Wikidata June 2014

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[Wikidata-l] Tables
by Jan Kučera 22 Aug '14

22 Aug '14

Hi there, can tables be stored within wikidata database? I mean simple 2D tables like excel spreadsheets... Jan

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[Wikidata-l] Wikidata weekly newsletter translation
by Bohdan Melnychuk 29 Jul '14

29 Jul '14

Hello, I want the subject's mailing list to be translatable and delivered the same way as it's with Tech news. I've asked about it on it's subscription page's talk page and faced there Lydia, who doesn't believe that there would be any volunteers (except for me in the current point) to translate it. So if you would like to translate the newsletter when it would be set to be possible, could you leave a note in [[:m:Talk:Global_message_delivery/Targets/Wikidata#Multilingual distribution <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Global_message_delivery/Targets/Wikida…>]] about your willing so we get Lydia convinced :) Poking friends who may do it is welcome as well ;) Also it would be nice if Odder or/and Guillom leave a note about technical side of such delivery the same way as the latter was so kind to leave in Education newsletter's talk :) Yours sincerely, --Base

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[Wikidata-l] Time for some selfies!
by Lydia Pintscher 07 Jul '14

07 Jul '14

Hey folks! Wikimania is coming up and I need your help! I will be giving a keynote about Wikidata and would like to show the human side of our awesome project. Wikidata wouldn't be what it is without all of you and I see Wikimania not only as an opportunity to highlight all of the exciting software developments around Wikidata, but to also show off what an awesome, creative and diverse community we have here! To do this, I would like as many of you as possible to send me a photo of yourself - a selfie (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12068677) would be perfect. Bonus points if it either demonstrates a connection you have with Wikidata or includes the Wikidata logo somehow. You can be subtle and sneaky with the logo or go big and bold—the only limit is your creativity! All submissions should be licensed CC-BY and you must have the right to upload and use the image. Additionally it’d be awesome if you could send me a sentence or two about what Wikidata means to you. (Either use my user talk page or send me an email.) Submission deadline is July 20th. When you're ready, upload your file to Wikimedia Commons in the category “Wikidata selfies” (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikidata_selfies). Need some inspiration? Check the category. I’m sure we can be just as famous as the Oscar selfie: http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/mar/07/oscars-selfie-most-retweeted-e… :P 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] Monolingual text and old languages
by David Cuenca 30 Jun '14

30 Jun '14

Hi, Will the monolngual text datatype support old languages? There are settlements that had an "official name" in a now dead language. Besides of "no language", will there be an option to mark such names as "custom" and use the qualifier "language (p407)" instead? Thanks, Micru

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[Wikidata-l] weekly summary #115
by Lydia Pintscher 29 Jun '14

29 Jun '14

Hey folks :) Here's what happened around Wikidata this week. You can view it at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/20… in your language if a translation is available. Discussions - Second UI designs are now up for comments <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:UI_redesign_input> - Discussion about predecessor and successor timelines <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Preceded_by_.2F_Predece…> Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Wikidata intro and QA <http://www.passageenseine.org/Passage/PSES-2014>, June 29th in Paris - Open Hack Day <https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fringe/Open_Data_Hack>, 5th and 6th of July, London Did you know? - Newest properties: contains settlement <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1383>, coincident with <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1382>, bridgehunter.com ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1381>, uglybridges.com ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1380>, China railway TMIS station code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1378>, MTR station code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1377>, capital of <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1376>, NSK identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1375>, daily ridership <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1373>, binding of software library <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1372>, ASI Monument ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1371>, ihsi identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1370>, Iranian National Heritage registration number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1369>, LNB identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1368>, BBC Your Paintings <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1367>, replaced by <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1366>, replaced <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1365>, ITTF ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1364>, points/goal scored by <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1363>, TLS <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1362>, Anime News Network ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1361> Development - Redirects are moving slow because they touch so much of our and the core code base, but they are coming closer! - Final touches on the monolingual data type and UI - Fixed some smaller but nasty bugs in the UI like not being able to change only the rank - Finally improved the most confusing error messages and hints you get to read when using the Wikibase client or repo - The Wikibase DataModel JavaScript component (which moved to it’s own repository) reached version 0.2.0 - Continued working on the QueryEngine component (the foundation for queries) See current sprint items <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=218716&resolution=---&re…> for what we’re working on next. You can view the commits currently in review here <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(+project:mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase+…> and the ones that have been merged here <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(+project:mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase+…> . You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1&list_id=151540&resolu…> Monthly Tasks - Fix a format or content violation <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Constraint_violatio…> for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P850> property - 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 has 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> 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] new mockups for new user interface design uploaded
by Lydia Pintscher 27 Jun '14

27 Jun '14

Hey folks :) I just uploaded a new mockup for Wikidata's user interface design. Thanks so much for your feedback so far! https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:UI_redesign_input is the place to be ;-) 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] DChanges 2014 - Call for Position Papers and Work-In-Progress
by Angelo Di Iorio 26 Jun '14

26 Jun '14

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** 2nd International Workshop on (Document) Changes: Modeling, Detection, Storage and Visualization http://diff.cs.unibo.it/dchanges2014/ Part of ACM DocEng 2014 September 16th, 2014, Fort Collins, near Denver, Colorado /*** WORK-IN-PROGRESS and POSITION PAPERS - deadline: July 15th ***/ CALL FOR WORK-IN-PROGRESS and POSITION PAPERS ============================================= Some slots at DChanges2014 are available for work-in-progress and position papers! The following types of submissions are accepted: (1) Work-in-progress papers, presenting late-breaking results that may not have been fully validated, yet. (2) Position papers, discussing emerging research challenges and/or long-term research directions. Papers must be 2 pages long and must conform to the ACM SIG Proceedings format. All submissions will undergo a rigorous single blind review process. Papers can be submitted at: <http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dchanges2014> For any questions, please contact <dchanges(a)lists.cs.unibo.it>. Organizers ---------- * Gioele Barabucci, Universität zu Köln * Uwe M. Borghoff, Universität der Bundeswehr München * Angelo Di Iorio, Università di Bologna * Sonja Maier, Universität der Bundeswehr München * Ethan Munson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Program committee ----------------- * Serge Autexier, DFKI Bremen * Boris Konev, University of Liverpool * John Lumley, PhD * Pascal Molli, Université de Nantes - LINA * Sebastian Rönnau, Zalando AG * Wolfgang Stürzlinger, York University * Yannis Tzitzikas, University of Crete and FORTH-ICS * Fabio Vitali, Università di Bologna * Jean-Yves Vion-Dury, Xerox Research Centre Europe

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Re: [Wikidata-l] [Translators-l] Wikidata weekly newsletter translation
by Amir E. Aharoni 22 Jun '14

22 Jun '14

> The only concern is that Wikidata is a single wiki and > not all users on a given wiki will be concerned (except for adding > interwiki links but technically ll is done on this subject). > The rest is about data that will be used by tricky templates > and whose readers would be more technical users than usual. It's a single wiki used by a lot of other wikis. Quite like Commons, and news about tech updates on Commons do make it to Tech News. Wikidata is severely underused by templates, even though templates are supposed to be Wikidata's biggest killer application, so more PR about it really won't hurt. Examples of successful use of Wikidata in templates in some projects, even without tricky technical details, can go a long way to furthering Wikidata adoption.

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[Wikidata-l] Installing Wikibase extension
by Yury Katkov 22 Jun '14

22 Jun '14

Hi everyone! I seem to have problems with installation of Wikibase repository. I'm oding the following: 1) Downloaded mediawiki 1.23.0 2) followed the instructions here After the last step of installation I try to access any page, for example Special:SpecialPages and get the following error: Unexpected non-MediaWiki exception encountered, of type "InvalidArgumentException" [634b7ae4] /wikibase/index.php/Special:SpecialPages Exception from line 48 of /var/www/html/wikibase/extensions/Wikibase/repo/includes/GenericEventDispatcher.php: $listener must implement Wikibase\Lib\Store\EntityStoreWatcher Backtrace: #0 /var/www/html/wikibase/extensions/Wikibase/repo/includes/store/sql/SqlStore.php(549): Wikibase\Repo\GenericEventDispatcher->registerWatcher(Wikibase\Lib\Store\CachingEntityRevisionLookup) #1 /var/www/html/wikibase/extensions/Wikibase/repo/includes/store/sql/SqlStore.php(513): Wikibase\SqlStore->newEntityRevisionLookup() #2 /var/www/html/wikibase/extensions/Wikibase/repo/includes/store/sql/SqlStore.php(455): Wikibase\SqlStore->getEntityRevisionLookup(string) #3 /var/www/html/wikibase/extensions/Wikibase/repo/includes/WikibaseRepo.php(316): Wikibase\SqlStore->getEntityLookup(string) #4 /var/www/html/wikibase/extensions/Wikibase/repo/includes/WikibaseRepo.php(488): Wikibase\Repo\WikibaseRepo->getEntityLookup() #5 /var/www/html/wikibase/extensions/Wikibase/repo/includes/WikibaseRepo.php(582): Wikibase\Repo\WikibaseRepo->getValueFormatterBuilders() #6 /var/www/html/wikibase/extensions/Wikibase/repo/includes/WikibaseRepo.php(567): Wikibase\Repo\WikibaseRepo->newSummaryFormatter() #7 /var/www/html/wikibase/extensions/Wikibase/repo/includes/specials/SpecialWikibaseRepoPage.php(74): Wikibase\Repo\WikibaseRepo->getSummaryFormatter() #8 /var/www/html/wikibase/extensions/Wikibase/repo/includes/specials/SpecialNewEntity.php(64): Wikibase\Repo\Specials\SpecialWikibaseRepoPage->__construct(string, string) #9 /var/www/html/wikibase/extensions/Wikibase/repo/includes/specials/SpecialNewItem.php(36): Wikibase\Repo\Specials\SpecialNewEntity->__construct(string) #10 /var/www/html/wikibase/includes/specialpage/SpecialPageFactory.php(345): Wikibase\Repo\Specials\SpecialNewItem->__construct() #11 /var/www/html/wikibase/includes/specialpage/SpecialPageFactory.php(375): SpecialPageFactory::getPage(string) #12 /var/www/html/wikibase/includes/specials/SpecialSpecialpages.php(54): SpecialPageFactory::getUsablePages(User) #13 /var/www/html/wikibase/includes/specials/SpecialSpecialpages.php(42): SpecialSpecialpages->getPageGroups() #14 /var/www/html/wikibase/includes/specialpage/SpecialPage.php(379): SpecialSpecialpages->execute(NULL) #15 /var/www/html/wikibase/includes/specialpage/SpecialPageFactory.php(503): SpecialPage->run(NULL) #16 /var/www/html/wikibase/includes/Wiki.php(285): SpecialPageFactory::executePath(Title, RequestContext) #17 /var/www/html/wikibase/includes/Wiki.php(588): MediaWiki->performRequest() #18 /var/www/html/wikibase/includes/Wiki.php(447): MediaWiki->main() #19 /var/www/html/wikibase/index.php(46): MediaWiki->run() #20 {main} what went wrong and how to fix that? Cheers, ----- Yury Katkov

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[Wikidata-l] Weekly Summary #114 and News
by John Lewis 22 Jun '14

22 Jun '14

Greetings everyone, As you may be aware of if you read the other emails in the list, the summaries will now be translatable for the next 6 issues as a trial. As such, I will continue to post the English version below but before will include a link to the Special:MyLanguage version. Enjoy! You can read the summary in your language here: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/20… Discussions - Idea collection: data quality and trust <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#idea_collection:_data_q…> - Open RfAs: PMG <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrat…> , Dr Zimbu <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrat…> , 콩가루 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrat…> Other Noteworthy Stuff - Several Wikipedias now have a template (d:Q17195970 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17195970>) for articles which have a related property in Wikidata. - User:Thepwnco <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Thepwnco> is working on a documentation overhaul and updating Help pages for a FOSS project <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Feed_the_Gnomes_-_Wikidata_Outreach> - leave feedback on suggested changes here <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Documentation_Overhaul/Summary_and_F…> - First concept designs of Wikidata's possible new interface <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:UI_redesign_input> - GenderCounter <http://gendercounter.net/> uses Wikidata to provide an accurate service with distinguishing male and female names - ca.wikipedia found a nice way to use Wikidata. They're comparing their living people to Wikidata to see if any of them have a date of death there. They're then put into a category for review: ca:Categoria:Persones vives a revisar <https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categoria:Persones_vives_a_revisar> Did you know? - Newest properties: BBC Your Paintings <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1367>, successor <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1366>, predecessor <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1365>, ITTF ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1364>, points/goal scored by <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1363>, TLS <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1362>, Anime News Network ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1361>, Monte Carlo Particle Number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1360>, Number of points/goals conceded <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1359>, points for <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1358>, matches/games drawn/tied <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1357>,matches lost/games lost <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1356>, matches won/games won <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1355> - Newest task forces <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Task_forces> : LGBT task force <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:LGBT_task_force> Development - Created a script that provides the schema creation SQL for Wikibase Query - Releases Wikibase Internal Serialization 1.1 - Made WikibaseDataModelJavascript a separate component at https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModelJavascript. - Continued working on full redirect support for items. It touches a surprising big chunk of the code base. - Continued working on the QueryEngine code base and it’s data type support. - Fixed and updated the most recent implementation of the property and item selector widget, e.g. a MonoBook specific bug. - Pushed along reviews and deployment of the entity suggester code that will make suggestions for new properties to be added to items. Our hope is to have it through performance review for the next deployment. - Pushed along reviews of the “in other projects” sidebar: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/Beta_Features/Other_projects_sidebar See current sprint items <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=218716&resolution=---&re…> for what we’re working on next. You can view the commits currently in review here <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(+project:mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase+…> and the ones that have been merged here <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(+project:mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase+…> . You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1&list_id=151540&resolu…> Monthly Tasks - Fix a format or content violation <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Constraint_violatio…> for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P850> property - 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 has 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> Note from John Hey everyone, it's rare these small sections come along but there is a bit of interesting news to get across which one line under 'noteworthy stuff' won't be the best for. For the next 6 summaries, they will be translatable at Wikidata. This is an interesting idea which was first proposed on the delivery page and on Wikidata-l by Base <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Base>. This is purely a trial and if you all want the summaries to remain translatable, please participate! You can view the first translated summary (hopefully) here <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/20…>! Also sorry for this one being late :)

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