Wikidata

wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org

4 participants
4159 discussions

[Wikidata-l] weekly summary #37
by Lydia Pintscher 21 Dec '12

21 Dec '12

Heya folks :) Here's what's been happening around Wikidata over the last week. The wiki version is at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2012_12_21 As you can see it is getting quiet here in the office as everyone is leaving for the holidays. = Development = * Deployed fix for https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42956 on wikidata.org that caused problems when using the site in French in Firefox * Updated demo system http://wikidata-test.wikimedia.de/ * Fixed some bugs in wbsearchentities * Removed empty aliases structure from wbsearchentities * Heavy Selenium testing of statements UI * Improved overall usability and responsiveness of the statements UI * Implemented remove functionality for statements in the UI * Refactored and added tests for language links handler in the client * Bug fixes in the client * Improved SiteLinkTable class in WikibaseLib and added tests * Started work to improve AbuseFIlter integration * Added logic to find all referenced entities for a given set of claims * Added serialization of referenced claims to output of entity pages * Diff Extension: Split off diffing code from MapDiff and ListDiff to dedicated Differ classes * Diff Extension: Added dedicated patcher classes, which are used for the getApplicableDiff functionality See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Current_sprint for what we’re working on next. 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 = * Representing values http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Representing_values http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2012-December/001406.html (including a prototype to try out the current state of discussions: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2012-December/001491.html) * Wikidata: People And Bots Busy Filling The System In Phase One http://semanticweb.com/wikidata-people-and-bots-busy-filling-the-system-in-… = Events = see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events * Office hours (logs at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2012-12-18a and http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2012-12-18b) * Wikidata talk as part of a lecture on knowledge management in Karlsruhe * upcoming: 29C3 = Other Noteworthy Stuff = * Announced the expected date for deployment on the Hungarian Wikipedia http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#next_steps_for_the_first… * Wikidata has been added to the Wikimedia stats site: http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikispecial/EN/TablesWikipediaWIKIDATA.htm * Video of the Wikidata talks at Wikimania 2012 is online now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05HxNwxiNZ0 = Open Tasks for You = * Give input to the representing values discussion * Hack on one of https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&ke… Anything to add? Please share! :) Have a great holiday season. 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.

2 1

[Wikidata-l] Wikimania videos of Wikidata sessions
by Katie Filbert 20 Dec '12

20 Dec '12

Finally, we have the rest of the Wikimania videos available, including this one of the Wikidata panel in the "sister projects" session: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi8Yf9c3wXg (starts at 22:45) The other Wikidata session is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05HxNwxiNZ0 Cheers, Katie -- Katie Filbert Wikidata Developer Wikimedia Germany e.V. | NEW: Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Phone (030) 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Germany - Society for the Promotion of free knowledge eV Entered in the register of Amtsgericht Berlin-Charlottenburg under the number 23 855 as recognized as charitable by the Inland Revenue for corporations I Berlin, tax number 27/681/51985.

1 0

[Wikidata-l] next Wikidata office hours
by Lydia Pintscher 18 Dec '12

18 Dec '12

Heya :) On 18 December Denny and I will do the next round of Wikidata office hours. Everyone with questions about Wikidata is welcome. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events#IRC_office_hours 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.

2 2

[Wikidata-l] Official launch of Wikivoyage
by James Heilman 15 Dec '12

15 Dec '12

Hey All We are looking at Jan 15, 2013 as an official launch date for Wikivoyage. We are looking at options for both on wiki and off wiki media outreach. There is still work to be done with respect to moving images over from the old site but hopefully things will be good enough. We are a wiki of course which means all are invited to fix any issues they see. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com

1 0

[Wikidata-l] weekly summary #36
by Lydia Pintscher 14 Dec '12

14 Dec '12

Heya folks :) Here's your summary what happened around Wikidata over the last week. You can find the wiki version at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2012_12_14 = Development = * Deployed new code on wikidata.org. All changes can be found at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FWikibase.g… * Updated demo system http://wikidata-test.wikimedia.de * http://test2.wikipedia.org now uses wikidata.org for getting language links and wikidata.org edits affecting the existing articles on test2 show up in RecentChanges (if they are not hidden) * Statements (think of “population: 2.000.000” and similar things) are taking shape in the interface. They are still pretty buggy though at this point. * It is now possible to link to images on Wikimedia Commons in a statement (think of “image: sundown_at_the_beach.png” for example) * Links are now protocol-relative (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42534) * No longer possible to create new items and set labels when database is set to read-only * Added more tests to the GeoCoordinate parser * Make use of EditEntity in removeclaims API * Removed many singletons to reduce global state * Made SpecialSetLabel work with non-item entities * Improved settings system * Improved options of ValueFormatters * Improved options of ValueParsers * Moved label+description uniqueness check out of transaction to avoid deadlocks and changed it to only be enforced for edits changing any violating values * Fixed serialization of SiteArray * ~=[,,_,,]:3 * Had to fix reporting of aliases in wbsearchentities again * Implemented integration of baserevids for statements UI API calls for editconflict detection for statements/claims/snaks * Universal Language Selector fallback fix for Selenium tests * Report URL to entity in wbsearchentites API module * Moved the demo system to a larger server * Fixed several bugs in Statements user interface, most notably, adding Statements to existing sections and layout fixes * Added wikibase API module on the client to provide information about the associated repo (e.g. url, script path, article path) * A bunch of messages for autocomments were fixed (they are automatically added as an edit summary for edits on items and co in Wikidata - for example: “‎Changed [en] description: Finnish rock band”) See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Current_sprint for what we’re working on next. 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 = * “Wikidata: Summing the sum of human knowledge“ http://tech2.in.com/features/science-and-technology/wikidata-summing-the-su… = Events = see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events * WhereCamp * Wikidata talk as part of a lecture on knowledge management in Karlsruhe * upcoming: 29C3 * upcoming: Office hours = Other Noteworthy Stuff = * More pretty Wikidata artwork: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_logo_using_images.png = Open Tasks for You = * Want to help me write the next weekly summary? Let me know. * Hack on one of https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&ke… 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.

1 0

Re: [Wikidata-l] Database rights
by Harry Burt 13 Dec '12

13 Dec '12

(sorry, don't have the proper subject line to hand) Are proper lawyers being consulted about this (database rights)? The quantity of unofficial speculation on this list is in good faith but still somewhat concerning... Harry -- Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250)

6 5

[Wikidata-l] Wikidata license (was "Introduction and some questions on Wikidata")
by Helder . 12 Dec '12

12 Dec '12

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Marco Fleckinger <marco.fleckinger(a)wikipedia.at> wrote: > (...) > First of all the priority lies on data already present on Wikipedia. Wikidata should not be a data storage for everything structured in the world, so we should first start to transfer data already present on Wikipedia to Wikidata. > (...) Wouldn't that kind of transfer be a violation of the CC-BY-SA license used on Wikipedia, considering it is not compatible[1] with CC0? Best regards, Helder [1] http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Frequently_Asked_Questions#Can_I_combine_tw…

15 35

[Wikidata-l] Test system is back
by Silke Meyer 11 Dec '12

11 Dec '12

Hi! The demo server is back, on an Ubuntu Precise now. MediaWiki: 1.21alpha (0752ba7) PHP: 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.4+wmf1 (apache2handler) MySQL: 5.5.28-0ubuntu0.12.04.3 As before, there are 3 instances: http://wikidata-test-repo.wikimedia.de http://wikidata-test-client.wikimedia.de http://wikidata-test-client-he.wikimedia.de Best, Silke -- Silke Meyer Systemadministratorin und Projektassistenz Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 260 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.

1 0

[Wikidata-l] deployed new code
by Lydia Pintscher 10 Dec '12

10 Dec '12

Heya :) Just a quick note that we deployed new code to wikidata.org. All changes can be found at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FWikibase.g… We're still working on getting test2.wikipedia.org to properly work with Wikidata. Please let me know of any problems you see that might be related to the update. 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.

3 3

[Wikidata-l] Suggestions
by Romaine Wiki 10 Dec '12

10 Dec '12

Hello all, Wikidata has grown rapidly the past weeks, a community of users is active now, and we are just in the beginning of Wikidata, but still already tremendous work already has been done with all the items with interwiki's added. We all have picked up Wikidata enthusiastic, and I think we all want to get further with it very much. The project fits the needs of the communities very much. My personal background is to translate and explain the technical stuff to users on wiki's, and return the feedback to the developers, as most users consider bugzilla and technical things far far far away. The weekly summary is great to have, but for more transparency it would be nice to have a time line, or otherwise a clear (expected) date when the next big change will be (like with the deployment of new MediaWiki versions). Reading the e-mails and reading on meta, I almost only see the technical changes which are coming, but for the communities on Wikidata and Wikipedia's it would be great to know when the next step in content adding will be possible. Also it would be nice to have a list of those things that will be possible in the future, but have no date yet to be implemented. The reason for this is double: * On local communities I notice a lot of stories, fables and myths of how Wikidata will be in future, but often with no ground. * Also there are a lot of things that would have potential on Wikidata. Yes sure, I can add it to Wikidata:Contact_the_development_team but already my last comment is archived somewhere and out of sight. I think it would be good to make clear which specific content additions will be possible in future. I think we should have a list which states what content will be in next deployment and what content will be later on. I read somewhere about Link_FA, Link_GA, but also IMDb, IBDB, VIAF, but also of course Commons. A lot others are too on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Authority_control Currently VIAF is in discussion and willing to be added on some wiki's, but with Wikidata it can be done much easier. Any plans for it? Romaine

10 9

Jump to page:

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

Wikidata