Hey folks :)
Here's what's been happening around Wikidata over the past week:
Discussions
- Reinforcement of data analysis before any modification of the DB https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Bots#Reinforcement_of_data_analysis_before_any_modification_of_the_DB
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- cooperation between free content projects http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Polyglot/diary/35587 - A case is made http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2015/08/wikidata-quality-probability-and-set.html to concentrate our quality efforts on the differences between Wikidata and other sources - Ongoing: Several team members are attending the Chaos Communication Camp https://events.ccc.de/camp/2015/wiki/Main_Page. - Upcoming: SmartDataConference http://smartdata2015.dataversity.net/sessionPop.cfm?confid=91&proposalid=8067 - A Comparative Survey of DBpedia, Freebase, OpenCyc, Wikidata, and YAGO http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/system/files/swj1141.pdf
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata needs your vote! https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-August/006856.html It only takes a minute. - WikiProject Sum of all Paintings https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_sum_of_all_paintings reached the milestone of 100.000 paintings. Congrats! - Arbitrary access https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Arbitrary_access is now available on another ~250 Wikipedias]. - See d:Wikidata talk:Arbitrary access#Use cases: testing modules and templates https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Arbitrary_access#Use_cases:_testing_modules_and_templates for two general use cases for arbitrary access on Wikipedia's regression testing of Wikidata-related modules and templates and testing infoboxes with Wikidata content. - List of articles on English Wikipedia without a Wikidata item https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/duplicity.php?wiki=enwiki&mode=list (also works for other projects) - You have a bunch of names etc. and want to find Wikidata items with those labels/aliases? Try relabel! https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/relabel.php - SourcererBot is adding lots of references to existing statements on several thousand items. - Mix-n-Match https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/ has new catalogs including the National Library of Australia. - Deaths at Wikipedia https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Deaths_at_Wikipedia are a series of reports comparing items at Wikidata with death-by-year-categories of Wikipedia. For the years since 2000, only about 15% of items at Wikidata lack d:Property:P570 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P570 (date of death). - 93% of items about people have a gender set now. - Want to make both Wikidata and Inventaire http://inventaire.io better? You can help by finding those books' authors. https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/?action=noauthor
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: Find A Grave cemetery ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2025, German cattle breed ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2024, Erdős number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2021, worldfootball.net ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2020, AllMovie artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2019 - Newest tools https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Tools/External_tools: Suggestor http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=338
Development
- Rolled out arbitrary access https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Arbitrary_access to about 250 Wikipedias including German, French and Japanese. More to come in a few days. - Worked more on quantities. Looks like we'll have it on a demo system for you to try a first version within the next two weeks. - Bene* is joining us for a month as an intern. Welcome! - References are now hidden while loading the page, speeding up page load time - First commit to the ArticlePlaceholder https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ArticlePlaceholder extension - Expensive parser functions now count each entity only once - Released a new version of the DataModelServices component and started using it http://www.bn2vs.com/blog/2015/08/11/wikibase-datamodel-services/ - Started working on phasing out the wb_entity_per_page table. It will be kept around and updated for some time to allow tool owners to migrate. - The Wikibase code base now fullfills all of MediaWiki’s PHPCS coding standards - Added property IDs to Special:ListProperties - Did a lot of bug triage on Phabricator
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