Wikidata June 2016

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We plan to drop the wb_entity_per_page table
by hoo 01 Jun '17

01 Jun '17

Hey folks, we plan to drop the wb_entity_per_page table sometime soon[0], because it is just not required (as we will likely always have a programmatic mapping from entity id to page title) and it does not supported non -numeric entity ids as it is now. Due to this removing it is a blocker for the commons metadata. Is anybody using that for their tools (on tool labs)? If so, please tell us so that we can give you instructions and a longer grace period to update your scripts. Cheers, Marius [0]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T95685

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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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What's the one thing you wish Wikidata had or would do but doesn't yet?
by Dario Taraborelli 03 Aug '16

03 Aug '16

Hey all, Lydia (or somebody operating the @Wikidata handle :) posted this question on Twitter and a few great ideas started trickling in <https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/708384895375163392>. I went ahead and created an AllOurIdeas poll <https://t.co/IbsBmY6Kpg>, seeded with the first ideas posted on Twitter, to crowdsource the generation of new ideas and produce a robust ranking. If you're unfamiliar with AllOurIdeas </>, it's an open consultation engine allowing people to choose which idea they like best via pairwise comparisons (I am cc'ing Matt Salganik, the project lead). It's very simple on the surface but it uses algorithms such as the Condorcet method <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method> to test how strongly each idea performs against another, reducing the weighing of the oldest ideas to create a level playing field for newly created ideas and preventing gaming or self-promotion of one's own ideas. Try it out or post new ideas: the more votes it gets, the higher the confidence of the ranking. Real-time results and statistics are here <http://www.allourideas.org/wikidata/results>. Dario

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How many languages supports Wikibase/Wikidata?
by Jan Macura 17 Jul '16

17 Jul '16

Hi all, looking into [1] I read that Wikidata supports 358 languages. Is it still true? For example, I tried to add label in language coded as "nan" (defined in ISO 639-3) and it worked. However it didn't worked for e.g. "arb", which is also part of the ISO 639-3 standard. So how many? Thanks Jan [1] VRANDEČIĆ, Denny, KRÖTZSCH, Markus. Wikidata: A Free Collaborative Knowledgebase. *Communications of the ACM*. 2014-10, Vol. 57 No. 10, 7885. DOI 10.1145/2629489. http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2014/10/178785-wikidata /fulltext

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next office hour on July 8th
by Lydia Pintscher 09 Jul '16

09 Jul '16

Hey folks :) We'll do the next office hour for all things Wikidata on July 8th at 16:00 UTC. See http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=16&min=00&sec=0&d… for your timezone. We'll meet in #wikimedia-office on freenode IRC. We'll talk about the last quarter, what's coming up and have time for discussion and questions. If there is a particular topic you'd like to discuss or present please let me know. 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 27/029/42207.

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user script to show Wikidata changes in article history
by Lydia Pintscher 07 Jul '16

07 Jul '16

Hey folks :) H4stings has created a user script to show Wikidata changes in the history of a Wikipedia article. (It should also work on the other sister projects.) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T42358#2363346 The script is at https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:H4stings/wef-history.js I'd love to hear your feedback on it so we can see if that is a direction we should explore further. 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 27/029/42207.

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Possibility of data lock
by Biyanto Rebin 02 Jul '16

02 Jul '16

Hello, Wikidata is a great collaboration of database, I love it, but sometimes when I encounter some vandalism, it makes me so angry. Just like today, I've found Q879704 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q879704>, the label, description and alias in Indonesian (ID) is vandal into something else and it was happened in 2014 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/202.67.33.46>! Now, I'm just curious, will everyone agree if (maybe) in the future Wikidata team can lock some cell that already fix? For example Javanese (Q33549) = P31: language (Q315). Or we just let the Wikidata always open for everyone to edit? PS: I'm making WikiProjects Languages in Indonesia <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Languages_in_Indonesia>, anyone who want to join please let me know :) Best regards, -- Biyanto Rebin | Ketua Umum (*Chair*) 2016-2018 Wikimedia Indonesia Nomor Ponsel: +62 8989 037379 Surel: biyanto.rebin(a)wikimedia.or.id ~~~~ Dukung upaya kami membebaskan pengetahuan: http://wikimedia.or.id/wiki/Wikimedia_Indonesia:Donasi

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Temporary outage of adding statements
by Sjoerd de Bruin 30 Jun '16

30 Jun '16

Hello everyone, It was impossible to add any statements to items from 19:00± till 19:37 (both UTC) due to a bug that appeared after deployment of new software. More information on Phabricator [1], please check your bot runs for missing data. We are sorry for any inconvenience caused. Greetings, Sjoerd de Bruin [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138974

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weekly summary #215
by Lydia Pintscher 28 Jun '16

28 Jun '16

Hey folks :) Here is your summary of what's been happening around Wikidata over the past week. Discussions - New request for comments: Verifiability and living persons <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Verifiability_a…>, RfP voting eligibility <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/RfP_voting_elig…> Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Past: Wikimania! The Wikidata-related program parts including slides and notes can be found on the Wikidata Wikimania page <https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata#Presentations>. - TIB and HsH project approved: The replication of Open-Access images <https://www.tib.eu/en/service/news/details/tib-and-hsh-project-approved-the…> Other Noteworthy Stuff - EasyQuery is now a gadget that you can enable in your preferences. It gives you an icon next to each statement value. That gives you a list of other items with the same statement. - Stats <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/stats.php?reverse> have been updated and show a significant jump in references. - SQID now shows references (example <http://tools.wmflabs.org/sqid/#/view?id=Q42>) - INSPIRE HEP has been added to Mix'n'match <https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/?mode=catalog_details&catalog=215> - PAWS <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/PAWS> is now available. It lets you easily run a Jupyter notebook and much more. Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: language used <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2936>, connector <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2935>, Encyclopedia of Triangle Centers identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2931>, INSPIRE-HEP author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2930>, lighthouse range <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2929>, memory capacity <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2928>, water as percent of area <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2927>, InterPro ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2926>, domain of saint or deity <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2925> - Query examples: sandwich ingredients <https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fsandwich%20%3Fingredient%20%3Fsandw…> (source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/747145937072570369>), inventors killed by their own invention <https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Finventor%20%3FinventorLabel%20%3Fga…> (source <https://twitter.com/tobias47n9e/status/746330854922817536>), objects with most mass <https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fobject%20%3FobjectLabel%20%28MAX%28…> (source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/745933733711200256>), music genres <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AGraph%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3F…> (source <https://twitter.com/JonasMKress/status/745677348352180224>), number of jurisdictions by driving side <https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3FsideLabel%20%28COUNT%28%3Fjurisdict…> (source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/745926057627377664>) Development - The majority of the Wikidata developers team atteded Wikimania <https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/> - You can now embed query results from query.wikidata.org in other websites (example <https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Fit…> ) - Linking MediaInfo entities to media files in the "MediaInfo for Commons" prototype (phabricator:T134473 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134473>) - Tracking more statistics for the ArticlePlaceholder ( phabricator:T138500 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138500>) - Adding support for quantity values with unknown uncertainty ( phabricator:T115269 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115269>) - Worked on fix for bug where new entities can be created with wrong language (phabricator:T138725 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138725> ) 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! - Help merge identical items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge> across Wikimedia projects. - 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 27/029/42207.

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notes from GLAM + Wikidata workshop at Wikimania 2016
by Sandra Fauconnier 26 Jun '16

26 Jun '16

Hi everyone, Yesterday we had a (IMO) quite productive workshop about GLAM and Wikidata projects at Wikimania. We looked at a selection of recent projects, and then discussed sub-topics like SPARQL; archives and libraries; statistics; synchronization between Wikidata and external datasets; and structured data on Commons. Our notes can be found here (it’s a cut&paste of the etherpad with some additions and edits) https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Training_sessions/Proposals/Wikida… <https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Training_sessions/Proposals/Wikida…> If anyone has followup questions or remarks: give a shout! Greetings, Sandra (User:Spinster)

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