+1 on mek's sentiment. Outstanding work, AngryLoki!
Regards, James Weaver
On Mon, Feb 1, 2016, at 08:07 PM, Michael Karpeles wrote:
Well, https://angryloki.github.io/wikidata-graph-builder will change my life, this is amazing. Thank you AngryLoki and all the hundreds of layers of contributors which lead to a tool like this. Also Lydia et al, thanks for the hard work in keeping these updates going.
best wishes,
- mek
On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 9:44 AM, Lydia Pintscher Lydia.Pintscher@wikimedia.de wrote:
Hey everyone :)
Here's your summary of what's been happening around Wikidata over the past week.
Events[1]/Press/Blogs[2]
- Replicator: Wikidata import tool[3]
- The Facebook of German Playwrights[4]
- Language usage on Wikidata[5]
- Past: FOSDEM (slides of talk by Lucie[6]) Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Please help us classify a bunch of edits to improve anti-vandalism tools on Wikidata[7]
- Over 18000 people who made at least one edit over the last month!
- some visualizations:
- Family tree of King Halo, race horse[8]
- Doctoral students of Gauss[9]
- Tributaries of the Danube[10]
- Children of Kronos[11]
- Influenced by Leibnitz[12]
- Graphs[13]
- Zika virus papers[14]
- KasparBot is now removing all PersonData template usages from
English Wikipedia. They added machine-readable information to articles.
- Wikiversity will get the first phase of Wikidata support (language links) on February 23rd.
- Upcoming deployments of new datatypes, In Other Projects Sidebar, Article Placeholder and more[15]
- WD-FIST[16] now supports SPARQL queries Did you know?
- Newest properties[17]: National Historic Sites of Canada ID[18]
- Query example: horses[19], French sculptors by year of birth[20]
- Newest external tools: Template:Complex constraint[21]
- Newest database reports: Help:Wikimedia language codes/lists/all[22]
- New feature/gadget requests: badge for templates using Wikidata[23] Development
- und, mis, mul and zxx will be supported language codes for monolingual text. More will come later.
- Working on adjusting the layout of the ArticlePlaceholder generated pages
- Final touches on making search work on mobile
- Finishing identifier datatype and section You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here[24].
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these[25].
- Help develop the next summary here![26]
- Contribute to a Showcase item[27]
- Help translate[28] 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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Links:
1. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events 2. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage 3. https://www.entropywins.wtf/blog/2016/01/25/replicator-a-cli-tool-for-wikida... 4. https://dlina.github.io/The-Facebook-of-German-Playwrights/ 5. http://addshore.com/2016/02/language-usage-on-wikidata/ 6. http://www.slideshare.net/frimelle/increasing-access-to-free-and-open-knowle... 7. https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-January/008052.html 8. https://tools.wmflabs.org/family/ancestors.php?q=Q11297913 9. https://angryloki.github.io/wikidata-graph-builder/?property=P184&item=Q... 10. https://angryloki.github.io/wikidata-graph-builder/?property=P974&item=Q... 11. https://angryloki.github.io/wikidata-graph-builder/?property=P40&item=Q4... 12. https://angryloki.github.io/wikidata-graph-builder/?property=P737&item=Q... 13. https://angryloki.github.io/wikidata-graph-builder/?property=P279&item=Q... 14. https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-timeline/#/timeline?query=CLAIM%5B921:202... 15. https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-February/008068.html 16. https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/wdfist/index.html 17. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties 18. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2526 19. https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Chevaux%20sur%20Wikidata%0A%0APREFIX%20wd%... 20. http://demo.seco.tkk.fi/visu/#/?sparqlEndpoint=https:%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.or... 21. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:Complex_constraint 22. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Wikimedia_language_codes/lists/all 23. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2016/01#Badge_fo... 24. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R 25. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/R8GRzX1eH0tb/#R 26. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next 27. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items 28. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats