Wikidata October 2014

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[Wikidata-l] Property value proposal
by Jean Baptiste Pressac 21 Oct '14

21 Oct '14

Hello, I noticed there is a page on Wikidata for property proposals but is there any page for property values proposal ? For instance, I need to declare that Julien Collin [1]was a member of the Union Régionaliste Bretonne[2] as "secrétaire-adjoint" but this function is not listed in the drop menu of the qualifiers. The "secrétaire" is a position held in a french voluntary association[3] (association loi de 1901). The "secrétaire" is responsible for administrative and legal tasks ("les tâches administratives et juridiques" in French, since I am not sure of my english translation). He is not the "chief" of the association, position held by the "président" (we have many "présidents" in France, even for volontary associations). So this position has nothing to do with a secretary as the secretary-general of the United Nations. The "secrétaire-adjoint" is the assistant of the "secrétaire" (the "secrétaire-adjoint" has nothing to do with a deputy secretary). Thanks, Liens: ------ [1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18335803 [2] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3088622 [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_association#France Jean-Baptiste Pressac Traitement et analyse de bases de données Centre de Recherche Bretonne et Celtique 20 rue Duquesne CS 93837 29238 BREST cedex 3 tel : +33 (0)2 98 01 68 95 fax : +33 (0)2 98 01 63 93

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[Wikidata-l] standardize Wikidata WikiProject logos
by Ricordisamoa 21 Oct '14

21 Oct '14

Currently, we have different styles: c:Category:Wikidata task forces <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikidata_task_forces>. What could a guideline be?

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[Wikidata-l] How to express property constraints correctly?
by David Cuenca 20 Oct '14

20 Oct '14

I'm thinking of possible ways to represent constraints as items (see [1]), like those in: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property_talk:P19 However some of these are not easy to translate into Wikidata proper. For example: <place of birth (P19)> Conflicts with <instance of (P31): criminal delict (Q1456832)> With the current tools it could be expressed as convolutely as wished for, but it won't be compatible with the semantic web. Of course it would be much nicer and compatible to implement OWL2 property restrictions (some_values_from, all_values_from, none_of, etc) as snak types which could be re-used for any property. Then it would be as easy as: <place of birth (P19)> property restriction [none of] <instance of (P31): criminal delict (Q1456832)> Thoughts? Cheers, Micru [1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Constraint_violation_report_input [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/owl2-syntax/#Object_Property_Restrictions

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[Wikidata-l] weekly summary #129
by Lydia Pintscher 20 Oct '14

20 Oct '14

Hey folks :) Here's your weekly dose of Wikidata updates: Discussions - Do you want to see constraint violation reports and referencing improved? Please provide input <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-October/004778.html> . Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - IRC office hour about structured data on Commons (log <https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2014/wikimedia-office.20…> ) - hackathon around scholarly articles on Wikidata (etherpad with notes <https://etherpad.mozilla.org/XKHt30NgcO>) - Blog post about the meeting to discuss structured data on Commons in Berlin <http://blog.wikimedia.de/2014/10/14/transatlantic-work-on-structured-data-i…> Other Noteworthy Stuff - Clusters of humans and species on Wikidata <http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=232> - New parameter in the template Property documentation: subject item; see [this example edit <https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Property_talk:P496&diff=16402207…>] for how to use it - New tool: Linked Items <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/linked_items.php>. Returns sorted, de-duped list of Q values from a Wikipedia page, or chunk of wiki-text. Thank you, Magnus <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske>! - Wikidata annotation tool is looking for feedback <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_annotation_tool/project_completion_…> - Wikidata: A Free Collaborative Knowledgebase <http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2014/10/178785-wikidata/fulltext#.VD67l7hTfME…> by Denny and Markus has been published. It gives a very nice non-technical overview of Wikidata. - Magnus re-wrote Wiki ShootMe <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikishootme/> to now use Wikidata. Did you know? - Always wanted to know which topics have amazing articles on Wikimedia projects across many languages? Here you go! <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/Badge_statistics> - Newest properties: At the Circulating Library ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1564>, MacTutor id (biographies) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1563>, allmovie identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1562>, number of survivors <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1561>, given name version for other gender <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1560>, name in native language <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1559>, tempo marking <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1558>, manifestation of <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1557>, zbMATH author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1556>, Executive Order number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1555> Development - Improvements to sitelink editing usability - Released Wikibase DataModel 2.0 - Profiling and performance improvements in Wikibase and Wikibase DataModel - Implementing LabelLookup, which is needed to improve performance of EntityId formatting. This will lead to improved item page loading times. - Added new featured list and recommended article badges. - Remove most usage of class aliases to be compatible with HHVM (dependencies of bugzilla:71295 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71295>) See current sprint items <http://sb.wmflabs.org/p/wikidata/> for what we’re working on next. You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1&list_id=151540&resolu…> Monthly Tasks - Hack on one of these <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&ke…> . - Help fix these items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:The_Game/Flagged_items> which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game. - 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> Anything to add? Please share! :) Cheers Lydia -- 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.

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[Wikidata-l] Special:Export broken?
by Lukas Benedix 19 Oct '14

19 Oct '14

Hi, To get some test data for a script I want to export Q4115189 with history. The Problem is, that the most recent revision I get from Special:Export is from 2013-05-02T10:44:01Z, so I can't see the outcome of test edits I make. Am I using it it wrong, is the export page broken, or is there another way to get something in the same format as the dumps with history? best, Lukas

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[Wikidata-l] How can I increase the throughput of ProteinBoxBot?
by Andra Waagmeester 18 Oct '14

18 Oct '14

Hi All, I have joined the development team of the ProteinBoxBot ( https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:ProteinBoxBot) . Our goal is to make Wikidata the canonical resource for referencing and translating identifiers for genes and proteins from different species. Currently adding all genes from the human genome and their related identifiers to Wikidata takes more then a month to complete. With the objective to add other species, as well as having frequent updates for each of the genomes, it would be convenient if we could increase this throughput. Would it be accepted if we increase the throughput by running multiple instances of ProteinBoxBot in parallel. If so, what would be an accepted number of parallel instances of a bot to run? We can run multiple instances from different geographical locations if necessary. Kind regards, Andra

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[Wikidata-l] Structured Data Update | IRC chat tomorrow
by Fabrice Florin 16 Oct '14

16 Oct '14

Hi folks, Here's a quick update on the Structured Data project, which proposes to make multimedia data easier to search, view, edit, curate and re-use on Wikimedia Commons. Today, information about media files on Wikimedia sites is stored in unstructured formats that cause a range of issues: for example, file information is hard to search, some of it is only available in English, and it is difficult to edit or re-use files to comply with their license terms. Last week, a first bootcamp was held in Berlin to discuss this project and explore possible solutions, based the same technology as the one developed for Wikidata. Participants included community volunteers, as well as the Wikidata and Multimedia teams. This blog post gives an overview of what was discussed and accomplished. (1) Some good ideas came out from this event, but many questions remain unanswered. We would now like to invite more community members to help plan next steps for this project: everyone is welcome to join the discussion and/or subscribe to the newsletter on the new Structured data hub on Commons. (2) We also invite you to join tomorrow's live IRC chat about Structured Data: this Thursday, October 16 at 18:00 (UTC), on #wikimedia-office (3). The development teams would love to discuss this project with you. Going forward, our community liaison Keegan Peterzell will be managing communications for this project. You will be hearing from him about our next discussions and other ways you can get involved in this important initiative. We look forward to working with you to better support the needs of our users and modernize our multimedia infrastructure together. Best regards, Fabrice -- for the Structured Data team (1) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Berlin_Bootcamp (2) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data (3) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours _______________________________ Fabrice Florin Product Manager, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)

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[Wikidata-l] constraint violations and referencing - need your input
by Lydia Pintscher 16 Oct '14

16 Oct '14

Hey :) Our experience with the team of HPI students working on the entity suggester was very good so we decided to take on another team of 6 students from there. I'm very happy about that. They'll be working with us for 6 months. The overall topic they will be working on is data quality and trust. It splits into 3 large areas: * improving constraint violation reports and expanding them * making it possible to check against 3rd party databases * making referencing data more user friendly to encourage more references That's what we have so far. More planning and brainstorming will happen over the next weeks. I started 2 pages. It'd be awesome if you could provide your input for them on the current situations and what you'd like to see there: * https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Referencing_improvements_input * https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Constraint_violation_report_input Cheers Lydia -- 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.

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[Wikidata-l] Re-enable quick editing in Wikidata please
by Romaine Wiki 15 Oct '14

15 Oct '14

Hello all, Recently Wikidata was changed which caused it much more work for especially power users. It is no longer easy to add/change parts of pages. Each time I now have to edit a section and save it before I can continue in another section. A simple adding of 4 pages results in much more clicks. Was: click + paste + save + add + lang + paste + save Now: edit + click + paste + scrolling + save (outside my screen) + edit + add + lang + paste + save (on not expecting place) And that four times... This creates a much less efficient working situation. That is not workable. Can the previous situation be restored? Or can someone write a gadget so that this change is bypassed? Thanks! Romaine

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[Wikidata-l] Weekly Summary #128
by John Lewis 11 Oct '14

11 Oct '14

Hi everyone, Here is the lastest weekly summary: Discussions[edit <https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Status_updates/2014_10_…> ] - Open RfA: Nikosguard <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrat…> Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>[edit <https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Status_updates/2014_10_…> ] - Upcoming IRC office hour about structured data on Commons <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours> Other Noteworthy Stuff[edit <https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Status_updates/2014_10_…> ] - All human genes are now wikidata items, for example: Here is one (of approximately 40,000) called "spinocerebellar ataxia 37" - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18081265. Blog post about this to appear here: http://blog.wikimedia.de/tag/wikidata/ - Want to be kept up-to-date on structured data on Commons? There is now a new newsletter <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Structured_…> you can subscribe to. - Interested in some statistics about the data on Wikidata? Check Wikidata Stats <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/stats.php> every now and then. (Thanks Magnus for moving it to the new dump format.) Did you know?[edit <https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Status_updates/2014_10_…> ] - Newest properties: UBERON ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1554>, Yandex.Music ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1553>, has quality <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1552>, Exceptionnal heritage of Wallonia ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1551>, Orphanet ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1550>,demonym (monoligual text) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1549>, maximum Strahler number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1548> Development[edit <https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Status_updates/2014_10_…> ] - Spent the week with the WMF multimedia team and volunteers to get more clarity about structured data on Commons. We'll be asking for feedback on a lot of stuff over the next weeks. The main info hub is taking shape at Commons:Structured data <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data>. - More fixes for the switch to HHVM - Looked into possible performance improvements. Some of them will be taken into the next sprint. - Battled a handful of nasty issues on the live-site - Wikibase DataModel 1.1 was released Monthly Tasks - Help fix these items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:The_Game/Flagged_items> which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game. - 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>

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