The Content Translation tool now automatically connects translated
articles to Wikidata. (Thanks Content Translation developers!) Previously translated but unconnected articles have been connected by a bot. (Thanks Amir!)
... And thanks also to Hoo and Aude for the help!
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
2015-06-07 18:16 GMT+03:00 Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de:
Hey folks :)
Here's what has been happening around Wikidata over the past week for you: Discussions
- RfC on usage of Wikidata on German-language Wikipedia
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/Nutzung_von_Daten_aus_Wikidata_im_ANR
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Past: Pigsonthewing and aude were at State of the Map US to talk
about Wikidata/OpenStreetMap cooperation and more
- Past: Lucie and Marius gave an intro to Wikidata at
Gulaschprogrammiernacht in Karlsruhe (slides https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_Workshop_-_GPN_2015.pdf)
- Upcoming: Office hour on IRC on 19th
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-June/006376.html
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The English-language Wikipedia has decided to deprecate Persondata
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28proposals%29/Archive_122#RfC:_Should_Persondata_template_be_deprecated_and_methodically_removed_from_articles.3F in favour of Wikidata.
- New tool by Magnus to make it easier to add references
http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=310
- The results are in for the Wikimedia Foundation's board election
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/05/board-election-results/. One name should sound familiar to you ;-)
- Addshore created new maps of the geocoordinates on Wikidata
https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/606086887820955649. More coming.
- Sylvain made an overview of the overlap in topics that the biggest
Wikipedias have https://gist.github.com/Ash-Crow/ae1a3ae8318994afe45d .
- Wikidata has passed German Wikipedia in number of items with images
(743850 dewp articles vs. 804885 items) - now only second to English-language Wikipedia.
- Catalan Wikipedia is moving Taxon IDs to Wikidata.
- Zolo did a comparison
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Zolo/Wikipedia_content of English/French/German/Chinese and Cebuano Wikipedias in terms of main types of articles. Biographies were compared by period, nationality and occupation.
- Connectivity
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/Connectivity statistics were updated.
Did you know?
- Newest properties: DMS V
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1930, Clinvar Accession Number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1929, Vaccine Ontology ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1928, VIOLIN ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1925, vaccine for https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1924, participating team https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1923, first line https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1922, URI pattern for RDF resource https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1921, Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1920, Ministry of Education of Chile school ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1919
- Newest gadgets: Mark as patrolled
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-Mark_as_patrolled by User:Petr Matas https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Petr_Matas
Development
- Italian Wikipedia and all remaining Wikisource projects now have
arbitrary access. The rollout will continue. The schedule for the next projects is at d:Wikidata:Arbitrary access https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Arbitrary_access.
- The Content Translation tool now automatically connects translated
articles to Wikidata. (Thanks Content Translation developers!) Previously translated but unconnected articles have been connected by a bot. (Thanks Amir!)
- Code review of the extensions written by a team of students to
improve the constraint reports and make it possible to automatically check our data against other databases. A first version will go live soon pending further codereview and fixes.
- Two new methods have been added to the lua library provided by
Wikibase: wikibase.resolvePropertyId https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase_Client/Lua#mw.wikibase.resolvePropertyId and wikibase.entity:getBestStatements https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase_Client/Lua#mw.wikibase.entity:getBestStatements .
- Further work on making unserializable values editable in the UI
(This can happen for example if a property is deleted.)
- Made the Wikidata JSON dumps available on Labs in the standard dumps
location there (/public/dumps).
- Worked on automatically creating a redirect when merging items via
the API.
- Rewrote the script that generates a map image based on
geocoordinates in Wikidata. (Result see above.)
- Released Wikibase DataModel 3.0
You can see all open bugs 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 fix these items
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:The_Game/Flagged_items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- 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, 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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