Hey everyone :)
Here's your summary of what happened around Wikidata over the last week:
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Paper; From Freebase to Wikidata: The Great Migration https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/44818.pdf - Podcast: Leetkultur: Datenbanken kuratieren http://1337kultur.de/2016/888/ - Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Ateliers_Wikidata#La_Paillasse.2C_25.2F02.2F2016
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- In order to deploy the ORES extension on Wikidata we need a few more people to help with a labeling campaign https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Edit_labels. ORES will help us a lot with anti-vandalism fighting. - Timeline of Zika papers https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-timeline/#/timeline?query=CLAIM%5B921:202864%5D%20OR%20CLAIM%5B921:8071861%5D - A Wikidata/DBpedia Geography of Violence http://nodegoat.net/blog.p/82.m/14/a-wikidatadbpedia-geography-of-violence - The museum map now works for all countries http://aron.ambrosiani.se/museums/ - Biblioteca Nacional de España has been added to Mix'n'match https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match - Wikidata BEACON https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/beacon.php has been switched to use SPARQL - Nice Wikidata-filled infobox used across different Wikipedias https://twitter.com/JGH_JAEHNICK/status/700339428435304448 - Reasonator https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/ has been switched to SPARQL and got new examples
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: Strand orientation https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2548, perimeter https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2547, sidekick of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2546, bowling style https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2545, acceptable daily intake https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2542, operating area https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2541, Aarne–Thompson–Uther Tale Type Index https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2540, Nationalmuseum Sweden artwork ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2539, Nationalmuseum Sweden artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2538, Free Software Directory entry https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2537, Sandbox-External identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2536 - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects: Religions https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Religions, Award https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Award - Query example: natural numbers https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%20%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20rdfs%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2F01%2Frdf-schema%23%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fvalue%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ21199%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1181%20%3Fvalue%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20%3Fvalue%20%3FitemLabel
Development
- The in other projects sidebar has graduated from beta features and is now turned on on all projects except Dutch Wikipedia. (They have their own hack.) This closes a wish that has been around since 2004 \o/ ( phabricator:T2708 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T2708) - The new datatype for external identifiers is available and we are converting existing identifiers https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-February/008247.html - Input needed on caching for the query service https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-February/008231.html - Added a new identifiers section in items. Everything with datatype external identifier goes there now. Once we have all identifiers converted items should be easier to scan and understand because of the clearer structure. - We have a patch upcoming that should reduce loading time of items with a lot of sitelinks by 25% - Fixed a bug where you could not add statements with external identifier or mathematical expression datatype (phabricator:T127095 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127095) - More groundwork for Commons (making it possible to have more entities than just items and properties) - Wikidata Query Service https://query.wikidata.org/ now supports all commonly used prefixes https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/Indexing/RDF_Dump_Format#Prefixes_used by default, without explicit declaration. - wikidata-sdk ships with a #SPARQL query url generator https://github.com/maxlath/wikidata-sdk#sparql-queries
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