Hey everyone :)
Here's your summary of what has been happening around Wikidata over the
past week:
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Past: office hour on IRC with review of the past quarter, outlook on
the next and discussion (log
<http://bots.wmflabs.org/%7Ewm-bot/logs/%23wikimedia-office/20160121.txt>
)
- Right now: Magnus Manske Day <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10995651>!
Thank you for all you are doing to make Wikidata truly shine! We owe you a
ton.
- Upcoming: FOSDEM <https://fosdem.org/2016/>
- Upcoming: Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Australia and Indonesia
<https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Wikidata_Tour_Down_Under> by Andy Mabbett
(User:Pigsonthewing <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pigsonthewing>).
Also social meetups.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Magnus has a script that lets you drag statements from Wikipedia
articles <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew7oGEhtTPI>
- Changes in how authentication in MediaWiki is handled are being rolled
out (and more coming). [1]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-January/084501.html>
Ordinary users and gadgets / user scripts should not be affected but bots
may need to be adjusted. pywikibot already supports [2]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/OAuth> OAuth
authentication, though bot operators need to set that up for their bot.
- Littar won second prize in Danish Library Center app competition
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-January/008014.html>
- Wikidata Graph Builder
<https://angryloki.github.io/wikidata-graph-builder/>
- Help with matching up Wikipedia articles and Wikidata items. Here for
example women on dewiki.
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/duplicity.php?cat=Frau&mode=list&wiki=dewiki>
- You can give input on WMF's strategy
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Strategy/Community_consultation>
- Looking for small Wikipedias to try the ArticlePlaceholder
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-January/008004.html>
- Mix'n'match <https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/?> got new catalogs
(for example UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Reserves and FAST)
- Wikimedia Sverige got a $300.000 grant for the Connected Open Heritage
project on Wikidata
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2016-January/081294.html>
- French Wikipedia now has modified fr:Modèle:Bibliographie
<https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod%C3%A8le:Bibliographie> to use Wikidata
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: Ramsar Sites
Information Service ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2525>, SEED
number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2524>, victory
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2522>, female form of label
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2521>, UNESCO Biosphere Reserve
url <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2520>, Scope.dk person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2519>, Scope.dk film ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2518>, category for recipients
of this award <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2517>, Australian
Wetlands Database Australian Ramsar site number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2516>, costume designer
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2515>, Jamendo artist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2514>, Jamendo album ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2513>, spin-off
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2512>, MSK Gent work PID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2511>, National Discography of
Italian Song ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2510>, Movie
Walker film ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2509>, KINENOTE
film ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2508>, Corrigendum /
Erratum <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2507>, INSEE canton code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2506>, carries
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2505>, Norwegian municipality
number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2504>, Genealogical
Gazetteer (GOV) ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2503>,
classification
of <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2502>, results
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2501>, level below
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2500>, level above
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2499>, Biographical Dictionary
of Women <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2498>, Latvian
National Address Register identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2497>, Latvian toponymic names
database identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2496>, Latvian
cultural heritage register identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2494>, OM institution ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2493>, MTMT author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2492>,
Radzima.org ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2491>, page at OSTIS Belarus
Wiki <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2490>, page at hram.by
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2489>, page at Belarus Globe
website <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2488>, page at website
of Belarus Geocenter <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2487>, Fashion
Model Directory brand ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2486>, Fashion
Model Directory photographer ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2485>, NCES School ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2484>, NCES District ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2483>, SABR ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2482>,
Eliteprospects.com
player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2481>, IHO
Hydrographic Dictionary (S-32)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2480>, SPDX identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2479>, Railways Archive event ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2478>, TBRC Resource ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2477>, HNI person/institution ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2476>, NAVA ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2475>, CDLI ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2474>, Asset of Local Relevance
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2473>, ACMA Register of
Radiocommunications Licences Client Identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2472>,
Models.com ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2471>, Talouselämän vaikuttajat
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2470>
- Query example: List of countries by age of the head of government
<https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%20%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20p%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20q%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fqualifier%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20v%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fstatement%2F%3E%0A%23by%20Jura1%2C%202016-01-18%0A%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fage%20%3Fcountry%20%3FcountryLabel%20%3FhgovernmentLabel%20%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fcountry%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ3624078%20.%20%0A%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fcountry%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ3024240%7D%0A%20%20%3Fcountry%20p%3AP6%20%3Fstatement%20.%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%3Fstatement%20v%3AP6%20%3Fhgovernment%20.%20%0A%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fstatement%20q%3AP582%20%3Fx%20%7D%20%20%0A%20%20%3Fhgovernment%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fdob%20.%20BIND%28YEAR%28now%28%29%29-YEAR%28%3Fdob%29%20as%20%3Fage%29%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3Fage%3E%3D65%29%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%2Cen%22%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%7D%20%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fage%29%0A>
- Newest database reports: Missing properties by number of sitelinks/P26
(spouse: item or novalue)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/top_missing_properties_by_number_of_sitelinks/P26>
Development
- Investigated and fixed a critical bug in HHVM (phabricator:T124276
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124276>)
- Investigated language support in MediaWiki and Wikibase to allow more
languages in monolingual text and disallow some non-sense for
label/descriptions/aliases (phabricator:T78006
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T78006>)
- Fixed missing license info and broken links for Wikibase libraries on
Special:Version
- Working on improving scoring of search results on Wikidata, on
Special:Search
- Preparing to take the "in other projects" sidebar out of beta
features, with the Wikimedia Commons link going to the Commons category (
phabricator:T103102 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103102>,
phabricator:T94989 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T94989>)
- Amir and Aaron are turning ORES
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:ORES> into an extension to make
it easier for you to spot bad edits \o/
- Final touches on putting identifiers into their own section (
phabricator:T117421 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117421>)
- Switching the in other languages box to be expanded by default for new
people (phabricator:T92387 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92387>)
- More experimenting with adding an image to the header area (
phabricator:T119493 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119493>)
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
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Lydia Pintscher -
http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
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