Hey folks :)
Here's your summary of what's been happening around Wikidata over the past
week. Enjoy!
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Writing a bachelor's thesis at Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
<http://blog.wikimedia.de/2016/04/20/writing-a-bachelors-thesis-at-wikimedia-deutschland-e-v>
- Europeana Art History Challenge begins
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/04/19/europeana-art-history-challenge>
- TED is partnering with the Wikimedia community to add “ideas worth
spreading” to Wikimedia projects
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/04/22/ted-wikimedia-collaboration>
- Wikidata meets world literature
<http://weltliteratur.net/Wikidata-Meets-World-Literature/>
- Centralizing content and distributing labor: a community model for
curating the very long tail of microbial genomes (conference poster)
<https://figshare.com/articles/Force11Putman_48_44_pdf/3187411>
- Past: Wikimedia Conference
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2016>
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- SQUID: a new class and property browser for Wikidata
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/sqid> (background info
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-April/008554.html>)
- Wikidata Graph Builder
<https://angryloki.github.io/wikidata-graph-builder/> now can visualize
graphs with different node sizes. See for instance, types of artists
with number of people, occupied with each subclass item
<https://angryloki.github.io/wikidata-graph-builder/?property=P279&item=Q483501&limit=2&mode=reverse&size_property=P106>
- List of items that have English, German, and French sitselinks, but no
statements
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/pagepile/api.php?id=2871&action=get_data>
- List of articles on English Wikipedia with a video where the
corresponding item has no video <http://petscan.wmflabs.org/?psid=5007>
- Listeria bot (the one generating lists on Wikipedia based on Wikidata
data) will now begin auto-replacing simple WDQ queries with SPARQL ones
- Magnus is looking for a designer to help with a logo for PetScan
<https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/722835003365789700>
- Arbitrary access for Wikimedia Commons is coming as planned on the 26th
- Wikidata surpassed English Wikipedia in items/articles using files
from Wikimedia Commons
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: Danish listed
buildings case ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2783>,
Models.com
client ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2782>, Race time
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2781>, IAT diver ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2780>, IAT weightlifter ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2779>, IAT triathlete ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2778>, FIS snowboarder ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2777>, FIS Nordic combined
skier ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2776>, FIS ski jumper
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2775>, FIS freestyle skier ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2774>, FIS cross-country skier
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2773>, FIS alpine skier ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2772>, D-U-N-S
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2771>, source of income
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2770>, budget
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2769>, BNE journal ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2768>,
JudoInside.com ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2767>, ISO 4063 process number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2766>,
blue-style.com ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2765>, Wrestlingdata person id
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2764>, Danish protected area ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2763>, Skyscraper Center
building complex ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2762>, Research
Papers in Economics Series handle
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2761>, NUTTAB Food Identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2760>, AUSNUT Food Identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2759>, CNC film rating
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2758>, EIRIN film rating
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2756>, exploitation visa number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2755>, production date
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2754>, Dictionary of Canadian
Biography ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2753>, New Zealand
Organisms Register ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2752>, Roller
Coaster Database ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2751>,
Photographers'
Identities Catalog ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2750>, PRONOM
software identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2749>, PRONOM
file format identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2748>, Filmiroda
rating <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2747>
- Newest WikiProjects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>:
Olympics <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Olympics>
- Query examples: songs with longest melody
<https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fsong%20%3FsongLabel%20%3Fcode%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%3Fsong%20wdt%3AP1236%20%3Fcode.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28STRLEN%28REPLACE%28%3Fcode%2C%20%22%20%22%2C%20%22%22%29%29%29%0ALIMIT%2010>
(source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/722886802797801472>),
subjects
with most art dedicated to them
<https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fdedicatee%20%28SAMPLE%28%3FdedicateeLabel%29%20AS%20%3Flabel%29%20%28COUNT%28%3Fwork%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%3Fwork%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ838948.%0A%20%20%3Fwork%20wdt%3AP825%20%3Fdedicatee.%0A%20%20%3Fdedicatee%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FdedicateeLabel.%0A%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FdedicateeLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fdedicatee%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29%0ALIMIT%2020>
(source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/723512502512922624>),
versions
of The Scream
<https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%0A%20%20%3Fitem%0A%20%20%28SAMPLE%20%28%3FitemL%29%20AS%20%3Ftitle%29%0A%20%20%28SAMPLE%20%28%3Fy%29%20AS%20%3Fyear%29%0A%20%20%28SAMPLE%20%28%3FtypeL%29%20AS%20%3Ftype%29%0A%20%20%28group_concat%28distinct%20%3FmaterialL%20%3B%20separator%20%3D%20%22%2C%20%22%29%20as%20%3Fmaterials%29%0A%20%20%28SAMPLE%20%28%3FcollectionL%29%20AS%20%3Fcollection%29%0A%20%20%28SAMPLE%20%28%3Fimg%29%20AS%20%3Fimage%29%0A%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemL%20%28YEAR%28%3Fdate%29%20AS%20%3Fy%29%20%3FtypeL%20%3FcollectionL%20%3Fimg%20%3FmaterialL%0A%20%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP179%20wd%3AQ471379%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimg%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP571%20%3Fdate%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20%3Finstance%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FitemL%20filter%20%28lang%28%3FitemL%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Finstance%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FtypeL%20filter%20%28lang%28%3FtypeL%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP195%20%3Fcollection%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcollection%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FcollectionL%20filter%20%28lang%28%3FcollectionL%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP186%20%3Fmaterial%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fmaterial%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FmaterialL%20filter%20%28lang%28%3FmaterialL%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%20%0AORDER%20BY%20%3Fyear%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel>
(source <https://twitter.com/PoulpyWP/status/723576880151048192>)
Development
- There will be some maintenance on the query service in a few hours
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-April/008586.html>
- Redesigned the rank selector as well as snak type selector icons (
phab:T129033#2217402 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129033#2217402>,
gerrit:283968 <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/283968>)
- The snak type selector icon also has a tooltip now (gerrit:283945
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/283945>)
- The term table header row as well as language column will now be
marked as <th> instead of <td> (gerrit:283395
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/283395>)
- Fixed an issue with newline characters in quantity values (phab:T110728
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110728>)
- Fixed the month-precision time parser ignoring the minus in "January
-150" (phab:T132441 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T132441>)
- Continued working on diffing and patching support for new entity types
(phab:T132442 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T132442>)
- Continued working on support for creating entities of new types as
part of the work for Wikimedia Commons support (phab:T132964
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T132964>)
- Rolled out a little query explanation field to
query.wikidata.org to
help you better understand a query if you don't understand SPARQL well
- Fixed a bug where the map wouldn't show in the visualization of a
query result (phabricator:T132669
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T132669>)
- Fixed issues with the duplicate references gadget (phabricator:T131920
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131920>)
- Added basic support for more languages to the query service (
phabricator:T132756 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T132756>)
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 27/029/42207.