*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.*
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events/ Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Chandigarh, India - September 9-10 - Doctoral Advisor or Medical Condition: Towards Entity-specific Rankings of Knowledge Base Properties http://www.simonrazniewski.com/2017_ADMA.pdf, by Simon Razniewski et al. - ctj rdf: Part One https://larsgw.blogspot.nl/2017/09/ctj-rdf-part-one.html, showing linking text minded data to Wikidata with SPARQL. - Creating parliament charts with Wikidata https://blog.k-nut.eu/wikidata-parliament-svg by Knut - The great Wikipedia bot-pocalypse https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/08/30/wikipedia-bot-pocalypse/ by Aaron Halfaker on WMF's blog - When Westminster Was Wikified https://www.mysociety.org/2017/08/23/wikifying-westminister/, by Luca Martinelli
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New admin: congrats to علاء https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:%D8%B9%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A1 - Open Library, the biggest resource of freely-licensed books, now links to Wikidata (through Reasonator) and to VIAF (example here https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL32772A/%C3%89mile_Zola; see "Wikidata" in the right-hand column). - With 200 attendees, the WikidataCon https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017 is now complete. Thanks all for your enthusiasm \o/ If you registered on the waitlist or submitted a talk, check your mailbox for more information. - The WikidataCon program will be released this week, and we will call for volunteers soon
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: THL Simplified Phonetic Transcription https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4189, Tibetan pinyin https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4188, Wylie transliteration https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4187, Australian Women's Register ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4186, iconographic symbol https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4185, slope https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4184, angle from vertical https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4183 - Query examples: - The most famous painting from each country https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0A%23%20Carte%20des%20pays%20selon%20la%20ville%20de%20naissance%20du%20cr%C3%A9ateur%20de%20la%20peinture%20ayant%20le%20plus%20de%20liens%20Wikimedia%20%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fq%20%3FqLabel%20%3Fnb%20%3Fpays%20%3FpaysLabel%20%3Floc%20%3Fimage%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%09%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%09SELECT%20%28MAX%28%3Fnb%29%20AS%20%3Fnb%29%20%3Fpays%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fq%20%28wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%29%20wd%3AQ3305213%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fq%20wdt%3AP170%20%3Fcrea.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcrea%20wdt%3AP19%20%3Fvillenaissance%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fvillenaissance%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fpays.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fq%20wikibase%3Asitelinks%20%3Fnb%0A%09%09%7D%0A%09%09GROUP%20BY%20%3Fpays%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20HAVING%20%28%3Fnb%3E1%29%0A%09%09ORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fnb%29%0A%09%7D%0A%09%3Fq%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ3305213%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fq%20wdt%3AP170%20%3Fcrea.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fcrea%20wdt%3AP19%20%3Fvillenaissance%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fvillenaissance%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fpays.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%7B%3Fq%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fq%20wikibase%3Asitelinks%20%3Fnb%20.%0A%09%3Fpays%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Floc%20.%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20%23BabelRainbow%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22fr%2Cen%2Car%2Cbe%2Cbg%2Cbn%2Cca%2Ccs%2Cda%2Cde%2Cel%2Ces%2Cet%2Cfa%2Cfi%2Che%2Chi%2Chu%2Chy%2Cid%2Cit%2Cja%2Cjv%2Cko%2Cnb%2Cnl%2Ceo%2Cpa%2Cpl%2Cpt%2Cro%2Cru%2Csh%2Csk%2Csr%2Csv%2Csw%2Cte%2Cth%2Ctr%2Cuk%2Cyue%2Cvec%2Cvi%2Czh%22.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%7D (source https://twitter.com/shona_gon/status/904357380997165057) - Ranking universities according to PageRank https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20vrank%3A%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fpurl.org%2Fvoc%2Fvrank%23%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Funi%20%3FuniLabel%20%3Fpr%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Funi%20wdt%3AP31%2F%28wdt%3AP279%29%2a%20wd%3AQ3918.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Funi%20vrank%3AhasRank%2Fvrank%3ArankValue%20%3Fpr%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fpr%29%20LIMIT%2010 (source https://twitter.com/thalhamm/status/902624787071164425) - Actors who were casted in two different films with the same name https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20actors%20who%20were%20cast%20in%20two%20different%20films%20with%20the%20same%20title%0ASELECT%20%3FactorLabel%20%3Ftitle%20%3Ffilm1Description%20%3Ffilm2Description%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Factor%20%3Ftitle%20%3Ffilm1%20%3Ffilm2%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20%3Ffilm1%20is%20a%20film%2C%20starring%20%3Factor%2C%20with%20title%20%3Ftitle.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Ffilm1%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ11424%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP161%20%3Factor%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP1476%20%3Ftitle.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20ditto%20for%20%3Ffilm2%20%E2%80%93%20since%20we%E2%80%99re%20using%20the%20same%20%3Factor%20and%20%3Ftitle%20variable%2C%20we%20require%20that%20both%20films%20have%20the%20same%20actor%20and%20title%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Ffilm2%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ11424%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP161%20%3Factor%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP1476%20%3Ftitle.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20check%20that%20they%E2%80%99re%20not%20the%20same%20film%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Ffilm1%20%21%3D%20%3Ffilm2%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20LIMIT%2010%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D (source https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/902163625388978177) - Newest external tool: official map for Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 https://maps.wikilovesmonuments.org/ displays cultural heritage monuments worldwide, using Wikidata - Newest database reports: Mireille Darc filmography https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Movies/Filmography/Mireille_Darc, given names by soundex https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Names/lists/given_names_by_soundex
Development
- Looked into all the things necessary to make it possible to store forms and senses on Lexeme pages. - Worked more on caching constraints checks results which is needed to enable constraints checks for all logged-in users (phabricator:T173696 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173696) - Making progress on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168532) - Removed language fallback hints for dialects to make the UI less cluttered for them and make it less necessary to enter labels and descriptions for them (phabricator:T174318 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174318) - Fixed an issue that links to an item were not showing the label when it pointed to a redirect (phabricator:T96553 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96553) - Unrecognized input in entity selectors will be highlighted in red ( phabricator:T170531 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170531) - Added language code fr-ca for monolingual text input ( phabricator:T151186 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151186) - Added an additional normalization for page titles when linking pages on Wiktionary via Cognate (phabricator:T172987 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172987) - The API will not only output the hashes for qualifier snaks, but also for main snaks as well as references snaks (phabricator:T174692 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174692). Note that hashes (other than IDs) are not meant to be stable identifiers, and should not be stored for a longer time. - Snak hashes will also appear as part of CSS classes in entity pages ( phabricator:T171725 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171725)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R. Monthly Tasks
- 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 - Suggested and open tasks https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contribute/Suggested_and_open_tasks ! - 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 the interface and documentation pages, in your own language! - Help merge identical items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge across Wikimedia projects. - Help write the next summary! https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next