Hey folks :)
Here is your summary of what's been happening around Wikidata over the past
week.
Discussions
- Monolingual language code creation process
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Monolingual_language_code_creation_process>
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>/
Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Past: IRC office hour (log
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2017/wikimedia-office.2017-11-14-18.00.log.html>
)
- Past: Wikidata Lab II, a workshop to teach users how to create lists
using Wikidata in São Paulo (images from the event
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikidata_Lab_II>)
- Upcoming: *IRC office hour* about *Structured Data on Commons
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data>*, November
21, 18:00 UTC in the channel #wikimedia-office
- Upcoming: *WLM-Wikidata-Editathon 2017*
<https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WLM-Wikidata-Editathon_2017> in
Berlin, November 24-26
- Upcoming: *Wiki4MediaFreedom edit-a-thon - II edition*
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki4MediaFreedom_edit-a-thon_-_II_edition>
(with Wikidata track) in Sofia, November 27
- Upcoming: Wikidata-Hackathon at WikiMUC
<https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiMUC/2017-11-30_Wikidata-Hackathon>
in Munich, November 30
- WikidataCon 2017
<https://blog.wikimedia.de/2017/11/13/wikidatacon-2017/>
- Fünf Jahre Wikidata at Chaosradio
<https://chaosradio.ccc.de/cr240.html>
- "Turning a historical book into a data set"
<http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/digital/2017/10/24/turning-historical-book-data-set/>
- "Creating Wikipedia articles from research data"
<http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/digital/2017/10/27/creating-wikipedia-articles-from-research-data/>
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New tool by Magnus: Wikidata SPARQL Recent Changes
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/sparql_rc.php> - get diffs for
all items matching a SPARQL query, for a date range
- New tool by Magnus: WD edit stats
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/wd_edit_stats.php> - get edit
stats for all items matching a SPARQL query
- Wikidata coverage for 'place' in OpenStreetMap
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iFk25F4tRtIGTP-3jih6MbDm2oF29Sjn0X7o81XGSsw/edit#gid=0>
(as of October 2017)
- OpenRefine 2.8
<https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/releases/tag/2.8> was
released. Adding columns from Wikidata and importing Wikitables is now
possible. Let's write tutorials for it
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools/OpenRefine>.
- Mix'n'match now shows for a catalog which user originally imported it
and if it is updated regularly (example
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/?#/catalog/323>)
- A breaking change to the *wbcheckconstraints* API output format was
announced
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#BREAKING_CHANGE:_wbcheckconstraints_detail_output>
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: CGF athlete ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4548>, OKS athlete ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4547>, Gymn Forum athlete ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4546>, sexually homologous with
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4545>, Tennis Temple player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4544>, has listed ingredient
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4543>, World of O athlete ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4542>, HOO athlete ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4541>, IBTrACS cyclone ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4540>, Collective Biographies
of Women ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4539>, Snooker
Database player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4538>, Spider
Ontology ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4537>, EThOS thesis
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4536>, EUTA theatre ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4535>, EUTA person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4534>, Czech Street ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4533>, Survey of Scottish
Witchcraft - Trial ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4532>, ChinesePosters
artist ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4531>, Bangladesh
administrative division code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4530>, Douban movie ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4529>, REGINE water system
number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4528>, UK Parliament
thesaurus ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4527>, ABA bird ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4526>, MuIS ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4525>, Survey of Scottish
Witchcraft - Person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4524>, Vermont
Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4523>, Alaska Sports Hall of
Fame athlete ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4522>, Radio
Radicale person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4521>, SUNCAT
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4520>, payload mass
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4519>, Melon album ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4518>, ctext work ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4517>, Mémoire du cyclisme
cyclist ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4516>, Prisma ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4515>, Africultures person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4514>, Africultures movie ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4513>, Scottish Cemetery
Kolkata ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4512>
- Query examples:
- List of subclasses of Matrices
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/tree.html?lang=de&q=Q44337&rp=279>
- Works of art in which the artists depicts their spouse
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0ASELECT%20%3Fcreator%20%3FcreatorLabel%20%3FspouseLabel%20%3Fpic%0AWHERE%20%0A%7B%0A%20%20%3Fart%20wdt%3AP180%20%3Fspouse.%0A%20%20%3Fart%20wdt%3AP170%20%3Fcreator.%0A%20%20%3Fspouse%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5.%0A%20%20%3Fcreator%20wdt%3AP26%20%3Fspouse.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fart%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fpic%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0A>
(source <https://twitter.com/netsensei/status/930734466666041350>)
- locations Van Gogh depicted in his paintings
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Fpainting%20%3FdepictsLabel%20%3Flocation%20%3Fpic%0AWHERE%20%0A%7B%0A%20%20%3Fpainting%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ4502142.%0A%20%20%3Fpainting%20wdt%3AP170%20wd%3AQ5582.%0A%20%20%3Fpainting%20wdt%3AP180%20%3Fdepicts.%0A%20%20%3Fdepicts%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Flocation.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fpainting%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fpic%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D>
(source <https://twitter.com/netsensei/status/932268852410535936>)
- Gender split of past Google Doodles
<https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fsexo_ou_g_neroLabel%20%28COUNT%28%3Fser_humano%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fser_humano%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5.%0A%20%20%3Fser_humano%20wdt%3AP4431%20%3FGoogle_Doodle.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fser_humano%20wdt%3AP21%20%3Fsexo_ou_g_nero.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fsexo_ou_g_neroLabel>
(source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/931131040185438210>)
- Newest database reports: expeditions
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Lists/expeditions>
Development
- Fixed Commons media suggester not loading all preview thumbnails (
phabricator:T160528 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160528>)
- RDF exports can handle entity references to foreign Wikibase
repositories now, needed for Structured Data on Commons (
phabricator:T161592 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161592>)
- Worked on making statements on Forms
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikibaseLexeme/Data_Model#Form>
editable and persistent (phabricator:T163724
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163724>)
- Worked on fine-grained usage tracking in Wikibase' Lua library (
phabricator:T172914 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172914>)
- Worked on caching constraint check results (phabricator:T179849
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179849>) and indicating when
constraint check results are cached (phabricator:T179844
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179844>)
- Wikibase code base does not use Composer class autoloading any more (
phabricator:T180067 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180067>) as
another step towards getting rid of our own build process and being more in
line with the rest of Wikimedia
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>.
Monthly Tasks
- 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>
- Suggested and open tasks
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contribute/Suggested_and_open_tasks>
!
- 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 the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge> across
Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next>
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers
Lydia
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Lydia Pintscher -
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Product Manager for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
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