Hey folks :)
Here's your summary of the past week around Wikidata - quite a busy one!
Have a great week.
Discussions
- How to add dates with undefined calendar (Julian or Gregorian)?
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#How_to_add_dates_with_undefined_calendar_.3F>
is discussed on Project chat.
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:I_love_Wikidata_because.jpg>
I love Wikidata because
- Wikidata turned 3! The party doubled as the award ceremony for the
Land der Ideen price.
- Page with state of the project editorial, message from the
development team and greetings
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Third_Birthday>
- Images from the party
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikidata%27s_3rd_birthday>
- Denny and Erik look back at the beginning of the project
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbwJpejizq0> - the other recordings
are still being cut but you can already see the uncut stream here
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEnH2KyYlOs&feature=youtu.be>
- Presents:
- Three presents for Wikidata's third birthday
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Third_Birthday/Presents/Ladsgroup>
from Amir <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Ladsgroup> including
artificial intelligence to find vandalism!
- Improved
query.wikidata.org
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-October/007492.html>
by the dev team
- Preview of the Article Placeholder
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-October/007501.html>
by Lucie (bachelor student of the dev team)
- Special:Nearby
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-October/007502.html>
by the dev team
- Donation of CC World University & School (WUaS) to CC Wikidata
to celebrate its 3rd birthday!
<http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2015/10/donation-of-cc-world-university-school.html>
by Scott_WUaS
- Your name in Wikidata Morse code
<http://maettig.com/code/javascript/wikidata-morse-code-renderer.html>
from TMg <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:TMg>
- Help organize the Wikidata related sessions at Wikimania 2016
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikimania_2016>
- Past: Open Access Week
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/OA_week/Progress>
- Past: DINI Jahrestagung (slides
<http://korrekt.org/talks/2015/wikidata-intro-dinijt-oct-2015.pdf>)
- Past: Tehran SFD (video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BNNu_hh74k>)
- Upcoming: ODI Summit <http://summit.theodi.org>
- Upcoming: SWAT4LS <http://www.swat4ls.org>
- Modeling the social network of movie actors of the 1920s and 1930s
with Wikidata <http://scoms.hypotheses.org/498>
- Looking for…science fiction movies on the Linked Data Cloud
<http://blog.insideout.io/en/2015/10/science-fiction-movies-on-the-linked-data-cloud/>
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Italian Wikipedia matched up nearly all of their articles to items on
Wikidata
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/duplicity.php?wiki=itwiki&mode=stats>.
Congrats!
- Bene updated the Tours
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Tours>.
Please help translate them here
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Tours/Items>.
- The Distributed Game
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/distributed/> now has a Kian
module suggesting statements to add
- Andrew made maps of missing images on Wikidata: South Africa
<http://www.generalist.org.uk/wikidata/southafrica.html>, India
<http://www.generalist.org.uk/wikidata/india.html>, Australia
<http://www.generalist.org.uk/wikidata/australia.html>, world
<http://www.generalist.org.uk/wikidata/world.html>
- Nikki imported dates of birth and death for more than 40,000 persons
from Japanese Wikipedia.
- Example query: French people with an article on English Wikipedia but
not French Wikipedia
<https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20schema%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fschema.org%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%20%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20rdfs%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2F01%2Frdf-schema%23%3E%0APREFIX%20p%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20v%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fstatement%2F%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP27%20wd%3AQ142%20.%0A%20%20%20FILTER%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fwen%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fitem%20.%20%3Fwen%20schema%3AinLanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fwfr%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fitem%20.%20%3Fwfr%20schema%3AinLanguage%20%22fr%22%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22fr%22%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%7D>
- Example query: paintings without dimension
<https://query.wikidata.org/#prefix%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0Aprefix%20entity%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20entity%3AQ3305213%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP2049%20%3Fdummy0%20%7D%0A%20%20FILTER%28%21bound%28%3Fdummy0%29%29%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP2048%20%3Fdummy1%20%7D%0A%20%20FILTER%28%21bound%28%3Fdummy1%29%29%0A%7D>
(add some?)
- Example query: people or things born or created on the same day of the
year as Wikidata
<https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0Aselect%20distinct%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FinstanceOfLabel%20%3FDateofBirth%20%3FInception%0Awhere%20%7B%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP569%20%3FDateofBirth.%20%23P569%20date%20of%20birth%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28month%28%3FDateofBirth%29%20%3D%2010%20%26%26%20day%28%3FDateofBirth%29%20%3D%2029%29%0A%20%20%7DUNION%20%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP571%20%3FInception.%20%23P571%20inception%2Fdate%20of%20creation%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28month%28%3FInception%29%20%3D%2010%20%26%26%20day%28%3FInception%29%20%3D%2029%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20%3FinstanceOf.%20%23P31%20instance%20of%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%2Car%2Cbe%2Cbg%2Cbn%2Cca%2Ccs%2Cda%2Cde%2Cel%2Ces%2Cet%2Cfa%2Cfi%2Cfr%2Che%2Chi%2Chu%2Chy%2Cid%2Cit%2Cja%2Cjv%2Cko%2Cnb%2Cnl%2Ceo%2Cpa%2Cpl%2Cpt%2Cro%2Cru%2Csh%2Csk%2Csr%2Csv%2Csw%2Cte%2Cth%2Ctr%2Cuk%2Cyue%2Cvec%2Cvi%2Czh%22%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D>
- We passed 15M items.
- Happy 10th anniversary to Semantic MediaWiki! We wouldn't be where we
are today without you.
- All 8,860 fellows of the Royal Society have been matched to Wikidata
items
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/catalog_stats.php?catalog=92&min_perc_props=4&min_perc_sitelinks=10>
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: Wikidata
property sample <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2271>, Emporis
building complex ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2270>, Orsay
Museum artist ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2268>, Politifact
Personality Identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2267>, Fashion
Model Directory ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2266>,
mix'n'match
catalogue ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2264>, ISOCAT id
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2263>, draft
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2262>, beam
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2261>, ionization energy
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2260>, ITU-T network identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2259>, mobile country code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2258>, frequency of event
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2257>
- Newest External tools
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Tools/External_tools>:
Top missing P31 by number of sitelinks
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/top_missing_properties_by_number_of_sitelinks/P31>
list the items with most sitelinks lacking instance of
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P31> or subclass of
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P279>
Development
- Worked on birthday presents (Special:Nearby, article placeholder demo
system and improvements to
query.wikidata.org)
- Wes, Stas, Dan and James from the WMF came over to talk through
current work around Wikidata and plans for the future
- Further poked at editing references at the same time as rest of the
statement
- Investigated where we can push next to improve performance
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.
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 27/681/51985.