Hey everyone :)
Here's what's 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>
- Wikidata makes Wikipedia a database. Let the fun begin
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/25/wikidata_turns_the_world_into_a_database/>
- Bringing the world's cultural heritage online
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/02/23/cultural-heritage/>
- In search of French towns on Wikidata
<http://blog.ash.bzh/a-la-recherche-des-communes-francaises-sur-wikidata/>
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikiversity is now supported by Wikidata as well. Language links can
be maintained on Wikidata now. Access to the data will follow. Welcome,
sister!
- Wikidata now has cross-wiki notifications as a beta feature. You can
enable it in your preferences. Once enabled you will see notifications you
received on the other Wikimedia wikis.
- A major German newspaper used Wikidata's data for their Oscar coverage
<http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/kino/academy-awards-die-oscars-von-1929-bis-heute-12820119.html>
- Amir is making progress on vandalism detection but needs your help. He
also set up an IRC feed for unpatrolled edits with a high likelihood of
being vandalism.
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-February/008313.html>
- Property:P1367 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1367> ("BBC
Your Paintings artist-ID") has become "Art UK artist identifier".
Identifier values were replaced.
- The number of claims on each item is to be included in the "page
property" database table. For some items where it had been missing, it was
recently added. This leads to improved coverage by database reports:
without claims by site
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/without_claims_by_site>
.
- Mix'n'match <https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match> has new catalogs:
Artists of the Nationalmuseum in Sweden and Encyclopædia Britannica
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: Köppen climate
classification <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2564>, superhuman
feature or ability <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2563>, married
name <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2562>, name
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2561>, GPU
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2560>, Wikidata usage
instructions <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2559>, autores.uy
database id <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2558>, stroke
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2557>, bore
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2556>, fee
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2555>, production designer
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2554>, in work
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2553>, quantitative metrical
pattern <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2552>, used metre
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2551>, recording or performance
of <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2550>, Italian Senate of the
Republic ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2549>
- Query example: battles
<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%20rdfs%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2F01%2Frdf-schema%23%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Flocation%20%3FlocationL%20%3Fcoords%20%3Fpartof%20%3FpartofL%20%3Fpointintime%20%3Fstarttime%20%3Fendtime%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ178561%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP276%20%3Flocation%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Flocation%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FlocationL%20filter%20%28lang%28%3FlocationL%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%20.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Flocation%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoords%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP361%20%3Fpartof%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fpartof%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FpartofL%20filter%20%28lang%28%3FpartofL%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP585%20%3Fpointintime%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP580%20%3Fstarttime%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP582%20%3Fendtime%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20%3FitemLabel%0A>
Development
- Wikidata Query Service <http://query.wikidata.org> has been upgraded
to Blazegraph 2.0
- Wikidata Query Service now allows to view images linked from Commons
and display image galley if the query result has images. Example: Paintings
by Gustav Klimt
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/Indexing/SPARQL_Query_Examples#Paintings_by_Gustav_Klimt>
- More groundwork for Commons support
- Fixed a bug with slashes in URLs for identifiers (phabricator:T128078
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128078>)
- Fixed a bug in Special:NewItem which prevented submission of the form (
phabricator:T128075 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128075>)
- More performance work
- In diffs for mathematical expressions we're now also showing the TeX
source to make it possible to see changes that do not affect the rendering
of the formula (phabricator:T125712
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125712>)
- More work on cleaning up languages for multilingual text values and
labels/descriptions/aliases
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.
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