Wikidata July 2014

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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] Weekly Summary #116
by John Lewis 06 Jul '14

06 Jul '14

Hey everyone, Here is the latest summary of everything happening around Wikidata! Read the summary in your language at < https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/20… > Discussions - A question from an intern <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#What_do_you_wish_you_ha…> Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Open Hack Day <https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fringe/Open_Data_Hack>, 5th and 6th of July, London Other Noteworthy Stuff - Wikidata got 10 times easier to use with the entity suggester <http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-July/004148.html> - Lydia needs your help with some selfies <http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-June/004146.html> (already uploaded ones are at c:Category:Wikidata selfies <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikidata_selfies>) - Wikidata the Game has a new game: occupation <http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/#mode=occupation> - As part of the Outreach Program for Women d:User:User:Thepwnco <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:User:Thepwnco> is continuing improving all help pages to help new users understand Wikidata better. At the same time w:User:Discoveranjali <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Discoveranjali> is helping with social media outreach and creating presentations workshops about Wikidata. Did you know? - Newest properties: replaced by structure <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1398>, State Catalogue of Geographical Names (Russia) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1397>, Linguasphere code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1396>, NCI ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1395>,Glottolog code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1394>, proxy <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1393>, ComicBookDB ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1392>, Index Fungorum ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1391> Development - Upcoming API change (wblinktitle) <http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-July/004190.html> - Deployed entity suggester. - More work on redirects. They are taking shape. Done with much of the groundwork. We've seen the first one! :D - Continued work on user interface redesign mockups - Monolingual text datatype is also taking shape but needs more user interface love to make it intuitive. - Investigated making Wikidata.org its own client so you can for example get access to better Lua functions for access to an item's label on a discussion page. Outcome: Should be possible but needs some more work. - Fixed bugs 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 - 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>

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[Wikidata-l] Wikidata class browser update
by Markus Kroetzsch 04 Jul '14

04 Jul '14

Hi all, The Wikidata classes and properties browser [1] was just updated: * Much faster loading; thanks to Yaron improving Miga to make this possible. * The browser *with* classes is now the default since it is fast enough to be suitable for most. You might still want to use the property-only version [2] if you are on a mobile device or very old machine. It won't safe any bandwidth, just memory/CPU. * Images! Side effect is that the application may not be "safe for work" or may be offensive to users who object to depictions of Q58 etc. * Fresh data (fresh today). Feedback is welcome, as usual. Various known bugs remain (it's still a prototype after all). Thanks to Yaron for the improvements in Miga that enable the faster loading now. Cheers, Markus P.S. In case you wonder: I already removed the one instance of Q58 that the browser reports: an act of vandalism dating back several months. We really need to create more ways to look at the data so people will notice such things earlier. Q58 will still remain a class, since it has two legit subclasses in Wikidata. [1] http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-exports/miga/ [2] http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-exports/miga/?props -- Markus Kroetzsch Faculty of Computer Science Technische Universität Dresden +49 351 463 38486 http://korrekt.org/

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[Wikidata-l] WikiData Categories
by Rohan Badlani 04 Jul '14

04 Jul '14

Hi! I am new to WikiData. I wanted to know how can we get the json belonging to a category. Say I want to access the json belonging to Category 537. If I can get the Json, can you pls specify how I can access this json? Main Aim: I want to know what Category 537 means and the sub categories and topics within this category. Regards! -- *Rohan Badlani* 2nd year undergraduate student, B.E.(Hons), Computer Science, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. Email: rohan.badlani(a)gmail.com Phone: +91-9660582805.

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Re: [Wikidata-l] Finding image URL from Commons image name
by Liangent 03 Jul '14

03 Jul '14

Also there are Special:FilePath and thumb.php. I'm not sure how this affects caching though. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Example.svg http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/thumb.php?f=Example.svg&w=420 -Liangent On Jul 3, 2014 4:50 AM, "Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada" <emijrp(a)gmail.com> wrote: Hello Markus; The URL of a Commons image is build like this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/x/xy/File_name.ext Where X and XY are the first char and first&second chars respectively of the md5sum of the filename (replacing the spaces with _). For a 200px thumb: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/x/xy/File_name.ext/200… The SVG files are a special case, therefore .png is appended to .ext, being .ext.png. For SVG doesn't mind to use big thumb sizes, but when file is JPG, don't try to generate a thumb bigger than the original file or you will get a beautiful error. Regards 2014-07-02 22:33 GMT+02:00 Markus Krötzsch <markus(a)semantic-mediawiki.org>: Dear Wikidatarians, > > From Commons media properties, I get the string name of a file on Commons. > I can easily use it to build a link to the Commons page fo rthat image. > > * But how do I get the raw image URL? > * And can I also get the raw URL of a small-scale (thumbnail) image? > > I would like to beautify my Wikidata applications to show some images. I > know this is more of a general MediaWiki question, but it is much more > relevant in Wikidata, so I am posting it here first. I guess somebody has > already solved this since we have images in various Wikidata-based > applications and gadgets. > > Thanks > > Markus > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > Wikidata-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l

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[Wikidata-l] Finding image URL from Commons image name
by Markus Krötzsch 03 Jul '14

03 Jul '14

Dear Wikidatarians, From Commons media properties, I get the string name of a file on Commons. I can easily use it to build a link to the Commons page fo rthat image. * But how do I get the raw image URL? * And can I also get the raw URL of a small-scale (thumbnail) image? I would like to beautify my Wikidata applications to show some images. I know this is more of a general MediaWiki question, but it is much more relevant in Wikidata, so I am posting it here first. I guess somebody has already solved this since we have images in various Wikidata-based applications and gadgets. Thanks Markus

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[Wikidata-l] Wikidata just got 10 times easier to use
by Lydia Pintscher 03 Jul '14

03 Jul '14

Hey folks :) We have just deployed the entity suggester. This helps you with suggesting properties. So when you now add a new statement to an item it will suggest what should most likely be added to that item. One example: You are on an item about a person but it doesn't have a date of birth yet. Since a lot of other items about persons have a date of birth it will suggest you also add one to this item. This will make it a lot easier for you to figure out what the hell is missing on an item and which property to use. Thank you so much to the student team who worked on this as part of their bachelor thesis over the last months as well as everyone who gave feedback and helped them along the way. I'm really happy to see this huge improvement towards making Wikidata easier to use. I hope so are you. 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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