Hey folks :)
Here's your summary of the past week around Wikidata - quite a busy one! Have a great week.
Discussions
- How to add dates with undefined calendar (Julian or Gregorian)? https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#How_to_add_dates_with_undefined_calendar_.3F is discussed on Project chat.
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:I_love_Wikidata_because.jpg I love Wikidata because
- Wikidata turned 3! The party doubled as the award ceremony for the Land der Ideen price. - Page with state of the project editorial, message from the development team and greetings https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Third_Birthday - Images from the party https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikidata%27s_3rd_birthday - Denny and Erik look back at the beginning of the project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbwJpejizq0 - the other recordings are still being cut but you can already see the uncut stream here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEnH2KyYlOs&feature=youtu.be - Presents: - Three presents for Wikidata's third birthday https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Third_Birthday/Presents/Ladsgroup from Amir https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Ladsgroup including artificial intelligence to find vandalism! - Improved query.wikidata.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-October/007492.html by the dev team - Preview of the Article Placeholder https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-October/007501.html by Lucie (bachelor student of the dev team) - Special:Nearby https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-October/007502.html by the dev team - Donation of CC World University & School (WUaS) to CC Wikidata to celebrate its 3rd birthday! http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2015/10/donation-of-cc-world-university-school.html by Scott_WUaS - Your name in Wikidata Morse code http://maettig.com/code/javascript/wikidata-morse-code-renderer.html from TMg https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:TMg - Help organize the Wikidata related sessions at Wikimania 2016 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikimania_2016 - Past: Open Access Week https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/OA_week/Progress - Past: DINI Jahrestagung (slides http://korrekt.org/talks/2015/wikidata-intro-dinijt-oct-2015.pdf) - Past: Tehran SFD (video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BNNu_hh74k) - Upcoming: ODI Summit http://summit.theodi.org - Upcoming: SWAT4LS http://www.swat4ls.org - Modeling the social network of movie actors of the 1920s and 1930s with Wikidata http://scoms.hypotheses.org/498 - Looking for…science fiction movies on the Linked Data Cloud http://blog.insideout.io/en/2015/10/science-fiction-movies-on-the-linked-data-cloud/
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Italian Wikipedia matched up nearly all of their articles to items on Wikidata https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/duplicity.php?wiki=itwiki&mode=stats. Congrats! - Bene updated the Tours https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Tours. Please help translate them here https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Tours/Items. - The Distributed Game https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/distributed/ now has a Kian module suggesting statements to add - Andrew made maps of missing images on Wikidata: South Africa http://www.generalist.org.uk/wikidata/southafrica.html, India http://www.generalist.org.uk/wikidata/india.html, Australia http://www.generalist.org.uk/wikidata/australia.html, world http://www.generalist.org.uk/wikidata/world.html - Nikki imported dates of birth and death for more than 40,000 persons from Japanese Wikipedia. - Example query: French people with an article on English Wikipedia but not French Wikipedia https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20schema%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fschema.org%2F%3E%0APREFIX%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%0APREFIX%20p%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20v%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fstatement%2F%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP27%20wd%3AQ142%20.%0A%20%20%20FILTER%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fwen%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fitem%20.%20%3Fwen%20schema%3AinLanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fwfr%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fitem%20.%20%3Fwfr%20schema%3AinLanguage%20%22fr%22%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22fr%22%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%7D - Example query: paintings without dimension https://query.wikidata.org/#prefix%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0Aprefix%20entity%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20entity%3AQ3305213%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP2049%20%3Fdummy0%20%7D%0A%20%20FILTER%28%21bound%28%3Fdummy0%29%29%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP2048%20%3Fdummy1%20%7D%0A%20%20FILTER%28%21bound%28%3Fdummy1%29%29%0A%7D (add some?) - Example query: people or things born or created on the same day of the year as Wikidata 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%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0Aselect%20distinct%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FinstanceOfLabel%20%3FDateofBirth%20%3FInception%0Awhere%20%7B%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP569%20%3FDateofBirth.%20%23P569%20date%20of%20birth%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28month%28%3FDateofBirth%29%20%3D%2010%20%26%26%20day%28%3FDateofBirth%29%20%3D%2029%29%0A%20%20%7DUNION%20%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP571%20%3FInception.%20%23P571%20inception%2Fdate%20of%20creation%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28month%28%3FInception%29%20%3D%2010%20%26%26%20day%28%3FInception%29%20%3D%2029%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20%3FinstanceOf.%20%23P31%20instance%20of%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%2Car%2Cbe%2Cbg%2Cbn%2Cca%2Ccs%2Cda%2Cde%2Cel%2Ces%2Cet%2Cfa%2Cfi%2Cfr%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%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D - We passed 15M items. - Happy 10th anniversary to Semantic MediaWiki! We wouldn't be where we are today without you. - All 8,860 fellows of the Royal Society have been matched to Wikidata items https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/catalog_stats.php?catalog=92&min_perc_props=4&min_perc_sitelinks=10
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: Wikidata property sample https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2271, Emporis building complex ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2270, Orsay Museum artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2268, Politifact Personality Identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2267, Fashion Model Directory ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2266, mix'n'match catalogue ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2264, ISOCAT id https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2263, draft https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2262, beam https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2261, ionization energy https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2260, ITU-T network identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2259, mobile country code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2258, frequency of event https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2257 - Newest External tools https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Tools/External_tools: Top missing P31 by number of sitelinks https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/top_missing_properties_by_number_of_sitelinks/P31 list the items with most sitelinks lacking instance of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P31 or subclass of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P279
Development
- Worked on birthday presents (Special:Nearby, article placeholder demo system and improvements to query.wikidata.org) - Wes, Stas, Dan and James from the WMF came over to talk through current work around Wikidata and plans for the future - Further poked at editing references at the same time as rest of the statement - Investigated where we can push next to improve performance
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