*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>/
Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Current: Wikimedia Dev summit
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit> in San
Francisco (January 9-11th) If you are there, come and meet our developers
and volunteers!
- Upcoming: WikiIndaba
<http://2017.wikiindaba.net/index.php?title=Main_Page>, January 20-22th,
Accra, Ghana
- Wikidata used to connect people giving interviews for the oral history
project at the computer history museum
<http://campuspress.yale.edu/knowledgepermaculture/2017/01/03/oral-history-at-the-computer-history-museum/>
Other Noteworthy Stuff
<https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Donating_data_to_Wikidata.webm>
- Video: how institutions can donate data to Wikidata, explained in a
cartoon
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Donating_data_to_Wikidata.webm>
- Category:Articles with infoboxes completely from Wikidata
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Articles_with_infoboxes_completely_from_Wikidata>
on English Wikipedia
- Mix'n'match encountered some problems with labels and descriptions,
some of them are now fixed, cf post from Magnus
<http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=436>
- Wikidata-powered citation lists with citation.js
<http://www.rightrelevance.com/search/articles/hero?article=f45a0623de249f99e242214bc9df33ed16ff5ea2>
- How to use objects from OpenStreetMap in Wikidata
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Kartographer/OSM>
- Video: Navigating a cemetery using Spotify and Wikidata
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmOm0YRVn2A> (by Magnus Sälgö)
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: eBird taxon ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3444>, Victorian Heritage
Database ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3443>, Debian
package <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3442>, FIFA country code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3441>, time signature
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3440>, angular resolution
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3439>, vehicle normally used
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3438>, people or cargo
transported <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3437>, AELG ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3436>, VGMDb artist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3435>, ERIH PLUS ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3434>, biological variant of
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3433>, parent cell line
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3432>, Publons Publication ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3431>, Social Networks Archival
Context ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3430>, Electronic
Enlightenment ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3429>, INCAA
film rating <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3428>,
as.com
athlete ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3427>, ArbetSam ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3426>, Natura 2000 site ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3425>, Polish cultural heritage
register number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3424>
- Query examples:
- Birth place of Academy Award winners
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23Born%20place%20of%20Academy%20Award%20winners%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3FpersonLabel%20%3Fkoord%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP166%2Fwdt%3AP31%2a%20wd%3AQ19020%20.%0A%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP19%20%3Fjaiolekua.%0A%20%20%3Fjaiolekua%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fkoord.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D>
- Neujahrskonzert with conductor by country and age
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23Neujahrskonzert%20with%20conductor%20by%20country%20and%20age%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FconductorLabel%20%3FcountryLabel%20%3Fage%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%09%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ339152%20%3B%20wdt%3AP585%20%3Fdate%20%3B%20wdt%3AP3300%20%3Fconductor%20.%0A%09%3Fconductor%20wdt%3AP569%20%3FDOB%20%3B%20wdt%3AP27%20%3Fcountry%20.%0A%09BIND%28YEAR%28%3Fdate%29%20-%20YEAR%28%3FDOB%29%20as%20%3Fage%29%20.%0A%09SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22fr%22%20%7D%0A%7D%20order%20by%20%3Fdate>
(source <https://twitter.com/belett/status/815926627356078080>)
- 9 species named after the President of the USA
<https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Ftaxon%20%3FtaxonLabel%20%3Fname%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Ftaxon%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ16521%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP138%20wd%3AQ76.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Ftaxon%20wdt%3AP225%20%3Fname.%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D>
(source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/817096239850385410>)
- Newest external tools: R wrapper for WDQS API
<https://github.com/bearloga/WikidataQueryServiceR> (by Mikhail
Popov), Wikidata
authority file mapping tool <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/wdmapper/0.0.5>
(by Jakob Voß)
- Newest database reports: list of episodes of Desperate Housewives (in
English and German)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Movies/lists/episodes_of_Desperate_Housewives>
Development
- Log of our last IRC office hour
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2017/wikimedia-office.2017-01-05-18.00.log.html>
- This week, most of the developers are at the Dev Summit
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit> hacking
stuff and doing great things!
- Continued working on "federation" – support for multiple Wikibase
repositories (phab:T76007 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76007>)
- New dimensions for unit conversion in the query service (phab:T150881
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150881>)
- Fixed a timing issue that can happen when using the property suggester
(phab:T115267 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115267>)
- Still investigating an issue in which the "save" button stays
disabled, as reported in December
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contact_the_development_team/Archive/2016/12#Quantity_datatype>
- We may remove the sliding animation when using the date, geo,
monolingual, and quantity experts (gerrit:330145
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/330145>). The preview popup may now
cover parts of the page. Please try it at
wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org and
tell us what you think on our contact page
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contact_the_development_team>.
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!
- 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>
- Add statements to items without
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/without_claims_by_site>
- Help with one of the bot requests
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Bot_requests>
- Help merge identical items
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge> across
Wikimedia projects.
--
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.
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.