Wikidata September 2016

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Next office hour: September 27th
by Léa Lacroix 27 Sep '16

27 Sep '16

Hello folks, Our next Wikidata office hour will take place on September 27th, between 18:00 and 19:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2), on the #wikimedia-office <irc://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-office> IRC channel. Please bring any topic you want to discuss with Lydia, me or other members of the Wikidata team :) See you soon, -- 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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weekly summary #228
by Lydia Pintscher 26 Sep '16

26 Sep '16

Hey folks :) Here is your summary of what's been happening around Wikidata over the past week. Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Past: WikiCon 2016 <https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiCon_2016> - Past: OASPA conference <http://oaspa.org/conference/> (slides <http://www.slideshare.net/dartar/citations-needed-for-the-sum-of-all-human-…> ) - Past: State of the Map <http://2016.stateofthemap.org> - Past: National Institute of Health: frontiers in data science lecture series <https://datascience.nih.gov/community/datascience-at-nih/frontiers> ( slides <http://www.slideshare.net/dartar/wikidata-verifiable-linked-open-knowledge-…> ) - Upcoming: SMWCon <https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2016> - Upcoming: office hour on IRC <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events> - Blog post about Wikidata and data about Czech trees <http://blog.wikimedia.cz/2016/09/agentura-ochrany-prirody-a-krajiny-poskytl…> Other Noteworthy Stuff - The query examples have been migrated from mediawiki.org to wikidata.org at d:Wikidata:SPARQL examples <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_examples> - HPI is doing a linked data engineering course online <https://open.hpi.de/courses/semanticweb2016> - TXT Werk <http://www.txt-werk.de> is doing automatic entity recognition in text with the help of Wikidata. Previously only German was supported. English is now supported as well. - Andy <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pigsonthewing> has mapped <https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fprop%20%3F…> most of the W3C's ontology <https://www.w3.org/TR/vcard-rdf/> for vCard <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:vCard> to Wikidata properties. Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: Heritage Lighthouse of Canada ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3211>, Heritage Railway Station of Canada ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3209>, New General Catalogue ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3208>, Vine user ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3207>, data.gouv.fr ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3206>, patient of <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3205>, Ciné-Ressources person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3204>, Ciné-Ressources movie ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3203>, UAI code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3202>, Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3201>, Northern Ireland charity number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3200>, charity number (Isle of Man) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3199>, JewishGen Locality ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3198>, Federal Heritage Buildings ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3197>, USGS earthquake id <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3196>, league points system <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3195>, INA video ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3194>, GS1 Manufacturer code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3193>, Last.FM music ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3192>, IMIS person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3191>, innervates <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3190>, innervated by <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3189>, Nobel prize ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3188>, Marburger Professorenkatalog ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3187>, TAXREF ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3186>, VKontakte username <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3185>, Czech National Bibliography book ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3184>, WSJ topic ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3183>, FANTOIR code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3182>, OpenCitations bibliographic resource ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3181> - Query examples: taxonomy of squirrels <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AGraph%0Aselect%20%3Fchild%20%3…> (source <https://twitter.com/vrandezo/status/778660283904585728>), good or featured articles about people on Wikipedia but with no picture on Wikidata <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Items%20about%20people%2C%20with%20a%20ba…> (source <https://twitter.com/ash_crow/status/778199158083772416>), Nordic Cross flags <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%…> (source <https://twitter.com/PoulpyWP/status/777934856059817984>) Development - mnc (for Manchu <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Manchu_language>) will soon be available as a language code for monolingual text values ( phabricator:T137808 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137808>) - Worked on foreign EntityIds in order to be able to use Wikidata's items and properties on Commons in the future (phabricator:T145516 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145516>, phabricator:T146030 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146030>, phabricator:T146274 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146274>) - More work on usage tracking UI (phabricator:T145965 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145965>, phabricator:T143148 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143148>, phabricator:T145189 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145189>, phabricator:T144923 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144923>) - RFC discussion about Multi-Content-Revisions - another big blocker for structured data on Commons (phabricator:E273 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E273>) - Ran a bot to mark dates that need a check of their calendar model ( phabricator:T105100 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T105100>) - Getting unit conversion into the query service soon. We'll start with units for length and then expand based on feedback. (phabricator:T117032 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117032>) - Working on extension to automatically link pages between languages on Wiktionary (phabricator:T145412 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145412>) - Added the value that is responsible for an error in the error message so it can be found and fixed more easily (phabricator:T144303 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144303>) - Working on fix for issue with extremely large or small date values in RDF (phabricator:T146356 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146356>) - Expanding references again in diffs (phabricator:T129836 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129836>) - Unbroke CopyReferences gadget. More work is needed. ( phabricator:T142203 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142203>) - Fixed issue with 2 search suggestion boxes showing up instead of 1 ( phabricator:T119492 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119492>) - Worked on improving the query service documentation ( phabricator:T133052 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133052>) 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! - 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. - Comment on property proposals: all open proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview> - proposals needing attention <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Attention_needed> 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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sparql + regex?
by Ed Summers 25 Sep '16

25 Sep '16

I've been experimenting a bit with queries that contain regular expressions and have noticed that they seem to be triggering 502 Bad Gateway errors. Or perhaps it's just a coincidence and there were other things going on around 10AM GMT? Here's an example query where I'm looking for cities that start with "Silver": --- PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> PREFIX wd: <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/> PREFIX wdt: <http://www.wikidata.org/prop/direct/> SELECT ?s ?label WHERE { ?s wdt:P31 wd:Q515 . ?s rdfs:label ?label FILTER(regex(?label, "^Silver")) } LIMIT 15 --- Am I doing something wrong in the query? Occasionally it seems to work, but most of the time it waits for a while and then I get the 502 error. Any guidance you may have would be appreciated. //Ed

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Wikidata Suggest?
by Ed Summers 22 Sep '16

22 Sep '16

I think this question has come up before, but I was wondering if there was anyone has a working Wikidata Suggest widget of some kind that works similarly to Freebase Suggest which has finally been turned off completely: https://developers.google.com/freebase/v1/suggest I've been using Freebase entities in the past to provide some measure of data normalization, and am in the middle of converting my entities over to Wikidata. The specific application is a jobs board that needs to control the names for Organizations, Subjects and Locations [1,2]. I need to create suggest like functionality in the application and was wondering if anyone else had done anything like a Freebase Suggest already. If this is a gap area I was thinking of creating a React component that uses the Wikidata SPARQL endpoint [3] which I was pleased to see already supports CORS. But I'm not married to React, so if someone has another JavaScript library that does this I'd love to hear from you. //Ed [1] https://github.com/code4lib/shortimer/issues/38 [2] http://jobs.code4lib.org [3] https://query.wikidata.org/bigdata/namespace/wdq/sparql

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Upload mathematical formulas in Wikidata
by kaushal dudhat 21 Sep '16

21 Sep '16

Hello, My name is Kaushal and currently I and a friend are working on AskPlatypus as part of our master thesis. We want to add a module to AskPlatypus which answers mathematical questions with the use of Wikidata. As a first step we want to add more mathematical formulas to Wikidata. We extracted a lot of them from Wikipedia. There are 17838 formulas now. It would be great to get them uploaded into primary source tool. The list of formulas in primary source tool syntax is attached here. Please have look. It would be great if someone could upload them into the primary sources tool. Greetings Kaushal

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Let's move forward with support for Wiktionary
by Lydia Pintscher 21 Sep '16

21 Sep '16

Hey everyone :) Wiktionary is our third-largest sister project, both in term of active editors and readers. It is a unique resource, with the goal to provide a dictionary for every language, in every language. Since the beginning of Wikidata but increasingly over the past months I have been getting more and more requests for supporting Wiktionary and lexicographical data in Wikidata. Having this data available openly and freely licensed would be a major step forward in automated translation, text analysis, text generation and much more. It will enable and ease research. And most importantly it will enable the individual Wiktionary communities to work more closely together and benefit from each other’s work. With this and the increased demand to support Wikimedia Commons with Wikidata, we have looked at the bigger picture and our options. I am seeing a lot of overlap in the work we need to do to support Wiktionary and Commons. I am also seeing increasing pressure to store lexicographical data in existing items (which would be bad for many reasons). Because of this we will start implementing support for Wiktionary in parallel to Commons based on our annual plan and quarterly plans. We contacted several of our partners in order to get funding for this additional work. I am happy that Google agreed to provide funding (restricted to work on Wikidata). With this we can reorganize our team and set up one part of the team to continue working on building out the core of Wikidata and support for Wikipedia and Commons and the other part will concentrate on Wiktionary. (To support and to extend our work around Wikidata with the help of external funding sources was our plan in our annual plan 2016: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2015-2016_round1/Wikim…) As a next step I’d like us all to have another careful look at the latest proposal at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wiktionary/Development. It has been online for input in its current form for a year and the first version is 3 years old now. So I am confident that the proposal is in a good shape to start implementation. However I’d like to do a last round of feedback with you all to make sure the concept really is sane. To make it easier to understand there is now also a pdf explaining the concept in a slightly different way: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_for_Wiktionary_announcemen… Please do go ahead and review it. If you have comments or questions please leave them on the talk page of the latest proposal at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Wiktionary/Development/Proposal…. I’d be especially interested in feedback from editors who are familiar with both Wiktionary and Wikidata. Getting support for Wiktionary done - just like for Commons - will take some time but I am really excited about the opportunities it will open up especially for languages that have so far not gotten much or any technological support. 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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Moving SPARQL query examples to Wikidata
by Stas Malyshev 20 Sep '16

20 Sep '16

Hi! Right now we have SPARQL query examples page in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/Indexing/SPARQL_Query_Examples, and it gathered a large amount of excellent contributions (for which I'd like to take this opportunity to thank everybody who helped!) However, MediaWiki site is really not the best wiki for this page - it should properly be on Wikidata IMO. And we have a copy of it on https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_examples - except that is is not up-to-date, is still not used by WDQS GUI and many people don't actually know it exists. So, I'd like to propose a migration plan: 0. Put a message on MediaWiki page warning of migration and directing people to use Wikidata one. Maybe even protect the page for a short time? This of course will be done only after we decide to perform the migration. 1. Sync Wikidata page to MediaWiki one (that'll require some work due to template differences, etc. but I can do it in a couple of hours). 2. Switch WDQS GUI to use the Wikidata page. 3. Replace MediaWiki page with redirect to wikidata one with appropriate message. I can do all of it (except maybe for protecting part, I'd need to ask some admins I guess), but I wanted to make a public announcement / request for feedback before doing anything big. So please comment if you see any problem with the proposed plan or any objections. If no objections are raised, I currently plan to do it sometime about Wed-Thu this week. Thanks, -- Stas Malyshev smalyshev(a)wikimedia.org

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Weekly Summary #227
by Léa Lacroix 19 Sep '16

19 Sep '16

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions - We're starting working on lexicographical data! Please read the proposal <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wiktionary> and give us your feedback :) - New request for comments: Merging male and female labels <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Merging_male_an…> Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Upcoming: State of the map <http://2016.stateofthemap.org/>, September 23 - 25, Brussels - Next *Wikidata office hour*: Tuesday September 27th, from 18:00 to 19:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2), in #wikimedia-office - Video of a SPARQL workshop <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaMdh4fXy18> (& materials <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/2016_SPARQL_Wor…>) organized by Wikimedia Foundation's Discovery and Research teams - Slides of Lydia's keynote <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_DBpedia_conference_2016_pr…> about Wikidata at the DBpedia conference 2016 - Slides of Andreas Thalhammer about Unified PageRank for DBpedia and Wikidata <http://www.slideshare.net/thalhamm/towards-a-unified-pagerank-for-dbpedia-a…> at the DBpedia conference 2016 - #SundayQuery: ask for help on queries every Sunday on Twitter! This week, a tutorial about surnames <https://blog.ash.bzh/sunday-query-all-surnames-marked-as-disambiguation-pag…> by Harmonia Amanda <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Harmonia_Amanda>, and how to use SPARQL and Python to fix typographical errors <https://blog.ash.bzh/sunday-query-use-sparql-and-python-to-fix-typographica…> by Ash Crow <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Ash_Crow> Other Noteworthy Stuff <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Quality_process_on_Wikidata.svg> Quality process on Wikidata - The Project Grants program <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project> is accepting proposals from September 12 to October 11 to fund new tools, research, offline outreach, online organizing and other experiments that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers. - The RevisionSlider <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RevisionSlider> is now available as a beta feature, try it to have a visual overview of your diffs. - You can also activate ORES the review tool <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ORES_review_tool> to watch damaging edits more easily! - There's an infographic <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Quality_process_on_Wikidata.svg> on the quality process in Wikidata you can use and edit. - You can also use and translate this new datamodel <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Graphic_representing_the_datamodel_…> representation. - How to fix taxon common names with Pywikibot <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:TweetsFactsAndQueries/Darwin%C3%ADs_Fox>, tutorial by TweetsFactsAndQueries <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:TweetsFactsAndQueries> and Tobias1984 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Tobias1984>. Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: Visual Novel Database ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3180>, territory overlaps <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3179>, Zaragoza monument ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3178>, Patrimonio Web JCyL ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3177>, uses property <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3176>, Statoids ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3175>, art director <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3174>, offers view on <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3173>, World Bridge Federation ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3172>, Olympic.org ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3171>, Cultural Heritage Armenia ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3170>, Harasire ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3169>, Sporthorse data ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3168>, Allbreedpedigree ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3167>, Webpedigrees ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3166>, Horsetelex ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3165> - Query examples: - Embassies <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23Embassies%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%0A%09%28SAMPLE…> (source <https://github.com/nicolas-raoul/database-of-embassies>) - World map of water towers <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Fimage%20%3Fi…> (source <https://twitter.com/Coyau/status/777474208796381184>) - "Battles of the Middle Ages" without place or date <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20%22Battles%20of%20the%20Middle%20Ages%22%…> (source <https://twitter.com/ash_crow/status/776685318879707136>) - Asteroids named after characters from works by Lewis Caroll <https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3…> (source <https://twitter.com/PoulpyWP/status/776722528370843648>) - Map of Austrian cultural heritage <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20All%20items%20that%20have%20P2951%20set.%…> (source <https://twitter.com/tobias47n9e/status/776480698140073985>) - Statues in Paris depicting historical female figures <https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3…> (source <https://twitter.com/PoulpyWP/status/776150994480721920>) - Newest database reports: list of embassies <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikivoyage/Lists/Embassies> Development - We're working on entity usage on Wikimedia projects, check our different features <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Entity_usage_exposure> - The Wikidata team attended and participated to a lot of conference these past days (WikiCon <https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiCon_2016>, ViewSource <https://viewsourceconf.org/berlin-2016/>, DPpedia <http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Leipzig2016>, SoCraTes <http://socratesbe.org/>, Write the doc <http://www.writethedocs.org/conf/eu/2016/>) that's why we don't have many tasks to share with you this week :) 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! - 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. - Comment on property proposals: all open proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview> - proposals needing attention <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Attention_needed> -- 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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Dynamic Lists, Was: Re: List generation input
by Jan Dittrich 19 Sep '16

19 Sep '16

Hi Gerard (and everyone interested in list generation) Dynamic lists are an interesting point since currently most (manually generated) Lists of Wikipedia are static. I would love to hear more about the issues and workflows around dynamic lists to understand their use better. Some things that are on my mind: - What are things that a dynamic lists helps you with? (do you have some real-life examples?) - Where might a static list be a better approach? (do you have some real-life examples?) - What are current workflows with Listeria? I think I remember that people in our interviews (thanks to everyone who participated!) mentioned that the generation process currently needs to be triggered manually. Is that just because there is no automatic way or does it provide you with advantages, too? If there are any other things that might help us to understand your needs better, please share, ideally with an example (in my experience, this makes it much easier to understand the workflow, motivation and it’s context) Jan > Message: 6 > Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2016 11:18:13 +0200 > From: Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> > To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project." > <wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [Wikidata] List generation input > Message-ID: > <CAO53wxWaQ2vyVwg5f94X3G0E3T91gFAuA27uzCYo793RXApEBQ@mail. > gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hoi, > I learned that for writing about gender issues the list generated by > Listeria are used. The big advantage is that these lists are not fixed. > Regularly people write new articles about women and consequently these > lists change. > > It is this functionality that is really needed and I do not get from the > lists examples that need such regular updates. > Thanks, > GerardM >

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Deleting properties / items in test.wikidata.org
by Loic Dachary 16 Sep '16

16 Sep '16

Hi, I'd like to write integration tests for https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:FLOSSbot and use test.wikidata.org for that. I figured out how to create properties[1] with pywikibot and search for them[2]. But I was not able to figure out how to remove them afterwards, to not clutter test.wikidata.org. The https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/API page does not show anything obvious. Any idea ? Cheers [1] import pywikibot site = pywikibot.Site("test", "wikidata") print(str(site.editEntity({'new': 'property'}, {'datatype':'item', "labels": {"en": {"language":"en","value":"FLOSS3property"} } }))) [2] import pywikibot site = pywikibot.Site("test", "wikidata") for e in site.search_entities('FLOSS', 'en', type='property'): print(str(e)) -- Loïc Dachary, Artisan Logiciel Libre

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