Hello everyone,
Here is your weekly summary of what happened around Wikidata over the past
week.
Discussions
- Open request for adminship: ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%84_%D9%88%D9%87%D8%A8%D8%A9_%D8%AE%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%84_2>
- Closed request for comments:
- Category commons P373 and "Other sites"
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Category_commons_P373_and_%22Other_sites%22>
- Adopt Help:Classification as an official help page
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Adopt_Help:Classification_as_an_official_help_page>
- Review of "change datatype to monolingual" actions for some
properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Review_of_%22change_datatype_to_monolingual%22_actions_for_some_properties>
- Refining "part of"
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Refining_%22part_of%22>
- Are colors instance-of or subclass-of color
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Are_colors_instance-of_or_subclass-of_color>
- Wikidata:Notability overhaul
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Wikidata:Notability_overhaul>
- RfP voting eligibility
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/RfP_voting_eligibility>
- Standards for property proposal discussions
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Standards_for_property_proposal_discussions>
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- August 17-19 : VIVO conference <http://vivoconference.org>, see also the
keynote about collaboratively created, linked open knowledge
<http://www.slideshare.net/dartar/verifiable-linked-open-knowledge-that-anyone-can-edit>
.
- August 20-21 : the Wikiconvention in Paris. Check the notes taken
during the Wikidata workshop
<https://notes.wikimedia.fr/public_pad/WikiConvFR16_atelier-Wikidata>
- Why you should be paying attention to Wikidata and GLAM
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/08/23/wikidata-glam/>, on the Wikimedia
Foundation blog
- All your locations are belong to us
<http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=422> on Magnus' blog
- Paper: An Empirical Evaluation of Property Recommender Systems for
Wikidata and Collaborative Knowledge Bases
<http://www.opensym.org/os2016/proceedings-files/p503-zangerle.pdf>
- Paper: Managing and Consuming Completeness Information for Wikidata
Using COOL-WD
<http://completeness.inf.unibz.it/coolwd-screenshots/paper_cameraReady.pdf>
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Job offer : PHP software developer for Wikidata
<https://wikimedia.de/wiki/PHP_Software_Developer>, Wikimedia Deutschland
- Wikidata has now a stable interface policy
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Stable_Interface_Policy> to
guarantee the stability of the tools
- Enabling Wikidata data access in user language
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#enabling_Wikidata_data_access_in_user_language>
- COOL-WD
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-August/009388.html>
now includes a gadget to show completeness information in Wikidata
- Mix'n'Match <https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/?> can list entries
of some external databases, and allows users to match them against Wikidata
items. A new catalogue for ContentMine
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/?mode=catalog_details&catalog=229>
has been added!
- WikiShootMe <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikishootme/wsm3.html> has a
lot of new updates: OAuth-based image upload button, uploads to Commons and
adds to Wikidata item with one click, right-click on the map to add a
missing item, build-in Wikidata search, free images search (example for
Central Cambridge
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikishootme/wsm3.html?#lat=52.204016641356766&lng=0.12178301811218264&zoom=17&layers=wikidata_image,wikidata_no_image,wikipedia>
)
- Extracting Wikidata annotations to create DBpedia mappings
<https://www.mail-archive.com/dbpedia-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net/msg07829.html>
project during Google Summer of Code
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: develops from
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3094>, recovered by
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3093>, film crew member
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3092>, mount
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3091>, flight number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3090>, Flags of the World ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3089>, ID of Catalogue of Life
in Taiwan <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3088>, fiscal/tax
revenue <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3087>, speed limit
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3086>, qualifies for event
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3085>, freedom of panorama
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3084>
- Query examples:
- A famous Italian song, *Tanti Auguri
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16612223>* by Raffaella Carrà
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q266640>, states "Com'è bello far
l'amore da Trieste in giù" (literally, in English: "How great it
is to make
love from Trieste to below"). This is a query
<http://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FnorthernmostLat%20%3FnorthernmostLong%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20wd%3AQ546%20p%3AP1333%2Fpsv%3AP1333%2Fwikibase%3AgeoLatitude%20%3Fthreshold%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ747074%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP1332%2Fpsv%3AP1332%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AgeoLatitude%20%3FnorthernmostLat%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AgeoLongitude%20%3FnorthernmostLong%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%20.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%20%3FnorthernmostLat%20%3E%20%3Fthreshold%20%29%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%2Cit%22%20%7D%20.%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20%3Fnorthernmost>
to find out where you shouldn't make love.
- Common occupations of heads of state
<https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Foccupation%20%3FoccupationLabel%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fhead%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fcountry%20%28p%3AP6%2Fps%3AP6%29%7C%28p%3AP35%2Fps%3AP35%29%20%3Fhead.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fhead%20p%3AP39%2Fps%3AP39%2F%5E%28wdt%3AP1313%7Cwdt%3AP1906%29%20%3Fcountry.%20%7D%0A%20%20FILTER%28BOUND%28%3Fhead%29%29.%0A%20%20%3Fhead%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP106%20%3Foccupation.%0A%20%20MINUS%20%7B%20%3Foccupation%20wdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ82955.%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Foccupation%20%3FoccupationLabel%0AHAVING%28%3Fcount%20%3E%3D%2010%29%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29>
(source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/767156295019397120>
).
- Murderers by region in France
<https://io.datascience-paris-saclay.fr/exampleView.php?iri=https://io.datascience-paris-saclay.fr/query/Murderers_by_region_in_France>
(source <https://twitter.com/karima_rafes/status/767340360997675008>).
- Authors with a known location and an ORCID
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Fauthor%20%3FauthorLabel%20%3Forcid%20%3Flocation%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%3Fauthor%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP496%20%3Forcid%3B%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fauthor%20wdt%3AP551%2Fwdt%3AP625%20%3Flocation.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fauthor%20wdt%3AP19%2Fwdt%3AP625%20%3Flocation.%20%7D%0A%20%20FILTER%28BOUND%28%3Flocation%29%29.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D>
(source <https://twitter.com/Wikicite/status/766736970655477760>).
- Popular surnames among humans
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23Popular%20surnames%20among%20humans%0A%23defaultView%3ABubbleChart%0ASELECT%20%3Fsurname%20%3FsurnameLabel%20%3Fcount%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fsurname%20%28COUNT%28%3Fperson%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP734%20%3Fsurname.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fsurname%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29%0ALIMIT%20100>
(source <https://twitter.com/dmurygin/status/766660025188245505>).
- Movies that won all the Oscars they were nominated for
<https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Ffilm%20%3FfilmLabel%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Foscar%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%3Ffilm%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ11424%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP166%20%3Foscar%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP1411%20%3FnOscar.%0A%20%20wd%3AQ19020%20%5Ewdt%3AP31%20%3Foscar%2C%20%3FnOscar.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Ffilm%20%3FfilmLabel%0AHAVING%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Foscar%29%20%3E%3D%20COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3FnOscar%29%20%26%26%20%3Fcount%20%3E%201%29%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29%20%3FfilmLabel>
(source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/766410336069124096>
).
- Colors with multiple RGB statements
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ABubbleChart%0ASELECT%20%3Fcolor%20%3FcolorLabel%20%3Frgb%20%3Fcount%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fcolor%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Frgb%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%0A%20%20%20%20WHERE%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcolor%20wdt%3AP31%3F%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ1075%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP465%20%3Frgb.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fcolor%0A%20%20%20%20HAVING%28%3Fcount%20%3E%201%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fcolor%20wdt%3AP465%20%3Frgb.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3Fcolor>
(source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/765595157626494976>)
- Filmography of Jean Gabin
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ATimeline%0ASELECT%20%3FFilmLabel%20%3FFilm%20%3Fdate%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%3FFilm%20wdt%3AP161%20wd%3AQ23842%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP577%20%3Fdate.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22fr%22%20.%0A%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20%3Fdate>
(source <https://twitter.com/Coyau/status/765868900332494849>)
- Cities as big as Antwerp
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fcity%20%3FcityLabel%20%3Fpopulatie2%20%3Fcoor%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2FQ12892%3E%20wdt%3AP1082%20%3Fpopulatie%20.%0A%20%20%3Fcity%20wdt%3AP1082%20%3Fpopulatie2%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoor%20.%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28abs%28%3Fpopulatie%20-%20%3Fpopulatie2%29%20%3C%201000%29%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22nl%22%20%7D%0A%7D>
(source <https://twitter.com/andrawaag/status/766587127387791360>)
- Cities connected by the Trans-Mongolian and Trans-Siberian Railway
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Fcity%20%3FcityLabel%20%3Fcoordinates%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20VALUES%20%3Fhighway%20%7B%20wd%3AQ559037%20wd%3AQ58767%20%7D%20%0A%20%20%20%3Fhighway%20wdt%3AP2789%20%3Fcity%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fcity%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoordinates%20.%0A%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D>
(source <https://twitter.com/andrawaag/status/767477870646140928>)
- Histropedia timeline of Europeana280 artworks
<http://www.histropedia.com/showcase/wikidata-viewer.html?query=%23Europeana%20280%20Query%0ASELECT%20?work%20?workLabel%0A%28SAMPLE%28?inception%29%20as%20?inception%29%0A%28SAMPLE%28?precision%29%20as%20?precision%29%0A%28SAMPLE%28?instanceOfLabel%29%20as%20?instanceOf%29%0A%28SAMPLE%28?image%29%20as%20?image%29%0A%28COUNT%28?article%29%20as%20?rank%29%0A%0AWHERE%20%0A%7B%0A%09?work%20wdt:P608%20wd:Q20980830.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28?work%20%21%3D%20wd:Q133575%29%0A%20%20%09?work%20p:P571%20?inceptionStatement%20.%0A%20%20%20%09?inceptionStatement%20psv:P571%20?inceptionStatementNode%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20?inceptionStatementNode%20wikibase:timeValue%20?inception%20.%0A%20%20%09?inceptionStatementNode%20wikibase:timePrecision%20?precision%20%0A%20%20%09OPTIONAL%20%7B?work%20wdt:P31%20?instanceOfItem%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20?instanceOfItem%20rdfs:label%20?instanceOfLabel%20filter%20%28lang%28?instanceOfLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B?work%20wdt:P18%20?image%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B?article%20schema:about%20?work%7D%0A%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase:label%20%7B%0A%09%20%20%20%20bd:serviceParam%20wikibase:language%20%22en%22%20.%0A%09%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20?work%20?workLabel%20%0A%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%20%28?rank%29&url=work&title=workLabel&from=inception&fromPrecision=precision&imageUrl=image&colourCodeBy=instanceOf&threshold=1&view=timeline>
(source <https://twitter.com/Wittylama/status/766590717259046913>)
- Newest gadgets: Sort the statements on items
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#New_gadget_to_sort_the_statements_on_items>,
prefill "access date" with current date
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#New_gadget:_currentDate>
- New templates: {{Belgium properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:Belgium_properties>}}, {{France
properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:France_properties>}},
{{Italy properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:Italy_properties>}}, {{Spain
properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:Spain_properties>}}.
Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar
template for your country or region. Also, add P17
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P17>-statements to property
entities.
- Newest database reports: list of riders and their horse
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Q5/lists/riders_and_their_horse>
Development
- The Wikidata team continues working on the concepts for the automatic
list generation <https://twitter.com/simulo/status/766717877047193600>
- Enable allow data access in user language will come on Wikidata soon
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T122672>
- Menus are now internationalised on the query service
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136058>
- Clarified error message when adding a URL without a protocol
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138365>
- Created a gadget to try out global sort order in items
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129244>
- Fixed a bug where the input field for a value was not loaded
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115267>
- Worked on the interface stability policy
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142084>
- Made possible to create mediainfo entity by adding a statement
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140760>
- Worked on showing from which items a given Wikipedia article uses data
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103051>
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/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Showcase_items>
- Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats>
or proofread pages in your own language!
- Help merge identical items
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge> across
Wikimedia projects.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed
above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview>
- proposals
needing attention
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Attention_needed>
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers, Léa
--
Léa Lacroix
Community Communication Manager for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
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 27/029/42207.
