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Meta translation coordinators, 19:11, 11 June 2015 (UTC)The Signpost: 10 June 2015[change source]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Chapter financial trends analyzed, news in brief
- Traffic report: Two households, both alike in dignity
- In the media: Arbitration case attracts media coverage; Wikipedia in Israel
- Featured content: Just the bear facts, ma'am
- Technology report: Wikimedia sites are going HTTPS only
- Blog: Making Wikipedia’s medical articles accessible in Chinese
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Wikidata weekly summary #162[change source]
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Should we have a Wikidata User Group?
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Thanks to everyone who participated in the Wikidata:Menu Challenge which made Wikidata shine at A Taste of Stockholm. The live results are still up at https://wikimedia-sverige.github.io/tastydata .
- Upcoming: Donostia-San Sebastián Wikidata Editathon
- Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata in Paris
- News about Wikidata FIST
- Review of the big interwiki link migration
- Timeline of Christopher Lee films
- Wikidata map - 19 months on
- A challenge was raised to calculate the degrees of separation to Kevin Bacon. Already one routine has been produced, the next step is to use live data so that we can work on reducing the number of intermediary steps.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- ViziData has been improved significantly
- Wikidata Visualization Challenge winners announced: first prize to ViziData.
- New paper: Peer-production system or collaborative ontology development effort: what is Wikidata?
- Jura1 posted some data around property usage on items about people
- Tpt is interning at Google now to free up more content from Freebase for us. He's adding more data to the Primary Sources Tool.
- Did you know?
- Development
- Deployed arbitrary access on all Wikivoyage and Wikiquote projects and announced the next ones. See d:Wikidata:Arbitrary access for more.
- More fine tuning on entity usage tracking (relevant for arbitrary access)
- Fixed bug that sometimes allowed multiple properties to have the same label in a given language (phabricator:T102148)
- More work on automatically creating redirects when merging items
- More code review of the Wikidata Quality extensions (improved constraint reports and checks against 3rd party databases). Starting to look good for a first deployment.
- The sitelinks heading hierarchy changed and includes a “Site links” heading now that is only shown on mobile. This is a DOM change needed to make Wikidata work better on mobile.
- Started working on having PHPCS coverage for the major Wikibase.git code base to find small code issues more easily
- Prepared Wikibase.git for the DataModel 3.0 switch
- Released Wikibase DataModel Serialization 1.4
- Released Wikibase Internal Serialization 1.4
- New releases of several DataValue components, including DataValues Number 0.5, DataValues JavaScript 0.7 and ValueView 0.14.5
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.
The Signpost: 17 June 2015[change source]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Arbitration report: An election has consequences
- Discussion report: A quick way of becoming an admin
- Featured content: Great Dane hits 150
- In focus: Three weeks to save freedom of panorama in Europe
- In the media: Wikipedia wins Asturias Prize; printing out Wikipedia; HTTPS switch
- Interview: A veteran’s Wikipedia edits help him understand the brutality behind Yugoslavia’s wars
- News and notes: Labs outage kills tools, self; news in brief
- Op-ed: Making a difference in Wikipedia, one GA at a time
- Technology report: HTTPS-only rollout completed, proposal to enable VisualEditor for new accounts
- WikiProject report: We are back - Western Australia speaks
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Wikidata weekly summary #163[change source]
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- German language Wikipedia closed its RfC on usage of Wikidata data. As a result Wikidata data can be used on the project as long as it happens through a template and it has a non-Wikimedia reference.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Office hour on IRC. We talked about cool things that happened around Wikidata over the past 3 months got an update on upcoming developments and Freebase and more. You can read the log.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- en:South Pole Telescope is a nice example of an infobox completely filled from Wikidata.
- Q20150617 was created on 2015-06-17
- More data from Freebase have been added the Primary Sources Tool. There is also a page to help the mapping of Freebase properties.
- Nice new manual for MixnMatch
- The new nature.com/ontologies links to external ontologies and datasets; among them Wikidata.
- National Gallery of Art and the J. Paul Getty Museum now have entries for all their paintings on Wikidata thanks to wiki project Sum of all Paintings
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: takeoff and landing capability, Discogs label ID, Discogs master ID, Discogs artist ID, Encyclopaedia Metallum band id, investor, second surname in Spanish name, CulturaItalia ID, BerlPap identifier, Mapillary id, National Library of Ireland authority
- Newest WikiProjects: Cross Items Interwikis
- Development
- Made a small API breaking change to wbeditentity and wbgetclaims modules. Details can be seen in the commit message of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/217885/
- Worked more on unit support
- Fixed an issue where you'd sometimes select the wrong value when entering a statement unintentionally (phabricator:T98471)
- Switched the whole code base to make use of DataModel 3.0
- The concept of “claims” no longer exists in Wikibase, as all places in the software work with statements. We are making this more and more explicit in the code.
- The autoloading mechanism of the extension changed, see phabricator:T100813
- More work on getting the Wikibase Quality extensions ready for deployment. They'll improve constraint checking and provide checks against 3rd party databases.
- Special:UnconnectedPages had to be reworked (thanks Amir!) because of huge performance issues. Because of this it loses some functionality (being able to specify where the list starts and limiting the list to pages that have local interwiki links). We're working on bringing functionality back without the performance penalty.
- Bene* created a SPARQL abstraction layer for PHP called Asparagus: https://github.com/Benestar/asparagus
- Enabled arbitrary access on arwiki, cawiki, eswiki, huwiki, kowiki, rowiki, ukwiki, viwiki, and usage tracking on dewiki, ruwiki, cswiki and all s3 wikis. (ruwiki and cswiki get arbitrary access on June 23)
- Finishing work on improved handling “invalid” values and statements with deleted properties.
- Small breaking DOM change: Wikibase no longer adds its own h1 tag but uses MediaWiki's default .firstHeading element. (phabricator:T93534)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.
The Signpost: 24 June 2015[change source]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- From the editor: The Signpost tagging initiative
- Op-ed: Content Translation beta is coming to the English Wikipedia
- News and notes: Board of Trustees propose bylaw amendments
- In the media: Turkish Wikipedia censorship; "Can Wikipedia survive?"; PR editing
- Special report: Small impact of the large Google Translation Project on Telugu Wikipedia
- Recent research: How Wikipedia built governance capability; readability of plastic surgery articles
- Featured content: One eye when begun, two when it's done
- Blog: 7,473 volumes at 700 pages each: meet Print Wikipedia
- Arbitration report: Politics by other means: The American politics 2 arbitration
- Technology report: 2015 MediaWiki architecture focus and Multimedia roadmap announced
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Wikidata weekly summary #164[change source]
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Ateliers Wikidata
- Upcoming: Wikimania. There will be several talks and workshops related to Wikidata. Say hi at the "Ask Us Anything" session for Wikidata if you're there.
- Reductionism
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Which geographic areas do different Wikipedias cover? How does it compare to Wikidata? Markus has a beautiful answer
- Wikiproject Molecular Biology and AskPlatypus are shortlisted for the OpenData Award \o/ This is the award Wikidata won last year.
- Paper on vandalism on Wikidata. Lydia is in touch with them to figure out how to best use the insights for us.
- Reasonator got some updates: it is now using external ID formatter URLs, has monolingual string support and better social network links
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: number of children, MovieMeter movie identifier, MovieMeter director ID, Foursquare venue ID, BoxRec ID, Biblioteca Nacional de Chile catalogue number, sortkey, properties for this type, patron, Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, Google Scholar ID, Dutch Senate person ID, Trismegistos ID, Wikisource index page
- Newest External tools: Wikidata Compare
- Showcase items: none. Yours next week?
- Development
- Jonas joined the team and Adam is back \o/
- Deployed arbitrary access to ruwiki and cswiki
- Machine readable versions (in various formats) of Wikibase entities will be advertised in their page heads as alternate link. (phabricator:T96298)
- Fixed property label on item pages not scrolling anymore (phabricator:T94588)
- More work on getting the Wikibase Quality extensions ready for release. The part doing constraint violation checks should go to test.wikidata.org next week. The part doing checks against 3rd party databases will still take a bit longer but is also shaping up nicely.
- Made it possible to create items even when another user is mass-creating items (phabricator:T103796)
- Bene* worked more on making Wikidata work nicely on mobile
- Fixed weird issue with cursor jumping around in sitelink input field (phabricator:T103489)
- Fixed an issue where it was not possible to edit a statement after you removed its only reference (phabricator:T103603)
- Lydia will be traveling for much of July. Expect her to be a bit less responsive during that time.
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
The Signpost: 01 July 2015[change source]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Training the Trainers; VP of Engineering leaves WMF
- In the media: EU freedom of panorama; Nehru outrage; BBC apology
- WikiProject report: Able to make a stand
- Featured content: Viva V.E.R.D.I.
- Traffic report: We're Baaaaack
- Technology report: Technical updates and improvements
- Blog: These Texans are on a quest to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of their state’s revolution
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Wikidata weekly summary #165[change source]
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Discussion about Atheism and the religion property.
- Discussion about the Verifiability of data as a policy.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming: Wikimania. There will be several talks and workshops related to Wikidata. Say hi at the "Ask Us Anything" session for Wikidata if you're there.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A new database report lists people categorized as dead in Wikipedia, but lacking Property:P570 (date of death). It's updated several times during the day. There are about 20 to 30 new entries each day. There is currently some backlog from the Arabic, Marathi, and Thai Wikipedias. Items updated first in Wikidata wont appear in the report. They are listed directly in Wikidata's recent deaths report.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: RSL editions, Open Hub ID, number of children, MovieMeter movie identifier, MovieMeter director ID
- Development
- Adam wrote a blog post on the improvement of the data after one year and GeneaWiki
- After the next deployment, Special:ItemDisambiguation will match aliases and be case insensitive.
- Improved details of matches in the entity suggester (wbsearchentities api module)
- Deployed the WikibaseQuality and WikibaseQualityConstraints extensions to test.wikidata.org
- Fixed the layout of long qualifier names
- JSON dumps are now automatically copied to labs
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
The Signpost: 08 July 2015[change source]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Editorial: So you want to get your message out. Where do you turn?
- News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation annual plan released, news in brief
- In the media: Wikimania warning; Wikipedia "mystery" easily solved
- Traffic report: The Empire lobs back
- Featured content: Pyrénées, Playmates, parliament and a prison...
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
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Wikidata weekly summary #166[change source]
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Slides on Primary Sources Tool and Wikidata introduction (in Spanish) for the Donostia-San Sebastián Wikidata Editathon
- Presentation about Wikidata at the Axel Springer Hack Day 2015
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikiresearch looked into the coverage of the moon by geotags in Wikidata
- Wikiresearch published a visualization of the relationship between nationality and occupation based on Wikidata's data
- Which zoo has polar bears? Wikidata attempts to answer the question here. Work in progress.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: MCN code, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Anime News Network anime ID, Anime News Network manga ID, Anime News Network company ID, Anime News Network person ID, FSK film rating, PolSys ID, Righteous Among The Nations ID, USDA NDB number, lesarchivesduspectacle ID, INEGI locality identifier
- Development
- The Wikidata Quality extension (constraint reports per item) was deployed. You can now use d:Special:ConstraintReport to see the result for different items. This is for example the constraint report for the item cat (Q142).
- 8 million additional statements from Freebase were made available through the Primary sources tool
- Moving towards having a single edit button to edit references along with the value they belong to.
- Bene continued working on phasing out the deprecated Entity superclass and making more entity types possible.
- More work on phasing out a deprecated serializer implementation we still use in certain places.
- Further work on the new RDF export.
- PHPCS is now used on each change in Wikibase to ensure the code fulfils certain code quality standards.
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item