Hey folks :)
Here's what's been happening around Wikidata over the past week. Enjoy and have a good weekend.
Discussions
- New request for comments: 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
- Upcoming: Ubuntu Party, Paris http://ubuntu-paris.org/programme/#ateliers - Upcoming: Wikidata editathon, National Library of Wales https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Expert_outreach/Wikipedian_in_Residence_at_the_National_Library_of_Wales/WikiData_Editathon - More mixin’, more matches http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=373 - Impact of Wikimania Mexico 2015 on Wikidata http://addshore.com/2015/11/impact-of-wikimania-mexico-2015-on-wikidata/ - Myanmar coordinates on Wikidata by Lockal & Widar http://addshore.com/2015/11/myanmar-coordinates-on-wikidata-by-lockal-widar/ - Tasty translations for the Taste of Stockholm food festival https://opensource.com/life/15/11/tasty-translations-the-open-source-way - Bachelor thesis about generating quiz questions from Wikidata ftp://ftp.tik.ee.ethz.ch/pub/students/2015-FS/BA-2015-13.pdf
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Mix'n'match https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/: new catalogs were added - Whitepaper for GLAM institutions wanting to work with Wikdiata https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Flemish_art_collections,_Wikidata_and_Linked_Open_Data/Whitepaper - MediaWiki, Meta, Wikispecies and Wikinews will get access to the data on Wikidata on Dec. 2nd. (So far they only have access to sitelinks.) - What kind of information does Wikidata have? Jura made an overview for the types of statements we have. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jura1/statements_by_property - You can now use SPARQL instead of WDQ for all Listeria bot-generated lists, on all wikis. See en:Template:Wikidata list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikidata_list - Alpha release of Wikipedia Gender Inequality Index http://wigi.wmflabs.org/ (using data from Wikidata) - Query examples: all xkcd comics https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%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%0APREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20xsd%3A%20%20%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2001%2FXMLSchema%23%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fepisode%20%3FepisodeLabel%20%3Fnumber%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fepisode%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ838795%20.%0A%20%20%3Fepisode%20wdt%3AP361%20wd%3AQ13915%20.%0A%20%20%3Fepisode%20wdt%3AP433%20%3Fnumber%20.%0A%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20xsd%3Ainteger%28%3Fnumber%29, English demonyms for countries https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%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%0A%0ASELECT%20%3Fcountry%20%3Fname%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fcountry%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ6256%20.%0A%20%20%3Fcountry%20wdt%3AP1549%20%3Fname%20.%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28%20lang%28%3Fname%29%3D%27en%27%29%0A%7D%0A
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: Cycling Archives ID (team) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2331, Cycling Archives ID (race) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2330, antagonist muscle https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2329, ProCyclingStats ID (team) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2328, ProCyclingStats ID (race) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2327, GNS Unique Feature Identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2326, mean anomaly https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2325, quantity buried https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2324, Swedish Olympic Committee athlete ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2323, article ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2322, general classification https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2321, aftershocks https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2320, elector https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2319, debut participant https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2318, call sign https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2317, constraint status https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2316, comment https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2315, min quantity https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2313, max quantity https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2312, max date https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2311, min date https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2310, relation https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2309, class https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2308, namespace https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2307, property https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2306, item https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2305, group by https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2304, exception to constraint https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2303, property constraint https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2302, minimal lethal dose https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2300
Development
- Rolled out simultaneous editing of main part of the statement and reference - Did a clean-up of the statements section (removing some lines etc) and added icons for the actions on statements - Worked more on moving identifiers into their own section in item pages and having them linked properly in the exports - Work on improving ranking of search results on Wikidata - Decreased size of html of item pages - Adapted our code to some minor changes in the watchlist code in core - More work on making the search on mobile work - Made preparations for constraint definitions through statements on properties - Fixing size of table of content on mobile - Prevented merging of items which link to each other
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