Hey folks :)
Here's your summary of all things Wikidata of the past week.
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Oscars 2016: Movies that got the most attention on Wikipedia
<https://medium.com/google-cloud/oscars-2016-movies-that-got-the-most-attention-on-wikipedia-151cd56f4fc0#.ugjrgjcne>
(followup with most famous cats
<https://twitter.com/felipehoffa/status/705068002522304512>)
- Statements per item
<http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.de/2016/03/wikidata-statements-per-item.html>
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- COOL-WD has been announced to help assess the completeness of various
parts of the knowledge base
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-March/008322.html>
- You can apply for a grant as part of the Inspire Campaign around the
topic of content review and curation
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire>
- Wikimedia was accepted for Google Summer of Code. If you're a student
this can be your chance to work on Wikidata code this summer.
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-March/084921.html>
- A catalog of Uruguayan authors has been added to Mix'n'match
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/?mode=catalog_details&catalog=175>
- Listeria bot now has experimental support for references (example
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/listeria_test4>)
- Self-portraits of women through the ages, powered by Wikidata
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Self-portraits_of_women>
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: Québec cultural
heritage directory people identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2592>, grammatical option
indicates <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2591>, Statistics
Indonesia language code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2590>, Statistics
Indonesia ethnicity code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2589>, village
code of Indonesia <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2588>, has
phoneme <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2587>, INSEE
departement code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2586>, INSEE
region code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2585>, Australian
Wetlands Database Directory of Important Wetlands Reference Code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2584>, distance from Earth
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2583>, J. Paul Getty Museum
object id <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2582>, BabelNet id
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2581>, Baltisches
Biographisches Lexikon digital ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2580>, studied by
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2579>, studies
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2578>, admissible rule in
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2577>, UCSC Genome Browser
assembly ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2576>, measures
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2575>,
National-Football-Teams.com
player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2574>, number of out
of school children <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2573>, Twitter
hashtag <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2572>, uncertainty
corresponds to <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2571>, Saros
cycle of eclipse <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2570>, contact
times of eclipse <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2569>, repealed
by <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2568>, amended by
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2567>, ECHA InfoCard ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2566>, global-warming potential
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2565>
- Query example: French heads of government by length of service
<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%0APREFIX%20p%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20v%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fstatement%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20pq%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fqualifier%2F%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FpositionLabel%20%3Fas%20%3Fstart%20%3Fend%20%3Fdays%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP39%20%3Fposition_statement%20.%0A%20%20%3Fposition_statement%20v%3AP39%20%3Fposition%20.%0A%20%20%3Fposition%20wdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ15135541%20.%0A%20%20%3Fposition_statement%20pq%3AP580%20%3Fstart%20FILTER%20%28%3Fstart%20%3E%3D%20%221815-01-01T00%3A00%3A00Z%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%29%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fposition_statement%20pq%3AP582%20%3Fx%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fposition_statement%20pq%3AP794%20%3Fast%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fast%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fas%20filter%20%28lang%28%3Fas%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20bind%28if%28bound%28%3Fx%29%2C%20%3Fx%2C%20NOW%28%29%29%20as%20%3Fend%20%29%0A%20%20BIND%28FLOOR%28%3Fend%20-%20%3Fstart%29%20as%20%3Fdays%29%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fdays%29%20%3FitemLabel>,
Metro stations in Paris
<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%0APREFIX%20p%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20v%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fstatement%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20pq%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fqualifier%2F%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fadjacent%20%3FadjacentL%20%3Fcoords%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ928830%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP81%20wd%3AQ13224%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoords%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP197%20%3Fadjacent_statement%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fadjacent_statement%20v%3AP197%20%3Fadjacent%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fadjacent_statement%20pq%3AP560%20wd%3AQ585752%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fadjacent%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FadjacentL%20filter%20%28lang%28%3FadjacentL%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20%3FitemLabel>
Development
- Lucie and Charlie handed in their Bachelor theses on the Article
Placeholder and Editing Wikidata from Wikipedia. Work on both topics will
continue. We'll publish both theses soon. A big congrats to both of them!
- More work on the first prototype for Commons support (
phabricator:T125822 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125822>)
- Continued working on improving language support for monolingual text
and labels/descriptions/aliases (phabricator:T125066
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125066>)
- Conversion of properties from string to external identifier datatype
is ongoing
- Experimenting with putting query results on a map in
query.wikidata.org
(earthquakes <https://twitter.com/filbertkm/status/705729435857715200>, ski
resorts <https://twitter.com/filbertkm/status/706102977258512384>)
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
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