Hey folks :)
Greetings from Gothenburg. Here's your summary of what's been happening
around Wikidata over the past week:
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- slides for SPARQL and Wikidata intro by shonagon- École de
Bibliothécaires Documentalistes
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SparQL_-_Wikidata_-_%C3%89cole_de_Biblioth%C3%A9caires_Documentalistes_-_2016-04-04.pdf>
- Upcoming: WWW 2016 <http://www2016.ca>
- Upcoming: WikiCite 2016 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016>
- Past: Wikimedia hackathon.
- Some of the things that were worked on (but are not finished yet):
- Easier referencing like it is done in VisualEditor
- Data imports including National Library of Israel
- Getting the ArticlePlaceholder ready for deployment on the first
small Wikipedias
- Updated maps of the geocoordinates in Wikidata (Adam will
publish a blog post with them soon)
- Improvements for Librarybase <http://librarybase.wmflabs.org/>
- Automated language links for Wiktionary
- Cleanup of existing data import tools
- partial group photo
<https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/716308037758291969>
- Objetos culturales y metadatos: hacia la liberación de datos en
Wikidata
<http://www.ub.edu/blokdebid/es/content/objetos-culturales-y-metadatos-hacia-la-liberacion-de-datos-en-wikidata>
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Lucie published her thesis about supporting small Wikipedias through
article placeholders based on Wikidata
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-April/008458.html>
- This article
<https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D1%82%D1%82%D0%BE,_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8C>
from Russian Wikipedia is generated only with Lua Module and Listeria,
based on its Wikidata item.
- If you're into Wikidata, GLAM and Facebook there is now a Facebook
group <https://www.facebook.com/groups/Wikidata.GLAM/> for you.
- There are 4 new games
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/distributed/> to help with the
migration of the Persondata template on English Wikipedia.
- There was a huge increase in the number of qualifiers over the last 2
weeks. It went from 2.6 to 3.7 Million due to additions of qualifiers for
evidence codes on human and mouse proteins.
- Interested in seeing Wikidata training sessions at Wikimania? Add
yourself to interested attendees for the sessions
<https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Training_sessions>.
- PetScan now has item creator functionality.
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/PetScan/en#Create_Wikidata_items_for_Wikipedia_articles_that_don.27t_have_one_yet_.28Creator_functionality.29>
- The catalog of the National Library of Israel has been added to
Mix'n'match
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/?mode=catalog_details&catalog=192>
- Great examples on French and Russian Wikipedia for infobox based on
Wikidata: fr:Andrew Tanenbaum
<https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Tanenbaum>, ru:Таненбаум, Эндрю
<https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BC,_%D0%AD%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D1%8E>
and references based on Wikidata: fr:Trappeur
<https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trappeur>, ru:Доказательство с нулевым
разглашением
<https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%BE_%D1%81_%D0%BD%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%8B%D0%BC_%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5%D0%BC>
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: dataset
distribution <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2702>, file format
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2701>, protocol
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2700>, URL
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2699>, CricketArchive player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2698>, ESPNcricinfo player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2697>, FIG gymnast identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2696>, type locality
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2695>, ISU figure skater
identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2694>, New York
Times Semantic Concept: Descriptor
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2693>, New York Times Semantic
Concept: Location <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2692>, New
York Times Semantic Concept: Organization
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2691>, New York Times Semantic
Concept: Person <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2690>, BARTOC ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2689>, Box Office Mojo person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2688>, NDL JPNO
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2687>, Opensecrets Identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2686>,
Basketball-Reference.com
NBA player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2685>, Kijkwijzer
rating <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2684>, Bekker Number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2683>, is verso of
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2682>, is recto of
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2681>, author of afterword
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2680>, author of foreword
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2679>, Russiancinema.ru film ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2678>, relative position within
image <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2677>, rating certificate
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2676>, reply to
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2675>
- Newest WikiProjects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>:
Historical Place
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Historical_Place>
- Query examples: phrases
<https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fq%20%3FqLabel%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%09%3Fq%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ187931.%20%0A%09SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%7D>,
Redewendungen
<https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fq%20%3FqLabel%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%09%3Fq%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ15841920.%0A%09SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%7D>,
most commons eponyms
<https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Feponym%20%28COUNT%28%3Fitem%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fitem%29%20AS%20%3Fsample%29%0AWHERE%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP138%20%3Feponym.%20%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Feponym%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29>
Development
- 4 years ago we started coding on Wikidata. What a ride it has been and
continues to be. <3 to everyone who is a part of it.
- We are going to make a change to the RDF format for geocoordinates.
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-April/008464.html>
- Here is a preview of geospatial search on the query service.
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-April/008461.html>
- The query service now has bubble charts as a visualization option (
example
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ABubbleChart%0ASELECT%20distinct%20%3Fitem%20%20%3FitemLabel%20%28%3Fend%20-%20%3Fstart%20as%20%3Fduration%29%0A%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20%28wdt%3AP361%29*%20wd%3AQ362%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ178561%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP580%20%3Fstart%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP582%20%3Fend%20.%0A%20%20%0A%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%7D%0A%0A%7D%0A%0A%0A>
)
- Busy at the Wikimedia hackathon.
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/Wikidata:Showcase_items>
- Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats>
or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed
above.
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers
Lydia
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Lydia Pintscher -
http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
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