Wikidata September 2015

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Gerrit Cleanup Day on Wed 23rd: Are you ready?
by Andre Klapper 16 Sep '15

16 Sep '15

Hi Wikidata crew, the Gerrit Cleanup Day on Wed 23rd is approaching fast - only one week left. More info: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88531 Do you feel prepared for the day and know what to do? If not, what are you missing and how can I help? Some Gerrit queries for Wikidata are listed under "Gerrit queries per team/area" in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88531 Are they helpful and a good start? Or do they miss some areas (or do you have existing Gerrit queries to use instead or to "integrate", e.g. for parts of MediaWiki core if relevant)? Will there be a main Wikidata contact for the day (and available in #wikimedia-dev on IRC) and help organize review work in Wikidata areas, in case other teams would like to reach out? Thanks for your help and interest! andre -- Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

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next 2 rounds of arbitrary access rollouts
by Lydia Pintscher 16 Sep '15

16 Sep '15

Hey folks :) We'll be rolling out arbitrary access to a large number of wikis next week and the week after. See https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Arbitrary_access for the full list. 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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Is Reasonator working ?
by James Heald 15 Sep '15

15 Sep '15

When I try to access a Reasonator page with Chrome, I'm seeing the 'https' crossed through with a red line in the browser bar, and neither the CSS nor the content appears to be loading. On Firefox (which I think I've given permission to access tools.wmflabs.org as an unsafe site), the header and (for dates) the sidebar come up, but then it gets stuck at "Loading..." Is everybody seeing this, or is it some problem with my machine / connection / ISP ? -- James.

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Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Join the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016
by Quim Gil 15 Sep '15

15 Sep '15

Hi, developers of tools to visualize, reuse or contribute Wikidata content (as well as the developers of Wikidata and related software, of course) are all invited to participate at the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016. See the details and deadlines below, and please help spreading the word. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rachel Farrand <rfarrand(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 8:05 PM Subject: [Wikitech-l] Join the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016 To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hello! The Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016 will be taking place in San Francisco, CA between January 4th and January 6th, 2016. Registration is open along with the call for participation. *Deadline for travel sponsorship requests and the call for participation is October 2, 2015.* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit_2016 Hope to see you in San Francisco! _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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Naming projects
by John Erling Blad 15 Sep '15

15 Sep '15

Please do not name projects "listeria", or use any other names of diseases that has killed people. Thank you for taking this into consideration next time. John

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Translation of ValueView
by John Erling Blad 15 Sep '15

15 Sep '15

Can someone point me to where ValueView is translated, thanks! https://github.com/wmde/ValueView

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Autolist seems to have got very slow at retrieving labels ?
by James Heald 15 Sep '15

15 Sep '15

Is anybody else having this problem? Autolist (at least for me) seems to have got very very slow at retrieving labels & links. eg -- I recently opened up a set of searches in five tabs, none of them returning more than 40 hits, and it was still "getting labels" five minutes later. It didn't used to be like this. Are other people seeing this, and is there anything that might be causing it ? Thanks, James.

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weekly summary #175
by Lydia Pintscher 14 Sep '15

14 Sep '15

Hey folks :) Here is the summary of what's been happening around Wikidata over the past week - a busy one for sure. Enjoy! Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Past: Wikidata edit-a-thon <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Meeting_2015/Programme/Wikida…> at Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2015 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Meeting_2015> in Estonia - Upcoming: Office hour on IRC <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-September/007052.html>, 23 September - Upcoming: Mobilizing Open Cultural Data <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fi:Wikipedia:Wikiprojekti_Avoin_kulttuuridata…>, Helsinki, 2 October - Upcoming: Wikidata tutorial at SWAT4LS <http://www.swat4ls.org/workshops/cambridge2015/programme/tutorials/>, December - Un-deleting 500,000 Wikidata items <http://addshore.com/2015/09/un-deleting-500000-wikidata-items/> - Wikimania 2015 report by Multichill <https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gebruiker:Multichill/Wikimania_2015> - DSS Wikidata Editathon <http://blog.wikimedia.es/2015/09/dss-wikidata-editathon.html> - A simple way to write Wikidata bots <http://sulab.org/2015/09/a-simple-way-to-write-wikidata-bots/> Other Noteworthy Stuff - Please vote for Wikidata to win the people's choice award of Land der Ideen <http://hauptvoting.welt.de/mainvoting/list> (voting instructions <https://twitter.com/benestar_wm/status/641541505216327681>) - We passed 70M statements. <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/stats.php> - Stalagmites and stalactites <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#About_stalagmite_.28Q18…> visualizes items without statements, items with statements, and deleted/redirected items by batches of 100,000 QIDs - Mix n Match is now available for mobile <https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/mobile_game.html>, has an improved automatic matching algorithm, got speed improvements and new catalogs were added like the National Gallery of Victoria, World Heritage Sites and CulturaItalia - The annual Wikipedia editing competition <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wikipedia:WikiProject_Computational_Biolog…> organized by the International Society for Computational Biology <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4288281> will include a Wikidata component this year for the first time. - Matched birth and death days <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Data_cleaning/matched_bi…> seeks to investigate all pairs of humans (in various subsets) that appear to have the same birth dates and death dates. De-duplication underway! - You can now use the new special page Special:PagesWithBadges to see which articles on that project have a badge like "featured article". - New tool by Magnus to suggest links to Wikidata items while you type <https://tools.wmflabs.org/magnustools/autolinker_demo.html> - Meta, MediaWiki, Wikispecies and Wikibooks will get (more) access to Wikidata soon <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-September/007106.html> - Wikidata now has an official SPARQL endpoint so you can query the data - announcement <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-September/007042.html> - examples <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/Indexing/SPARQL_Query_Examples> - How US Presidents Died According to Wikidata <http://ramiro.org/notebook/us-presidents-causes-of-death/> - Wikidata now supports units - announcement <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-September/007108.html> - properties with units already created <https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListProperties/quantity&…> - Properties with units waiting for creation <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Pending/2> - example <https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q185372&type=revision&diff=25083…> - Prototype database to store all Wikipedia references <http://librarybase.wmflabs.org/wiki/Librarybase:Home> - Duplicity can show you how many (and which) articles on a Wikipedia are not connected to an item on Wikidata (example for frwp <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/duplicity.php?mode=stats&wiki=frwiki> ) - Magnus wrote a user script to let you edit Listeria-powered lists on Wikipedia directly <http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=348> - Musicpedia <http://musikipedia.org/> has been released in beta and is using data from Wikidata - New tool by Magnus to create a Commons creator page from a Wikidata item <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/creator_from_wikidata.php> Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: length <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2043>, elevation above sea level <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2044>, orbital inclination <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2045>, area <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2046>, duration <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2047>, height <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2048>, width <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2049>, wingspan <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2050>, M x sin i <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2051>, speed <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2052>, watershed area <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2053>, density <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2054>, electrical conductivity <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2055>, heat capacity <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2056>, HMDB ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2057>, depositor <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2058>, luminosity <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2060>, aspect ratio <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2061>, HSDB ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2062>, LIPID MAPS ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2063>, KNApSAcK ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2064>, NIAID ChemDB ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2065>, Fusion enthalpy <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2066>, mass <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2067> Development - Release of the query service and unit support (see above) - Made quantities not show URIs when editing a value but instead show the label - Worked on new datatype for identifiers to be able to split them from the other statements in the user interface, link them without the need for the authority control gadget and be able to link them in JSON/RDF - Worked more on making the edit summaries in the watchlist on Wikipedia and co more meaningful You can see all open tickets 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 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(s), 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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Item count
by Markus Krötzsch 14 Sep '15

14 Sep '15

Hi all, The main page of Wikidata shows an item count that is getting increasingly out of synch with reality. The 31 Aug dump contains 18,483,096 items, while the front page says that there are 14,788,811 now. I think this is caused by how MediaWiki counts "articles" (which is not what we are dealing with). Or maybe this is intended? But if we prominently publish a number that is 25% off the "raw" data, we should at least explain which criteria was used to produce it. What counts as a "proper" item on Wikidata? Cheers, Markus

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Announcing the release of the Wikidata Query Service
by Dan Garry 14 Sep '15

14 Sep '15

The Discovery Department at the Wikimedia Foundation is pleased to announce the release of the Wikidata Query Service <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_query_service>! You can find the interface for the service at https://query.wikidata.org. The Wikidata Query Service is designed to let users run queries on the data contained in Wikidata. The service uses SPARQL <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARQL> as the query language. You can see some example queries in the user manual <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_query_service/User_Manual>. Right now, the service is still in beta. This means that our goal <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q2_Goals#Wikid…> is to monitor of the service usage and collect feedback about what people think should be next. To do that, we've created the Wikidata Query Service dashboard <https://searchdata.wmflabs.org/wdqs/> to track usage of the service, and we're in the process <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111403> of setting up a feedback mechanism for users of the service. Once we've got monitored the usage of the service for a while and got user feedback, we'll decide on what's next for development of the service. If you have any feedback, suggestions, or comments, please do send an email to the Discovery Department's public mailing list, wikimedia-search(a)lists.wikimedia.org. Thanks, Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation

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