Hey folks :)
Here's your summary of what's been happening around Wikidata over the past
week.
Discussions
- Closed request for comments: Reforming the property creation process
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Reforming_the_property_creation_process>,
Improve bot policy for data import and data modification
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Improve_bot_policy_for_data_import_and_data_modification>
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Past: office hour on IRC (log
<http://bots.wmflabs.org/%7Ewm-bot/logs/%23wikimedia-office/20160412.txt>
)
- Past: ISB2016 (slides
<https://figshare.com/articles/Leveraging_Wikidata_for_crowd_curation/3171427>
)
- Past: WWW2016 - Freebase to Wikidata migration (slides
<https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1UtgrHwBLM65T5hmw8udTmgsO9wtphX_09FpQYr09Ie8/edit#slide=id.g6571e2aaf_0_95>
)
- Past: CUNY Wikidata intro (slides
<http://academicworks.cuny.edu/lacuny_events/9/>)
- National Library of Wales: Our Wikidata Visiting Scholar
<https://www.llgc.org.uk/blog/?p=11246>
- New TSRI Project Helps Researchers Build a Biomedical Knowledgebase
<https://www.scripps.edu/news/press/2016/20160414su.html>
- Yle <3 Wikidata - using Wikidata for concept tagging
<http://wikimedia.fi/2016/04/15/yle-3-wikidata/>
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- ArticlePlaceholder is going live on the first small Wikipedias on May
11th and could use your help
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-April/008515.html>
- Wikimedia Commons will get the arbitrary access feature on April 26th
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-April/008519.html>
- The Europeana Art History Challenge
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Europeana_Art_History_Challenge>
has started
- Magnus made a handy user-script for duplicating items
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/duplicate_item.js>,
for when a new item has similar property values to an existing one. See for
instance, this set of edits
<https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q23823457&diff=321906326&oldid=321905761>
for a second version of an artwork.
- Listeria now has a status page
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/listeria/botstatus.php>
- PetScan has now the option "Has no statements"
<https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?language=en&project=wikipedia&ns%5B0%5D=1&wpiu_no_statements=1&interface_language=en&active_tab=tab_wikidata>
to find items without statements for a category at Wikipedia
(sample: en:Category:United
States geography stubs
<https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?language=en&project=wikipedia&categories=United%20States%20geography%20stubs&ns%5B0%5D=1&depth=1&show_redirects=no&wpiu_no_statements=1&interface_language=en&al_commands=P17%3AQ30>)
or an entire language version (sample: "sowiki"
<https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?language=so&project=wikipedia&ns%5B0%5D=1&show_redirects=no&wikidata_source_sites=sowiki&wikidata_label_language=so&wpiu_no_statements=1&interface_language=en&active_tab=tab_other_sources>
).
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: production
statistics <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2746>, DNZB
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2745>, PASE name
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2744>, this zoological name is
coordinate with <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2743>, Australian
Geological Provinces Database Identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2742>, Tate artist identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2741>, ResearchGate institute ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2740>
- Newest WikiProjects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>:
d:Wikidata:WikiProject Museums
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Museums>
- Query examples: items named after their shape
<https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Flabel%20%3Flang%20%3Fitem%20%3Fshape%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fshape%20%28SAMPLE%28LANG%28%3Flabel%29%29%20AS%20%3Flang%29%0A%20%20%20%20WHERE%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1419%20%3Fshape.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Flabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fshape%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Flabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3Flabel%29%20IN%20%28%22en%22%2C%20%22fr%22%29%29.%20%23%20this%20doesn%E2%80%99t%20change%20the%20result%20%E2%80%93%20if%20you%20comment%20it%20out%2C%20you%E2%80%99ll%20get%20the%20same%20four%20items%2C%20just%20with%20different%20languages%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fshape%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1419%20%3Fshape.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Flabel.%0A%20%20%3Fshape%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Flabel.%0A%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3Flabel%29%20%3D%20%3Flang%29.%0A%7D>,
recent events
<https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fevent%20%3FeventLabel%20%3Fdate%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%23%20find%20events%0A%20%20%3Fevent%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ1190554.%0A%20%20%23%20with%20a%20point%20in%20time%20or%20start%20date%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fevent%20wdt%3AP585%20%3Fdate.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fevent%20wdt%3AP580%20%3Fdate.%20%7D%0A%20%20%23%20but%20at%20least%20one%20of%20those%0A%20%20FILTER%28BOUND%28%3Fdate%29%20%26%26%20DATATYPE%28%3Fdate%29%20%3D%20xsd%3AdateTime%29.%0A%20%20%23%20not%20in%20the%20future%2C%20and%20not%20more%20than%2031%20days%20ago%0A%20%20BIND%28NOW%28%29%20-%20%3Fdate%20AS%20%3Fdistance%29.%0A%20%20FILTER%280%20%3C%3D%20%3Fdistance%20%26%26%20%3Fdistance%20%3C%2031%29.%0A%20%20%23%20and%20get%20a%20label%20as%20well%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fevent%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FeventLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FeventLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%0A%23%20limit%20to%2010%20results%20so%20we%20don%27t%20timeout%0ALIMIT%2010>,
assemblies by number of seats
<https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3Ftitle%20%3Fseats%20%3Fjurisdiction%20%28YEAR%28%3Finception%29%20AS%20%3Fstart%29%20%28YEAR%28%3Fdissolution%29%20AS%20%3Fend%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ1752346%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1342%20%3Fseats%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1001%20%3Fj%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fj%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fjurisdiction%20filter%20%28lang%28%3Fjurisdiction%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP571%20%3Finception%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP576%20%3Fdissolution%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Ftitle%20filter%20%28lang%28%3Ftitle%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%20.%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fseats%29%20%3Ftitle>,
characters portrayed by most actors
<https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fcharacter%20%3FcharacterLabel%20%28COUNT%28%3Factor%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fcharacter%20%3Factor%0A%20%20%20%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Ffilm%20p%3AP161%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP161%20%3Factor%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP453%20%3Fcharacter%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%3Fcharacter%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5.%20%23%20uncomment%20to%20filter%20for%20real%20people%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fcharacter%20%3FcharacterLabel%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29%0ALIMIT%2025>
Development
- Query results for the query service are now cached by default for 60
seconds (phabricator:T126730 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126730>)
- Finishing touches on easier input of geocoordinates and dates (sneak
peek <https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/719906897613230080>)
- Finishing touches on easier manipulation of SPARQL queries (sneak peel
<https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/719907748088045568> - should go
live later today)
- Significantly reduced the write access to the database to make sure
we're not frying the poor servers unnecessarily
- Getting ArticlePlaceholder ready for first deployment
- More work on first prototype for structured data support for Wikimedia
Commons
- Cleaned up icons for selecting rank and value type
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
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.