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
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Product Manager for Wikidata
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