"Panama Papers bubble chart shows politicians are most mentioned in
document leak database"
Sorry if that sounds grumpy, but if that involves such gross
misrepresentation, I can't say I am happy to see our data getting such
diffusion. The original blog post by Finn Årup Nielsen was fine, the
Independent article stilll sort of ok, but what seems to get public success
is the bullshit title and the decontextualized graph
On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 6:22 PM, Lydia Pintscher <
Lydia.Pintscher(a)wikimedia.de> wrote:
Hey everyone :)
Here's your summary of what happened around Wikidata over the past week.
Discussions
- A few proposals for missing properties for Wikivoyage listings
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Sister_projects>
have been made
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Panama Papers and Wikidata made quite a splash online
- Occupations of persons from Panama Papers
<https://finnaarupnielsen.wordpress.com/2016/05/10/occupations-of-persons-from-panama-papers/>
- Panama Papers bubble chart shows politicians are most mentioned
in document leak database
<http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/the-occupations-of-people-in-the-panama-papers-a7025736.html>
- EveryPolitician: I use Wikidata for multilingual names
<https://medium.com/@everypolitician/i-use-wikidata-for-multilingual-names-d35b331f1a59#.sf5p2ys11>
- Random item: Q14829494
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-May/008711.html>
- Lots of papers relevant to Wikidata or about Wikidata haven been
published at ICWSM
<http://snap.stanford.edu/wikiworkshop2016/#papers-icwsm>
- Wikidata through the Eyes of DBpedia
<http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/content/wikidata-through-eyes-dbpedia>
- Wikidata Map May 2016 (Belarus & Uganda)
<http://addshore.com/2016/05/wikidata-map-may-2016/>
- Geospatial search for Wikidata Query Service
<http://addshore.com/2016/05/geospatial-search-for-wikidata-query-service/>
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- We made a huge step for small Wikipedias and small languages online
by rolling out the ArticlePlaceholder on the first 4 Wikipedias
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-May/008720.html>
- Geospatial search is now up and running on the query service. You
can now search for items within a geographic area.
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-May/008704.html>
- The Wikidata Graph Builder has a refreshed interface with even more
controls
<https://angryloki.github.io/wikidata-graph-builder/?property=P279&item=Q169470&lang=en&mode=reverse>
- Sitelinks for the new Jumiekan Patwa Wikipidia
<https://jam.wikipedia.org/wiki/> (in Jamaican Patois) are being added
<https://jam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:UnconnectedPages>
- Mapbox's Geocoder now uses Wikidata
<https://www.mapbox.com/blog/geocoding-wikidata/>
- PetScan <http://petscan.wmflabs.org/> now has query examples
- d:Wikidata:Wikidata for authority control
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikidata_for_authority_control>
collects examples of usage of Wikidata for authority control
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: professional
name (Japan) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2838>, month
number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2837>, highest income
threshold <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2836>, lowest
income threshold <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2835>, individual
tax rate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2834>, ARKive ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2833>, Joint Electronics Type
Designation Automated System designation
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2832>, totem
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2831>, Online World of
Wrestling ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2830>, Internet
Wrestling Database ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2829>, corporate
officer <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2828>
- Query examples: longest rivers
<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%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%0A%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Flength%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ4022%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP2043%20%3Flength%20.%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28%20%3Flength%20%3E%3D%201000%20%29%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Flength%29%20%3FitemLabel>
(source <https://twitter.com/PoulpyWP/status/729720984828313600>), map
of places mentioned in travel stories with text in French accessible online
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fed%20%3FedLabel%20%3FauteurLabel%20%28year%28%3FdateCreation%29%20as%20%3FAnneeCreation%29%20%3FlieuLabel%20%3Fcoord%20%3Flien%20where%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP136%20wd%3AQ1164267%20.%20%20%20%20%23%20genre%20%3Ar%C3%A9cit%20de%20voyage%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ571%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20nature%20%3A%20livre%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP50%20%3Fauteur%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20%5Boption%5D%20auteur%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP571%20%3FdateCreation.%20%23%20%5Boption%5D%20date%20de%20cr%C3%A9ation%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20%20wdt%3AP840%20%3Flieu%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20lieu%20de%20l%27action%0A%20%20MINUS%20%7B%3Fitem%20%20wdt%3AP840%20wd%3AQ933%7D%20%23%20%28bug%20du%20P%C3%B4le%20Sud%29%0A%20%20%3Flieu%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoord%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20coordonn%C3%A9es%20g%C3%A9ographiques%20du%20lieu%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP953%20%3Flien%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20URL%2C%20texte%20int%C3%A9gral%20disponible%20sur%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP364%20wd%3AQ150%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20langue%20originale%20%3A%20fran%C3%A7ais%0A%20%20%7DUNION%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fed%20wdt%3AP629%20%3Fitem%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20%C3%A9dition%20du%20livre%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fed%20wdt%3AP953%20%3Flien%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20URL%2C%20texte%20int%C3%A9gral%20disponible%20sur%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fed%20wdt%3AP407%20wd%3AQ150%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20langue%20de%20l%27%C5%93uvre%20%3A%20fran%C3%A7ais%0A%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23BabelRainbow%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22fr%2Car%2Cbe%2Cbg%2Cbn%2Cca%2Ccs%2Cda%2Cde%2Cel%2Cen%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%7D%20%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20%3FdateCreation>
(source <https://twitter.com/shona_gon/status/729987000242212864>), things
located where the equator meets the prime meridian
<https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fplace%20%3FplaceLabel%20%3Flocation%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20wd%3AQ24041662%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Floc00%20.%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Aaround%20%7B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fplace%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Flocation%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Acenter%20%3Floc00%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Aradius%20%220.001%22%20.%20%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%20%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FplaceLabel>
(source <https://twitter.com/PoulpyWP/status/730044643526774784>), people
who acted with Brad Pitt
<https://angryloki.github.io/wikidata-graph-builder/?property=P161&item=Q35332&iterations=2&mode=undirected>
(source <https://twitter.com/nicolastorzec/status/730181298703073281>),
Italian mountains higher than 4000mt
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0ASELECT%20%3Fsubj%20%3Flabel%20%3Fcoord%20%3Felev%20%3Fpicture%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%09%3Fsubj%20wdt%3AP2044%20%3Felev%09filter%28%3Felev%20%3E%204000%29%20.%0A%09%3Fsubj%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoord%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fsubj%20wdt%3AP17%20wd%3AQ38%20.%0A%20%20%09%3Fsubj%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fpicture%20.%0A%0A%09SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22it%22%20.%20%3Fsubj%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Flabel%20%7D%20%0A%7D>
(source <https://twitter.com/atomotic/status/730859447887769601>), who
died by burning
<https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fperson%20%3FpersonLabel%20%3Fdate%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP509%20wd%3AQ468455%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdate.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3Fdate>
(source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/730862627384139776>),
age at date of death for musicians
<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%20p%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20psv%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fstatement%2Fvalue%2F%3E%0A%0A%20%20%20%23%20Query%20to%20find%20all%20musicians%20who%20have%20already%20died%20%0A%20%20%20%23%20calculate%20their%20age%20%28full%20years%29%20at%20death%0A%20%20%20%23%20count%20how%20many%20of%20them%20died%20at%20each%20age%0A%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fage%20%20%28COUNT%20%28DISTINCT%20%3Fa%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fa%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%20.%20%23instance%20of%20human%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fa%20wdt%3AP106%2Fwdt%3AP279%20wd%3AQ639669%20.%20%23occupation%20a%20subclass%20of%20musician%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fa%20p%3AP569%2Fpsv%3AP569%20%3Fbirth_date_node%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fa%20p%3AP570%2Fpsv%3AP570%20%3Fdeath_date_node%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fbirth_date_node%20wikibase%3AtimeValue%20%3Fbirth_date%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fdeath_date_node%20wikibase%3AtimeValue%20%3Fdeath_date%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%28%3Fage%20%3E%2010%20%26%26%20%3Fage%20%3C%20100%29%20.%20%23ignore%20outlyers%2C%20several%20of%20which%20are%20probably%20errors%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%28%20year%28%3Fdeath_date%29%20-%20year%28%3Fbirth_date%29%20-%20if%28month%28%3Fdeath_date%29%3Cmonth%28%3Fbirth_date%29%20%7C%7C%20%28month%28%3Fdeath_date%29%3Dmonth%28%3Fbirth_date%29%20%26%26%20day%28%3Fdeath_date%29%3Cday%28%3Fbirth_date%29%29%2C1%2C0%29%20as%20%3Fage%20%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20calculate%20the%20age%2C%20precisely%20to%20the%20day%20%28times%20and%20timezones%20ignored%29%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%20%0A%09GROUP%20BY%20%3Fage%0A%20%20%20%20ORDER%20BY%20%3Fage>
(source <https://twitter.com/frog23_net/status/729747441214488576>),
universities
of main programming language authors
<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%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%3Flang%20%3FlangLabel%20%3Fhuman%20%3FhumanLabel%20%3Feducatedat%20%3FeducatedatLabel%20%3Fcoords%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Flang%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ9143%20.%0A%20%20%3Fhuman%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%20.%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Flang%20wdt%3AP287%20%3Fhuman%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%20%3Flang%20wdt%3AP170%20%3Fhuman%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%20%3Flang%20wdt%3AP943%20%3Fhuman%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%20%3Flang%20wdt%3AP178%20%3Fhuman%20%7D%20.%0A%0A%20%20%3Fhuman%20wdt%3AP69%20%3Feducatedat%20.%0A%20%20%3Feducatedat%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoords%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%2Cfr%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%7D%0A%7D%0A%0ALIMIT%20100%0A>
(source <https://twitter.com/Jumijums/status/731045701564674048>),
hashtags
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23Cats%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FhashtagLabel%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%09%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP2572%20%3Fhashtag%0A%09SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%7D>
(source <https://twitter.com/johl/status/731085209446301696>), Pokemon!
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Gotta%20catch%20%27em%20all%0ASELECT%20%3Fpokemon%20%3FpokemonLabel%20%3FpokedexNumber%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%09%3Fpokemon%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ3966183.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fpokemon%20wdt%3AP1112%20%3FpokedexNumber%0A%09SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20%28%3FpokedexNumber%29>
(source <https://twitter.com/johl/status/731134255267516418>)
- Showcase items
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items>: Iron Man 2
(Q205028) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q205028>
Development
- Deployed the ArticlePlaceholder on the first 4 Wikipedias and worked
on issues that were found
- Incident report of issues with the query service
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20160503-Wikidata-Query-Service>
- Worked on language fallback in the main header (screenshot
<https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/730327354795544576>,
phabricator:T98014 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T98014>)
- More work on Commons prototype
- Worked on timeline as another visualization for the query service (
phabricator:T135222 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135222>)
- Fixed missing message for translation for Wikibase repo - thanks
Matěj! (phabricator:T124766 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124766>
)
- We are now generating translatable automatic comments for undo and
restore operations - thanks Matěj! (phabricator:T41134
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T41134>)
- Fixed issue with autocompletion on the query service (
phabricator:T133317 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133317>)
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
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