Wikidata August 2014

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[Wikidata-l] Language code and site code in the links section
by David Cuenca 18 Aug '14

18 Aug '14

There are 3 columns in the sitelink section: "Language", "Code" and "Linked page". Usually "language-code" and "wiki-code" have a permanent 1:1 correspondence , but not in all projects (incubator, meta, wikidata). Would it be possible to add a configuration option so that for wikis that host several languages the "language code" is also requested? In this case it would be better to change the column order to "wiki code", "language" and "linked page", that way the users would enter first the wiki-code and then if that wiki has the multiple language configuration enabled, it would request the language code as well. For wikis that have pages translated into multiple languages (meta, wikidata) the code "mul" can be used. Thanks Micru

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[Wikidata-l] Summary #122
by John Lewis 17 Aug '14

17 Aug '14

Hi everyone, You can view the latest summary at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/2014_08_16. Discussions - Open RfOS: John F. Lewis <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Oversight/J…> Other Noteworthy Stuff - Help choose which banner will be featured on the new Main page! Click here to view the two banner candidates <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Portal_Redesign/Banner#Candidates> and leave your feedback before August 20th 16:00 UTC. - Wikidata Translate <https://tools.wmflabs.org/hay/wdtranslate>, a Wikidata-based Google translator open source clone. Did you know? - Newest properties: journey destination <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1444>, score method <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1443>, grave picture <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1442>, present in work <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1441>, Fide ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1440>, Norsk filmografi ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1439>, Jewish Encyclopedia ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1438>, plea <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1437>, collection size <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1436> - Newest WikiProjects <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProjects>: WikiProject Movies <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Movies> Development - Finished a large number of new features and got them ready for roll-out. More in this email <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-August/004328.html> . - Wikibase made a big step forward to finally switch to DataModel 1.0. - Improved support for entity IDs bigger than 2 billion (32 bit integer). - We had to adapt Wikibase to some major changes (more major than usual, partly caused by discussions at Wikimania) in MediaWiki core: The default Vector skin became it’s own component and the ResourceLoader got some small but important updates. - Continued work on refactoring code of the user interface to make it ready for new design - Wrote a script to get number of users having wikidata in their recent changes/watchlist from the database 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>

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[Wikidata-l] Oversight Access Request
by John Lewis 16 Aug '14

16 Aug '14

Hi everyone, Per the oversight policy, <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:OS> I have to make a neutral notification notifying the community of the open request. Please feel free to share your opinions on myself as an oversighter at the request < https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Oversight/J… > Thanks, John Lewis

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[Wikidata-l] new features and changes
by Lydia Pintscher 16 Aug '14

16 Aug '14

Hey folks :) We have quite a lot of changes lined up that are going to be deployed soon. Here's an overview of what's coming up. I hope we can stick to this but if there are any unforeseen issues we might have to delay some of it. == Tuesday August 19th == * Wikinews will be able to manage its sitelinks via Wikidata * Wikidata will become its own client. This means you can for example add a sitelink to Wikidata:Help to the item for all main help pages. You will also be able to make use of the data in items on other pages in Wikidata with lua. (Arbitrary access will be enabled for Wikidata for this but when data in an item changes we will not be able to purge the page using the data yet.) * Sitelinks for projects with just one sitelink in the group (like Commons, Wikidata and in the future Meta for example) will be grouped together in one sitelink group. * Badges for good and featured articles can be stored on Wikidata right next to the sitelink. In a later roll-out we will make it possible to show them on the Wikipiedias and sister projects in the sidebar too. We will start with badges for featured and good articles. More can be added on request later. Thanks to Bene* and lazowik for this feature. I will send another email about this. * Redirects between items will be possible. When two items are merged one of them can then be turned into a redirect. This way our identifiers can be considered much more stable by 3rd parties for example. It will also make it unnecessary to delete duplicate items. This will hopefully reduce the workload of our admins considerably. For now redirects can only be created via the API. * We are introducing the new datatype monolingual text. This will allow you to make statements with a string and an associated language. Please go and test these on test.wikidata.org and let me know if there are any issues. == Tuesday August 26th == * The entity suggester will be able to suggest properties in qualifiers and references as well. * BREAKING CHANGE: We'll switch the internal serialization format to be the same as the one that is returned by the API. The xml dumps will also be adjusted then. If your tool relies on either the dumps or the internal serialization of an item page then it will likely need to be adjusted. I will send a separate email about that. (This is one of the remaining blockers for statements on properties and further progress on Commons support.) * We'll deploy the "in other projects" sidebar as a beta feature to Wikipedia, Wikisource and Wikiquote. This way you will see links in the sidebar of Wikipedia for example linking to Commons, Wikivoyage, Wikisource and so on. This can be configured per-wiki. Thanks to Tpt for this feature. (Wikipedias will get this 2 days later.) * We will make it possible to show badges from Wikidata in the sidebar on Wikipedia and co. 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 beta feature: in other projects sidebar
by Lydia Pintscher 15 Aug '14

15 Aug '14

Hey folks :) We'll be rolling out a new beta feature on August 26th/28th to Wikipedia, Wikisource and Wikiquote. It will add a new section to the sidebar of an article. This section will contain links to related articles in other sister projects. Which projects are shown can be configured per-wiki. You can find out more about it at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Other_projects_sidebar If you have any questions about this please use the discussion page of https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Other_projects_sidebar 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] labels of renamed articles
by Amir E. Aharoni 15 Aug '14

15 Aug '14

Hi, I just changed the Russian label of the Chelsea Manning item from Bradley to Chelsea. The Russian Wikipedia article was already moved to Chelsea, but nobody noticed that the label probably needs a change, too. How can such things be handled better? One thing I can think of is that after the Wikipedia article in language X is moved, the label in language X is shown as "possibly needs update" - similarly to FUZZY in the Translate extension. There can also be a button that says "confirm current label", for when there is no reason to change it. Finally, there could also be a page that lists such possibly labels. Of course, there may be better ideas, and maybe some of them are already implemented and I just didn't notice it. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬

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[Wikidata-l] DBpedia <-> Wikidata mapping questions
by David Cuenca 15 Aug '14

15 Aug '14

Hi Marco, Thanks for getting in touch. Looking at the list there seems to be many wrong mappings. Is there any way that we can collaborate to increase the number of matches or does it have to do with qualifiers? And do you plan to document 1:1 matches on your OntologyProperty namespace? Thanks and regards, Micru On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Marco Fossati <hell.j.fox(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > The following spreadsheet contains the latest DBpedia <-> Wikidata mapping > effort both for properties and classes (cf. the 2 sheets) made by the GSoC > student so far. > > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18W9xb5KXorotJ7qM58AsqK- > myAHEjiDgnZrqNXHEnwk/edit#gid=716082733 > > Since I am his main mentor, feel free to ask me further details. > Hope this helps! > > Cheers, > > Marco > > > On 8/13/14, 9:14 AM, David Cuenca wrote: > >> >> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 12:55 AM, Daniel Kinzler >> <daniel.kinzler(a)wikimedia.de <mailto:daniel.kinzler@wikimedia.de>> wrote: >> >> I think it would be cool to use http://mappings.dbpedia.org/ - it >> already has >> mappings for hundreds of templates in different language versions to >> the dbpedia >> vocabulary. If we added a mapping for wikidata <-> dbpedia, it >> should be easy >> enough to derive a mapping between a wikipedia template and >> wikidata. Actually, >> I was under the impression the wikidata <-> dbpedia already existed, >> but I don't >> see it on the site right now. Adding Anja Jentzsch, she might know. >> >> Even if it proves too tricky to map individual template parameters >> this way, it >> should still be possible to at least detect the class (instanceof) >> of an item >> based on the templates the respective wikipedia page contains. We >> should >> definitely map dpedia classes to wikidata items. >> >> >> Sergey Skovorodkin is working on a dbpedia<->wikidata mapping as a GsoC >> for DBpedia this year >> https://github.com/dbpedia/extraction-framework/wiki/ >> GSoC-2014-Progress-Sergey-Skovorodkin >> >> I'm CCing him to see if he can report the status or if he might need >> help with our properties, maybe we are missing some or need to clarify >> some others. Sometimes we are using qualifiers to extend properties >> instead of creating new ones. >> >> Cheers, >> Micru >> > > -- > Marco Fossati > http://about.me/marco.fossati > Twitter: @hjfocs > Skype: hell_j > -- Etiamsi omnes, ego non

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[Wikidata-l] Items without any label
by Lukas Benedix 15 Aug '14

15 Aug '14

Hi, I found ~16.000 Items without any label. I have no idea how it's possible to create those and how to fix this problem, so here is the list for whoever can: http://tools.wmflabs.org/lbenedix/wikidata/items_without_any_label_20140811… Lukas

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[Wikidata-l] Entity names
by Sezgin Sucu 15 Aug '14

15 Aug '14

Hey everyone, After wikimania, I decided to contribute to wikipedia in my capacity. The first thing I did was to check out my home town in wiki data, which is Zara Turkey. I used the search box, and found that Zara is not listed there. So I used the option "containing Zara" which did help me find the right entry. By the way, I see a tremendous impact of automatically generating descriptions, which is what was proposed by the gentlemen next to me in our outdoors meeting in wikimania. There were 4 Zara entries with no descriptions making it difficult for me to find the correct entry. In my opinion, I think manual descriptions should be kept, as opposed to be deleted completely. Instead, automatically generated descriptions should be provided when there is no manual description and people should be asked to override automatically generated descriptions. In other words, provide a default one and let people change it, if for some reason it is not good enough. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q147630 I realized that, it is labeled as "Zara, Turkey" and not Zara. This seem wrong to me, since "Turkey" part of this label is already in the data as a country relation. It appears to be a one-to-one mapping of the wikipedia article's title. Maybe when first imported from wikipedia, its title is used as is. I want to verify my understanding that labels of entities should be as short as possible and should not attempt to disambiguate as it has to be done in wikipedia article titles. Thanks

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[Wikidata-l] Wikidata: CSV, Shapefile, etc.
by Brylie Christopher Oxley 13 Aug '14

13 Aug '14

I would like to contribute data to Wikidata that is in the form of CSV files, geospatial shapefiles, etc. Is there currently, or planned, functionality to store general structured data on Wikidata? -- Brylie Christopher Oxley http://gnumedia.org

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