Hi Wikidatans, Wikimedia UK is running the third Wikidata meetup in London
in collaboration with OpenStreetMapUK. It's on June 29 from 15.00 to 22.00
at Newspeak House, East London. Please sign up here
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-wikidata-meetup-3-wikidata-osmuk-tick…>
if you want to come.
If you want to talk about a Wikidata project you are doing, please email me
and let me know what you want to talk about. Talks should be 5-10 mins long.
Hope to see some of you there!
John Lubbock
Communications Coordinator
Wikimedia UK
+44 (0) 203 372 0767
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Hello all,
I’m happy to announce that the *Wikidata Bridge
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Bridge>* project (you may have
heard about before under the name “client editing”) started. The goal of
this project is to offer a way to Wikipedia editors to edit Wikidata’s data
more easily. This will be achieved by an interface, connected to the
infoboxes, that users can access directly from their local wiki.
The project is now at an early stage of development. A lot of user research
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Bridge/Research> has been done,
and will continue to be done through the different phases of the project.
The next steps of development
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Bridge/Development> will be
achieved by the development team working at Wikimedia Deutschland, starting
now until the end of 2019.
Here’s the planned timeline:
- From June to August, we will build the setup and technical groundwork.
- From September to November 2019, we will develop the first version of
the feature and publish a test system so you can try it and give feedback.
- Later on, we will test the feature on a few projects, in collaboration
with the communities.
- We will first focus on early adopters communities who already
implemented a shortcut from their infoboxes to edit Wikidata (for example
Russian, Catalan, Basque Wikipedias)
- but we also welcome also communities who volunteer to be part of
the first test round
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Bridge/Get_involved>.
- Then we will reach some of the big Wikipedias (French, German,
English) in order to see if the project scales and to address their
potentially different needs.
- Even later, we can consider enabling the feature on all the other
projects.
On Wikidata, from the technical side, not much will change. When the
feature to edit Wikidata’s data from Wikipedia will be implemented, a tag
for edits coming from Wikidata Bridge will be added, so the Wikidata
editors can watch and filter these edits more easily.
If you want to get involved, there are several ways to help:
-
- Help translating the documentation pages
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Bridge>
- Follow the updates
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Bridge/Updates> and
participate in the first feedback loop
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:V1x2lxtu8rgi954a>
- If you’re also active on a Wikipedia project, feel free to reach
them and help answering their questions about Wikidata
- Discuss the specific Wikidata-related topics or issues on
Wikidata:Wikidata
Bridge <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikidata_Bridge>
If you have any questions, feel free to ask them on the on the dedicated
talk page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikidata_Bridge>.
Cheers,
--
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.
Sorry for cross-posting!
Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting this week **Wednesday 3-4 pm UTC**
on #wikimedia-tech.
Questions can be asked in English, Romanian and German!
The Technical Advice IRC Meeting (TAIM) is a weekly support event for
volunteer developers. Every Wednesday, two full-time developers are
available to help you with all your questions about Mediawiki, gadgets,
tools and more! This can be anything from "how to get started" over "who
would be the best contact for X" to specific questions on your project.
If you know already what you would like to discuss or ask, please add your
topic to the next meeting:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting
Hope to see you there!
--
Raz Shuty
Engineering Manager
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0
https://wikimedia.de
Imagine a world, in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge. That‘s our commitment.
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
I have a question about the status of unreferenced statements in Wikidata.
I just looked at the live stats [1] and it looks like about two thirds of
statements are now referenced. That's a great achievement from 2016 when it
was the opposite, right? I was wondering how this was achieved? I know that
Wikicite has done a great job of creating a bibliographic database for
citations but that isn't directly linked to efforts to cite statements on
Wikidata at the moment, right?
Many thanks!
Best,
Heather.
[1] https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/stats.php
Dr Heather Ford
Senior Lecturer, School of Arts & Media <https://sam.arts.unsw.edu.au/>,
University of New South Wales
w: hblog.org / EthnographyMatters.net <http://ethnographymatters.net/> / t:
@hfordsa <http://www.twitter.com/hfordsa>
Hey,
With introduction of TemplateStyles [1], there is no need to put CSS of all
templates like Navbox in Common.css [2] anymore, You can simply put them in
a page like [3] and inject those into DOM when needed (that makes lots of
sense for templates with limited usage because Common.css is loaded on
*every* page). So I started a big clean up of the common.css page [4] and
now 8 kilobyte is removed from there, with minification and gzip
compression that's around one kilobyte less in every request which adds up
to around 4 Terabyte of data every month (not to mention CPU usage in our
infra to minify and compress the given CSS).
If you see any template misbehaving, let me know. It might be caused by
this cleanup.
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TemplateStyles
[2] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.css
[3] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:Navbox/styles.css
[4]
https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki%3ACommon.css&type=revi…
Best
--
Amir (he/him)
Hi!
Due to upgrade to more current version of Sesame toolkit, the format of
JSON output of Wikidata Query Service has changed slightly[1]. The
change is that plain literals (ones that do not have explicit data type,
like "string" or "string"@de) now have "datatype" field. The language
literals will have type
http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#langString and the
non-language ones http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string. This is in
accordance with RDF 1.1 standard [2], where all literals have data type
(even though for these types it is implicit).
I apologize for not noting this in advance - though I knew this change
in the standard happened, I did not foresee it will also carry over to
the JSON output format. I am not sure yet which output form is actually
correct, since standards seem to be conflicting, maybe due to the fact
that JSON results standard hasn't been updated since 2013 and RDF 1.1 is
from 2014, so I will research which form is more correct. But for now I
would recommend to update the tools to recognize that these literals now
may have type. If I discover that the standards or accepted practices
recommend otherwise, I'll update further. You can also watch
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225996 for final resolution of this.
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225996
[2] https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-concepts/#section-Graph-Literal
--
Stas Malyshev
smalyshev(a)wikimedia.org
I've been using wdtaxonomy
<https://wdtaxonomy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/> happily
for many months on my macbook running 10.14.5. Starting yesterday, every
call I make (e.g., "wdtaxonomy -c Q5") produces an immediate "SPARQL
request failed" message.
Might these requests be blocked now because of the new WDQS policies?
Tim
Dear all,
I thank you for your efforts. I am absolutely honoured to inform you that we will be organizing a Wikidata meeting for researchers in Sfax, Tunisia from 25 to 27 June 2019. Further information can be easily found in French in http://sparql-wikidata-2019.smr-team.org/. The meeting will provide an introduction for researchers from Tunisia to Wikidata, Semantic Web and SPARQL.
Yours Sincerely,
Houcemeddine Turki (he/him)
Medical Student, Faculty of Medicine of Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Undergraduate Researcher, UR12SP36
GLAM and Education Coordinator, Wikimedia TN User Group
Member, WikiResearch Tunisia
Member, Wiki Project Med
Member, WikiIndaba Steering Committee
Member, Wikimedia and Library User Group Steering Committee
Co-Founder, WikiLingua Maghreb
Founder, TunSci
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+21629499418
Greetings,
The Structured Data on Commons team plans to release the first version of
qualifiers for depicts statements [0] this week. The team has been testing
the feature with the community for a month [1] and are ready to turn it on
for Commons on Thursday, 20 June, between 11:00-12:00 UTC. Adding
qualifiers allows users to further develop depicts statements. For example,
"depicts: house cat" can be extended into "depicts: house
cat[color:black]." You will be able to find qualifiers in the "Structured
data" tab on the file page, or in the "Add data" tab in the UploadWizard.
This version has a drop-down menu to select qualifiers; an update in the
near future will replace the drop-down with an auto-suggest box.
I'll keep the community posted when qualifiers go live on Thursday, after
the team makes sure everything is configured and working as expected.
0. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data
1.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Structured_data#Adding_qual…
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Keegan Peterzell
Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi!
As outlined in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226153, we are
planning to change filename scheme for Wikidata RDF entity dumps, by
removing the "-BETA" suffix from the filename. The Wikidata RDF ontology
is not beta anymore and dumps have been working stable for a while now,
so it's time to drop the beta mark from the name. It may take a week or
two for the change to propagate and be applied to dumps, but if your
tools depend on exact naming, please prepare them for the eventual
change in the name.
Note that links like
https://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikidatawiki/entities/latest-all.nt.gz would
still be pointing to the right files, and if all you care is downloading
the latest dump, using these links is always recommended.
We will send another message once the change has been implemented and
deployed.
Thanks,
--
Stas Malyshev
smalyshev(a)wikimedia.org