Wikidata December 2017

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Action plan for improving the data import process
by Navino Evans 14 Dec '17

14 Dec '17

Hi all, Following on from a session I co-hosted at WikidataCon <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017/Notes/Data_import:_…>, we've put together a project page aimed at creating an action plan for for improving the data import process: Data import processes map <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Data_import_process_map> (outlines what we have already, and what is still needed) Discussion page <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Data_import_processes_map> (discussion points and suggestions) The main objective is to use this area to build a picture of what already exists and what's missing in the data import process. This can then be used to create actionable tasks (which we're proposing be managed on Phabricator). If you have anything to add please go ahead and edit the project page and/or join the discussion. We want to get as many community members as possible involved in these early stages of planning, so please spread the word to anyone you think will be interested in the data import process! :) Many thanks, Nav -- *navino(a)histropedia.com <navino(a)histropedia.com>* @NavinoEvans <https://twitter.com/NavinoEvans> ----------------------------------------- www.histropedia.com Twitter <https://twitter.com/Histropedia> Facebo <https://www.facebook.com/Histropedia>ok <https://www.facebook.com/Histropedia> Google + <https://plus.google.com/+Histropedia>

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Structured Commons newsletter, December 13, 2017
by Sandra Fauconnier 13 Dec '17

13 Dec '17

Hi all! Here's a fresh newsletter about Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons. Enjoy! ... *Community updates* - There was a IRC Office Hour about Structured Commons on November 21. You can read the log here <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2017-11-21> . - Our dedicated IRC channel: wikimedia-commons-sd webchat <https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-commons-sd> *Things to do / input and feedback requests* <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved> - *NEW:* Participate in a survey <http://www.allourideas.org/commonswdtools> that helps us prioritize which tools are important for the Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata communities. The survey runs until December 22. Here's some background <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved/Too…> . - *NEW:* Help the team decide on better names for 'captions' and 'descriptions' <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved/Fee…'captions'_and_'descriptions'>. You can provide input until January 3, 2018. - *NEW:* Help collect interesting Commons files <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured%20data/Get%20involved…>, to prepare for the data modelling challenges ahead! Continuous input is welcome. - Join the community focus group <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved/Com…> ! - Do you want to translate messages and information about Structured Data on Commons from English to your own language? Sign up on the translators page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Structured%20Data%20on%20Commons/Newsletter…> . *Presentations / Press / Events* <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/About/Press_and_…> - Sandra <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:SandraF%20(WMF)> presented the plans for Structured Commons during WikidataCon in Berlin, on October 29. The presentation focused on collaboration between the Wikidata and Commons communities. You can see the full video here. <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikidataCon_2017_-_Structured_Commo…> *Partners and allies* - We are still welcoming (more) staff from GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) to become part of our long-term focus group <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved/GLA…> (phabricator task T174134 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174134>). You will be kept in the loop of the project, and receive regular small surveys and requests for feedback. Get in touch with Sandra <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:SandraF%20(WMF)> if you're interested - your input in helping to shape this project is highly valued! *Research* - Research findings from interviews and surveys of GLAM project participants are being published to the research page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Supporting_Commons_contribution_by…>. Check back over the next few weeks as additional details (notes, quotes, charts, blog posts, and slide decks) will be added to or linked from that page. *Development* <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Development> - The Structured Commons team has written and submitted a report about the first nine months of work on the project to its funders, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The 53-page report, published on November 1, is available on Wikimedia Commons <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Structured_Data_on_Commons_Nov._201…> . - The team has started working on designs for changes to the upload wizard (T182019 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182019>). - We started preliminary work to prototype changes for file info pages. - Work on the MediaInfo extension is ongoing (T176012 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176012>). - The team is continuing its work on baseline metrics on Commons, in order to be able to measure the effectiveness of structured data on Commons. (T174519 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174519>) - Upcoming: in the first half of 2018, the first prototypes and design sketches for file pages, the UploadWizard, and for search will be published for discussion and feedback! *Stay up to date!* - Follow the Structured Data on Commons project on *Phabricator*: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/34/ - Subscribe to this *newsletter* <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global%20message%20delivery/Targets/Structu…> to receive it on a talk page of your own choice. - Join the next *IRC office hour <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC%20office%20hours#Upcoming_office_hours>* and ask questions to the team! It takes place on *Tuesday, February 13, 18.00 UTC* in wikimedia-office webchat <https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-office>. -- Sandra Fauconnier Community Liaison for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data>, Wikimedia Foundation sfauconnier(a)wikimedia.org *Subscribe to the Structured Commons newsletter!* <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Structured_…>

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WikiCite 2018
by Dario Taraborelli 12 Dec '17

12 Dec '17

Hey all, We have some important news to share on behalf of the WikiCite organizers. First off–in case you missed it–we released our annual report <https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5648233> last week, and it's been getting a lot of traction <https://twitter.com/Wikicite/status/938778592653332480>. So much has happened over the past 12 months: interest in creating a collaborative knowledge base of sources to support free knowledge is growing among libraries, linked data organizations, tool developers, and many groups in the Wikimedia movement. New contributors and organizations, that were not part of this community these past 2 years, are now joining us and we need to make sure WikiCite remains sustainable in years to come. For this reason, we're working with our funders to ensure the next cycle of WikiCite events is well supported. We have decided to move our main annual event <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2018> from the spring to the *fall of 2018*, in order to concentrate our efforts on fundraising and creating a long term strategic plan. Ahead of WikiCite 2018, we'll be supporting local events to continue to grow the community. We'll be present at the *Wikimedia Hackathon* in Barcelona. We will submit a session proposal to *Wikimania 2018*, and we'll attend other events of interest to the movement. If you know of any satellite session or event where WikiCite should have a presence, please let us know <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite/News>. Should you have any questions for the organizing committee, you can get in touch at wikicite(a)wikimedia.org. Best, Dario and Sarah

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Where are wikidata to wikipedia links available
by Rune Stilling 12 Dec '17

12 Dec '17

Hi list Where can one find the mapping between Wikidata and Wikipedia. I can see the links online in both Wikidata and Wikipedia, but I cannot find the links in the RDF-dump f.ex. of Wikidata, nor in the XML-dump of Wikipedia. With regards, Rune Stilling

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Recoin2: New version of relative completeness status indicator for all entities
by Simon Razniewski 11 Dec '17

11 Dec '17

Dear community, We are happy to announce version 2 of Recoin, the relative completeness status indicator <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Ls1g/Recoin2>. Recoin adds a color-coded progress bar to entity pages showing how extensive information about the entity is in comparison with similar entities. In the new version, Recoin is rolled out to virtually all entities in Wikidata (see e.g. Q173634 <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbeyroad.png>, Q565400 <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maxplanck-institute.png> or Q15074414 <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kompatscher-red.png> ). The core version uses only Wikibase properties, but based on earlier feedback there is also a version specifically for ID properties only. We think Recoin can be of great help for quickly getting impressions of data quality about entities. We look very much forward to your feedback. Also, if you support making a gadget out of please get in contact with us. More information can be found on the tools page at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Ls1g/Recoin2. <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Ls1g/Recoin2> Best regards, Simon Razniewski/Ls1g

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FAST Interest Survey
by Proffitt,Merrilee 11 Dec '17

11 Dec '17

Colleagues - Five Research Libraries - Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard and Yale - along with OCLC colleagues have created a survey to gauge interest in the current features of OCLC's FAST<http://www.oclc.org/research/themes/data-science/fast.html> (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology) and potential enhancements. We'd like as many responses as possible--even from those who are not using FAST! Please share this link with anyone you know who applies subject terminology to metadata. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Next_Steps_for_FAST We've beta-tested the survey, and it takes 5-15 minutes to complete. You will likely see the survey on other lists that you subscribe to. Kate Harcourt at Columbia has volunteered to serve as coordinator for the survey, so please direct any questions about it to her at harcourt(a)columbia.edu<mailto:harcourt@columbia.edu> The deadline for responses is 15 December 2017. Thank you Posted on behalf of: Kate Harcourt Marty Kurth Jim LeBlanc Boaz Nadav Manes Scott Wicks -- Merrilee Proffitt OCLC * Senior Program Officer, OCLC Research 155 Bovet Rd, Suite 500, San Mateo, CA 94402 T +1-650-287-2136 [OCLC]<http://www.oclc.org/home.en.html?cmpid=emailsig_logo> OCLC.org<http://www.oclc.org/home.en.html?cmpid=emailsig_link> * Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/pages/OCLC/20530435726> * Twitter<http://twitter.com/oclc> * YouTube<http://www.youtube.com/OCLCvideo>

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Weekly Summary #290
by Léa Lacroix 11 Dec '17

11 Dec '17

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>/ Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Incoming: Wikidata workshop in Rennes <https://www.meetup.com/fr-FR/Breizh-Data-Club/events/245559915/>, France, December 12th - Incoming:Next Structured Commons IRC office hour <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours> will be on Tuesday, February 13, 2018, at 18:00 UTC. - Past: Tech-talk about knowledge technologies, featuring Wikidata, DBpedia, and Histropedia at Jakarta Digital Valley, Jakarta, Indonesia on Dec 8, 2017. Slides are available at Slideshare link <https://www.slideshare.net/fadirra/knowledge-technologies-opportunities-and…> . - My vision of a possible strategy. How could we change Wikidata’s core infrastructure to be able to scale better in the future? <https://medium.com/@ChristianKl/my-vision-of-a-possible-strategy-1ca09a53da…> by ChristianKl <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:ChristianKl>. - *Using WikiData as a multi-lingual multi-dialectal dictionary for Arabic dialects <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321039195_Using_WikiData_as_a_mult…>* - conference paper - WikiCite 2017 report <https://figshare.com/articles/_/5648233> by Dario Taborelli and the organization team Other Noteworthy Stuff - Structured Data on Commons: Participate in this survey <http://www.allourideas.org/commonswdtools> to help the team understand which tools and functionalities are most important to the Commons and Wikidata communities - QuickStatements now has a CSV-like import function (under "import commands") - wikidata-cli now support dynamic SPARQL requests using JS files <https://github.com/maxlath/wikidata-cli/blob/master/docs/read_operations.md…> - New wikidata-sdk function: wdk.getSitelinkUrl <https://github.com/maxlath/wikidata-sdk/blob/master/docs/general_helpers.md…>, a function to easily build URLs from Wikidata API sitelinks data - Musik Lovers <https://codingdavinci.de/projects/2017/musik_lovers.html#project-name> (de) is a project created during Coding da Vinci 2017 and reuses data from Wikidata about composers played in the Koncerthaus of Berlin Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: premiere type <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4634>, name of the character role <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4633>, Bechdel Test Movie List ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4632>, Iowa Sports Hall of Fame ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4631>, DORIS ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4630>, Online Books Page author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4629>, ICTV virus genome composition <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4628>, EK number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4627>, identity of object in context <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4626>, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston object ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4625>, squadron embarked <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4624>, South Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4623>, trophy awarded <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4622>, Württembergische Kirchengeschichte person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4621>, Merkelstiftung person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4620>, National Library of Brazil ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4619>, AUSNUT 2011–13 Food Group ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4618>, DVV player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4617>, UniProt journal ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4616>, WAFL FootyFacts ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4615>, watershed <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4614>, Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4613>, LKL player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4612>, LACMA ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4611>, Art Institute of Chicago artwork ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4610>, Queensland Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4609> - Query examples: - Place of birth of author with pages on the French Wikisource <https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Fpe…> (source <https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/fr:Wikisource:Scriptorium/D%C3%A9cembre_2017> ) - Number of movies passing or failing the Bechdel test by year <https://query.wikidata.org/#%0A#defaultView:LineChart%0ASELECT%20?year%20%2…> (source <https://mamot.fr/web/statuses/99155836211169465>) - 100 of the earliest 1000 works created by women on Wikidata with an image on Commons <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20random%20selection%20of%20100%20of%20the%…> (source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/939836653803274240>) - Chemical entities, whom discovered them, and when <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ATimeline%0ASELECT%20%3Fcompoun…> (source <https://twitter.com/egonwillighagen/status/939765306888720384>) - Sister-city and twin-city relationships of the largest cities <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AGraph%0ASELECT%20%3Fcity%20%3F…> (source <https://twitter.com/mlpoulter/status/939155134772375552>) - Cast age at date of film publication <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ALineChart%0ASELECT%20%3Fage%20…> (source <https://twitter.com/tobyhudson/status/938660494163902464>) - Male saints that are the most used to name French cities after them <https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fsaint%20%28COUNT%28%3Fit…> (source <https://twitter.com/PoulpyWP/status/938535232541810688>) Development - Add anchors to Special:ListDatatypes (phabricator:T181371 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181371>) - Data Types library has been integrated to Wikibase (phabricator:T180454 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180454>) - Investigate on the slow problems encountered on Wikidata ( phabricator:T182322 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182322>) You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>. Monthly Tasks - 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> - Suggested and open tasks <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contribute/Suggested_and_open_tasks> ! - 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 the interface and documentation pages, in your own language! - Help merge identical items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge> across Wikimedia projects. - Help write the next summary! <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next> -- Léa Lacroix Project Manager Community Communication 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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Using WikiData as a multi-lingual multi-dialectal dictionary for Arabic dialects
by abdelwaheb turki 11 Dec '17

11 Dec '17

Dear Mr. or Ms., I thank you for your interest. The proceedings paper, the presentation slides as well as an overview about the discussions I have done about using Wikidata for the Natural Language Processing of Arabic dialects are available now in ResearchGate. Please see https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321039195_Using_WikiData_as_a_mult… for the proceedings paper and https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321039289_AICCSA_2017_-_Wikidata_P… for the presentation slides and for the overview about the discussions I have done about using Wikidata for the Natural Language Processing of Arabic dialects in ResearchGate. Yours Sincerely, Houcemeddine Turki

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You can now vote in the Community Wishlist Survey
by Léa Lacroix 11 Dec '17

11 Dec '17

Hello all, For your information, the voting phase of the WMF Community Wishlist Survey has started. You can find there several categories, more than 200 proposals. Some of them are connected to Wikidata (and not only in the Wikidata categories, check also the others). ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Johan Jönsson <jjonsson(a)wikimedia.org> Date: 28 November 2017 at 07:01 Subject: [Wikimedia-l] You can now vote in the Community Wishlist Survey To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hey everyone, The voting phase of the 2017 Community Wishlist Survey has now started. Read the proposals and support the ones you want to support to make the wikis better: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2017_Community_Wishlist_Survey Click on the categories to find the proposals. The voting will close on December 10. That's the important part of this email. Feel free to follow the link above and starting voting right now. The longer version: The Community Wishlist Survey decides what the Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech team will work on over the next year. The team is responsible for addressing the top 10 wishes on the list, as well as some wishes from smaller groups and projects that are doing important work, but don't have the numbers to get their proposal into the top 10. The Wishlist is also used by volunteer developers and other teams, who want to find projects to work on that the community really wants. Come help set the agenda. If you want to see what the team has done in 2017, see the status report from last month: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_ Survey/Status_report_1 What you can do now: *) Vote. This is the most important thing. *) Spread the word. We really want people to find this, of course, and we'll work on finding the best balance between spreading the news to everyone and not being annoying, but please do help to spread the information in your local community – Village Pump equivalents, IRC channels, social media groups and so on. *) Help translating the pages. We want the process to be as available as possible for everyone. It's not every available if it's only in English. *) If you want to get short updates through the notification system, you can sign up for the Community Tech Newsletter: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Newsletter:The_Community_Tech_Newsletter //Johan Jönsson -- _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- Léa Lacroix Project Manager Community Communication 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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Imperative programming in Lua, do we really want it?
by John Erling Blad 08 Dec '17

08 Dec '17

With the current Lua environment we have ended up with an imperative programming style in the modules. That invites to statefull objects, which does not create easilly testable libraries. Do we have some ideas on how to avoid this, or is it simply the way things are in Lua? I would really like functional programming with chainable calls, but other might want something different? John

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