AS%20?death_date%29%20%0A%28SAMPLE%28?death_date_precision%29%20AS%20?death_date_precision%29%20%0A%28SAMPLE%28?image%29%20AS%20?image%29%20%0A%28SAMPLE%28?country_of_birth%29%20AS%20?country_of_birth%29%20%0A?Spotify%0A?awardLabel%0A?genreLabel%0A%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20?person%20wdt:P1902%20?SpotifyID%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B?person%20wdt:P166%20?award%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B?person%20wdt:P136%20?genre%7D%0A%0A%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20?person%20wdt:P18%20?image.%20%7D%20%20%0A%20BIND%20%28URI%28CONCAT%28%22https://open.spotify.com/artist/%22,?SpotifyID%29%29%20AS%20?Spotify%29%0A%20%0A%20%20?person%20p:P569/psv:P569%20?birth_date_node%20.%20%0A%20%20?birth_date_node%20wikibase:timeValue%20?birth_date%20.%20%23this%20is%20now%20the%20actual%20birth%20date%0A%20%20?birth_date_node%20wikibase:timePrecision%20?birth_date_precision%20.%0A%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%0A%20%20%20%20?person%20p:P570/psv:P570%20?death_date_node.%20%0A%20%20%20%20?death_date_node%20wikibase:timeValue%20?death_date%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20?death_date_node%20wikibase:timePrecision%20?death_date_precision%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20?person%20wdt:P19/wdt:P17%20?countryItem.%20%0A%20%20%20%20?countryItem%20rdfs:label%20?country_of_birth.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%28LANG%28?country_of_birth%29%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase:label%20%7B%20bd:serviceParam%20wikibase:language%20%22en%22,%22sv%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20?person%20?personLabel%20?Spotify%20?awardLabel%20?genreLabel%0A%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28?rank%29&url=Spotify&title=personLabel&from=birth_date&fromPrecision=birth_date_precision&to=death_date&toPrecision=death_date_precision&imageUrl=image&colourCodeBy=genreLabel&filterBy=country_of_birth,awardLabel%20&view=timeline>
- Paintings of the Eiffel Tower by Robert Delaunay
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FcollectionLabel%20%3Fimage%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP170%20wd%3AQ33978%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP180%20wd%3AQ243%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP195%20%3Fcollection%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20%3FcollectionLabel%20%3FitemLabel>
(source <https://twitter.com/PoulpyWP/status/814065889658241024>)
- Ratio of “famous” (≥25 sitelinks) people’s deaths since 2000
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Ratio%20of%20famous%20people%E2%80%99s%20deaths%20against%20all%20deaths%20since%202000.%0A%23%20A%20person%20is%20%28somewhat%20arbitrarily%29%20considered%20to%20be%20famous%20if%20they%20have%2025%20or%20more%20sitelinks.%0A%23defaultView%3ALineChart%0ASELECT%0A%28STR%28%3Fyear%29%20AS%20%3Fyear_%29%20%23%20STR%28%29%3A%20work%20around%20T150515%0A%23%20uncomment%20the%20below%20three%20lines%20for%20a%20more%20useful%20Table%20view%0A%23%28SUM%28%3Ffamous%29%20AS%20%3FfamousCount%29%0A%23%28COUNT%28person%29%20AS%20%3FtotalCount%29%0A%23%28%3FfamousCount%2F%3FtotalCount%20AS%20%3Fratio%29%0A%23%20this%20line%20compresses%20the%20above%20three%20lines%20into%20one%20because%20otherwise%20the%20Line%20Chart%20would%20display%20%3FfamousCount%20whereas%20we%20want%20%3Fratio%0A%28SUM%28%3Ffamous%29%2FCOUNT%28%3Fperson%29%20AS%20%3Fratio%29%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdied%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3Asitelinks%20%3Fsitelinks.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3Fdied%20%3E%3D%20%222000-01-01%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%29.%0A%20%20BIND%28YEAR%28%3Fdied%29%20AS%20%3Fyear%29.%0A%20%20BIND%28IF%28%3Fsitelinks%20%3E%3D%2025%2C%201%2C%200%29%20AS%20%3Ffamous%29.%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fyear%0AORDER%20BY%20%3Fyear>
(source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/814075781957746689>)
- Things with coordinates on globes other than Earth
<https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FglobeLabel%20%3Fcoordinates%20WITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fglobe%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%5B%5D%20wikibase%3AgeoGlobe%20%3Fglobe.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25globes%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25globes.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3Fglobe%20%21%3D%20wd%3AQ2%29.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP625%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20ps%3AP625%20%3Fcoordinates%3B%0A%20%20%20%20psv%3AP625%2Fwikibase%3AgeoGlobe%20%3Fglobe%0A%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D>
(source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/814106864203993088>)
- Newest WikiProjects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>:
US Virgin Islands
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_US_Virgin_Islands>
- Newest external tools: "Descriptioner" - Tool to add descriptions
batchwise <http://tools.wmflabs.org/pltools/descriptioner/>
- Newest database reports: Popular items without claims
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Popular_items_without_claims>,
Portuguese-language films without articles in Portuguese
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pt:Wikip%C3%A9dia:Wikidata/Filmes_em_l%C3%ADngua_portuguesa_sem_artigo>
Development
- When a {{#statements:…}} property couldn't be resolved, a tracking
category will be added (phab:T50799
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T50799>)
- Rewrote Special:NewItem <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:NewItem>
and all other Special:New… pages to use OOUI error handling (phab:T150205
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150205>)
- Getting ready the basic Lexeme prototype (phab:T146662
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146662>)
- Continued work on federation basics (phab:T149580
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149580>)
- Release version 1.0.0 of the DataTypes
<https://github.com/wmde/DataTypes> component
- Enjoying the holidays and getting ready for this year's challenges.
Hope you do to :)
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.