Hey folks :)
Here's your summary of what happened around Wikidata over the past week.
Enjoy!
Discussions
- Successful request for adminship: Eurodyne
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Eurodyne>
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- World Health Summit yearbook for 2015
<http://www.worldhealthsummit.org/fileadmin/downloads/2015/WHS/Documents/151211_WHS_2015_-_web.pdf>
- You can apply for a scholarship to attend Wikimania 2016
<https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships> (deadline:
January 9th)
- Talk submissions for Wikimania 2016
<https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions> are open. We'd
love to see many Wikidata-related submissions. If you need help with your
submission contact Lydia
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lydia_Pintscher_%28WMDE%29>.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Google has launched the Knowledge Graph Search API, replacing the
deprecated Freebase API <https://developers.google.com/knowledge-graph/>
- Meta now has access to the data on Wikidata as well
- Want to get an overview of the classes and properties on Wikidata? The
Miga class and property browser was updated.
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-exports/miga/>
- WikiBrowser <https://twitter.com/JavaFXpert/status/675667476386975744>
- semantically browse Wikipedia with the help of Wikidata
- WikiFamou.us <http://wikifamo.us> lets you compare topics by
popularity across languages with the help of Wikidata
- Chronas <http://www.chronas.org> is a history project linking
Wikipedia and Wikidata with a chronological and cartographical view
- Visiting some place for the holidays? Check out the items nearby.
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Nearby>
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: Fashion Model
Directory magazine ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2413>, Fashion
Model Directory designer ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2412>, Artsy gene
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2411>, WikiPathways ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2410>, NII Article ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2409>, set in period
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2408>, short-term exposure limit
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2407>, maximum peak exposure
limit <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2406>, ceiling exposure
limit <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2405>, time-weighted
average exposure limit <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2404>, Total
assets <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2403>, total expenditure
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2402>, Six Degrees of Francis
Bacon ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2401>
- Query example: works created by females who died in 1945
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Works%20created%20by%20females%20died%20in%201945%0APREFIX%20bd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bigdata.com%2Frdf%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%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%0Aselect%20distinct%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FcreaLabel%20%3FworkLabel%20%28year%28%3Fdate%29as%20%3Fyear%29%0Awhere%20%7B%0A%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP170%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20P170%2Fcreator%0A%20UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP50%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%20%20%23%20P50%2Fauthor%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP86%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%20%23%20P86%2Fcomposer%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP87%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%20%23%20P87%2Flibrettist%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP110%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%23%20P110%2Fillustrator%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP655%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%23%20P655%2Ftranslator%0A%20%23UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP676%20%3Fcrea%20.%7D%20%23%20P676%2Flyrics%20by%0A%20%0A%20%3Fcrea%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581072%20.%20%23%20P21%2Fsex%20or%20gender%20-%20Q6581072%2Ffemale%0A%20%3Fcrea%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Ftime0%20.%0A%20FILTER%20%28%20%3Ftime0%20%3E%3D%20%221945-01-01T00%3A00%3A00Z%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%20%26%26%20%3Ftime0%20%3C%3D%20%221945-12-31T00%3A00%3A00Z%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%20%29%20%23%20P570%2Fdate%20of%20death%20in%201945%0A%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP571%20%3Fdate%7D%20UNION%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP577%20%3Fdate%20%7D%7D%20%23%20P571%2Finception%20-%20P571%2Fpublication%20date%0A%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20%3Fwork%0A%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%2Car%2Cbe%2Cbg%2Cbn%2Cca%2Ccs%2Cda%2Cde%2Cel%2Ces%2Cet%2Cfa%2Cfi%2Cfr%2Che%2Chi%2Chu%2Chy%2Cid%2Cit%2Cja%2Cjv%2Cko%2Cnb%2Cnl%2Ceo%2Cpa%2Cpl%2Cpt%2Cro%2Cru%2Csh%2Csk%2Csr%2Csv%2Csw%2Cte%2Cth%2Ctr%2Cuk%2Cyue%2Cvec%2Cvi%2Czh%22%20%23BabelRainbow%0A%20%7D%0A%7DORDER%20BY%20%3FcreaLabel%20%0A>
Development
- <3 Thanks for being awesome. Enjoy the holidays :)
- We will take the "in other projects"-sidebar out of beta features in
January (phabricator:T103102 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103102>)
- Making ranking information like label and statement counts available
to the CirrusSearch
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CirrusSearch> index in order
to improve ranking in search results (phabricator:T110648
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110648>)
- Continued work on the identifier data type for identifiers like VIAF
and ISBN so we can easily put them into a separate section in the items and
properly link them in the exports (phabricator:T95682
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T95682>, phabricator:T121274
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121274>)
- Continued work on making external identifiers clickable links without
the help of the authority control gadget (phabricator:T95684
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T95684>)
- Fixed a mistake in the set reference API documentation (gerrit:259171
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/259171>)
- More work on cleaning up the statement section (phabricator:T121390
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121390>)
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
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.