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[Wikidata-l] weekly summary #52
by Lydia Pintscher 05 Apr '13

05 Apr '13

Heya folks :) Here's your summary of what happened around Wikidata over the last week. = Development = * The first year is over. Thank you everyone for being amazing and helping to build Wikidata and making it more than we could possibly have hoped for already. <3 * Put a lot of work into improved support for Internet Explorer 8 * Worked on improving recent changes code in client * Finished valueview refactoring. Created new extension “ValueView” * Implemented string formatter You can follow our commits at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(status:open+project:mediawiki/extension… and view the subset awaiting review at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions… You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1&list_id=151540&resolu… = Discussions/Press = * RFC for defining the bureaucrats role on Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Defining_bureau… * RFC about statements for items related to software: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Softwarestatemen… = Events = see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events * upcoming: GLAM-Wiki 2013 = Other Noteworthy Stuff = * Deployment of phase 2 on English Wikipedia is currently planned for April 8. The remaining Wikipedias are scheduled for April 10. As usual this might change if we run into problems along the way. * There is now a page showing the current lag for changes propagating to the Wikipedias so they can show up in watchlists and recent changes for example: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:DispatchStats This should ideally be in the range of a few minutes. Right now it is higher because of some abnormally high bot activity but decreasing. Should be down to a few minutes soon. * There’s now a badge you can add to Wikipedia articles to indicate there is data about it on Wikidata: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikidata * We hit Q10000000: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10000000 * A Wikidata item in the wild: http://goo.gl/maps/DyrsA ;-) = Did you know? = * There are a number of task forces that take care of specific jobs or topics on Wikidata: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Task_forces * You can get database dumps to play with: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_download * There are a lot of stats about Wikidata at http://stats.wikimedia.org/ = Open Tasks for You = * Hit a random item and add a missing source? http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Random * Hack on one of these: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&ke… Based on feedback for last week’s call for comments we will continue this newsletter. However more community help will be needed. From now on they’ll be drafted at http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next and your help is very welcome. Anything to add? Please share! :) Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 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] Usability flaws
by Lukas Benedix 05 Apr '13

05 Apr '13

Hi, I had a short look at the current UI and the test-repo and found some usability and design flaws: * when no text is available in the users language the statement section looks like this: http://lbenedix.monoceres.uberspace.de/screenshots/mejpee0fxi_(2013-04-05_1… <http://lbenedix.monoceres.uberspace.de/screenshots/mejpee0fxi_%282013-04-05…> * clicking on the edit-link for a property sets the focus in the wrong input field and adding a qualifier is difficult when you are typing too fast: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwQl_U1jYgI * the tooltips are misleading for some properties: http://lbenedix.monoceres.uberspace.de/screenshots/d6iyzjfoz3_(2013-04-05_1… <http://lbenedix.monoceres.uberspace.de/screenshots/d6iyzjfoz3_%282013-04-05…> * the clickable area for hiding the sources is too wide, especially on touch devices it would be easy to miss the add-sources link and hide it by accident:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMjmwljk2Kw <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMjmwljk2Kw> * the edit column is looking strange. I think you tried to make it look like one column together with the langlink-column, but that is not working well * * there are the change-order separator arrows at the end of the langlink-column:<http://lbenedix.monoceres.uberspace.de/minigal/photos/lwdb47hk6h_%282013-04…>http://lbenedix.monoceres.uberspace.de/screenshots/lwdb47hk6h_(2013-04-05_0… <http://lbenedix.monoceres.uberspace.de/screenshots/lwdb47hk6h_%282013-04-05…> * * and there is a lot of white space right to the edit link: http://lbenedix.monoceres.uberspace.de/screenshots/gu8dxbp5g7_(2013-04-05_0… <http://lbenedix.monoceres.uberspace.de/screenshots/gu8dxbp5g7_%282013-04-05…> * * I think it would look better when the edit-column is separated from the langlink-column by color and the text should maybe right aligned: http://lbenedix.monoceres.uberspace.de/screenshots/gy3icgq1qa_(2013-04-05_0… <http://lbenedix.monoceres.uberspace.de/screenshots/gy3icgq1qa_%282013-04-05…> I hope someone else who is more resilient than me would add these things to bugzilla. Lukas

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[Wikidata-l] Wikidata queries
by Denny Vrandečić 03 Apr '13

03 Apr '13

We have a first write up of how we plan to support queries in Wikidata. Comments on our errors and requests for clarifications are more than welcome. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Queries> Cheers, Denny P.S.: unfortunately, no easter eggs inside. -- Project director Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. +49-30-219 158 26-0 | http://wikimedia.de 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 27/681/51985.

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[Wikidata-l] Running "Infobox film" import script
by Michael Hale 02 Apr '13

02 Apr '13

I've been practicing using the Wikidata and MediaWiki APIs today. Even though the Wikidata API is still being developed, using it was more pleasant than parsing the templates. The good news is I'll probably be able to reuse a lot of that code for other infoboxes that still need to be imported. It's looking through 76000 articles for new statements it can add using Wikidata's currently supported film properties, excluding the IMDb ID because that isn't included in the infobox. So far it has added 691 new statements to 68 movies. I forgot to add a counter for when it finds one that already had all of the information entered. It will definitely have some errors, but I scanned the results for the first 100 movies before I started importing them, and I think the value-add will be much greater than the number of errors.

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[Wikidata-l] A question about wikidata for templates
by Jianyong Zhang 01 Apr '13

01 Apr '13

Hi, I have a question about how wikidata will behave for template pages. For example, for http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6171351, currently it has interlanguage links as a regular wikipedia page. I'm wondering if wikidata project will also add statements for it. If so, how will it look like and how will people use it in wikipedia articles with that template? Thanks.

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[Wikidata-l] Fwd: Help update invalidated translations
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 31 Mar '13

31 Mar '13

Forwarding, because apparently news don't reach Wikidata translators. In short: update translations at <https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Special:LanguageStats#sortable:4…> please. Nemo -------- Messaggio originale -------- Oggetto: Help update invalidated translations on Meta Data: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:40:43 +0100 Mittente: Federico Leva (Nemo) A: Wikimedia Translators <translators-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> As a result of a recent software update, a change requested by some Wikidata users has been enabled on Meta.[1] Now the outdated translations, marked by the !!FUZZY!! markers in translation units pages, are hidden from the translation pages: where you used to see pink-coloured paragraphs, there's now the English text. We have about 700 such translations on Meta, because some hard-working users are migrating several pages to Translate: updating them is often very quick, and you'll restore readers with sometimes crucial pages in their language; just remember to remove the !!FUZZY!! tag when you're done. You can see the pages that need updating LanguageStats for your language: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:LanguageStats#sortable…> Thanks, Nemo [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44328

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[Wikidata-l] The experience for (local project) editors, post-Phase 2
by Steven Walling 30 Mar '13

30 Mar '13

Hey all, I was going to just email Denny and Lydia about this question, but I am like most editors and I'm lazy, so I preferred to post on my home project Village Pump. ;-) I have some concerns surrounding the user experience implications of Phase 2, especially if properties syntax starts getting used in article content outside infoboxes. Specifically, I mean what it's going to be like for the vast majority of people who will end up interacting with this syntax, namely local Wikipedia editors. The thread is at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Wikidata_p… To be clear, this is a big question, and I don't think it's something that can be answered or dealt with before Phase 2 is launched on enwiki or other places. Steven

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[Wikidata-l] The first question after deployment of phase 2
by Bináris 30 Mar '13

30 Mar '13

This is the first Wikidata 2 edit in Hungarian Wikipedia: http://hu.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Magyarorsz%C3%A1g&curid=115&diff=… I tried to replace the official language first, but it is linked in the infobox as [[magyar nyelv|magyar]]. How can I use properties here? The second thought was .hu, the TLD, but its value in the infobox is currently hu which is translated to [[.hu]] by the infobox template, so after inclusion from WD it became [[..hu]] which is of course red. How can I use that? Shall we rebuild all the infoboxes? Other items are either missing from the infobox or from WD, so the reason to choose the president whom I dislike was that his name appears both in WD and the infobox and is linked in a simple form. -- Bináris

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[Wikidata-l] weekly summary #51
by Lydia Pintscher 29 Mar '13

29 Mar '13

Heya folks :) Here’s your summary of what happened around Wikidata over the last week. The wiki version is at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2013_03_29 = Development = * The first 11 Wikipedias can now include data from Wikidata in their articles: http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/03/27/you-can-have-all-the-data/ (If you want to see it in action see the infobox at http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torino) * Worked on automatic summaries for statements * Worked on making properties accessible from the client using their label so you can use {{#property:executive director}} instead of {{#property:p169}} for example * Made qualifiers ready for the next deployment (Please test. See details further down.) * Selenium tests for qualifiers * Fixed some issues related to QUnit testing * Worked on improved handling and code design of multiple snak lists in the UI (qualifiers, references) You can follow our commits at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(status:open+project:mediawiki/extension… and view the subset awaiting review at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions… You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1&list_id=151540&resolu… = Discussions/Press = * Denny wrote down how we’re planning to support queries on Wikidata: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Queries Feedback welcome. * Proposal for a vandalism policy: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Vandalism * Now that improvements for references have been deployed here’s a discussion on the best way to use them: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Sources (You can see an example of how it could be used in the source for “CAS registry number” on http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q153) * Should Wikidata have featured items? http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Featured_Items * RFC about restricting the ability to create properties to some users: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Restrict_creatio… * Heise.de reporting about deployment of phase 2 on the first 11 Wikipedias: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Wikipedia-Datenfundus-Wikidata-geht-… * Report about a collaboration event between Wikipedians and archeologists: http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/03/28/die-digitalen-romer-wikidata-trifft-arc… = Events = see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events * Newline 2013 = Other Noteworthy Stuff = * We’re currently carefully monitoring performance after the deployment of phase 2 on the first 11 Wikipedias. There seem to be a few small issues. As soon as they are resolved we'll deploy on English Wikipedia. All other Wikipedias are planned to follow very soon after that. * Bye and a big thank you to Anja, Silke, Jens and John who are leaving the development team at the end of the month and will work on other cool things. You’ll be missed! * Ever had any doubt about the possibilities of Wikidata? Talk to Wiri: http://toolserver.org/~magnus/thetalkpage/ * We worked on reducing the time it takes for Wikidata edits to show up in the Wikipedias and made some progress. Daniel posted an analysis: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2013-March/001940.html * We started running a script on the database in order to make search on Wikidata case-insensitive. This should be finished in a few days and then search should be more useful. * In addition to the above we have rolled out a new search box that suggests items. This should also make finding things on Wikidata a lot easier for you. * We’re making some progress with Internet Explorer 8 support but there are a lot of issues with it (some outside our control). It’s unclear at the moment how much we can improve it still without spending an unjustified amount of time on it. You can follow the progress at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44228 * Edits are now auto-confirmed for users with more than 50 edits and account age 4 days: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46461 * Do you need old-style interwiki links for a sister project for example? http://toolserver.org/~legoktm/cgi-bin/wikidata/copypaste.py is for you * The Wikimedia Foundation applied as a mentoring organisation for Google Summer of Code again. We have proposed some Wikidata projects for students to take up if the Foundation is accepted again: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GSoC At least 2 other organisations that applied also propose Wikidata ideas. More details on that once we know which organisations are accepted. * Denny hacked together a tree of life based on data from Wikidata: http://simia.net/treeoflife/ * Wikidata was added to wikipulse http://wikipulse.herokuapp.com/ * A template to retrieve data from Wikidata if no local value is set: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8478926 = Did you know? = * If you need to merge two items http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Merge explains how = Open Tasks for You = * See note at the end of this weekly summary * Help test qualifiers (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Data_model_primer#Qualifiers - see also example statements there) on http://wikidata-test-repo.wikimedia.de/wiki so we can roll it out with the next release * Did you file a bug report for Wikidata or did someone else do it for you? Please take a minute to check if it is still valid. (Thanks for filing it btw!) * Add some missing descriptions to those items with the same label? http://toolserver.org/~magnus/wd_terminator.php?list * Hack on one of these: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&ke… Anything to add? Please share! :) Could I have 2 mins of your time? As I’ll be working on some other projects for Wikimedia Germany as well from now on the time I can spend on Wikidata will be reduced. This means I’ll have to figure out what is useful to spend time on. If you’re reading this could you let me know for example on this discussion page: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikidata/Status_updates/2013_03_29 ? Also if you have ideas how to improve the weekly summaries please post them. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 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] Fwd: [Ops] site issues yesterday - jobqueue and wikidata
by Greg Grossmeier 29 Mar '13

29 Mar '13

Hello all, This is Asher's writeup of the jobqueue disruption that happened yesterday afternoon Pacific time. He's not on this list, so please keep him in the cc: if you want him to see your message. Greg ----- Forwarded message from Asher Feldman <afeldman(a)wikimedia.org> ----- > Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 11:27:13 -0700 > From: Asher Feldman <afeldman(a)wikimedia.org> > To: Operations Engineers <ops(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: [Ops] site issues yesterday - jobqueue and wikidata > > We had two brief site disruptions yesterday, one in the afternoon that was > fairly major but brief (12:40-12:43pm PST) and another that was less severe > around 11pm. Both were jobqueue related; the first incident was suspected > to be triggered by the wikidata change publisher and the second incident > points more strongly in that direction. > > As far as what happened - the current mysql jobqueue implementation is way > too costly. In the last 24 hours, 75% of all queries that take over 450ms > to run on the enwiki master are related to the jobqueue and all major > actions result in replicated writes. It's 58% of all query execution time > when not looking at over the slow threshold. If 1 million refreshlinks > jobs are queued as quickly as possible without paying attention to > replication lag, say hello to replication lag. Mediawiki depends on > reading from slaves to scale and avoids lagged ones. If all slaves are > lagged, the master is used for everything, and if this happens to enwiki, > the site falls over. > > The wikidata change propagator inserts ChangeNotification jobs into local > wiki queues in batches of 1000. The execution of one change job can result > in many additional refreshLinks jobs being enqueued. Just prior the the > meldown, the wikidata propagator inserted around 7000 jobs into enwiki. > That resulted in around 200k refreshlinks jobs getting inserted in a single > minute, and around 1.2 million over a slightly longer time. It turns out > that trying to reparse 1/4 of enwiki as quickly as possible is a problem :) > > Aaron deployed a change last night ( > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/56572/1) that should throttle the > insertion of new refreshLinks jobs if the queue is large but not yet sure > if that's enough. We may also turn down the wikidata dispatcher batch > size, shut down one of its two dispatchers, or again limit how many > wikiadmin users can connect to the database to force a concurrency limit on > all things job queue related. > > The good thing is - the mysql jobqueue was identified as a scaling > bottleneck a while ago, and will be switching to redis very soon. It's > currently targeted with the release of wmf13, but we may be able to > backport to wmf12 and get this done sooner. > > In the interim, please do not release anything that will place new demands > on the jobqueue, such as echo, or any ramping up of wikidata. > > -Asher > _______________________________________________ > Ops mailing list > Ops(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/ops ----- End forwarded message ----- -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D |

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