Hey folks :)
Here is the summary for what happened around Wikidata over the past two
weeks. Sorry I couldn't send out a summary last week. Traveling and the
developer summit messed with my schedule.
Discussions
- Successful request for adminship: Innocent bystander
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Innocent_bystander>
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- The Reference Wars <http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=378>
- Teaching machines to make your life easier – quality work on Wikidata
<http://blog.wikimedia.de/2016/01/02/teaching-machines-to-make-your-life-easier-quality-work-on-wikidata/>
- Wikidata references from Microdata
<http://addshore.com/2015/12/wikidata-references-from-microdata/>
- Building applications around Wikidata (a beer example)
<http://addshore.com/2016/01/building-applications-around-wikidata-a-beer-example/>
- From Freebase to Wikidata: the great migration
<http://www2016.ca/program/industry-track.html#from-freebase-to-wikidata-the-great-migration>
has been accepted for the industry track of WWW2016
- Gene Wiki and Wikidata: an overview of 2015
<http://sulab.org/2016/01/gene-wiki-and-wikidata-an-overview-of-2015/>
- Past: 32C3 in Hamburg
- Past: Wikimedia Developer Summit
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit_2016>
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning
<http://www.r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-1/>
- The deadline for submissions for Wikimania has been extended to 17th.
<https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions> Get your talk
proposals in!
- IUCN statuses <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P141> have been
removed from taxoboxes in Czech Wikipedia in order to display sourced
Wikidata data. Check it out with Comodo dragon
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cs:Varan_komodsk%C3%BD>, lion
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cs:Lev>, Siamese fighting fish
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cs:Bojovnice_pestr%C3%A1> or any of
almost 3,000 articles.
- Migrating identifier properties to new identifier datatype
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-January/007951.html>
- Listeria lists can now show arbitrary SPARQL results
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikidata_list/doc>
- Mix'n'match <https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/> has new catalogs
like UNESCO's Atlas of languages in danger
- Initial plans for MetaPipe, a collaborate metadata tool
<https://artturimatias.github.io/metapipe/>
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: BugGuide ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2464>, elibrary.ru organisation
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2463>, member of the deme
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2462>, ComLaw ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2461>, Persons of Ancient Athens
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2460>, IBU biathlete identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2459>,
Mackolik.com footballer
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2458>, Australian National
Shipwreck Database Shipwreck ID number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2457>, dblp identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2456>, Species Profile and
Threats Database ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2455>, KNAW
past member identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2454>,
nominee <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2453>, GeoNames feature
code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2452>, MAME ROM
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2451>, Encyclopædia Britannica
contributor identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2450>, Turkish
Football Federation manager ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2449>, Turkish Football
Federation player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2448>, transfermarkt
manager id <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2447>, transfermarkt
footballer id <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2446>, metasubclass
of <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2445>, homoglyph
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2444>, stage reached
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2443>, conversion to standard
unit <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2442>, literal translation
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2441>, transliteration
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2440>, language
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2439>, narrator
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2438>, number of seasons
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2437>, voltage
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2436>, PORT person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2435>, Panarctic Flora ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2434>, gender of a scientific
name of a genus <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2433>, J. Paul
Getty Museum artist id
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2432>, Thyssen-Bornemisza
artist id <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2431>, takeoff roll
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2430>, expected completeness
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2429>, RePEc Short-ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2428>, grid global research id
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2427>, Xeno-canto species ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2426>, service ribbon image
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2425>, Berlin cultural heritage
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2424>, FIE identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2423>
- Newest WikiProjects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>:
Broadcasting
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Broadcasting>
- New feature/gadget requests: disambiguator tool
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2015/12#Disambiguator_tool_request>,
tool to move statements from one item to another
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2015/12#Tool_to_move_statements_fom_one_item_to_another_item>
Development
- Attending the Wikimedia Developer Summit
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit_2016>
- Are you a student looking for a thesis topic with impact? There might
be some around Wikidata for you. Get in touch with Lydia
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lydia_Pintscher_%28WMDE%29> if
interested.
- More work on moving identifiers to their own section and having a
separate datatype for them
- Fixed the problem where you could add links to non-existing files on
Commons (phabricator:T87263 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87263>)
- We're adding a "latest" link for the JSON dumps (phabricator:T72247
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T72247>)
- Fixed a bug in the monolingual text datatype when changing the
language (phabricator:T95419 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T95419>)
- More work on making it possible to show all languages for a given item
without the label lister gadget
- Security review for the ArticlePlaceholder is done \o/
- References in the ArticlePlaceholder are now shown more similar to how
they are shown in a regular article (at the bottom)
- SPARQL queries display directly when link to
query.wikidata.org is
opened
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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Lydia Pintscher -
http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
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