That's really interesting, specially the paper "Freebase to Wikidata"
On 23 February 2016 at 03:54, Lydia Pintscher Lydia.Pintscher@wikimedia.de wrote:
Hey everyone :)
Here's your summary of what happened around Wikidata over the last week:
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Paper; From Freebase to Wikidata: The Great Migration
https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/44818.pdf
- Podcast: Leetkultur: Datenbanken kuratieren
http://1337kultur.de/2016/888/
- Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Ateliers_Wikidata#La_Paillasse.2C_25.2F02.2F2016
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- In order to deploy the ORES extension on Wikidata we need a few more
people to help with a labeling campaign https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Edit_labels. ORES will help us a lot with anti-vandalism fighting.
- Timeline of Zika papers
- A Wikidata/DBpedia Geography of Violence
http://nodegoat.net/blog.p/82.m/14/a-wikidatadbpedia-geography-of-violence
- The museum map now works for all countries
http://aron.ambrosiani.se/museums/
- Biblioteca Nacional de España has been added to Mix'n'match
https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match
- Wikidata BEACON https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/beacon.php
has been switched to use SPARQL
- Nice Wikidata-filled infobox used across different Wikipedias
https://twitter.com/JGH_JAEHNICK/status/700339428435304448
- Reasonator https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/ has been switched
to SPARQL and got new examples
Did you know?
- Newest properties
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: Strand orientation https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2548, perimeter https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2547, sidekick of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2546, bowling style https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2545, acceptable daily intake https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2542, operating area https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2541, Aarne–Thompson–Uther Tale Type Index https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2540, Nationalmuseum Sweden artwork ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2539, Nationalmuseum Sweden artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2538, Free Software Directory entry https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2537, Sandbox-External identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2536
- Newest WikiProjects
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects: Religions https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Religions, Award https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Award
- Query example: natural numbers
Development
- The in other projects sidebar has graduated from beta features and
is now turned on on all projects except Dutch Wikipedia. (They have their own hack.) This closes a wish that has been around since 2004 \o/ ( phabricator:T2708 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T2708)
- The new datatype for external identifiers is available and we are
converting existing identifiers https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-February/008247.html
- Input needed on caching for the query service
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-February/008231.html
- Added a new identifiers section in items. Everything with datatype
external identifier goes there now. Once we have all identifiers converted items should be easier to scan and understand because of the clearer structure.
- We have a patch upcoming that should reduce loading time of items
with a lot of sitelinks by 25%
- Fixed a bug where you could not add statements with external
identifier or mathematical expression datatype (phabricator:T127095 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127095)
- More groundwork for Commons (making it possible to have more
entities than just items and properties)
- Wikidata Query Service https://query.wikidata.org/ now supports
all commonly used prefixes https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/Indexing/RDF_Dump_Format#Prefixes_used by default, without explicit declaration.
- wikidata-sdk ships with a #SPARQL query url generator
https://github.com/maxlath/wikidata-sdk#sparql-queries
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R. Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/R8GRzX1eH0tb/#R.
- 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_items
- Help translate https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats
or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed
above.
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata
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