Wikidata June 2015

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Fwd: [Mediawiki-api] [Mediawiki-api-announce] API BREAKING CHANGE: Default continuation mode for action=query will change at the end of this month
by Lydia Pintscher 03 Jun '15

03 Jun '15

Hey folks :) There's going to be a breaking change in the API of MediaWiki Core at the end of the month. This is not specific to Wikidata but since we have quite a few bots running I want to make sure you're seeing this. Cheers Lydia ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <bjorsch(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 10:42 PM Subject: [Mediawiki-api] [Mediawiki-api-announce] API BREAKING CHANGE: Default continuation mode for action=query will change at the end of this month To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, mediawiki-api-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org As has been announced several times (most recently at https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-April/081559.html), the default continuation mode for action=query requests to api.php will be changing to be easier for new coders to use correctly. The date is now set: we intend to merge the change to ride the deployment train at the end of June. That should be 1.26wmf12, to be deployed to test wikis on June 30, non-Wikipedias on July 1, and Wikipedias on July 2. If your bot or script is receiving the warning about this upcoming change (as seen here, for example), it's time to fix your code! The simple solution is to simply include the "rawcontinue" parameter with your request to continue receiving the raw continuation data (example). No other code changes should be necessary. Or you could update your code to use the simplified continuation documented at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Query#Continuing_queries (example), which is much easier for clients to implement correctly. Either of the above solutions may be tested immediately, you'll know it works because you stop seeing the warning. I've compiled a list of bots that have hit the deprecation warning more than 10000 times over the course of the week May 23–29. If you are responsible for any of these bots, please fix them. If you know who is, please make sure they've seen this notification. Thanks. AAlertBot AboHeidiBot AbshirBot Acebot Ameenbot ArnauBot Beau.bot Begemot-Bot BeneBot* BeriBot BOT-Superzerocool CalakBot CamelBot CandalBot CategorizationBot CatWatchBot ClueBot_III ClueBot_NG CobainBot CorenSearchBot Cyberbot_I Cyberbot_II DanmicholoBot DeltaQuadBot Dexbot Dibot EdinBot ElphiBot ErfgoedBot Faebot Fatemibot FawikiPatroller HAL HasteurBot HerculeBot Hexabot HRoestBot IluvatarBot Invadibot Irclogbot Irfan-bot Jimmy-abot JYBot Krdbot Legobot Lowercase_sigmabot_III MahdiBot MalarzBOT MastiBot Merge_bot NaggoBot NasirkhanBot NirvanaBot Obaid-bot PatruBOT PBot Phe-bot Rezabot RMCD_bot Shuaib-bot SineBot SteinsplitterBot SvickBOT TaxonBot Theo's_Little_Bot W2Bot WLE-SpainBot Xqbot YaCBot ZedlikBot ZkBot -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api-announce mailing list Mediawiki-api-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api-announce _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api -- 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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did anyone saw this website : Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire ?
by Innovimax SARL 03 Jun '15

03 Jun '15

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Wikidata-Gadgets on Phabricator: a central place for gadget bugs and ideas
by Sjoerd de Bruin 03 Jun '15

03 Jun '15

Hey everyone, Some may know the following problem: a gadget becomes broken due to changes to the software. You report it on the talk page of the gadget, then after some time without response you discuss it on our project chat. The time between reporting the bug and fixing the bug are weeks and sometimes months! Gadgets are a important part of the Wikidata experience and bugs with them should be fixed as soon as possible. After some discussion with Lydia Pintscher, I've decided to start a project on Phabricator. Here can we track bugs, post some wishes and even more. Here we can get a easy overview of the current state of gadgets on Wikidata. You can find the project here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikidata-gadgets/ <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikidata-gadgets/> Feel free to add ideas or report bugs. Greetings, Sjoerd de Bruin sjoerddebruin(a)me.com

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Help needed: a project to pull data from the World Bank
by Sylvia Ventura 02 Jun '15

02 Jun '15

Thank you Daniel, this is helpful! *Daniel Mietchen* daniel.mietchen at googlemail.com <wikidata%40lists.wikimedia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BWikidata%5D%20Help%20needed%3A%20a%20project%20to%20pull%20data%20from%20the%20World%0A%09Bank&In-Reply-To=%3CCAN6n2b2_FE19Xp_%3DSbANj24Hb125SCe-y8u9jJM5Y7MoPbjwnQ%40mail.gmail.com%3E> *Thu May 28 00:32:52 UTC 2015* - Previous message: [Wikidata] Help needed: a project to pull data from the World Bank <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-May/006235.html> - Next message: [Wikidata] Orphaned items <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-May/006240.html> - *Messages sorted by:* [ date ] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-May/date.html#6236> [ thread ] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-May/thread.html#6236> [ subject ] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-May/subject.html#6236> [ author ] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-May/author.html#6236> ------------------------------ On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 9:04 PM, Sylvia Ventura <sventura at wikimedia.org <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata>> wrote: >* Hi, I really like where this conversation is going! *>>* This is very much duplicating the (good) GLAM model for other types of *>* content. *>* Formalizing a Wikidata-Scientist/WIR status beyond GLAM gives us access to *>* broader pool of organizations who generate/own good sources of content. *>>* I see great value is having WS/WiRs working on various economic development *>* areas while embedded with the World Bank, the OECD. *>>* WS/WiRs enriching Health and disease related content while embedded with *>* WHO, NIH, CDC... Same with policy with WiRs working with Brookings, CATO, *>* Pew, CID... *>>* The community can decide where we want to expand, but this would create an *>* unprecedented reach of our projects and our mission. * I'd certainly like to see the WiR model expand more widely into research institutions (we have some examples already [1]) and beyond Wikipedia and Commons (even there, we have at least one example [2]). The possibility of a WiR at NIH has been discussed multiple times without any concrete results other than some draft specs from 2013 [3] and some discussion threads [4], but I think it's worth giving it another try now that Wikidata is starting to become useful beyond Wikimedia projects and that arbitrary access is arriving and units are in sight. >* Daniel, I would love to learn more about your work with NIH and excited by *>* your offer to help with a pilot! * My interactions with NIH started around 5 years ago when we began working on what is now the Open Access Media Importer bot [5]. In the process, I became an avid bug reporter and gave some talks there [6], which triggered the formation of a working group [7] that systematically addresses the issues that the bot has discovered (first published in a GLAM newsletter piece [8] that has since been cited in a related NISO recommendation [9]). At Wikimania in London, I organized a session with Phil Bourne [10] who runs the data science team at NIH [11], and in March this year, I joined his team as a researcher, focusing on four areas [12]: - exploring openness in research funding contexts - helping design a research data Commons - monitoring reuse of NIH resources - engaging communities around research data While none of this is specific to Wikimedia, we are quite conscious that there is considerable room for interaction with Wikimedia projects, especially with Wikidata, and happy to explore that room together, be it individually, through WikiProjects, hackathons or otherwise. Thanks and cheers, Daniel [1] e.g.https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SLU/Wikipedian-in-Residencehttps://wiki… [2]https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:WikiProject_NARA [3]https://docs.google.com/document/d/15LOvRTorGOc764BX0r4_e7Ao6O3epgDwfk8gO… [4]https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_Chemistry#Collabo… [5]https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Open_Access_Media_Importer_Bot [6]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/Talks/Wikimania_2012/N… [7]http://jats4r.org/ [8]https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/November_2012/Content… [9]http://www.niso.org/apps/group_public/download.php/14226/rp-22-2015_ALI.p… [10]http://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Open_Knowledge_and_t… [11]http://datascience.nih.gov/ [12]https://github.com/Daniel-Mietchen/datascience ------------------------------ - Previous message: [Wikidata] Help needed: a project to pull data from the World Bank <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-May/006235.html> - Next message: [Wikidata] Orphaned items <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-May/006240.html> - *Messages sorted by:* [ date ] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-May/date.html#6236> [ thread ] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-May/thread.html#6236> [ subject ] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-May/subject.html#6236> [ author ] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-May/author.html#6236> ------------------------------ More information about the Wikidata mailing list <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata> -- Sylvia Ventura Strategic Partnerships Wikimedia Foundation sventura(a)wikimedia.org

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