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Wikidata weekly summary #301

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: IMLD-ODD 2018 Wikidata India Edit-a-thon, February 21st to March 3rd
  • Upcoming: presentation of the paper "Knowledge Graphs and Pluralism on Wikidata", February 27th, Luxembourg
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Hyderabad, India, March 2nd

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Stewards election is running until February 28th
  • Structured data on Commons ontology discussion continues until March 1st.
  • Decision about the licensing of Lexeme namespace
  • It's been possible for a while (but not previously reported here) to include Wikidata IDs in Wikivoyage listings, like this example edit.
  • Q50000000 was created on February 23rd.
  • You can give feedback about this newsletter
  • Constraint checks will be integrated in the interface of Wikidata

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: conscription number, recognition sequence, cutting site of restriction enzyme, RFE symbol, isoschizomer, neoschizomer, number of records, P4877, symbolizes, segmental innervation
    • External identifiers: AtariAge identifier, Atari Legend identifier, Atarimania identifier, BMI Work ID, Charity Navigator ID, Amazon author page, REBASE Enzyme Number, Hispania Nostra Red List of Endangered Heritage ID, Operabase ID, GEPRIS project ID, GEPRIS organization ID, GEPRIS person ID, World Rugby Women's Sevens Series player ID, FFR Sevens player ID, Maison d'écrivain ID
  • Query examples:
    • Actors who have starred in at least three Oscar Best Picture-nominated films in the same year (Inspired by this Vulture article)
    • Items in the part of the Getty AAT thesaurus (P1014) below costume accessory (Q1065579) where the upward relationship in the thesaurus cannot as yet be 'explained' by our existing subclass (P279) relations (thread1;thread2;thread3)
    • Where were people who went to space born? (source)
    • National flags featuring the Union Jack as a canton (the top inner corner of a flag) (source)
    • Number of mass shootings by country since 1990 (source)
  • Newest database reports: sleds, sleighs and sledges

• Development
  • Make it possible to link to Lexemes and Statements (phab:T1854997)
  • Disabling senses for the first release of Lexemes (phab:T186995)
  • Caching for constraints check

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 2018. február 26., 16:47 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #302

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

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Past: Wikidata workshops in different places in the world for Open Data Day
  • WikiCite presentation (video) as part of Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting - February 2018
  • Wikidata: Knowledge as a Service, by martin Poulter

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Global preferences are available for testing
  • Statement 400.000.000 was created
  • You can now use a SPARQL query to match the result labels against Mix’n’match entries

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: court, time index, 3D model, broader concept, season, number of players in region, century breaks, dialect of, produces cohesive end, isocaudomer
    • External identifiers: FFF male player ID, AFL Tables coach ID, FFF female player ID, Webumenia creator ID, AFL Tables umpire ID, MuIS person or group ID, EPHE ID, Patrons de France ID, Siprojuris ID, ESPN X Games athlete ID, ACE work ID, AICTE institute ID, Chronicling America newspaper ID, Brooklyn Museum Exhibition ID, Zenodo ID, CONABIO ID, New Georgia Encyclopedia ID, Tropicos publication ID, KMSKA work PID, Bargeton ID, Guide Nicaise ID, AlloCiné company ID, Annuaire des fondations ID
  • Query examples:
    • 3D models on Commons (source)
    • Timeline of programming languages (source)
    • Date of birth of computer scientists (source)
    • Women born in Latin America without an article on Spanish Wikipedia (source)
    • Timeline of Düsseldorf mayors (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Energy, Motorsports
  • Newest database reports: nomes de países em português

• Development
  • Re-enable Wikidata Recent Changes integration on Russian Wikipedia (phab:T179012)
  • Investigate on the size of logging table (phab:T188635)
  • Fix issues with graph vizualisation UI (phab:T186467)
  • Work on results of security review for the deployment of Wikibase-Lexeme (phab:T186726)
  • Enable constraint result caching on Wikidata (phab:T184812)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 2018. március 5., 16:04 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #303

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

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Notability and Commons

• Events
  • Upcoming: WikiIndaba in Tunis, 16-18 March. There will be several Wikidata-related sessions
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Paris, March 16th

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Structured Data on Commons is the most important development in Wikimedia's usability, by John Lubbock
  • Data on the history of Scottish witch trials added to Wikidata, by John Lubbock
  • German Wikidata Workshop on "Wikidata: Potential uses and application examples for digital cultural heritage" during the conference DHd 2018
  • Automatically Generating Wikipedia Info-boxes from Wikidata, by Tomás Sáez and Aidan Hogan
  • Linking ImageNet WordNet Synsets with Wikidata, by Finn Årup Nielsen
  • Towards a Question Answering System over the Semantic Web, by Dennis Diefenbach et al.
  • Practical Linked Data Access via SPARQL: The Case of Wikidata, by Markus Krötzsch et al.

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • WDQS updater switched to Kafka
  • First version of Lexicographical Data will be released in April
  • Wikidata:Database reports/Constraint violations updated
  • "autopatrolled" entries to be removed from the logging table
  • You can have a look at the Europeana migration campaign and help with translations in your languages
  • Mix'n'Match new features: Creation Candidates and Top missing entries
  • WDCM Journal: gender equity in Wikidata usage

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: calculated from
    • External identifiers: Ready64 identifier, GameBase 64 identifier, Plus/4 World identifier, Rugby Football Union men's player ID, Snooker.org tournament ID, Rugby Football Union women's sevens player ID, Rugby Football Union men's sevens player ID, CueTracker tournament ID, Rugby Football Union women's player ID, PRotein Ontology ID, Invaluable.com artist ID, Ricorso author ID, AINM ID, Julien ID, Todotango.com artist ID, Todotango.com work ID, The Big Cartoon DataBase ID, Small Monuments of Plzeň Catalogue ID, SFMOMA artist ID, Japan Rugby Football Union men's player ID, Japan Rugby Football Union women's player ID, BFMTV.com director ID, Japan Rugby Football Union women's sevens player ID, Japan Rugby Football Union men's sevens player ID, Societe.com director ID, Dominicains ID, Premiers préfets ID
  • Query examples:
    • Some costume items ending in 'us'
    • Women on Wikidata without article in any Wikipedia, ordered by number of statements (source)
    • WikiProjects about women (source)
    • Software of the KDE community (source)
    • Films starring more than one future head of government (source)
    • Timeline of prominent Women Computer Scientists (source)
  • Newest database reports: list of episodes of Borgen

• Development
  • Significantly (on average to 1/4th) reduced the number of changes from Wikidata showing up on the watchlists and recent changes on Wikipedias and the other sister projects. This way changes that do not affect an article should no longer show up. We're still holding off roll-out to Commons, Cebuano, Waray-Waray and Armenian Wikipedia because of scalability concerns.
  • Working on optimizing one of the largest database tables (wb_terms) (phab:T188279)
  • Fixing a bug on how Wikidata changes are shown on Wikipedia (phab:T189320)
  • Continued addressing security review issues for Wikibase-Lexeme extension (phab:T186726)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Final note from Léa: thanks to people who participated to the feedback page! Today's Weekly Summary is already improved thanks to your suggestions. Feel free to add more comments, and feel free to edit the newsletter yourself: all small contributions are welcome :)

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 2018. március 12., 16:46 (CET)

Kifürkészhetetlen

Nem is tudod, mennyire hiányoznak késhegyre menő vitáink... ! :) – Burumbátor ^{Súgd ide!} 2018. március 16., 17:14 (CET)

Ó, megszelídültünk azóta, nem vitázunk, csak ha nagyon muszáj. Bennó^fogadó 2018. március 16., 17:18 (CET)

Szia , egy fontos bejelentésem lenne !!

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És akkor meg ezt kapom : Kérlek, ne rakj fel értelmetlen szövegeket, mert azonnal töröljük őket. – Pagony foxhole 2018. március 18., 10:58 (CET)

Sőt sok minden nincs szerkesztve , és kitörli.. Pl , az Angel Coulby, meg stb.. És azt se tudja , bocsánat , hogy ezt mondom. ( Egyes admin , hogy , hol van) Mert nem irtam hülyeséget.

És azt se tudják , hogy mivan , hát téged nem tudom , azért jövök hozzád.. De ezért én is tudnék szopatni , és akk. kivannbak tötölve a szerkesztéseim , és amikor mások szerkesztenek , akk. meg levan szarva , de én egy évbe ezzel foglalkozok , most először , akkor meg az van , hogy mit képzelek magamról , mondom kösz , na csá.. És ezzel rágja le kb . a világnak a fele magát...

Nem tudod mit csináljak ez ellen? Mert már több pontot értem volna már el , és erre az a pagony admin , meg megszopat. Nem tudom mivan egyesekkel ..

Wikidata weekly summary #304

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

• Discussions
  • Open requests for adminship: Putnik, Okkn

• Events
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Eindhoven, NL, March 24th

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Mind the (Language) Gap: Generation of Multilingual Wikipedia Summaries from Wikidata for ArticlePlaceholders by Lucie-Aimée Kaffee et al.
  • Semantic labeling for quantitative data using Wikidata, by Phuc Nguyen and Hideaki Takeda
  • OpenStreetMap Interview: Andy Mabbett, Wikidata and OSM - The OpenCage Geocoder blog
  • How we’re using machine learning to visually enrich Wikidata, by Miriam Redi on WMF's blog

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The property suggestions were updated last week, the last update was in December 2017. The most noticable effect is the higher ranking of "family name" (P734) on items about people. Input about the suggester is still welcome.
  • There is an early conversation about structured licensing and copyright on Wikimedia Commons.
  • George, le deuxième texte (fr), a website querying Wikidata to find French female authors, in order to bring more diversity in the literature school programs
  • New, configurable download page for Mix’n’match catalogs (example)
  • The Su Lab is looking for a postdoctoral researcher to work on Wikidata in the Gene Wiki team
  • Help:Conflation of 2 persons

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: download link, INCI name, safety classification and labelling, may prevent, classification of the best at metas volantes
    • External identifiers: Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms ID, TMDb movie ID, DDB ID, Irish Rugby Football Union men's sevens player ID, Irish Rugby Football Union women's sevens player ID, Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms ID, MR Author ID, BDH edition ID, AIDA freediver ID, equipement.paris.fr place ID, Generation MSX identifier, Sega8bit.com identifier, Abandonia identifier
  • New property proposals to review: Norwegian war sailor register ID, PRS Legislative Research MP ID, Thésaurus de la désignation des œuvres architecturales et des espaces aménagés ID, Thésaurus de la désignation des objets mobiliers ID, TMDB person id, TMDB TV series ID, Biographical Dictionary of Georgia ID, ruchess ID, UK Provider Reference Number, Hungarian public body ID, medical evacuation to, hearing date, TMDB person id, TMDB TV series ID, RKDlibrary ID, IDA place ID, Kinoliste ID, Routard.com place ID, Scottish Rugby Union men's player ID, Scottish Rugby Union women's player ID, Scottish Rugby Union men's sevens player ID, Scottish Rugby Union women's sevens player ID, Women’s Elite Rugby ID
  • Query examples:
    • Megalithic sites in Spain (source)
    • Major periods of Japanese history and what they were named after (source)
    • Islandic names that are not ending in "son" or "dottir (source)
    • In what language does Q137 and Q12518 have the same label? (source)
    • Timeline of Earth's artificial satellites (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Indigenous peoples of North America
  • Newest database reports: Friends episodes list

• Development
  • Looking into current Lua usage to see where we can improve the Lua functions we provide (phab:T189506)
  • When there is a constraint violation in a reference, the reference is now automatically expanded to make it more visible (phab:T177970)
  • Looked into issues around notifying the Wikipedias about changes happening on Wikidata (sometimes delayed due to too quick bot editing) (phab:T189772)
  • Fixed some translation issues in the embeded part of the Query Service (phab:T188990)
  • Fixed an issue with usernames being broken for Wikidata changes in watchlist and RC on Wikipedia (phab:T189320)
  • Optimizing a heavily used database table (wb_terms) (phab:T188279)
  • Polishing a lot of things for lexicographical data first deployment
  • Make it possible to remove a Form (phab:T173332)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 2018. március 19., 17:07 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #305

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

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: Putnik, Okkn. Welcome on board!
  • Closed request for comments: Former ATE

• Events
  • Upcoming: 1st Workshop on Quality of Open Data, Berlin, July 18–20 (submission deadline May 27)
  • Upcoming: EuropeanaTech and Wikidata Workshop Day for GLAMs, Rotterdam (NL), Monday 14 May. A day of GLAM-related workshops around Wikidata and Structured Commons, for beginners and advanced users.

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • SPLASHes in Wikidata, by Egon Willighagen

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • report about items with identical birth and death dates updated
  • Relator, a tool to improve family relations in Wikidata
  • Descendants check: consistency across multiple generations
  • Due to Easter Monday, the next issue of the Weekly Summary will be sent on Tuesday, April 3rd. Until that day, feel free to add information in there

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: prerequisite, relevant qualification, derivative work, alternate names, test method
    • External identifiers: Biographical Dictionary of Swedish Women, SPLASH, Behind the voice Actors video games ID, Hungarian MP identifier, UK Provider Reference Number, Norwegian war sailor register ID, Wikitribune category, Scottish Rugby Union men's player ID, Scottish Rugby Union men's sevens player ID, Scottish Rugby Union women's player ID, IDA place ID, PRS Legislative Research MP ID, Thésaurus de la désignation des objets mobiliers ID, Thésaurus de la désignation des œuvres architecturales et des espaces aménagés ID, Kinoliste ID, Women’s Elite Rugby ID, TMDb TV series id, TMDb person id, Routard.com place ID, Scottish Rugby Union women's sevens player ID, RKDlibrary ID, Statistics Canada Geographic code, Biographical Dictionary of Georgia ID, DBA ID, Hungarian public body ID, ruchess ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: had part, METAR code, Zulassungszahlen, Analog or derivative of, GHS labelling elements, en opposition à, output method
    • External identifiers: Filmweb.pl film ID, Filmweb.pl person ID, Orthodox Encyclopedia Online ID, National Thesis Number, Deutsche Biographie Identifikator, Welsh Rugby Union IDs (women's XV and men's 7s)
  • Query examples:
    • Airports named after a person, color-coded by gender (source)
    • Movies that Wikidata knows about and that have a German title that implies that someone or something doesn't answer (source)
    • Software developed by people/organizations that have archival material at the ComputerHistory museum (source)
    • Most common eponyms of French departments (source)
  • Newest database reports: HOLBY CI⁺Y episode list, list of 2-part episodes

• Development
  • New search code for Wikidata merged. You may notice the improvement in the search results output for Wikidata item. However, new code for search is not enabled, only new results format. The search code will be enabled next week.
  • Improving formatting of language and lexical category in diff for Lexemes (phab:T189679)
  • Allow to remove a Form (phab:T189675)
  • Translate the grammatical feature properly on Lexemes (phab:T189143)
  • Investigate and fix a bug on Lexemes when undoing an edit (phab:T187215)
  • Progress on refactoring the table wb_terms (phab:T189777, phab:T188993, phab:T188279)
  • Fixing an error on the caching of the constraint checks (phab:T189842)
  • Improving the performance of a table in the database (phab:T180834)
  • Improving the way we're building dumps (phab:T177550)
  • Investigate on improving Lua functions (phab:T143970)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 2018. március 26., 15:37 (CEST)

The Signpost: 29 March 2018

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Op-ed: Death knell for The Signpost?

• News and notes: Wiki Conference roundup and new appointments

• Arbitration report: Ironing out issues in infoboxes; not sure yet about New Jersey; and an administrator who probably wasn't uncivil to a sockpuppet.

• In the media: The media on Wikipedia's workings: the good and not-so-good

• Traffic report: Real sports, real women and an imaginary country: what's on top for Wikipedia readers

• Featured content: Animals, Ships, and Songs

• Technology report: Timeless skin review by Force Radical

• Special report: ACTRIAL wrap-up

• Humour: WikiWorld Reruns

Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 2018. március 29., 21:43 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #306

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

• Events
  • Talk by Morane Gruenpeter and Katherine Thornton, presented at LibrePlanet 2018 about software metadata in Software Heritage and Wikidata. Video of the talk. Slides for the talk.

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Making women more visible online—with Wikidata tools by Sandra Fauconnier on WMF's blog

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • if you're working with Lua modules, you can give input here about new functions
  • you can still fill this page if you encounter a problem with suggester ranking

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: National Governors Association biography URL, key press, number of clubs, analog or derivative of, in opposition to
    • External identifiers: Biographical Dictionary of Georgia ID, DBA ID, Hungarian public body ID, ruchess ID, World Para Snowboard athlete ID, METAR code, Orthodox Encyclopedia ID, Amphibians of India ID, National Thesis Number (France)
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: maximum operating temperature, minimum operating temperature, maximum non-operating temperature, minimum non-operating temperature, Специальное звание или классный чин, member of the crew of, service life, Gens, Code of Household Registration and Conscription Information System, Wikipedia glossary entry, assistant director, choral conductor, lighting designer, sound designer, projection designer, video designer, stage crew member, number of representations, talk show guest, adaptation or arrangement of, revival or touring version of
    • External identifiers: DNV GL Vessel register ID, Behind the voice Actors person ID, Identifier of object at prazdnedomy.cz, Digital Typhoon ID, Territographie ID, Chile Rugby player ID, Directory of Open Access Journals ID, Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID, Researchmap ID, OpenEdition Books ID, KIT Linked Open Numbers ID, Animated Knots ID
  • Sparsely used properties created >3 months:
    • Spider Ontology ID (P4537), has listed ingredient (P4543), sexually homologous with (P4545), Everyone Remembered ID (P4551), ICRC PoW ID (P4554), SNCZI-IPE dam ID (P4558), Art Museum of Estonia artwork ID (P4564), electoral district number (P4565), awarded for period (P4566), BPH journal ID (P4569)
  • Deleted properties: P1124 (teu), P3484 (name shares origin with), P4990 (Statistics Canada Geographic code)
  • Query examples:
    • Most common title of paintings in English
    • Timeline for German author Heinrich Mann (source)
    • Density in kilograms per cubicmeter for books (source)
    • Books by weight (source)
    • Train stations in the UK (source)
    • Map of megaliths in Portugal and Spain (source)
  • Newest database reports: pilot and first episodes of television series

• Development
  • Work on a script to generate MassMessage target lists (phab:T190812)
  • Test validity of Wikidata IDs in Lua modules (phab:T143970)
  • Rename Lua functions in old naming scheme (phab:T190382)
  • More work on wb_terms table (phab:T188992)
  • More work on logging autopatrol actions (phab:T184485)
  • Include checksums in dumps (phab:T190457)
  • Add mobile edits to Grafana (phab:T191111)
  • Allowing to remove a Form from a Lexeme (phab:T173332)
  • Fixing bugs on Lexemes (phab:T189185)
  • Checking permissions for actions on Lexemes

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 2018. április 3., 14:20 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #307

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

• Events
  • Role of Wikimedia in the era of Open Science, Barcelona, April 16th
  • Wikidata meetup in Berlin, April 20th. Please sign up if you want to attend (the meetup takes place in the venue of the Wikimedia Conference)
  • Wikidata workshop in Paris, April 20th
  • Wikidata for science workshop in Paris, April 23rd
  • Wikidata meetup in Zürich, April 25th

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Some improvements have been made on the search results
  • The administrative territorial entities of the Ottoman Empire are now largely complete. They include the elayets, vilayets and their sanjaks.
  • A new version of Denelezh, a tool to monitor the gender gap in Wikidata, has been released, including a new methodology to produce the data (explained at the top of the main page and in the documentation), and an overview of the gender gap by Wikimedia project.
  • Items now contain an average of 9 statements.
  • Item Q2937606, created 5 years ago, got its first statement
  • New tool: The property explorer sorts and displays properties per category (developed by Stevenliuyi based on a suggestion from Micru)

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Wikimedia project focus list, complies with, special rank, last update, test taken, test score, activity policy in this place, choral conductor, gens, lighting designer, number of representations, sound designer
    • External identifiers: DNV GL Vessel register ID, Behind the voice Actors person ID, Territographie ID, Prazdne Domy building ID, Welsh Rugby Union women's player ID, Welsh Rugby Union men's sevens player ID, Digital Typhoon typhoon ID, Digital Typhoon cyclone ID, Chile Rugby player ID, Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID, Code of Household Registration and Conscription Information System (Taiwan)
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: majority opinion, KMC Heritage Building Grade, accreditation, Number of spoilt votes, Number of blank votes, Number of abstentions, greater than (2), subdomain URL, International Classification for Standards, Wind speed, Wikimedia outline, list combines topics
    • External identifiers: Authorea Author ID, Lambiek Comiclopedia ID, FOGIS ID, Behind the voice Actors character ID, KIT Linked Open Numbers ID, Harvard designation, Yahoo Answers category, UMAC ID, Internet Adult Film Database film ID, Adult Film Database film ID
  • Sparsely used properties created >3 months:
    • Berlinische Galerie artist ID (P4580), Kulturelles Erbe Köln object ID (P4582), Argentinian Historic Heritage ID (P4587), National Inventory of Canadian Military Memorials ID (P4591), Mountain Project ID (P4592), arXiv author ID (P4594), post town (P4595), NIOSH Publication Number (P4596), monomer of (P4599), Lives of WWI ID (P4601)
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of weather satellites (source)
    • Map with lighthouses all over the world (source)
    • Number of articles about humans by gender on Welsh Wikipedia (source)
    • List of French rivers with different names and SANDRE ids on Sophox (SPARQL endpoint querying OpenStreetMap and Wikidata) (source)

• Development
  • Differences between range constraints now work only if both properties are present (phab:T185480)
  • Work on a new constraint unit which defines which units are alowed for a given property (phab:T164372)
  • Make the Special:ConstraintReport easier to understand (phab:T188728)
  • Work on a Lua function which checks if an item is a subclass of or instance of another item (phab:T179155)
  • Started deleting old autopatrolled from the loggin table (phab:T190447, phab:T184791)
  • More work on setting up permissions for Lexeme (phab:T189480)
  • Fixing a bug about removing the last Lemma (phab:T189185)
  • Disabling the possibility to move a Lexeme (phab:T189481)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 2018. április 9., 16:02 (CEST)

Wikidata weekly summary #308

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

• Events
  • Role of Wikimedia in the era of Open Science, Barcelona, April 16th (slides of Andy Mabbett's keynote)
  • Wikidata meetup in Berlin, April 20th. Please sign up if you want to attend (the meetup takes place in the venue of the Wikimedia Conference)
  • Wikidata workshop in Paris, April 20th
  • Wikidata for science workshop in Paris, April 23rd
  • Wikidata meetup in Zürich, April 25th

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Writing a Wikidata Query: Discovering Women Writers from North Africa by Alex Stinson

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • GLAM wiki Conference (November 2018 in Tel Aviv): you can now apply for a scholarship. You can still make submissions for the program until end of April.
  • Lua function to get Wikibase entity by site link: mw.wikibase.getEntityIdForTitle (thanks Tpt!) (ticket)
  • Wikidata:FactGrid#Problems and more, a brief status report of the FactGrid Project on Friday 13, April 2018
  • Should OpenStreetMap use Wikibase to store data on tags? (Discussion on OSM wiki)
  • Prop explorer UI can now be translated using Tool Translate.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: talk show guest, GHS hazard pictogram, GHS hazard statement, GHS precautionary statement, number of abstentions, number of spoilt votes, number of blank votes, International Classification for Standards, towards, supervisory board member
    • External identifiers: Researchmap ID, Animated Knots ID, Filmweb.pl film ID, Filmweb.pl person ID, National Library of Korea Identifier (KRNLK), Lambiek Comiclopedia ID, AmphibiaWeb Species ID, Plants of the World online ID, FOGIS ID, Authorea author ID, Rosetta Code ID, Church of Sweden ID, Harvard designation, UMAC ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: French standard sizes for oil paintings, operating temperature, non-operating temperature, reference value, ILI ID, Portable Game Notation, SNOMED CT identifier, Mercalli intensity, fault type, fault, areas affected
    • External identifiers: IRMNG taxon ID, e-teatr.pl ID, World of Physics identifier, Kunstenpunt people, DOAB publisher ID, aviation-safety.net ID, IAFD company ID, JAAF ID, Athletics Canada ID, Russian Athletics ID, Polish Athletics Federation ID, Römpp online ID, Pschyrembel Online ID, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy ID, ISC event, USGS-ANSS event page, HanCinema drama, ARRS race ID, hpip
  • Barely used properties created >3 months:
    • National Film Board of Canada movie ID (P4606), AUSNUT 2011–13 Food Group ID (P4618), squadron embarked (P4624), trophy awarded (P4622), EK number (P4627), premiere type (P4634), identity of object in context (P4626), photosphere image (P4640), FoodEx2 code (P4637), Estonian Football Association team ID (P4639)
  • Query examples:
    • Longest chain of mutual murders (source)
    • 6 couples killed each other (source)
    • All things named after Leonardo da Vinci (source)
    • German municipality pairs with the name pattern -ing/-ingen (source)
    • Timeline of early silent movies produced before 1900 (source)
    • French citizens with at least 5 Wikipedia pages but not in French (source)
  • Newest database reports: family names by soundex, définitions de ville

• Development
  • Disable Senses in the API for the initial version of the WikibaseLexeme extension (phab:T187198)
  • Create a new data type to allow linking to Forms (phab:T165579)
  • Fix a bug happening when editing a Form (phab:T187215)
  • Enforce permission checks when editing Lexeme (phab:T189480)
  • Make not possible to remove the last lemma (phab:T189185)
  • Make not possible to move a Lexeme (phab:T189481)
  • Implement “Units” constraint (phab:T164372)
  • More work on the possibility to pick an item's parent in Lua (phab:T179155)
  • Show a thumbnail for image/video/audio properties in statements (phab:T46727)
  • Add “no bounds” constraint (phab:T170610)
  • Make the “difference within range” constraint not requiring “item requires claim” constraint (phab:T185480)
  • New Lua function to test for validity of Wikidata entity IDs (phab:T143970)
  • Include checksums in dumps (phab:T190457)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 2018. április 16., 16:33 (CEST)