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[Wikidata-l] weekly summary #20
by Lydia Pintscher 24 Aug '12

24 Aug '12

Heya folks :) Here's your update on what's hot in and around Wikidata for the week before 2012-08-24. Fancy a wiki version? Here you go: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2012_08_24 = Development = * Pywikidata, developed by Joan Creus, was released \o/ http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2012-August/000979.html https://github.com/jcreus/pywikidata * Updated demo system http://wikidata-test.wikimedia.de/ * The repository part of the demo system had — believe it or not — too many entries from user and bot activity, apparently making it difficult to find a page to create. We truncated and filled it with about 100 chemical elements again * Started to implement new layout: this includes restructuring DOM and introducing an action column (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/UI_Layout_Concept#Phase…) * Started refactoring of selenium tests layout * Finished most of the core of the phase 2 data model implementation * Created abstract storage interface for the repository * Started generalizing the secondary storage to work for all types of entities * Picked up work on the ContentHandler again, addressing concerns voiced by WMF staff and tying up loose ends https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38622 * Started work on edit collision detection, will be changed as we observed unexpected side effects * The new API module for linking titles is live * Launched a demo client site in Hebrew: http://wikidata-test-client-he.wikimedia.de/ * Various internationalization improvements and fixes * Revising the Special:ItemByTitle page on the repository * Special:ItemByLabel will become Special:ItemDisambiguation 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… = Discussions/Press = * Collecting ideas about how to prevent unwanted edits http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Preventing_unwanted_edits * Video of the Wikidata panel at Wikimania has been published http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXQ3GC7O2mc (the talks will hopefully follow soon) * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/New_sites_system = Events = see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events * Campus Party * upcoming: FrOSCon * upcoming: WikiCon * announced next office hours (5th and 6th of Sept.) * still looking for support for our SxSW panel: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/3710 = Open Tasks for You = * for possible coding tasks check https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer&keywords… * check the needs-input box on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata and see where you can give feedback 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] patch triage on Wed., 5 September
by Sumana Harihareswara 24 Aug '12

24 Aug '12

It would be great if the Wikidata team participated in this, especially those trying to build their code review expertise! Thanks, Sumana -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] organize a bug triage Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 16:26:00 -0400 From: Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah(a)wikimedia.org> Organization: Wikimedia Foundation To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> CC: matanya <matanya(a)moses.co.il>, Rusty Burchfield <gicodewarrior(a)gmail.com> On 08/22/2012 03:42 AM, matanya wrote: > Hi again, > > I have started an etherpad here: > > http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/BugTriage-2012-09 > > Please help improve and comment on date/time/bugs choosen > > matanya Thanks for setting this up, Matanya! I've publicized this 5 September patch triage to follow a bit more of https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_Management/Meeting_prep . Since this is a patch review triage, you might be interested in using Rusty Burchfield's (gicode) automated testing of patches for a little more information (code at https://github.com/GICodeWarrior/patch-tester , 16 August run at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ah_71HHl7qa7dGtvSms3TGpHQU9NU2… , explanation at http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2011-November/056273.html ) -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

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[Wikidata-l] Pywikidata 0.1: a Python interface to Wikidata's API
by Joan Creus 24 Aug '12

24 Aug '12

Hi! After some development, I think there's a version of pywikidata which works well enough to work with. It is still missing some features; however, creating items, getting them by id, and saving them is covered. You can find it here (https://github.com/jcreus/pywikidata)<https://github.com/jcreus/pywikidata>. The file example.py<https://github.com/jcreus/pywikidata/blob/master/example.py>includes some examples of how it works. Finally, in case you find bugs you're welcome to report them<https://github.com/jcreus/pywikidata/issues>, even more to send a pull request ;). Pending things include handling permission errors (which some time ago I couldn't trigger, I'll try now), or getting items by interwiki. Thanks a lot, and sorry for my English! Joan Creus

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[Wikidata-l] Wikimania videos!
by Katie Filbert 21 Aug '12

21 Aug '12

Enjoy :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXQ3GC7O2 Technology and Infrastructure V: Data will be uploaded ASAP and we're sending the files to Ashburn data center to get them on to Wikimedia Commons soon. 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.

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[Wikidata-l] preventing unwanted edits
by Lydia Pintscher 20 Aug '12

20 Aug '12

Heya folks :) Data in Wikidata needs to be reliable. At the same time the project needs to be as open as possible to achieve its goal. We already have a few ideas but I am sure so do you. I started a page for brainstorming about measures we can take to discourage unwanted edits (or making it easy to spot them) while at the same time not giving up on the openness of the project. Please add your ideas to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Preventing_unwanted_edits 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] please remove me from this list...
by Israel krul 17 Aug '12

17 Aug '12

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[Wikidata-l] weekly summary #19
by Lydia Pintscher 17 Aug '12

17 Aug '12

Hey folks :) Here is your fresh serving of Wikidata news for the week before 2012-08-17. The wiki version is here if you prefer that: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2012_08_17 = Development = * Installed a lot of extensions on the demo system http://wikidata-test-client.wikimedia.de/wiki/Special:Version Let us know if any important ones are missing. * Going to old versions and undoing changes works as expected * The history and recent changes show useable comments now * The Universal Language Selector is installed on the demo and replaces the Stick to that Language extension * Updated Wikibase client code for fetching and displaying links from a shared (with the repo) database table, and optionally overriding them with interwiki links from local wikitext. * Improved internationalization messages * Added selenium tests for undo, rollback, restore, diffs, old revisions, history and a few more * Setup MAC to be part of our selenium grid testing environment * Fixed many little bugs in the UI, including cross browser issues * Improved modularity of client side caching and generalized it to work with any type of entity rather than just items. * Wrote up interfaces for snaks, statements and related stuff for the second phase of Wikidata See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Current_sprint for what we’re working on next. You can follow our commits here: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(status:open+project:mediawiki/extension… and view the ones awaiting review here: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions… = Discussions/Press = * Internationalization, localization and co in preparation for deployment discussions on a rtl-language Wikipedia * Some mentions of Wikidata in relation to a re-design proposal that became pretty popular: http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/design-und-daten-wikipedia-soll-schoener… = Events = see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events * upcoming: Campus Party * upcoming: FrOSCon * We submitted a SxSW proposal. It’d be awesome if you’d vote for us. http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/3710 = Other Noteworthy Stuff = * Logo is settled and all good now after some modifications: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo-en.svg and http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-logo.svg We’ll be making stickers and stuff next. = Open Tasks for You = * If you want to code check https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer&keywords… * Help spread the word about Wikidata in your Wikipedia if it’s not being talked about there yet. * Help translate the most important pages on meta and the software on translatewiki.net 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] changing wikidata-item properties with multilingual labels
by Gregor Hagedorn 17 Aug '12

17 Aug '12

A city has a Wikipedia page and a corresponding Wikidata-item-page. One of the item properties is Property:City_mayor. If the mayor changes, and both have their own pages/items (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eberhard_Diepgen to http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Wowereit for http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin), changing the mayor would mean to disconnect/replace the item to item property. The change would be clean and logical with respect to translated labels. However, where the city mayor is not a well known person (smaller cities), the City_mayor property is mostly likely a string literal. Replacing the string (name) for the mayor in this case would require to empty ALL translations/transliterations in all other languages. Unfortunately, the system cannot really know whether an update of a translated label is the result of a correction (person did not change) or occurs as a result of changing the label. The design of the UI should make this situation as transparent to editors as possible. It may help to provide two edit-buttons for language-sensitive string literals: [edit translations] [edit new value] (or [replace value] ?) In the second case, all existing translations would be blanked. Probably more or better ideas can be found... :-) Gregor

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Re: [Wikidata-l] watching Wikidata changes that affect my wiki
by dr.cueppers.gmbh＠arcor.de 14 Aug '12

14 Aug '12

In cases of changing an old name by a new name a second problem will be the fact: For the old name may exist an article in some of the wikis - what means, there the old name is [[Adam]], but the new has no article and must be Eva, but not [[Eva]]: To change this correct, always human intervention is necessary. Dr.cueppers Dr. Cüppers GmbH Hübnerstraße 2 33104 Paderborn 05254 935700

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Re: [Wikidata-l] thoughts about a plan for enabling interlanguage linking
by Snaevar 14 Aug '12

14 Aug '12

Pywikipedia is not the only software that bots use, no. MerlIwBot has its own Java framework and does not use pywikipedia whatsoever. On most projects though, pywikipedia is used by 80-99% of the bots. Bináris and Andre Engels have volunteered to make pywikipedia compatible with wikidata. Bináris said on the 24th of July that he is busy, in a response from Lydia to translate the Wikibase extensions into Hungarian. Since no progress has been made on that on translatewiki, I am going to assume that he still is busy.

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