That's really interesting, specially the paper "Freebase to Wikidata"

On 23 February 2016 at 03:54, Lydia Pintscher <Lydia.Pintscher@wikimedia.de> wrote:

Hey everyone :)

Here's your summary of what happened around Wikidata over the last week:

Events/Press/Blogs

• Paper; From Freebase to Wikidata: The Great Migration
• Podcast: Leetkultur: Datenbanken kuratieren
• Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• In order to deploy the ORES extension on Wikidata we need a few more people to help with a labeling campaign. ORES will help us a lot with anti-vandalism fighting.
• Timeline of Zika papers
• A Wikidata/DBpedia Geography of Violence
• The museum map now works for all countries
• Biblioteca Nacional de España has been added to Mix'n'match
• Wikidata BEACON has been switched to use SPARQL
• Nice Wikidata-filled infobox used across different Wikipedias
• Reasonator has been switched to SPARQL and got new examples

Did you know?

• Newest properties: Strand orientation, perimeter, sidekick of, bowling style, acceptable daily intake, operating area, Aarne–Thompson–Uther Tale Type Index, Nationalmuseum Sweden artwork ID, Nationalmuseum Sweden artist ID, Free Software Directory entry, Sandbox-External identifier
• Newest WikiProjects: Religions, Award
• Query example: natural numbers

Development

• The in other projects sidebar has graduated from beta features and is now turned on on all projects except Dutch Wikipedia. (They have their own hack.) This closes a wish that has been around since 2004 \o/ (phabricator:T2708)
• The new datatype for external identifiers is available and we are converting existing identifiers
• Input needed on caching for the query service
• Added a new identifiers section in items. Everything with datatype external identifier goes there now. Once we have all identifiers converted items should be easier to scan and understand because of the clearer structure.
• We have a patch upcoming that should reduce loading time of items with a lot of sitelinks by 25%
• Fixed a bug where you could not add statements with external identifier or mathematical expression datatype (phabricator:T127095)
• More groundwork for Commons (making it possible to have more entities than just items and properties)
• Wikidata Query Service now supports all commonly used prefixes by default, without explicit declaration.
• wikidata-sdk ships with a #SPARQL query url generator

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Monthly Tasks

• Hack on one of these.
• Help develop the next summary here!
• Contribute to a Showcase item
• Help translate 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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