Hey folks :)
Here is your summary of what happened around Wikidata over the past week.
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Connecting OpenStreetMap and Wikidata https://www.mapbox.com/blog/id-wikidata/, blog post by Mapbox - Past: office hour on IRC (log https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2016/wikimedia-office.2016-07-08-16.03.log.html ) - Now: ISMB 2016 Editathon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Computational_Biology/ISMB_2016_Editathon - Upcoming: Viquimarató de Wikidata sobre Ramon Llull http://www.cccb.org/ca/activitats/fitxa/de-lars-combinatoria-a-wikidata/224219 - Upcoming: OpenSym http://www.opensym.org/os2016/ - Monitoring the Gender Gap with Wikidata Human Gender Indicators http://wigi.wmflabs.org/monitoring-gender-gap.pdf - An Empirical Evaluation of Property Recommender Systems for Wikidata and Collaborative Knowledge Bases http://www.evazangerle.at/wp-content/papercite-data/pdf/opensym16.pdf - Mapping street names to Wikidata entities they refer to and enriching OpenStreetMap with linked data https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-42089-9_1
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The removal of Persondata https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Persondata from the English Wikipedia is completed. There are still much information to migrate to Wikidata at KasparBot's tool https://tools.wmflabs.org/kasparbot/persondata/. - Tour de France data is coming from Wikidata in at least 3 Wikipedias https://twitter.com/JGH_JAEHNICK/status/750075844652072961 - Freebase API will be shut down on August 31 - TXT Werk http://www.txt-werk.de/ is now using Wikidata to identify entities (previously Freebase) - Magnus' reference drag and drop script is now a gadget - Got an idea for a cool project around Wikidata but need some funding? A project grant https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/07/01/project-grants/ might be an option. - There are several full PhD/postdoc positions available at TU Dresden with Markus including work on Wikidata https://iccl.inf.tu-dresden.de/web/Stellenausschreibung4/en - Magnus' Wiki Loves Monuments tool now also reads cultural identifiers from Wikidata and was switched to use SPARQL https://tools.wmflabs.org/wlmuk/index_wd.html
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: archive date https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2960, permanent duplicated item https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2959, throughput https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2957, NAIF ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2956, point of penalty https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2955, Transferred Account Data Interchange Group Code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2954, Estonian Research Portal person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2953, bateau d'intérêt patrimonial https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2952, Cultural heritage database in Austria ObjektID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2951, Nomisma ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2950, WikiTree ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2949, Estonian cultural monument ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2948, BacDive ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2946 - Query examples: timeline of space probes https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ATimeline%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Flaunchdate%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fimage%29%20AS%20%3Fimage%29%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%09%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ26529%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP619%20%3Flaunchdate%20.%0A%09SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Flaunchdate (source https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/750336305679241216), countries with most UNESCO World Heritage Sites https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ABubbleChart%0ASELECT%20distinct%20%3Fcountry%20%3FcountryLabel%20%20%28count%28%3Fsite%29%20as%20%3Fsites%29%0A%0AWHERE%20%7B%20%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%3Fsite%20wdt%3AP1435%20wd%3AQ9259%20.%20%0A%20%20%3Fsite%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fcountry%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%09%09bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%09%7D%0A%7D%0A%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fcountry%20%3FcountryLabel%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fsites%29%0A (source https://twitter.com/Histropedia/status/751726988872839168), places in America named after places in England https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3FplaceInAmerica%20%3FplaceInEngland%20%3FamericaName%20%3FenglandName%20%3FamericaLocation%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%3FplaceInAmerica%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ1496967%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP17%20wd%3AQ30%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP138%20%3FplaceInEngland%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP625%20%3FamericaLocation.%0A%20%20%3FplaceInEngland%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ1496967%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP17%20wd%3AQ145.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FplaceInAmerica%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FamericaName.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FplaceInEngland%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FenglandName.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D (source https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/751867482542137344), emergency number by country size https://query.wikidata.org/#%23Emergency%20numbers%20by%20population%20using%20them%0A%23Lists%20emergency%20numbers%20and%20the%20total%20amount%20of%20people%20which%20can%20use%20them%0A%23defaultView%3ABubbleChart%0ASELECT%20%3FemergencyNumber%20%3FemergencyNumberLabel%20%3Ftel%20%3Fpopulation%20%3Fcountries%20%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%3FemergencyNumber%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ694554%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%7BSELECT%20%3FemergencyNumber%20%28COUNT%28%3Fstate%29%20as%20%3Fcountries%29%20%28SUM%28%3Fpop%29%20as%20%3Fpopulation%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%09%3Fstate%20wdt%3AP2852%20%3FemergencyNumber%20.%0A%20%20%09OPTIONAL%7B%3Fstate%20wdt%3AP2046%20%3Fpop%7D%20.%0A%20%20%09%3Fstate%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ6256%0A%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3FemergencyNumber%20%7D%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%7B%3FemergencyNumber%20wdt%3AP1329%20%3Ftel%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fpopulation%29 (source https://twitter.com/RSeppelt/status/751381151529463808)
Development
- Working on an infographic https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T132782 to represent the flow of data in Wikidata - Work on multi-content revisions in order to be able to store an entity (item, property, mediainfo) and wiki text in the same page (This is needed for Commons) (phabricator:T107595 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107595) - Did more interviews with editors as preparation for the work on automated list generation for Wikipedia and co based on Wikidata data - Fixed a bug with data parsing in Korean and a few other languages ( phabricator:T139509 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139509) - Added "non" as a language code for monolingual text values ( phabricator:T137115 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137115) - Removed display of calendar model for dates with precision of 10 years or larger (phabricator:T133973 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133973) - Fixed issues in some of the forms on special pages on mobile ( phabricator:T138413 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138413) - Disabled PDF export in item and property pages (phabricator:T136814 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136814) - Worked on making it possible to have quantities with no bounds set ( phabricator:T115270 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115270)
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! - Help merge identical items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge across Wikimedia projects. - Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers Lydia