Wikidata June 2015

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Welcome Jonas! Welcome back Adam!
by Lydia Pintscher 25 Jun '15

25 Jun '15

Hey folks :) On Monday a new colleague started working with us on Wikidata. His name is Jonas Kress. He'll be supporting us on user interface development and much more. He says: "Hey I am Jonas the new guy in the Wikidata team. I have a passion for free knowledge, coding and traveling. Feel free to contact me if you like to get to know more about me." Addshore is also back at Wikimedia Germany and will support the software development here again with an initial focus on Wikidata. 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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weekly summary #163
by Lydia Pintscher 25 Jun '15

25 Jun '15

Hey folks :) Here's your summary of what's been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Enjoy the rest of the weekend! Discussions - German language Wikipedia closed its RfC on usage of Wikidata data <https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/Nutzung_von_Daten_au…>. As a result Wikidata data can be used on the project as long as it happens through a template and it has a non-Wikimedia reference. Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Past: Office hour on IRC. We talked about cool things that happened around Wikidata over the past 3 months got an update on upcoming developments and Freebase and more. You can read the log <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2015-06-19> . Other Noteworthy Stuff - en:South Pole Telescope <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pole_Telescope> is a nice example of an infobox completely filled from Wikidata. - Template:Quarters of Lausanne District 4 (Q20150617) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20150617> was created on 2015-06-17 - More data from Freebase <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Freebase> have been added the Primary Sources Tool <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Primary_sources_tool>. There is also a page <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Freebase/Mapping> to help the mapping of Freebase properties. - Nice new manual for MixnMatch <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mix%27n%27match/en> - The new nature.com/ontologies links to external ontologies and datasets; among them Wikidata. - National Gallery of Art <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q214867> and the J. Paul Getty Museum <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q731126> now have entries for all their paintings on Wikidata thanks to wiki project Sum of all Paintings Did you know? - Newest properties: takeoff and landing capability <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1956>, Discogs label ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1955>, Discogs master ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1954>, Discogs artist ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1953>, Encyclopaedia Metallum band id <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1952>, investor <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1951>, second surname in Spanish name <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1950>, CulturaItalia ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1949>, BerlPap identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1948>, Mapillary id <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1947>, National Library of Ireland authority <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1946> - Newest WikiProjects <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProjects>: Cross Items Interwikis <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Cross_Items_Interwikis> Development - Made a small API breaking change to wbeditentity and wbgetclaims modules. Details can be seen in the commit message of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/217885/ - Worked more on unit support - Fixed an issue where you'd sometimes select the wrong value when entering a statement unintentionally (phabricator:T98471 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T98471>) - Switched the whole code base to make use of DataModel 3.0 - The concept of “claims” no longer exists in Wikibase, as all places in the software work with statements. We are making this more and more explicit in the code. - The autoloading mechanism of the extension changed, see phabricator:T100813 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100813> - More work on getting the Wikibase Quality extensions ready for deployment. They'll improve constraint checking and provide checks against 3rd party databases. - Special:UnconnectedPages had to be reworked (thanks Amir!) because of huge performance issues. Because of this it loses some functionality (being able to specify where the list starts and limiting the list to pages that have local interwiki links). We're working on bringing functionality back without the performance penalty. - Bene* created a SPARQL abstraction layer for PHP called Asparagus: https://github.com/Benestar/asparagus - Enabled arbitrary access on arwiki, cawiki, eswiki, huwiki, kowiki, rowiki, ukwiki, viwiki, and usage tracking on dewiki, ruwiki, cswiki and all s3 wikis. (ruwiki and cswiki get arbitrary access on June 23) - Finishing work on improved handling “invalid” values and statements with deleted properties. - Small breaking DOM change: Wikibase no longer adds its own <h1> but uses MediaWiki's default .firstHeading element. (phabricator:T93534 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T93534>) You can see all open bugs 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 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_items> - Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats> or proofread pages in your own language! - Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above. 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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ISRC property needs NEW sister property to hold sound recording length
by Thad Guidry 23 Jun '15

23 Jun '15

Now that we have the new ISRC property (International Standard Recording Code) ... Can someone propose a new property to capture the "length of sound recording' with a property ? (if another property doesn't exist, from my cursory inspection, it does not exist) See ISRC FAQ snippet below from https://www.usisrc.org/faqs/assignment.html *Q. When do changes in a recording merit a new ISRC?* A new ISRC must be issued when: - A sound recording is re-mixed or edited. - If a new fade changes the length of a track by more than 10 seconds. - Edits that change the length of a sound recording by more than 10 seconds (playing time is measured from the first recorded modulation to the last recorded modulation). - A previously released sound recording is partially used as part of a compilation. - A 'full restoration' of a historical recording is performed by re-mastering, re-pitching, re-equalizing, de-noising or de-clicking a sound recording to meet contemporary quality standards. The registrant of the recording has discretion when making the determination between full re-mastering (sound restoration) and simple re-mastering (reproduction without sound restoration). Thad +ThadGuidry <https://www.google.com/+ThadGuidry>

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Upcoming short presentation in London
by Navino Evans 22 Jun '15

22 Jun '15

Hi all, I will be doing a short presentation about Wikidata at an ISKO conference in London Knowledge Organization – making a difference <http://www.iskouk.org/content/knowledge-organization-making-difference> (13th - 14th July) The title of the talk is "Wikidata: the potential of structured data to enable applications such as Histropedia" Unfortunately it's a bit misleading as I've changed the focus of the talk, but missed the boat for changing the title. It's actually going to be entirely about Wikidata, with a brief mention of a range of third party uses (the description in the programme will reflect this though). The organisers have asked that I spread the word about the conference, so please do let anyone know who may interested in attending :) Best wishes, Navino

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next Wikidata office hour on IRC
by Lydia Pintscher 19 Jun '15

19 Jun '15

Hey folks :) It's been a while since the last office hour. We'll do the next one on June 19th at 16UTC in #wikimedia-office on Freenode. See http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=16&min=00&sec=0&d… for your timezone. Looking forward to seeing many of you there! 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] making otherProjectsLinksByDefault non-beta
by Amir E. Aharoni 19 Jun '15

19 Jun '15

Hi, The "Other projects sidebar" beta feature is already on by default in some projects, such as the Italian Wikipedia and the French Wikipedia. Search for otherProjectsLinksByDefault in http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=InitialiseSettings.php Is there any reason not to make it it on by default in all (or most) projects? -- 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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Import of redirects as aliases
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 19 Jun '15

19 Jun '15

Do we have statistics on how many aliases we have compared to the redirects in Wikipedia and Wikiquote, especially for proper names? I'd suppose that all redirects have been imported by now. Aliases are a rather efficient way to store redirects for names which are used in many forms. My only problem is that there is no way to add an alias for languages, e.g. Latin names of learned people; but I hope search does or will remedy by searching in all languages anyway. Nemo

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Help needed for Freebase to Wikidata migration
by Thomas Pellissier-Tanon 18 Jun '15

18 Jun '15

Hey everyone, As you may already know, I am currently working on the importation of Freebase content into Wikidata [1] using the primary source tool [2]. One of the big challenges of the migration is to build a good mapping of the properties of Freebase to Wikidata ones.There are a few thousand of properties so it is a task too big to be done alone. Your help is far more than welcome for this task on this page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Freebase/Mapping Cheers, Thomas [1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Freebase [2] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Primary_sources_tool

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Wikimania talk input
by Lydia Pintscher 17 Jun '15

17 Jun '15

Hey folks :) I'll be giving a talk about the state of Wikidata at Wikimania in Mexico City. Is there anything you think I should definitely talk about? Some great story? A useful project? Some nice numbers? 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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Re: [Wikidata] Help needed for Freebase to Wikidata migration
by Marco Fossati 17 Jun '15

17 Jun '15

Hi Thomas, 1. Are these mappings [1, 2] coming from earlier discussions [3] already validated/integrated? 2. As the maintainer of the DBpedia mapper bot, the procedure to add schema mappings to Wikidata classes and properties has already been discussed [4]. The bot code can be easily adapted for Freebase, let me know and I can volunteer to open a request for the new bot. Hope this helps. Cheers! [1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QXISrOrsr8EEjTtkIKsbIQGhg7jRXh_RKFl… [2] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1USoyyvgouOK8t7PjtP_yveVbKM2WZI64lht… [3] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_Freebase#Statistica… [4] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/DBpedia… On 6/16/15 2:01 PM, wikidata-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org wrote: > Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 16:24:20 -0700 > From: Thomas Pellissier-Tanon<thomaspt(a)google.com> > To:wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: [Wikidata] Help needed for Freebase to Wikidata migration > Message-ID: > <CAM9+YaS_Vjx24RTNcyeE6yvdiuyVDvyB1sGN1jGkN8jZO=fzrQ(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hey everyone, > > As you may already know, I am currently working on the importation of > Freebase content into Wikidata [1] using the primary source tool [2]. > > One of the big challenges of the migration is to build a good mapping of > the properties of Freebase to Wikidata ones.There are a few thousand of > properties so it is a task too big to be done alone. Your help is far more > than welcome for this task on this page: > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Freebase/Mapping > > Cheers, > > Thomas > > [1]https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Freebase > [2]https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Primary_sources_tool -- Marco Fossati http://about.me/marco.fossati Twitter: @hjfocs Skype: hell_j

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