Hey folks :)
Here's what has been happening around Wikidata over the past week for you: Discussions
- RfC on usage of Wikidata on German-language Wikipedia https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/Nutzung_von_Daten_aus_Wikidata_im_ANR
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Past: Pigsonthewing and aude were at State of the Map US to talk about Wikidata/OpenStreetMap cooperation and more - Past: Lucie and Marius gave an intro to Wikidata at Gulaschprogrammiernacht in Karlsruhe (slides https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_Workshop_-_GPN_2015.pdf) - Upcoming: Office hour on IRC on 19th https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-June/006376.html
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The English-language Wikipedia has decided to deprecate Persondata https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28proposals%29/Archive_122#RfC:_Should_Persondata_template_be_deprecated_and_methodically_removed_from_articles.3F in favour of Wikidata. - New tool by Magnus to make it easier to add references http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=310 - The results are in for the Wikimedia Foundation's board election https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/05/board-election-results/. One name should sound familiar to you ;-) - Addshore created new maps of the geocoordinates on Wikidata https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/606086887820955649. More coming. - Sylvain made an overview of the overlap in topics that the biggest Wikipedias have https://gist.github.com/Ash-Crow/ae1a3ae8318994afe45d. - Wikidata has passed German Wikipedia in number of items with images (743850 dewp articles vs. 804885 items) - now only second to English-language Wikipedia. - Catalan Wikipedia is moving Taxon IDs to Wikidata. - Zolo did a comparison https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Zolo/Wikipedia_content of English/French/German/Chinese and Cebuano Wikipedias in terms of main types of articles. Biographies were compared by period, nationality and occupation. - Connectivity https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/Connectivity statistics were updated.
Did you know?
- Newest properties: DMS V https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1930, Clinvar Accession Number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1929, Vaccine Ontology ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1928, VIOLIN ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1925, vaccine for https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1924, participating team https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1923, first line https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1922, URI pattern for RDF resource https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1921, Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1920, Ministry of Education of Chile school ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1919 - Newest gadgets: Mark as patrolled https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-Mark_as_patrolled by User:Petr Matas https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Petr_Matas
Development
- Italian Wikipedia and all remaining Wikisource projects now have arbitrary access. The rollout will continue. The schedule for the next projects is at d:Wikidata:Arbitrary access https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Arbitrary_access. - The Content Translation tool now automatically connects translated articles to Wikidata. (Thanks Content Translation developers!) Previously translated but unconnected articles have been connected by a bot. (Thanks Amir!) - Code review of the extensions written by a team of students to improve the constraint reports and make it possible to automatically check our data against other databases. A first version will go live soon pending further codereview and fixes. - Two new methods have been added to the lua library provided by Wikibase: wikibase.resolvePropertyId https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase_Client/Lua#mw.wikibase.resolvePropertyId and wikibase.entity:getBestStatements https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase_Client/Lua#mw.wikibase.entity:getBestStatements . - Further work on making unserializable values editable in the UI (This can happen for example if a property is deleted.) - Made the Wikidata JSON dumps available on Labs in the standard dumps location there (/public/dumps). - Worked on automatically creating a redirect when merging items via the API. - Rewrote the script that generates a map image based on geocoordinates in Wikidata. (Result see above.) - Released Wikibase DataModel 3.0
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
On 07.06.2015 17:16, Lydia Pintscher wrote: ...
- Addshore created new maps of the geocoordinates on Wikidata https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/606086887820955649. More coming.
That's nice, but note that the new ViziData that Georg Wild announced this week displays a similar map of all items live in the browser, allowing you to zoom down to city level and click on any location to view all the items there. It also can filter items by the number of sitelinks they have (to show orphaned items without sitelinks or most popular items with many sitelinks).
http://wwwpub.zih.tu-dresden.de/~s5219191/vizidata/
(click on "items" dataset to load and wait a short while ...; performance in Chrome is better than in Firefox, but all modern browsers should work; needs about 1G of RAM to load all the >2 million geo points in Javascript)
Cheers
Markus
Hoi, Do we have a way to sparkle with live data.. For me all this stuff is "nice" but it has no application in a practical manner. Thanks, GerardM
On 7 June 2015 at 23:38, Markus Krötzsch markus@semantic-mediawiki.org wrote:
On 07.06.2015 17:16, Lydia Pintscher wrote: ...
- Addshore created new maps of the geocoordinates on Wikidata https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/606086887820955649. More
coming.
That's nice, but note that the new ViziData that Georg Wild announced this week displays a similar map of all items live in the browser, allowing you to zoom down to city level and click on any location to view all the items there. It also can filter items by the number of sitelinks they have (to show orphaned items without sitelinks or most popular items with many sitelinks).
http://wwwpub.zih.tu-dresden.de/~s5219191/vizidata/
(click on "items" dataset to load and wait a short while ...; performance in Chrome is better than in Firefox, but all modern browsers should work; needs about 1G of RAM to load all the >2 million geo points in Javascript)
Cheers
Markus
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On 08.06.2015 05:31, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi, Do we have a way to sparkle with live data.. For me all this stuff is "nice" but it has no application in a practical manner.
This post is unrelated to SPARQL. The experimental SPARQL endpoint at the WMF runs on live data (updated every minute).
Markus
On 7 June 2015 at 23:38, Markus Krötzsch <markus@semantic-mediawiki.org mailto:markus@semantic-mediawiki.org> wrote:
On 07.06.2015 17 <tel:07.06.2015%2017>:16, Lydia Pintscher wrote: ... * Addshore created new maps of the geocoordinates on Wikidata <https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/606086887820955649>. More coming. That's nice, but note that the new ViziData that Georg Wild announced this week displays a similar map of all items live in the browser, allowing you to zoom down to city level and click on any location to view all the items there. It also can filter items by the number of sitelinks they have (to show orphaned items without sitelinks or most popular items with many sitelinks). http://wwwpub.zih.tu-dresden.de/~s5219191/vizidata/ (click on "items" dataset to load and wait a short while ...; performance in Chrome is better than in Firefox, but all modern browsers should work; needs about 1G of RAM to load all the >2 million geo points in Javascript) Cheers Markus _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
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On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 11:38 PM, Markus Krötzsch markus@semantic-mediawiki.org wrote:
That's nice, but note that the new ViziData that Georg Wild announced this week displays a similar map of all items live in the browser, allowing you to zoom down to city level and click on any location to view all the items there. It also can filter items by the number of sitelinks they have (to show orphaned items without sitelinks or most popular items with many sitelinks).
http://wwwpub.zih.tu-dresden.de/~s5219191/vizidata/
(click on "items" dataset to load and wait a short while ...; performance in Chrome is better than in Firefox, but all modern browsers should work; needs about 1G of RAM to load all the >2 million geo points in Javascript)
Sorry. That slipped through. I'll add it to the next one. You can always add things yourself at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next
Cheers Lydia
On 08.06.2015 13:18, Lydia Pintscher wrote:
On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 11:38 PM, Markus Krötzsch markus@semantic-mediawiki.org wrote:
That's nice, but note that the new ViziData that Georg Wild announced this week displays a similar map of all items live in the browser, allowing you to zoom down to city level and click on any location to view all the items there. It also can filter items by the number of sitelinks they have (to show orphaned items without sitelinks or most popular items with many sitelinks).
http://wwwpub.zih.tu-dresden.de/~s5219191/vizidata/
(click on "items" dataset to load and wait a short while ...; performance in Chrome is better than in Firefox, but all modern browsers should work; needs about 1G of RAM to load all the >2 million geo points in Javascript)
Sorry. That slipped through. I'll add it to the next one. You can always add things yourself at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next
No problem. I just wanted to point out the related effort. It's great to have these weekly summaries compiled -- kudos to everybody who is helping to make this possible.
Markus
The Content Translation tool now automatically connects translated
articles to Wikidata. (Thanks Content Translation developers!) Previously translated but unconnected articles have been connected by a bot. (Thanks Amir!)
... And thanks also to Hoo and Aude for the help!
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
2015-06-07 18:16 GMT+03:00 Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de:
Hey folks :)
Here's what has been happening around Wikidata over the past week for you: Discussions
- RfC on usage of Wikidata on German-language Wikipedia
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/Nutzung_von_Daten_aus_Wikidata_im_ANR
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Past: Pigsonthewing and aude were at State of the Map US to talk
about Wikidata/OpenStreetMap cooperation and more
- Past: Lucie and Marius gave an intro to Wikidata at
Gulaschprogrammiernacht in Karlsruhe (slides https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_Workshop_-_GPN_2015.pdf)
- Upcoming: Office hour on IRC on 19th
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-June/006376.html
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The English-language Wikipedia has decided to deprecate Persondata
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28proposals%29/Archive_122#RfC:_Should_Persondata_template_be_deprecated_and_methodically_removed_from_articles.3F in favour of Wikidata.
- New tool by Magnus to make it easier to add references
http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=310
- The results are in for the Wikimedia Foundation's board election
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/05/board-election-results/. One name should sound familiar to you ;-)
- Addshore created new maps of the geocoordinates on Wikidata
https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/606086887820955649. More coming.
- Sylvain made an overview of the overlap in topics that the biggest
Wikipedias have https://gist.github.com/Ash-Crow/ae1a3ae8318994afe45d .
- Wikidata has passed German Wikipedia in number of items with images
(743850 dewp articles vs. 804885 items) - now only second to English-language Wikipedia.
- Catalan Wikipedia is moving Taxon IDs to Wikidata.
- Zolo did a comparison
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Zolo/Wikipedia_content of English/French/German/Chinese and Cebuano Wikipedias in terms of main types of articles. Biographies were compared by period, nationality and occupation.
- Connectivity
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/Connectivity statistics were updated.
Did you know?
- Newest properties: DMS V
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1930, Clinvar Accession Number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1929, Vaccine Ontology ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1928, VIOLIN ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1925, vaccine for https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1924, participating team https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1923, first line https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1922, URI pattern for RDF resource https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1921, Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1920, Ministry of Education of Chile school ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1919
- Newest gadgets: Mark as patrolled
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-Mark_as_patrolled by User:Petr Matas https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Petr_Matas
Development
- Italian Wikipedia and all remaining Wikisource projects now have
arbitrary access. The rollout will continue. The schedule for the next projects is at d:Wikidata:Arbitrary access https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Arbitrary_access.
- The Content Translation tool now automatically connects translated
articles to Wikidata. (Thanks Content Translation developers!) Previously translated but unconnected articles have been connected by a bot. (Thanks Amir!)
- Code review of the extensions written by a team of students to
improve the constraint reports and make it possible to automatically check our data against other databases. A first version will go live soon pending further codereview and fixes.
- Two new methods have been added to the lua library provided by
Wikibase: wikibase.resolvePropertyId https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase_Client/Lua#mw.wikibase.resolvePropertyId and wikibase.entity:getBestStatements https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase_Client/Lua#mw.wikibase.entity:getBestStatements .
- Further work on making unserializable values editable in the UI
(This can happen for example if a property is deleted.)
- Made the Wikidata JSON dumps available on Labs in the standard dumps
location there (/public/dumps).
- Worked on automatically creating a redirect when merging items via
the API.
- Rewrote the script that generates a map image based on
geocoordinates in Wikidata. (Result see above.)
- Released Wikibase DataModel 3.0
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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