Wikidata July 2016

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by Brill Lyle

Hi, Saw mention of the Geo-coordinates feature being live on the IRC chat today. Apologies if this is a dumb question: How does one access and/or apply coordinates on Wikidata? I would like to add these or figure out a way to create a pathway between Wiki pages with coordinates and Wikidata. We use coordinates on most of our event pages and thought it could be fun to create maps or something.... Plus one of the editors in our chapter geotags everything and is a heavy Commons user so thought it would be fun for him too.... Also, saw some weird red Lua errors on this page. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:List_of_properties/Summary_table Best, - Erika *Erika Herzog* Wikipedia *User:BrillLyle <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BrillLyle>*

7 years, 9 months

weekly summary #217

by Lydia Pintscher

Hey folks :) Here is your summary of what happened around Wikidata over the past week. Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Connecting OpenStreetMap and Wikidata <https://www.mapbox.com/blog/id-wikidata/>, blog post by Mapbox - Past: office hour on IRC (log <https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2016/wikimedia-office.20…> ) - Now: ISMB 2016 Editathon <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Computational_Biology/I…> - Upcoming: Viquimarató de Wikidata sobre Ramon Llull <http://www.cccb.org/ca/activitats/fitxa/de-lars-combinatoria-a-wikidata/224…> - Upcoming: OpenSym <http://www.opensym.org/os2016/> - Monitoring the Gender Gap with Wikidata Human Gender Indicators <http://wigi.wmflabs.org/monitoring-gender-gap.pdf> - An Empirical Evaluation of Property Recommender Systems for Wikidata and Collaborative Knowledge Bases <http://www.evazangerle.at/wp-content/papercite-data/pdf/opensym16.pdf> - Mapping street names to Wikidata entities they refer to and enriching OpenStreetMap with linked data <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-42089-9_1> Other Noteworthy Stuff - The removal of Persondata <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Persondata> from the English Wikipedia is completed. There are still much information to migrate to Wikidata at KasparBot's tool <https://tools.wmflabs.org/kasparbot/persondata/>. - Tour de France data is coming from Wikidata in at least 3 Wikipedias <https://twitter.com/JGH_JAEHNICK/status/750075844652072961> - Freebase API will be shut down on August 31 - TXT Werk <http://www.txt-werk.de/> is now using Wikidata to identify entities (previously Freebase) - Magnus' reference drag and drop script is now a gadget - Got an idea for a cool project around Wikidata but need some funding? A project grant <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/07/01/project-grants/> might be an option. - There are several full PhD/postdoc positions available at TU Dresden with Markus including work on Wikidata <https://iccl.inf.tu-dresden.de/web/Stellenausschreibung4/en> - Magnus' Wiki Loves Monuments tool now also reads cultural identifiers from Wikidata and was switched to use SPARQL <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wlmuk/index_wd.html> Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: archive date <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2960>, permanent duplicated item <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2959>, throughput <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2957>, NAIF ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2956>, point of penalty <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2955>, Transferred Account Data Interchange Group Code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2954>, Estonian Research Portal person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2953>, bateau d'intérêt patrimonial <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2952>, Cultural heritage database in Austria ObjektID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2951>, Nomisma ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2950>, WikiTree ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2949>, Estonian cultural monument ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2948>, BacDive ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2946> - Query examples: timeline of space probes <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ATimeline%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20…> (source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/750336305679241216>), countries with most UNESCO World Heritage Sites <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ABubbleChart%0ASELECT%20distinc…> (source <https://twitter.com/Histropedia/status/751726988872839168>), places in America named after places in England <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3FplaceInAmeri…> (source <https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/751867482542137344>), emergency number by country size <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23Emergency%20numbers%20by%20population%20usin…> (source <https://twitter.com/RSeppelt/status/751381151529463808>) Development - Working on an infographic <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T132782> to represent the flow of data in Wikidata - Work on multi-content revisions in order to be able to store an entity (item, property, mediainfo) and wiki text in the same page (This is needed for Commons) (phabricator:T107595 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107595>) - Did more interviews with editors as preparation for the work on automated list generation for Wikipedia and co based on Wikidata data - Fixed a bug with data parsing in Korean and a few other languages ( phabricator:T139509 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139509>) - Added "non" as a language code for monolingual text values ( phabricator:T137115 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137115>) - Removed display of calendar model for dates with precision of 10 years or larger (phabricator:T133973 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133973>) - Fixed issues in some of the forms on special pages on mobile ( phabricator:T138413 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138413>) - Disabled PDF export in item and property pages (phabricator:T136814 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136814>) - Worked on making it possible to have quantities with no bounds set ( phabricator:T115270 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115270>) 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.

7 years, 9 months

next office hour on July 8th

by Lydia Pintscher

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.

7 years, 9 months

Verifiability and living people

by Andy Mabbett

The current RfC: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Verifiability_a… would make massive changes to the way Wikidata operates (for all content, not just that about living people) Very few people have commented. I urge everyone to read the proposals, and to make their views known, as I have just done. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

7 years, 9 months

user script to show Wikidata changes in article history

by Lydia Pintscher

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.

7 years, 9 months

weekly summary #216

by Lydia Pintscher

7 years, 9 months

Trying to add DataType to Wikibase

by Derric Atzrott

Greetings all, Would anyone be willing to take a look at an extension I am developing and give me some help figuring out what I am doing wrong? I am eventually planning to add a DataType called wikidata-item that way my copy of Wikibase doesn't have to re-invent the wheel for a ton of things. Right now though I am really just trying to get a new DataType added to Wikibase at all... I think I have managed to get the DataType into Wikibase, but whenever I got to use it I get the message "Handling of values for "wikidata-item" data type is not yet supported." The extension's page is: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikibaseWikidataType Repo at: https://github.com/zellfaze/wikidata-datatype I've been working off the information available in Wikibase/docs/hooks.txt and Wikibase/docs/datatypes.txt along with what I have been able to gleam from the DataValues Validators, DataValues Interfaces, and DataValues Common extensions. Documentation on how to go about this seems generally pretty sparse. Thank you, Derric Atzrott

7 years, 9 months

Possibility of data lock

by Biyanto Rebin

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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