Wikidata August 2017

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Presenting the new EveryPolitician Community manager :)
by Luca Martinelli 09 Aug '17

09 Aug '17

Hi everybody! I'm [[User:Sannita]], probably you already saw me around as an admin and contributor, but today I'd like to introduce myself as the new EveryPolitician project Community manager. :) EveryPolitician is a mySociety[1] project, currently funded by Wikimedia Foundation,[2] that aims to integrate data from the EveryPolitician project[3] and/or other reliable sources, as well as to come up with a suitable structure within Wikidata to encourage consistency of modelling of political data. My main task will be to involve people to become active on Wikidata, to learn how to use the various tools we already have (from gadgets to external tools such as QuickStatements, Mix 'n' Match, PetScan, and so on) and to actively reuse data from the project to build New Fantastic Tools™. So, if you're interested in sorting out electoral/political data from your home country, or define data models to help other users compiling this kind of items, or you have an idea about how to visualise data, just {{Ping}} me, and I'll be glad to help. :) We're also planning events to add, fix, enrich and reuse data - the very first will be held in London after Wikimania, and I really hope to come back to you with more info ASAP. Also, I'll be around at Wikimania all week, so feel free to tap me on the shoulder if you wish. :) Thank you and hope to see you around soon! [1] https://www.mysociety.org/ [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/mySociety/EveryPolitician [3] https://www.mysociety.org/democracy/everypolitician/ -- Luca Martinelli EveryPolitician Community manager

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Wikidata Query Service and SPARQL endpoint usage limits
by Deborah Tankersley 09 Aug '17

09 Aug '17

Due to some continued overuse of the Wikidata Query Service, and the SPARQL endpoint, we recently implemented a throttling feature to prevent users and bots from using too many resources on the servers. Here are the new limits: * any user that is identified by IP and User Agent, can use the service for 60 seconds of query time per minute (burst at 120 seconds per minute) * any user query can generate up to 30 errors per minute (burst to 60 errors per minute) Please let us know if there are questions or concerns with the new usage limits, as we are able to fine tune them if it is causing problems with reasonable use cases. Thanks for your understanding! -- deb tankersley irc: debt Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation

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Tool for consuming left-over data from import
by André Costa 08 Aug '17

08 Aug '17

Hi all! As part of the Connected Open Heritage project Wikimedia Sverige have been migrating Wiki Loves Monuments datasets from Wikipedias to Wikidata. In the course of doing this we keep a note of the data which we fail to migrate. For each of these left-over bits we know which item and which property it belongs to as well as the source field and language from the Wikipedia list. An example would e.g. be a "type of building" field where we could not match the text to an item on Wikidata but know that the target property is P31. We have created dumps of these (such as https://tools.wmflabs.org/coh/_total_se-ship_new.json, don't worry this one is tiny) but are now looking for an easy way for users to consume them. Does anyone know of a tool which could do this today? The Wikidata game only allows (AFAIK) for yes/no/skip whereas you would here want something like <enter_value>/invalid/skip. And if not are there any tools which with a bit of forking could be made to do it? We have only published a few dumps but there are more to come. I would also imagine that this, or a similar, format could be useful for other imports/template harvests where some fields are more easily handled by humans. Any thoughts and suggestions are welcome. Cheers, André André Costa | Senior Developer, Wikimedia Sverige | Andre.Costa(a)wikimedia.se | +46 (0)733-964574 Stöd fri kunskap, bli medlem i Wikimedia Sverige. Läs mer på blimedlem.wikimedia.se

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Weekly Summary #272
by Léa Lacroix 07 Aug '17

07 Aug '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> - Upcoming: Wikimania hackathon <https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon> and documentation sprint <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170071>, August 9-10, Montreal - Upcoming: Wikimania <https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania>, August 10-13, Montreal. Check out all the things related to Wikidata <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikimania_2017> - Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in French <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Atelier_Wikidata_%C3%A0_Montr…>, August 14, Montreal Other Noteworthy Stuff - w:en:Category:Articles with infoboxes completely from Wikidata <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Category:Articles_with_infoboxes_completel…> has now more than 1000 articles - Wikidata passed 6 average statements per item <https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/wikidata-datamodel-statements?pa…> Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: offset <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4153>, File format magic numbers <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4152>, game mechanics <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4151>, weather history <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4150>, conjugate base <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4149>, conjugate acid <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4147>, Atheneum museum ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4146>, Atheneum person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4145>, Atheneum artwork ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4144>, Finnish List of Lights ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4143>, RIWAQ Registry of Historic Buildings in Palestine ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4142>, Gatehouse Gazetteer place ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4141>, energy storage capacity <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4140>, National Assembly of Nigeria ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4139>, Treasury of Lives ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4138>, muzzle velocity <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4137>, WIGOS station ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4136> - Query examples: - Timeline of the programming languages created in the past 10 years <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ATimeline%0ASELECT%20%3Flang%20…> (source <https://twitter.com/WikiDigi/status/893167958272421889>) - Countries where no european language has official or national status <https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fcountry%20%28group_conca…> (source <https://twitter.com/PoulpyWP/status/892850151177334784>) - Gallery of Star Trek characters <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0A%0ASELECT%0A%20%20…> (source <https://twitter.com/gobfrey/status/893411288990310401>) - Timeline of female medieval writers <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23Timeline%20of%20early%20female%20writers%0A%…> (source <https://twitter.com/philbarker/status/893422736894242816>) - Newest script: moveClaim.js <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Mat%C4%9Bj_Such%C3%A1nek/moveClaim.js> allows moving claims across items. Try it and give feedback to Matěj Suchánek <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Mat%C4%9Bj_Such%C3%A1nek> - Newest external tools: d3-sparql <https://github.com/zazuko/d3-sparql> allows you to query a SPARQL endpoint and get the data in a d3js-useful format Development - Released version 2.0.0 of the DataValues base component <https://github.com/DataValues/DataValues>. - Released the DataValues Interfaces component <https://github.com/DataValues/Interfaces> in version 0.2.3. - Released the ValueView component <https://packagist.org/packages/data-values/value-view> in version 0.20.0 - Fixed a problem with suggestions of P279 (phab:T169060 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169060>) - Preparing everything for Wikimania and the hackathon 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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SQID: Lookup by value of external identifier?
by Neubert, Joachim 03 Aug '17

03 Aug '17

Hi, does anybody know if SQID can be invoked with an URL, which includes an external id property and its value - similar to https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/resolver.php?prop=P227&value=120434… ? That could give end users a really nice display. Cheers, Joachim

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Fwd: [Semediawiki-user] SMWCon Fall 2017 CFP news: location and hotel information
by [[kgh]] 01 Aug '17

01 Aug '17

Heiya to all of you this may very well be interesting for you, too. Cheers Karsten -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Semediawiki-user] SMWCon Fall 2017 CFP news: location and hotel information Datum: Tue, 1 Aug 2017 17:11:45 +0200 Von: Rutledge, Lloyd <Lloyd.Rutledge(a)ou.nl> An: Semediawiki-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net Dear users, developers and all people interested in semantic wikis, We are happy to announce SMWCon Fall 2017 - the 14th Semantic MediaWiki Conference: Dates: October 4th to October 6th 2017 (Wednesday to Friday). Location: Rotterdam Zoo (Blijdorp), Rotterdam, the Netherlands Conference page: https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2017 Participants: Everybody interested in semantic wikis, especially in Semantic MediaWiki, e.g., users, developers, consultants, business representatives, researchers. SMWCon Fall 2017 will be supported by ArchiXL B.V. [0], Wikibase Solutions [1], The Open University in the Netherlands [2] and Open Semantic Data Association e. V. [3]. Following the success of this format the SMWCon will have one tutorial and workshop day preceding two conference days. Participating in the conference: To help us planning, you can already informally register on the conference page, although a formal registration will later be needed. Contributing to the conference: If you want to present your work in the conference please go to the conference page and add your talk there. To create an attractive program for the conference, we will later ask you to give further information about your proposals. Among others, we encourage contributions on the following topics: Applications of semantic wikis: Semantic wikis for enterprise workflows and business intelligence Semantic wikis for corporate or personal knowledge management Exchange on business models with semantic wikis Lessons learned (best/worst practices) from using semantic wikis or their extensions Semantic wikis in e-science, e-humanities, e-learning, e-health, e-government Semantic wikis for finding a common vocabulary among a group of people Semantic wikis for teaching students about the Semantic Web Offering incentives for users of semantic wikis Challenges and obstacles for semantic wikis in business environments Development of semantic wikis: Semantic wikis as knowledge base backends / data integration platforms Comparisons of semantic wiki concepts and technologies Community building, feature wishlists, roadmapping of Semantic MediaWiki Improving user experience in a semantic wiki Speeding up semantic wikis Integrations and interoperability of semantic wikis with other applications and mashups Modeling of complex domains in semantic wikis, using rules, formulas etc. Access control and security aspects in semantic wikis Multilingual semantic wikis For questions about sponsorship opportunities, please do not hesitate to contact Ad Strack van Schijndel <ad at wikibase.nl>. Hope to see you in Rotterdam! Remco de Boer, Toine Schijvenaars, Esther Greefhorst, Lloyd Rutledge, Erwin Oord, Ad Strack van Schijndel (The Organizing Committee) [0] http://www.archixl.nl/en/ [1] http://www.wikibase.nl/ [2] https://www.ou.nl/ [3] https://opensemanticdata.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Semediawiki-user mailing list Semediawiki-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-user

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