Hey folks :)
Here is your summary of what happened around Wikidata over the past week.
Discussions
- Notability of items for templates https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Notability_of_items_for_templates - One or more property examples? https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property_talk:P1855#Multi_or_single_value.3F
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Ongoing: Repository Fringe http://rfringe16.blogs.edina.ac.uk/wikidata-wikisource-showcase/ - Ongoing: ICBO http://icbo.cgrb.oregonstate.edu/ (slides http://www.slideshare.net/goodb/opportunities-and-challenges-presented-by-wikidata-in-the-context-of-biocuration ) - Upcoming: CCBWIKI http://www.wikimedia.org.br/content/confirmado-primeiro-keynote-speaker-do-ccbwiki - Localités au fil de l'eau https://darkoneko.wordpress.com/2016/07/25/jouons-avec-wikidata-localites-au-fil-de-leau/ - WDQ, obsolete? http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=410 - BigQuery, Wikidata & AgreeList — idea https://medium.com/@HectorPerez/bigquery-wikidata-agreelist-idea-50ac8657dcb8#.tc3wgrwal
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- You can now see the very first steps towards structured data support for Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Structured_data#It.27s_alive.21 - You can now translate all sister project pages to your language, like Wikidata:Wikipedia https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikipedia. Please, link to them from your projects to give your fellow users chance to learn Wikidata basics. - You can now enable the CoordinateDiffMap Gadget in your preferences to get a map for coordinate changes. - There is a new command line tool to extract taxonomies from Wikidata https://www.npmjs.com/package/wikidata-taxonomy - Simple guide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Finding_a_Wikidata_ID to help Wikipedia editors find Wikidata IDs. In English - please translate into other languages! - You can now use Wikidata to do cool things in Mapbox with the Mapbox iOS SDK https://www.mapbox.com/blog/ios-feature-querying/ - IPTC's NewsCodes Working Group has mapped the top two levels of hierarchical terms of Media Topics to Wikidata https://iptc.org/news/wikidata/ - WMDE's progress report for the annual plan grant with a focus on Wikidata has been published https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2015-2016_round1/Wikimedia_Deutschland_e.V./Progress_report_form - Need to query Wikidata, but lack SPARQL skills? There is now Wikidata:Request a query https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Request_a_query for you!
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: residence time of water https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3020, railway signalling system https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3019, located in protected area https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3018, Rolling Stone artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3017, French national research structure identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3016, backup or reserve team or crew https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3015, laws applied https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3014, surface tension https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3013, Standard Geographical Classification code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3012, World Archery ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3010, Conservatoire du littoral ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3009, Australian Heritage Database Place ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3008, Cadw Monument ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3007, Marine Regions Geographic ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3006, valid in place https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3005, Galiciana ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3004, zanikleobce.cz abandoned objects ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3003, Untappd brewery ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3002, retirement age https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3001 - Query examples: frequency of Romans' praenomen https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Frequency%20of%20Roman%20praenomina%20in%20Wikidata%0A%23%20Reference%20list%20at%20%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fwiki%2FWikidata%3AWikiProject_Names%2Flists%2FRoman_praenomen%0A%23%20by%20Jura1%2C%202016-07-37%2C%20thanks%20to%20data%20recently%20added%20by%20Ep%C3%ACdosis%0A%23defaultView%3ABubbleChart%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fholder%29%20as%20%3Fsample%29%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fholder%29%20as%20%3Fct%29%0A%7B%0A%20%20%09%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ1240901%20.%20%0A%20%20%09OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fholder%20wdt%3AP2358%20%3Fitem%20%7D%20%0A%20%20%09MINUS%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ4167410%20%7D%20%0A%20%20%09MINUS%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ101352%20%7D%0A%20%20%09SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel (source https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Names/lists/Roman_praenomen), movies by number of actors who studied at RADA https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Movies%20by%20number%20of%20actors%20who%20studied%20at%20RADA%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%28COUNT%28%3Factors%29%20AS%20%3FnbActors%29%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ11424%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP161%20%3Factors%20.%0A%20%20%3Factors%20wdt%3AP69%20wd%3AQ523926%20.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3FnbActors%29 (source https://twitter.com/ash_crow/status/759070617937317888), actors directed by Tony Scott + number of appearances https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Factor%20%3FactorLabel%20%3FFilmCount%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Factor%20%28COUNT%28%3Ffilm%29%20AS%20%3FFilmCount%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Ffilm%20wdt%3AP57%20wd%3AQ193648.%0A%20%20%3Ffilm%20wdt%3AP161%20%3Factor.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Factor%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3FFilmCount%29 (source https://twitter.com/Coyau/status/759740545694437376), actors directed more than 20 times by the same director https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fdirector%20%3FdirectorLabel%20%3Factor%20%3FactorLabel%20%3FFilmCount%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fdirector%20%3Factor%20%28COUNT%28%3Ffilm%29%20AS%20%3FFilmCount%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Ffilm%20wdt%3AP57%20%3Fdirector.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Ffilm%20wdt%3AP161%20%3Factor.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fdirector%20%3Factor%0A%20%20%20%20HAVING%20%28%3FFilmCount%20%3E%2020%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3FFilmCount%29%20%3FdirectorLabel%20%3FactorLabel (source https://twitter.com/PoulpyWP/status/759750447691292673), actors directed more than 20 times by the same director with years https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fdirector%20%3FdirectorLabel%20%3Factor%20%3FactorLabel%20%3FfilmCount%20%3FminYear%20%3FmaxYear%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fdirector%20%3Factor%20%28COUNT%28%3Ffilm%29%20AS%20%3FfilmCount%29%20%28MIN%28%3Fyear%29%20AS%20%3FminYear%29%20%28MAX%28%3Fyear%29%20AS%20%3FmaxYear%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Ffilm%20wdt%3AP57%20%3Fdirector.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Ffilm%20wdt%3AP161%20%3Factor.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Ffilm%20wdt%3AP577%20%3Fdate%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%20%28YEAR%28%3Fdate%29%20AS%20%3Fyear%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fdirector%20%3Factor%0A%20%20%20%20HAVING%20%28%3FfilmCount%20%3E%2020%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3FfilmCount%29%20%3FdirectorLabel%20%3FactorLabel (source https://twitter.com/PoulpyWP/status/759755366062141446) - Newest database reports: list of Romans https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Ancient_Rome/lists/people, minimum ages by country https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/age_limits
Development
- Got the demo system for structured data on Commons ready for first show (see above) - Wikipedia editors will soon get a notification when an article they created was connected to a Wikidata item. Thanks Matej! ( phabricator:T110604 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110604) - Worked on improving handling of +-1 etc in quantities ( phabricator:T115269 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115269) - Added a message to the suggester that pops up when you search for items or properties. When no matching property or item is found it will now tell you. (phabricator:T140085 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140085) - Considerably improved our browser tests to find more issues before You ever see them. - Added Haida as a language available for monolingual text properties ( phabricator:T138131 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138131)
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! - Help merge identical items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge across Wikimedia projects. - Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers Lydia