Wikidata December 2016

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Quora donates data
by Andy Mabbett 24 Dec '16

24 Dec '16

I'm pleased to announce a massive data donation (our biggest yet?) from Quora. At my request, they have given us over 1.5 million topic IDs, which Magnus has kindly loaded into Mix'n'Match for checking and import as Quora topic ID (P3417). The data is in catalogue 319: https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/?mode=catalog_details&catalog=319 As you can see, there are over 259K automated matches. They include some duplicates, typos or non-English alternative names. Those of you who use Quora may choose to resolve (or report) them there. Otherwise, you can may simply "remove" them in Mix'n'Match. Now you can't complain that you have nothing to do over the holiday period ;-) Merry Christmas! -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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Linked data fragment enabled on the Query Service
by Léa Lacroix 23 Dec '16

23 Dec '16

Hello all, The SPARQL endpoint we are running at http://query.wikidata.org has several measures in place in order to ensure it stays up and running and available for everyone, for example the 30 sec query timeout. This is necessary but also prevents some useful queries from being run. One way around this is Linked Data Fragments. It allows for some of the query computation to be done on the client-side instead of our server. We have set this up now for testing and would appreciate your testing and feedback. You can find out more about Linked Data Fragments <http://linkeddatafragments.org/concept/> and documentation for our installation <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_query_service/User_Manual#Linked_Da…>. Also, you can see a demo of client-side SPARQL evaluation and LDF server usage here: http://ldfclient.wmflabs.org/ Please note - it's in no way a production service for anything, just a proof-of-concept deployment of LDF client. If you like how it works, you can get it from the source <https://github.com/LinkedDataFragments/jQuery-Widget.js> and deploy it on your own setup. Feel free to ask Stas (Smalyshev (WMF)) for any further question! -- Léa Lacroix Community Communication 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 27/029/42207.

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Re: [Wikidata] [Wikitech-l] Now live: Shared structured data
by David Cuenca Tudela 22 Dec '16

22 Dec '16

Anyway, this is great news! I hope that it gets adopted by the community. Congratulations, Yuri! I was going to suggest a Wikidata property, but I see that the data type for datasets is not there yet: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151334 On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 8:48 PM, Yuri Astrakhan <yastrakhan(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > Micru, thanks, I think Datasets sounds like a good name too! > > On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 2:44 PM David Cuenca Tudela <dacuetu(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 8:38 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) < > > bjorsch(a)wikimedia.org > > > wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Yuri Astrakhan < > > yastrakhan(a)wikimedia.org> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Gift season! We have launched structured data on Commons, available > > from > > > > all wikis. > > > > > > > > > > I was momentarily excited, then I read a little farther and discovered > > this > > > isn't about https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data > . > > > > > > > Same here, I think it needs a better name... > > > > What about calling it datasets or structured datasets? > > > > Cheers, > > Micru > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- Etiamsi omnes, ego non

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by Jan Macura 22 Dec '16

22 Dec '16

On 22 December 2016 at 18:56, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > If it were *less* > results, I'd assume it is some network/delivery problem, but don't know > yet what to think about 3 more results. > > I get 128 and 131 results intermittently, so I suspect some kind of bug, > not sure where yet. Like Ruben already pointed, suspect the pagination of TPF in this case. Regards, Jan

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Re: [Wikidata] Linked data fragment enabled on the Query Service
by Ruben Verborgh 21 Dec '16

21 Dec '16

Hi Léa, As one of the researchers working on Linked Data Fragments, I want to congratulate you and Wikidata on your Triple Pattern Fragments endpoint! I've been playing around with it a bit, and wanted to send you this cool federated query: http://bit.ly/wikidata-dbpedia-viaf It combines data from Wikidata, DBpedia, and VIAF live from the Web to answer the question: which works were created by cubist painters? I hope you all have fun with this these new query opportunities! Best, Ruben -- Ruben Verborgh Postdoctoral Researcher in Semantic Hypermedia Ghent University – imec – IDLab https://ruben.verborgh.org/ – @RubenVerborgh

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Weekly Summary #240
by Léa Lacroix 19 Dec '16

19 Dec '16

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions - Voting on Make family member properties gender neutral <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Make_family_mem…>: replacement of mother/father with a new "parent" properties - Switch Wikidata entities from http to https: T153563 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153563> Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Blog post about the Wikidata workshop at Code for Germany (de) <https://blog.wikimedia.de/2016/12/15/gemeinsamer-workshop-zu-wikidata-von-c…> - Wikidata people will be at the Chaos Communication Congress (Hamburg, December 27th-30th) <https://events.ccc.de/congress/2016/wiki/Main_Page> on the Open Knowledge Assembly stand <https://events.ccc.de/congress/2016/wiki/Assembly:Open_Knowledge_Assembly> Other Noteworthy Stuff - Basque language Wikipedia develops a most prominent basque and worlwide person born/death in this day for all the day related articles. For example, eu:Abenduaren 19 <https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abenduaren_19>. It also displays interesting red links for people born and dead that day that are not represented in eu:wp. - WDQ about to be shut down <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-December/010036.html> (you can add sub-tasks for remaining uses to T153439 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153439>) - SQID now supports PrimarySources <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-December/010037.html> - Project Grants program will fund 12 community-led projects <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaannounce-l/2016-December/001…>, several of them directly related to Wikidata - Citoid, a script for editing references that can automatically populate parts of the reference, is now available for testing! <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Citoid_script> - New parser function has been enabled <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Parser_function_Stateme…> - Histropedia added new features to the Wikidata query timeline <https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#%21topi…> Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: Yle Areena ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3414>, Leopoldina member ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3413>, Protected areas of Canada ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3412>, Saxon Academy of Sciences member ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3411>, Clergy of the Church of England database ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3410>, Catalogus Professorum Lipsiensis ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3409>, FINA Athlete ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3408>, Klosterdatenbank <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3407>, Saccharomyces Genome Database ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3406>, Nederlands Soortenregister ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3405>, The Vogue List ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3404>, coextensive with <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3403> - Query examples: - Timeline of the Christmas movies <https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.o…> (source <https://twitter.com/Dorialexander/status/810189413980508160>) - All Theatre World Award winners, in a timeline with pictures <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ATimeline%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%2…> (source <https://twitter.com/Harmonia_Amanda/status/809074328826429440>) - Birthplaces of people buried in Norra Begravningsplatsen <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20birthplaces%20of%20people%20buried%20in%2…> (source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/808978089770414084>) - Planets, their moons, and the things they are named after <https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fplanet%20%3FplanetLabel%…> (source <https://twitter.com/mlpoulter/status/809745512584937472>) - Items with no father or no mother <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20items%20with%20no%20father%20or%20no%20mo…> (source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/810106474596892672>) - People born on Christmas day <http://histropedia.com/showcase/wikidata-viewer.html?query=%23People%20born…> (source <https://twitter.com/Histropedia/status/810192838730412037>) - Newest external tools: “short author name” resolver tool <https://tools.wmflabs.org/sourcemd/new_resolve_authors.php> - Newest database reports: hospital lists <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Medicine/Hospitals_by_co…> Development - Statements will soon be ordered as specified in MediaWiki:Wikibase-SortedProperties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Wikibase-SortedProperties> ( phab:T150788 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150788>) - Getting ready the basic Lexeme prototype (phab:T146662 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146662>), we're discussing some details in the data model (phab:T152019 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152019>) - Continued work on federation basics (phab:T149580 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149580>) - We removed the page property wb-status, old entries will not be updated any more (phab:T146792 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146792>) - Removed a visible jump while an entity page loads (gerrit:325924 <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/325924>) - Fixed a formatting issue in which the geo coordinate formatter may output "60 seconds" (phab:T153429 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153429>) - Fixed a bug in Special:NewProperty <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:NewProperty> where it was not possible to provide the property type as part of the URL (phab:327496 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/327496>) - Working on a major rewrite of Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel>/Description <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntitiesWithoutDescription>, one of many steps to phase numeric entity IDs out (phab:T140891 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140891>) 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/Special:MyLanguage/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. - Comment on property proposals: all open proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview> - Help with one of the bot requests <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Bot_requests> - Help merge identical items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge> across Wikimedia projects. -- Léa Lacroix Community Communication 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 27/029/42207.

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WDQ sunsetting
by Magnus Manske 19 Dec '16

19 Dec '16

I have not maintained WDQ (http://wdq.wmflabs.org/) for many months. It just keeps "ticking away", with the occasional restart required. Its data is likely out of sync with Wikidata proper, and most of its functionality is better served by SPARQL (https://query.wikidata.org/). So we (Tool Labs tech and I) want to shut it down over the next few months. I did some previous analysis (http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=410) and it looks like WDQ is pretty much obsolete. The one thing people seem to like about it is the simple syntax, but that doesn't alone seem to be a valid reason to keep it around, especially with a converter ( https://tools.wmflabs.org/wdq2sparql/w2s.php) in place. If there are other reasons to keep WDQ alive, please let me know ASAP!

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Citoid script is now available for testing
by Léa Lacroix 19 Dec '16

19 Dec '16

Hello all, We have been working on improving the way you can add references on Wikidata, and I'm glad to announce that Citoid script can now be tested. Citoid is user script for editing references that can automatically populate parts of the reference using the citoid api if a reference contains reference URL (P854), PubMed ID (P698) or DOI (P356). If one of those properties is present, an "autofill" link is added next to the "remove" link/button. You can try the script and give your feedback here. <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Citoid_script> Thanks a lot to Katie for working on this! -- Léa Lacroix Community Communication 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 27/029/42207.

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SPARQL service: "too many requests"
by Markus Krötzsch 19 Dec '16

19 Dec '16

Dear SPARQL team, in SQID, I now frequently see WDQS responses of type 429 when trying to load a page (doing this will usually issue a few dozen queries for larger pages). How many SPARQL queries are users allowed to ask in a certain time and how should tools behave when they hit this limit? Best regards, Markus

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Wikidata Redirects in dumps
by Praveen Balaji 13 Dec '16

13 Dec '16

Hi I had a short conversation with Stas earlier about this, but thought I'd continue the conversation on the group for general interest. In the wikidata JSON dumps, I noticed that Redirects are inlined. For example: Q6703218 <https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q6703218&redirect=no> redirects to Q24836918 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24836918>. However, I do not see this information in the json. The Redirect reference has been inlined: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/Q24836918.json https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/Q6703218.json There is a owl:sameAs annotation when I use the SPAQRL query: SPARQL: Q6703218 <https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%2a%20%7Bwd%3AQ6703218%20%3Fx%20%3Fy%7D> When using JSON dumps, how can I tell a redirected entity from the JSON dumps Thanks Praveen

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