Hey folks :)
Here's what's been happening around Wikidata over the past week. Enjoy and
have a good weekend.
Discussions
- New request for comments: Improve bot policy for data import and data
modification
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Improve_bot_policy_for_data_import_and_data_modification>
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Upcoming: Ubuntu Party, Paris
<http://ubuntu-paris.org/programme/#ateliers>
- Upcoming: Wikidata editathon, National Library of Wales
<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Expert_outreach/Wikipedian_in_Residence_at_the_National_Library_of_Wales/WikiData_Editathon>
- More mixin’, more matches <http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=373>
- Impact of Wikimania Mexico 2015 on Wikidata
<http://addshore.com/2015/11/impact-of-wikimania-mexico-2015-on-wikidata/>
- Myanmar coordinates on Wikidata by Lockal & Widar
<http://addshore.com/2015/11/myanmar-coordinates-on-wikidata-by-lockal-widar/>
- Tasty translations for the Taste of Stockholm food festival
<https://opensource.com/life/15/11/tasty-translations-the-open-source-way>
- Bachelor thesis about generating quiz questions from Wikidata
<ftp://ftp.tik.ee.ethz.ch/pub/students/2015-FS/BA-2015-13.pdf>
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Mix'n'match <https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/>: new catalogs
were added
- Whitepaper for GLAM institutions wanting to work with Wikdiata
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Flemish_art_collections,_Wikidata_and_Linked_Open_Data/Whitepaper>
- MediaWiki, Meta, Wikispecies and Wikinews will get access to the data
on Wikidata on Dec. 2nd. (So far they only have access to sitelinks.)
- What kind of information does Wikidata have? Jura made an overview for
the types of statements we have.
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jura1/statements_by_property>
- You can now use SPARQL instead of WDQ for all Listeria bot-generated
lists, on all wikis. See en:Template:Wikidata list
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikidata_list>
- Alpha release of Wikipedia Gender Inequality Index
<http://wigi.wmflabs.org/> (using data from Wikidata)
- Query examples: all xkcd comics
<https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20xsd%3A%20%20%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2001%2FXMLSchema%23%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fepisode%20%3FepisodeLabel%20%3Fnumber%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fepisode%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ838795%20.%0A%20%20%3Fepisode%20wdt%3AP361%20wd%3AQ13915%20.%0A%20%20%3Fepisode%20wdt%3AP433%20%3Fnumber%20.%0A%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20xsd%3Ainteger%28%3Fnumber%29>,
English demonyms for countries
<https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20%3Fcountry%20%3Fname%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fcountry%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ6256%20.%0A%20%20%3Fcountry%20wdt%3AP1549%20%3Fname%20.%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28%20lang%28%3Fname%29%3D%27en%27%29%0A%7D%0A>
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: Cycling Archives
ID (team) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2331>, Cycling
Archives ID (race) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2330>,
antagonist
muscle <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2329>, ProCyclingStats
ID (team) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2328>, ProCyclingStats
ID (race) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2327>, GNS Unique
Feature Identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2326>, mean
anomaly <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2325>, quantity buried
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2324>, Swedish Olympic
Committee athlete ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2323>, article
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2322>, general classification
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2321>, aftershocks
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2320>, elector
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2319>, debut participant
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2318>, call sign
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2317>, constraint status
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2316>, comment
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2315>, min quantity
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2313>, max quantity
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2312>, max date
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2311>, min date
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2310>, relation
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2309>, class
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2308>, namespace
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2307>, property
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2306>, item
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2305>, group by
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2304>, exception to constraint
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2303>, property constraint
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2302>, minimal lethal dose
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2300>
Development
- Rolled out simultaneous editing of main part of the statement and
reference
- Did a clean-up of the statements section (removing some lines etc) and
added icons for the actions on statements
- Worked more on moving identifiers into their own section in item pages
and having them linked properly in the exports
- Work on improving ranking of search results on Wikidata
- Decreased size of html of item pages
- Adapted our code to some minor changes in the watchlist code in core
- More work on making the search on mobile work
- Made preparations for constraint definitions through statements on
properties
- Fixing size of table of content on mobile
- Prevented merging of items which link to each other
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.
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10963 Berlin
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