Wikidata July 2015

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People who died in 2015 who were Dutch
by Gerard Meijssen 31 Aug '16

31 Aug '16

Hoi, Jura1 created a wonderful list of people who died in Brazil in 2015 [1]. It is a page that may update regularly from Wikidata thanks to the ListeriaBot. Obviously, there may be a few more because I am falling ever more behind with my quest for registering deaths in 2015. I have copied his work and created a page for people who died in the Netherlands in 2015 [2]. It is trivially easy to do this and, the result is great. The result looks great, it can be used for any country in any Wikipedia The Dutch Wikipedia indicated that they nowadays maintain important metadata at Wikidata. I am really happy that we can showcase their work. It is important work because as someone reminded me at some stage, this is part of what amounts to the policy of living people... Thanks, GerardM [1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jura1/Recent_deaths_in_Brazil [2] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jura1/Recent_deaths_in_the_Netherlands

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Goal: Establish a framework to engage with data engineers and open data organizations
by Quim Gil 31 Jan '16

31 Jan '16

Hi, it's first of July and I would like to introduce you a quarterly goal that the Engineering Community team has committed to: Establish a framework to engage with data engineers and open data organizations https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101950 We are missing a community framework allowing Wikidata content and tech contributors, data engineers, and open data organizations to collaborate effectively. Imagine GLAM applied to data. If all goes well, by the end of September we would like to have basic documentation and community processes for open data engineers and organizations willing to contribute to Wikidata, and ongoing projects with one open data org. If you are interested, get involved! We are looking for * Wikidata contributors with good institutional memory * people that has been in touch with organizations willing to contribute their open data * developers willing to help improving our software and programming missing pieces * also contributors familiar with the GLAM model(s), what works and what didn't work This goal has been created after some conversations with Lydia Pintscher (Wikidata team) and Sylvia Ventura (Strategic Partnerships). Both are on board, Lydia assuring that this work fits into what is technically effective, and Sylvia checking our work against real open data organizations willing to get involved. This email effectively starts the bootstrapping of this project. I will start creating subtasks under that goal based on your feedback and common sense. -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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Merging items creates redirect now
by Lucie Kaffee 06 Aug '15

06 Aug '15

Hey! tl;dr after the next deploy merging two items creates a redirect, merge gadget (and every tool with a similar functionality) needs to be adjusted to the new functionality There was a change to the functionality of merging items. Whenever you merge two items a redirect will be automatically created. If you merge via the special page nothing changed - except for the item, that is merged into another item now also redirects to that item. The same goes for the API except for using 'ignoreconflicts'- when the item is not left empty after the merge it won't be a redirect and still be there as before without the data that got merged into the other item. (So it will only have the data that would have given a merge conflict.) Last but not least: The merge gadget will need some adjusting. That's expected since the functionality changed. Please keep that in mind if you have any tool, that merges items. Cheers, Lucie -- Lucie-Aimée Kaffee Working Student Software Development Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Phone: +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0http://wikimedia.de Imagine a world, in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That‘s our commitment. Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

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Learning from DBpedia experiences
by Markus Kroetzsch 02 Aug '15

02 Aug '15

Hi all, Vladimir Alexiev has published an interesting post on issues he encountered when using DBpedia at OntoText, drawing many comparisons to Wikidata [1]. While this post praises the practices of Wikidata in several places, I think there are a few important insights for Wikidata there as well. There are certainly points where Wikidata is running into similar issues (if you have had a look at our class hierarchy recently, you know what I mean). Even in the cases where we are doing good, it might be valuable to obtain some feedback and reconfirmation from another perspective. Cheers, Markus [1] http://vladimiralexiev.github.io/pres/20150209-dbpedia/dbpedia-problems-lon… -- Markus Kroetzsch Faculty of Computer Science Technische Universität Dresden +49 351 463 38486 http://korrekt.org/

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The MoMa, CSV, GitHub, and CC0
by Quim Gil 02 Aug '15

02 Aug '15

The Museum of Modern Art of New York has published a CSV on GitHub containing the data of its entire collection under a CC0 license. https://github.com/MuseumofModernArt/collection They have blogged about it. https://medium.com/digital-moma/thousands-of-exhausted-things-or-why-we-ded… "This data release <https://github.com/MuseumofModernArt/collection> includes all of the works that have been both accessioned into MoMA’s collection *and* cataloged in our database. It includes basic data for each work, including title, artist, date made, medium, dimensions, and date acquired by the Museum." "MoMA’s open data is primarily intended to be useful to scholars, so it was important to make each version citable." "*Thanks to the **Cooper-Hewitt* <https://github.com/cooperhewitt/collection>* and **Tate* <https://github.com/tategallery/collection>* for paving the way by releasing their own collection data on GitHub using CC0. Thanks also to George Oates (**@goodformand* <https://twitter.com/goodformand>*) for reassuring us that a CSV is not just the easiest way to start but probably the most accessible format for a broad audience of researchers, artists, and designers."* They actually produced a live, on-site performance about the data released, and blogged about it: https://medium.com/@blprnt/a-sort-of-joy-1d9d5ff02ac9 "This release of open data by MoMA is by no means revolutionary. Two years ago the Tate Modern released its own collection on GitHub <https://github.com/tategallery/collection>. The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has not only released its data (images and all), it has also built an API <https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/api> to allow anyone easy access to it. In 2013 the British Museum released 1,000,000 images <https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/page1> under a Creative Commons license." Anyway, this might not be big or surprising news to those of you following closely this scene. I just found amusing to learn accidentally about this the day that Wiki Loves Open Data has started taking shape in a wiki page. -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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I can haz edit summary!
by Ricordisamoa 30 Jul '15

30 Jul '15

For T47224 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T47224> I've created a new script <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-EditSummary.js> that lets you use custom comments for all of your Wikibase actions on a page. If you like it we can make it a real gadget.

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tool to do multiple searches in Wikidata at once?
by Sandra Fauconnier 27 Jul '15

27 Jul '15

Hi everyone, I’ve been in the situation quite often (edit-a-thons; various to do lists) where I had a list of terms (most usually names of a few hundreds of people, or titles of Wikipedia articles), where I wanted to do a quick search on Wikidata to retrieve each of these concept’s Q number. Does anyone know of a tool that helps me make this easier? Enter a list of, say, 100 of these search terms, and receive Q number suggestions for each of them? I’ve looked around on wmflabs but have not found anything in that direction (also not with the help of Hay’s awesome tool directory <http://tools.wmflabs.org/hay/directory/#/>). Till now, I’ve done all these searches manually - use an excel sheet, look for each term individually, enter Q number for each term - quite accurate but very time-consuming! Would appreciate all help/tips ! Thanks! Sandra (User:Spinster)

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wikidata workflow in Wikipedia
by Benjamin Good 23 Jul '15

23 Jul '15

I've noticed that a number of EN Wikipedia articles are starting to use wikidata e.g. all of these templates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Templates_using_data_from_Wikidata This is great, and I have already started trying to encourage more of this in the areas we are working on (genes, drugs, diseases). But concerns raised more than 2 years ago now still seem very valid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikidata/Workflow I'm particularly concerned about the edit button. When a Wikipedia user hits edit on an article built using wikidata content, how are they supposed to edit the wikidata content? Obviously the well-informed can sort out which wikidata item is relevant and which properties are being used and go to edit at wikidata.. but this can't be the solution. What is the status of this issue ? thanks very much -Ben

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Requests for permissions/Oversight
by Sjoerd de Bruin 22 Jul '15

22 Jul '15

Hello everyone, I've accepted a nomination for oversight access. According to that page, I need to notify you guys. So: here I am! You can find the page here: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Oversight/S… Thanks, Sjoerd de Bruin sjoerddebruin(a)me.com

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next round of arbitrary access rollouts
by Lydia Pintscher 20 Jul '15

20 Jul '15

Hey :) Rollout of arbitrary access is going well. So we're continuing on more projects. Here's the schedule for the next projects to get it: 11 June 2015: all Wikiquote, all remaining Wikivoyage 15 June 2015: arwiki, cawiki, eswiki, huwiki, kowiki, rowiki, ukwiki, viwiki 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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