Hey everyone :)
Here's your summary of what happened around Wikidata over the last week:
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Paper; From Freebase to Wikidata: The Great Migration
<https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/44818.pdf>
- Podcast: Leetkultur: Datenbanken kuratieren
<http://1337kultur.de/2016/888/>
- Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata
<https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Ateliers_Wikidata#La_Paillasse.2C_25.2F02.2F2016>
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- In order to deploy the ORES extension on Wikidata we need a few more
people to help with a labeling campaign
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Edit_labels>. ORES will help us
a lot with anti-vandalism fighting.
- Timeline of Zika papers
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-timeline/#/timeline?query=CLAIM%5B921:202864%5D%20OR%20CLAIM%5B921:8071861%5D>
- A Wikidata/DBpedia Geography of Violence
<http://nodegoat.net/blog.p/82.m/14/a-wikidatadbpedia-geography-of-violence>
- The museum map now works for all countries
<http://aron.ambrosiani.se/museums/>
- Biblioteca Nacional de España has been added to Mix'n'match
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match>
- Wikidata BEACON <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/beacon.php>
has been switched to use SPARQL
- Nice Wikidata-filled infobox used across different Wikipedias
<https://twitter.com/JGH_JAEHNICK/status/700339428435304448>
- Reasonator <https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/> has been switched
to SPARQL and got new examples
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: Strand
orientation <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2548>, perimeter
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2547>, sidekick of
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2546>, bowling style
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2545>, acceptable daily intake
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2542>, operating area
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2541>, Aarne–Thompson–Uther
Tale Type Index <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2540>,
Nationalmuseum
Sweden artwork ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2539>,
Nationalmuseum
Sweden artist ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2538>, Free
Software Directory entry
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2537>, Sandbox-External
identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2536>
- Newest WikiProjects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>:
Religions <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Religions>,
Award <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Award>
- Query example: natural numbers
<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%3Fvalue%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ21199%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1181%20%3Fvalue%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20%3Fvalue%20%3FitemLabel>
Development
- The in other projects sidebar has graduated from beta features and is
now turned on on all projects except Dutch Wikipedia. (They have their own
hack.) This closes a wish that has been around since 2004 \o/ (
phabricator:T2708 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T2708>)
- The new datatype for external identifiers is available and we are
converting existing identifiers
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-February/008247.html>
- Input needed on caching for the query service
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-February/008231.html>
- Added a new identifiers section in items. Everything with datatype
external identifier goes there now. Once we have all identifiers converted
items should be easier to scan and understand because of the clearer
structure.
- We have a patch upcoming that should reduce loading time of items with
a lot of sitelinks by 25%
- Fixed a bug where you could not add statements with external
identifier or mathematical expression datatype (phabricator:T127095
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127095>)
- More groundwork for Commons (making it possible to have more entities
than just items and properties)
- Wikidata Query Service <https://query.wikidata.org/> now supports
all commonly
used prefixes
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/Indexing/RDF_Dump_Format#Prefixes_used>
by default, without explicit declaration.
- wikidata-sdk ships with a #SPARQL query url generator
<https://github.com/maxlath/wikidata-sdk#sparql-queries>
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 -
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Product Manager for Wikidata
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