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[Wikidata-l] new main page and new features/changes
by Lydia Pintscher 27 Aug '14

27 Aug '14

Hey folks :) We have a new main page: http://wikidata.org \o/ A huge thank you to Helen and everyone who helped her for creating it and pushing it forward. It was time to get a new one after two years! And from the development side we have deployed last night: * switched the internal serialization as announced: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-August/004330.html * deployed the "in other projects sidebar" beta feature: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Other_projects_sidebar * badges will be shown in the sidebar of the sister projects based on what is stored in Wikidata as soon as a few more config changes are made in the next day or two. * a new special page that takes you to a Wikipedia article based on a site id and item id: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:GoToLinkedPage (This was actually already deployed last week but I totally forgot it... Sorry!) We unfortunately had to delay suggestions for qualifiers and sources. That'll come next week then. 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 27/681/51985.

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[Wikidata-l] The new Main page for Wikidata is almost ready to launch
by Helen Halbert 26 Aug '14

26 Aug '14

Hi all, Just a heads up to say that Wikidata will get its new Main page early next week, and this is a final call for you to leave any last-minute concerns you may have (at least before it goes live). The full announcement on Project Chat, including a summary outlining the major changes and links to feedback received from the community can be found here: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#The_new_Main_page_is_com… You can see also preview what the new Main page will look like at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Portal_Redesign/draft thanks, Helen

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[Wikidata-l] weekly summary #123
by Lydia Pintscher 25 Aug '14

25 Aug '14

Hey folks :) Here's your overview of what was important around Wikidata this week: Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Wikidata at Wikimania 2014 in London <http://blog.wikimedia.de/2014/08/19/wikidata-at-wikimania-2014-in-london/> - "Growing items" <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Lounge/Growing_items> by User:Micru <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Micru>, an essay about modelling concepts and understanding items Other Noteworthy Stuff - The new Main page will go live early next week! See the announcement at Project chat <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Project_chat#The_…> for more details and to leave any last comments - It will be possible to show the badges like "Featured Article" stored on Wikidata in the sidebar of the clients (Wikipedia, Wikisource, ...) starting Tuesday. Wikipedia will follow on Thursday. - Starting Tuesday we will deploy a new beta feature <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Other_projects_sidebar> on the clients. It will allow you to show links to other sister projects in the sidebar based on the links in Wikidata. - Planning for structured data support for Commons is starting to pick up speed. Get involved: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/multimedia/2014-August/000774.html Also maybe attend the office hour? Did you know? - Newest properties: list of monuments <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1456>, list of works <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1455>, legal form <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1454>, catholic.ru ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1453>, motto <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1451>, Sandbox Monolingual text <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1450>, nickname <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1449>, official name <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1448>, Sports Reference ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1447>, people missing <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1446>, fictional universe described in <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1445> - Newest WikiProjects <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProjects>: Wikidata:WikiProject Structured Data for Commons <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Structured_Data_for_Comm…> Development - Deployed lots of new features <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-August/004413.html> like badges, access to language links for Wikinews and Wikidata, the monolingual text data type and redirects! - Working hard on making the new UI a reality, mainly refactoring the UI widgets right now. Covers a lot of ground and will take some time. - More work on HHVM issues that need to be fixed before Wikidata can switch to it. See current sprint items <http://sb.wmflabs.org/p/wikidata/> for what we’re working on next. You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1&list_id=151540&resolu…> Monthly Tasks - Hack on one of these <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&ke…> . - Help fix these items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:The_Game/Flagged_items> which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game. - 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> 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 27/681/51985.

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[Wikidata-l] [Wikidata] weekly summary
by Lydia Pintscher 23 Aug '14

23 Aug '14

Hey folks :) Please add all of the things: https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.de/document/d/1W0Mfp-5cKxmcVfd3FKQv7atg… Curious animals: Today I give you Q908238. They're better prepared than we are for rain :P 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 27/681/51985.

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Re: [Wikidata-l] [Wikimedia-l] Compare person data
by Amir Ladsgroup 23 Aug '14

23 Aug '14

I started this report, you can find it here <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Ladsgroup/Birth_date_report2>. Best On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Amir Ladsgroup <ladsgroup(a)gmail.com> wrote: > It's possible and rather easy to add them .just several regexes and list > of months in that language are needed. but the issue is no major wikis > except these three are using a person data template (Almost all of them > have the template but almost none of them are using it widely) If any other > wiki is using a person data template widely, I would be happy to implement > it. > > Best > > > On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Amir E. Aharoni < > amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > >> Can we join more Wikipedias to the comparison? >> >> >> -- >> Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי >> http://aharoni.wordpress.com >> ‪“We're living in pieces, >> I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ >> >> >> 2014-08-19 10:38 GMT+03:00 Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>: >> >>> Hoi, >>> Amir has created functionality that compares data from en.wp de.wp and >>> it.wp. It is data about "humans" and it only shows differences where they >>> exist. It compares those four Wikipedias with information in Wikidata. >>> >>> The idea is that the report will be updated regularly. >>> >>> The problem we face is: what should it actually look like. Should it just >>> splatter the info on a page or is more needed. At this time we just have >>> data [1]. >>> >>> Please help us with something that works easily for now. Once we have >>> something, it can be prettified and more functional. >>> Thanks, >>> GerardM >>> >>> [1] http://paste.ubuntu.com/8079742/ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >>> Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/GuidelinesWikimedia-l@lists.w…> >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >>> <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >> >> >> > > > -- > Amir > > -- Amir

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Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata-l Digest, Vol 33, Issue 16
by Harry Burt 23 Aug '14

23 Aug '14

[Apologies, I get these on digest so I'm probably a bit behind.] On Thu, 21 Aug 2014, Legoktm <legoktm.wikipedia(a)gmail.com> wrote: > * How do you plan on localizing the black banner with English words in > it? MediaWiki supports localized SVGs if I remember correctly, but > doesn't have a method to translate them (E:TranslateSvg hasn't been > deployed yet). > Just to expand slightly, the current state of SVG translation remains problematic, insofar as all users must currently receive the same language SVG (for rationale, see changeset #95746). Thus MediaWiki cannot show this same SVG based on content language alone. However, given that we now have a clear usecase this could probably be changed [1]. Regards translating this particular SVG, I could boot up translatesvg.wmflabs.org and piggyback on this demand to get some basic user testing (although I already know it's a bit rubbish at the moment!!). Since it just exports an SVG anyway, voila -- though preserving attribution would need some thought. Best, Harry [1] Not sure on the technical specifics. Clearly the easiest would be to have a |lang=multi flag, but that may not be sustainable long term.

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[Wikidata-l] Breaking serialization change!
by Lydia Pintscher 23 Aug '14

23 Aug '14

Hey folks :) Are you a tool author relying on dumps or Special:Export or use Lua on Wikidata to access data in items? Please read on. The JSON format returned by the API and what we use to store the data internally has been different for a long time. This has been a headache as people had to deal with two different JSON serializations. We've fixed this now to only use one. This means the format you get in the XML dumps, via Special:Export and when accessing the raw item page content via Lua will change to be the same as what you get from the API. We plan to deploy this change on August 26th. This is one of the remaining blockers for statements on properties and further progress on Commons support. I'm sorry for the disruption. If you need help with adapting your tools 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 27/681/51985.

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[Wikidata-l] Tables
by Jan Kučera 22 Aug '14

22 Aug '14

Hi there, can tables be stored within wikidata database? I mean simple 2D tables like excel spreadsheets... Jan

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[Wikidata-l] Access other "In Other Languages"
by Derric Atzrott 20 Aug '14

20 Aug '14

Is there a better way to get at more items in the "In Other Languages" section than to change the interface language with ?setlang= ? I had an item I wanted to give the name in Italian for (it was mentioned in the English Wikipedia article) and I discovered that the only way I could find to get access to the form field for Italian name was to change Wikidata to Italian. I didn't see anything immediately upon Googling. Thank you, Derric Atzrott

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[Wikidata-l] Come to present Wikidata in Finland!
by Susanna Ånäs 20 Aug '14

20 Aug '14

Wikimedia Finland calls for a Wikidata developer/advocate to present Wikidata at Avoin Suomi 2014 fair http://avoinsuomi2014.fi/ September 15–16. The event is organized by the Prime Minister's Office in collaboration with several public sector actors and open knowledge organizations. Wikimedia Finland has a booth, and will present projects in GLAM and education, and the Wikimedia sister projects with focus on Wikidata. To take advantage of the presence of the skilled wikidatan, we plan to arrange a Wikidata hands-on workshop before or after the event. The closer you are to Finland the better, but Finnish language is not a requirement. Please contact susanna.anas(a)wikimedia.fi if you are interested. You may forward this to a person you know might be interested. Looking forward to talking with you! Susanna -- *Susanna Ånäs *Käyttäjä:Susannaanas Wikimedia Suomi <http://wikimedia.fi/> – Wikimaps <http://wikimaps.wikimedia.fi/> – GLAM <http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM> @ <https://twitter.com/WMFinland>WMFinland <https://twitter.com/WMFinland> / Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaSuomi> / Liity jäseneksi! <http://fi.wikimedia.org/wiki/Liity_j%C3%A4seneksi>

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