Hey folks :)
Here's your summary of what's been happening around Wikidata over the last
week. Enjoy the rest of the weekend!
Discussions
- German language Wikipedia closed its RfC on usage of Wikidata data
<https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/Nutzung_von_Daten_aus_Wikidata_im_ANR>.
As a result Wikidata data can be used on the project as long as it happens
through a template and it has a non-Wikimedia reference.
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Past: Office hour on IRC. We talked about cool things that happened
around Wikidata over the past 3 months got an update on upcoming
developments and Freebase and more. You can read the log
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2015-06-19>
.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- en:South Pole Telescope
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pole_Telescope> is a nice example
of an infobox completely filled from Wikidata.
- Template:Quarters of Lausanne District 4 (Q20150617)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20150617> was created on 2015-06-17
- More data from Freebase
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Freebase> have been added
the Primary
Sources Tool
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Primary_sources_tool>. There is
also a page
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Freebase/Mapping> to
help the mapping of Freebase properties.
- Nice new manual for MixnMatch
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mix%27n%27match/en>
- The new
nature.com/ontologies links to external ontologies and
datasets; among them Wikidata.
- National Gallery of Art <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q214867> and
the J. Paul Getty Museum <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q731126> now
have entries for all their paintings on Wikidata thanks to wiki project Sum
of all Paintings
Did you know?
- Newest properties: takeoff and landing capability
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1956>, Discogs label ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1955>, Discogs master ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1954>, Discogs artist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1953>, Encyclopaedia Metallum
band id <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1952>, investor
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1951>, second surname in
Spanish name <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1950>, CulturaItalia
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1949>, BerlPap identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1948>, Mapillary id
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1947>, National Library of
Ireland authority <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1946>
- Newest WikiProjects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProjects>: Cross Items
Interwikis
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Cross_Items_Interwikis>
Development
- Made a small API breaking change to wbeditentity and wbgetclaims
modules. Details can be seen in the commit message of
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/217885/
- Worked more on unit support
- Fixed an issue where you'd sometimes select the wrong value when
entering a statement unintentionally (phabricator:T98471
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T98471>)
- Switched the whole code base to make use of DataModel 3.0
- The concept of “claims” no longer exists in Wikibase, as all places in
the software work with statements. We are making this more and more
explicit in the code.
- The autoloading mechanism of the extension changed, see
phabricator:T100813 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100813>
- More work on getting the Wikibase Quality extensions ready for
deployment. They'll improve constraint checking and provide checks against
3rd party databases.
- Special:UnconnectedPages had to be reworked (thanks Amir!) because of
huge performance issues. Because of this it loses some functionality (being
able to specify where the list starts and limiting the list to pages that
have local interwiki links). We're working on bringing functionality back
without the performance penalty.
- Bene* created a SPARQL abstraction layer for PHP called Asparagus:
https://github.com/Benestar/asparagus
- Enabled arbitrary access on arwiki, cawiki, eswiki, huwiki, kowiki,
rowiki, ukwiki, viwiki, and usage tracking on dewiki, ruwiki, cswiki and
all s3 wikis. (ruwiki and cswiki get arbitrary access on June 23)
- Finishing work on improved handling “invalid” values and statements
with deleted properties.
- Small breaking DOM change: Wikibase no longer adds its own <h1> but
uses MediaWiki's default .firstHeading element. (phabricator:T93534
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T93534>)
You can see all open bugs 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 fix these items
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:The_Game/Flagged_items> which
have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- 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, for the new properties listed above.
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers
Lydia
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Product Manager for Wikidata
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