Thanks!

How do I read the WDQS report that is linked? I only see the link to the rmd source.

https://github.com/wikimedia-research/Discovery-WDQS-Adhoc-Usage/blob/master...

On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 9:13 AM Léa Lacroix lea.lacroix@wikimedia.de wrote:

*Hello all,Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.*

Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage

• During the British wildlife edit-a-thon 2016

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wikipedia:GLAM/British_Library/British_wildlife_edit-a-thon_2016, attendees added bird sounds from Europeana Sounds to Wikidata and over 60 Wikipedias

• Past: WikiConference in San Diego, USA

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_North_America

• Upcoming: Wikidata workshop

https://www.wikimedia.nl/activiteit/workshop-wikidata by Wikimedia Nederland, October 20, Utrecht

• by Amical Wikimedia (ca)
• A Natural Language Query Engine without Machine Learning

http://blog.ayoungprogrammer.com/2016/10/natural-lang-query-engine.html/, on A Young Programmer's blog

• The Wikimedia Foundation will now directly fund basic expenses for

Wikidata software development https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/10/04/supporting-the-future-of-wikidata/, on WMF blog

• People buried on cemetery and if they have a picture of the grave or

not https://minancestry.blogspot.fr/2016/08/people-buried-on-q252312-with-grave.html by Magnus Sälgö

• Sunday Query : où meurent les Bretons ?

https://blog.ash.bzh/fr/sunday-query-meurent-bretons/ (fr) by Ash_Crow

• Charts and data about Brexit & US Elections

https://medium.com/@HectorPerez/5000-people-on-brexit-us-elections-41e3b6376aae#.lhxivmuzj, by Hector Perez

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Proposition

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use/Creative_Commons_4.0 for upgrading the default copyright license for Wikimedia projects to CC-by-SA 4.0 (does not affect the structured data part of Wikidata, which uses CC0).

• 3 Wikidata-related projects will be funded by WMF grants :

Librarybase https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Harej/Librarybase:_an_online_reference_library, Lua module https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Putnik/Wikidata_module and WikiFactMine https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/ContentMine/WikiFactMine

• Query service analysis: What kind of things are people doing with

WDQS? https://github.com/wikimedia-research/Discovery-WDQS-Adhoc-Usage/blob/master/Report.Rmd and Who are our WDQS users and where are they from? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Exploration_on_the_Use_of_WDQS_-_Breakdown_by_Geography,_User_Agent_and_Referer_Class.pdf

• chemical compounds in Wikipedia and Wikidata

http://www.slideshare.net/sebotic/wikiconference-2016-talk-burgstaller, talk by Sebastian Burgstaller

• PetScan tool https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23665536 past half a

million queries since April (source https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/782943886989721602)

Did you know?

• Newest properties

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: KANTL member ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3277, Angel List ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3276, storyboard artist https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3275, content deliverer https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3274, Actorenregister ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3273, Zeri image ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3272, compulsory education (maximum age) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3271, compulsory education (minimum age) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3270, Fotografen.nl ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3269, PORT organization URL https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3268, Flickr user ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3267, LocFDD ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3266, MySpace ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3265, radix https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3264, base https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3263, has anatomical branch https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3262, anatomical branch of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3261, points awarded https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3260, intangible cultural heritage status https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3259, LiveJournal ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3258, Queensland place ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3257, Cave E-Cadastre ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3256, Property proposal discussion https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3254, optimum viable temperature https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3253, maximum viable temperature https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3252, minimum viable temperature https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3251

• Query examples:
  • Chemistry Nobel prizes through time
  https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ATimeline%0ASELECT%20%3Fwinner%20%3FwinnerLabel%20%3Fwhen%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fwinner%20%3Fp%20%3Fwds.%0A%20%20%3Fwds%20%3Fv%20wd%3AQ44585.%0A%20%20%3FwdP%20wikibase%3AstatementProperty%20%3Fv.%0A%20%20%3FwdP%20wikibase%3Aclaim%20%3Fp.%0A%20%20%3Fwds%20pq%3AP585%20%3Fwhen%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D (source https://twitter.com/egonwillighagen/status/783646957596184576)
  • Former countries without continent (P30)
  https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Countries%20%28or%20instances%20of%20subclasses%20of%29%20without%20a%20continent%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%0A%28SAMPLE%28%3FendDate%29%20AS%20%3FendDate%29%0A%28GROUP_CONCAT%28DISTINCT%20%3FsuccessorContinent%20%3B%20separator%3D%22%2F%22%29%20AS%20%3FsuccessorContinent%29%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ6256%20.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP30%20%3Fcontinent%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP582%20%3FendDate%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1366*%20%3FsuccessorCountry%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FsuccessorCountry%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%20wd%3AQ6256%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FsuccessorCountry%20wdt%3AP30%20%3FsuccessorContinentItem%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FsuccessorContinentItem%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FsuccessorContinent%20.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28LANG%28%3FsuccessorContinent%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%20.%0A%20%20%7D%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel (source https://twitter.com/ash_crow/status/785057523971883008)
  • Rivers without any mouth specified
  https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ4022%20.%0A%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP403%20%3Fmouth%20%7D%0A%20%20%23SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20%3FitemLabel (source https://twitter.com/PoulpyWP/status/782217057958002688)
  • Interesting items near you
  https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fcoords%20%3FstatementCount%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20BIND%28wd%3AQ15260574%20AS%20%3Flocation%29.%20%23%20WMDE%20office%3B%20insert%20your%20location%20here%21%0A%20%20%3Flocation%20wdt%3AP625%20%3FlocationCoords.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Aaround%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoords.%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Acenter%20%3FlocationCoords%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3Aradius%2050.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20MINUS%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ1496967.%20%7D%20%23%20territorial%20entities%20%28cities%2C%20%E2%80%A6%29%20are%20boring%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20%5Eschema%3Aabout%3F%2Fwikibase%3Astatements%20%3FstatementCount.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3FstatementCount%20%3E%3D%2020%29.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%2C%20%22de%22.%20%7D%0A%7D (source https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/784878804342890497)
• Newest external tools: new Wikidata game, Alias Candidates

https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/distributed/?#game=27 (by MagnusManske)

• Newest database reports: List of embassies

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikivoyage/Lists/Embassies has now summaries by host country and by country represented

Development

• The property talk namespace now has subpages enabled (

phabricator:T146271 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146271)

• More work on automated sitelinks for Wiktionary (phabricator:T987

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T987)

• More work on federation for Commons in order to be able to use

Wikidata's items and properties there (phabricator:T76007 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76007)

• Adding entity usage information in action=edit on Wikipedia and co (

phabricator:T144921 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144921)

• Working on making it possible to get formatted values back on the

client. With this we will for example link the value to a Wikipedia article where possible. (phabricator:T142940 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142940)

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/Special:MyLanguage/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.

• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview - proposals needing attention https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Attention_needed

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