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Wikidata weekly summary #153[change source]
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Build a RSS image feed based on a query
- Periodic table based on Wikidata data by Ricordisamoa
- ~8000 biographical items with dates in the description, but no birth/death date statements
- Magnus says ~8% (~1.4M) of all Wikidata items do not have any site links to Wikipedia etc.; knowledge that exists exclusively on Wikidata
- Bene* wrote a user script that adds a filter bar above the statement section and lets you filter it
- Magnus wrote a quick user script to move identifiers into the right sidebar to show how a statement section without identifiers would look like. This came up as part of a longer discussion on the mailinglist about moving identifier statements into their own section. Progress is being tracked at phabricator:T95287.
- Samsung releases Freebase-Wikidata mappings in CC0: 4.4M pairs generated from Wikipedia links and custom code
- Thanks to Bene* hovercards now also work for items and properties
- New tool by Magnus for Wikidata item labels
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: short name, list of episodes, named as
- New task forces: Star Wars, Open Access
- Development
- We are going to change the way value suggestions are ranked when entering a new statement. This will help with "male" and "female" not showing up among the top suggestions. Previously we ranked by number of sitelinks. We will change this to the maximum of sitelinks and labels. So if an item has labels in many languages but no sitelinks like "male" and "female" it will still show up high in the suggestions. (phabricator:T94404)
- Discussed how to move forward with identifiers. Outcome: They should get their own datatype. (phabricator:T95287)
- Implemented arbitrary access for the {{#property:…}} parser function. This can be invoked on the wikis that have arbitrary access enabled by using {{#property:P123|from=Q42}}. So far this is only Wikidata itself.
- Did further performance work on the client (Wikipedia and co) in preparation for arbitrary access
- Improved the performance of wbgetentities significantly when loading a large number of entities
- Wrote more browser tests for different datavalues
- Further work on RDF mapping and dumps
- Fixed in other language box showing old data (phabricator:T90893)
- Fixed language fallback on Special:Recent changes and Special:Contributions
- Added language fallback for the tooltip on badge icons
- 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!
Notificare de traducere: Single User Login finalisation announcement[change source]
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Prioritatea acestei pagini este mare. The deadline for translating this page is 2015-04-16.
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Meta translation coordinators, 19:27, 15 April 2015 (UTC)Notificare de traducere: Wikimedia Foundation elections/Board elections/2015[change source]
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Prioritatea acestei pagini este mare. The deadline for translating this page is 2015-04-20.
As we draw very close to launching the call for candidates for the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections I'd like to ask you to take some time to translate the main pages for each election as well as the first Banner. The linked page is for the Board election specific page but you an find all of them on this translation group and you can find the banner at this link. Please let us know on the Translation talk page if you have any issues.
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Meta translation coordinators, 11:21, 17 April 2015 (UTC)Notificare de traducere: Wikimedia Foundation elections/Board elections/2015[change source]
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As we draw very close to launching the call for candidates for the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections I'd like to ask you to take some time to translate the main pages for each election as well as the first Banner. The linked page is for the Board election specific page but you an find all of them on this translation group and you can find the banner at this link. Please let us know on the Translation talk page if you have any issues.
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Meta translation coordinators, 11:52, 17 April 2015 (UTC)The Signpost: 15 April 2015[change source]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Erik Möller leaving Foundation; annual plan grants under community review
- In the media: Saving Wikipedia; Internet regulation; Thoreau quote hoax
- Featured content: Au-delà de les Alpes, le chien lit de Sainte Bernard. Sous les pavés, les trimes d'argent! Mes enfants, suivez-moi!
- Traffic report: Furious domination
- Blog: Single-User Login provides access to all wikis
Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 15:31, 17 April 2015 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #154[change source]
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Tool by Magnus to find wrong nationalities on Wikidata
- Where am I? (figuring out your location based on geocoordinates in Wikidata)
- Map of French national parks
- Histropedia published 5 query generator spreadsheets
- Wikimedia's monthly GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) newsletter now includes a Wikidata report. The draft for the first edition, covering April, may be edited and your contributions will be welcome.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Baseball-Reference.com minor league player ID, Baseball-Reference.com major league player ID, road number, BAnQ ID, DSH object ID, Open Food Facts food category slug, Open Food Facts food additive slug, genealogics.org personID, Kaiserhof ID, addressee, National Portrait Gallery (London) person identifier, RSL book's identifier, name in kana
- Development
- Made label, description and aliases special pages easier to use
- Bene* created a new Special:ListProperties special page to list properties by data type
- Expanded our set of automated browser tests
- Made language fallbacks work in more situations and more consistently. In particular, the entity selector now uses language fallback. This should benefit especially people who want to use Wikidata in a variant such as en-gb.
- Continued work on the planned DataModel 3.0 release
- Continued discussing and documenting future calendar model support
- Continued work on our RDF generator
- Continued work on usage tracking for labels on multilingual sites
- Addshore worked on various issues regarding redirects
- Addshore worked on a special page to turn an item into a redirect
- Work on showing entity labels in edit summaries on history pages
- Implemented change dispatching based on the new usage tracking mechanism
- Fixed issue with page deletions on some Wikipedias not being reported to Wikidata
- More work on straightening out date formatting and parsing
- Fixed handling of scientific notation for quantity values
- Term box: fixed bug causing stale info to be show, and another bug causing babel languages to be ignored sometimes.
- Implemented access to other arbitrary items via the #property parser function
- Bene* implemented check to make sure two properties can not have the same alias only differing in capitalization
- 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: 22 April 2015[change source]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Special report: Sony emails reveal corporate practices and undisclosed advocacy editing
- News and notes: Call for candidates as the movement approaches the Wikimedia Board elections
- In the media: UK political editing; hoaxes; net neutrality
- In focus: 2015 Wikimedia Foundation election preparations underway
- Featured content: Vanguard on guard
- Traffic report: A harvest of couch potatoes
- Gallery: The bitter end
Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 22:43, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #155[change source]
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The question that started Wikidata has finally been answered! Thank you Markus! ;-)
- Wikimedia Sverige adapted two brochures about Wikidata, one for GLAMs and one for researchers.
- Bene* has been working on making Wikidata work nicely on mobile. You can check the current status on a demo system.
- Amir could use your help with automatic transliteration of human names
- Commons-WD: a tool to edit Wikidata based on a Commons category
- Various improvements to the Primary Sources Tool including:
- Edits made with it will now say so in the edit summary
- It now uses the URL blacklist to not suggest low-quality references
- Caching issues were fixed
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Kiev street code, blood type, Perry Index, input set, SSR Name ID, SSR WrittenForm ID, INPN Code, Nasjonalbiblioteket photographer ID, distribution map, anti-virus alias, HathiTrust id, common name, Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online identifier, Swedish district code, investigated by, US Federal Election Commission identifier, PSS-archi ID, Gaoloumi ID, draft pick number, GrassBase ID, electorate, owner of, Roud Folk Song Index, IPI Code, ISWC
- There are a number of user boxes you can add to your user page to indicate interests and which wiki projects you belong to.
- Development
- On Tuesday, we are deploying usage tracking (no arbitrary access yet) to Dutch Wikipedia and French Wikisource, and subscription tracking on Wikidata. There should be no noticeable changes for users. These are necessary steps towards enabling arbitrary access in clients.
- Worked on making language fallback work in the suggester (when adding a new statement or searching for an item)
- More work on RDF output and the query service
- Added Special:RedirectEntity for redirecting items
- Investigated and working to fix JS bug on items with “invalid” values (phabricator:92975)
- Did work towards having entity ids in revision histories and in diffs linked with their label (like on watchlists or in the recentchanges)
- 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: 29 April 2015[change source]
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- Wikimania: Choice of small village for Wikimania 2016 ruffles feathers
- News and notes: Wiki Loves Monuments evaluation sees diminishing returns and increasing cost
- In the media: Scottish MEP blocked for edit warring; ranking articles by importance
- Featured content: Apartheid and related topics, awards and accolades, and a bunch of tough journeys
- Recent research: Popularity vs. quality, Wikipedia images show how copyright damages economy, bots as servants or policemen
- Traffic report: Bruce, Nessie, and genocide
- Technology report: VisualEditor and MediaWiki updates
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Wikidata weekly summary #156[change source]
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikidata was presented at a Swedish Linked Data Network Meet-up in Gothenburg.
- The most important Wikipedia pages
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- P107 (main type) is finally orphaned and deleted, 20 months after deprecation. This was the first property used 1000000 times.
- The royal baby was quickly updated on Wikidata. (her family tree)
- New tool by Magnus: Find pictures on geography.co.uk, upload them to Commons and add them to Wikidata
- All Van Gogh Museum paintings are now on Commons and Wikidata. Go go SumOfAllPaintings peeps!
- List of topics with links in at least X Wikipedias
- All French Senators matched using MixNMatch \o/
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: represented by, Netflix Identifier, maximum number of players, minimum number of players, CERL ID, Name Assigning Authority Number, Hall of Valor ID, ballots cast, eligible voters, catholic-hierarchy diocese ID, Wikidata example geographic coordinates, Wikidata example monolingual text, Wikidata example property, Wikidata example quantity, Wikidata example time, Wikidata example URL, Wikidata example item value, Wikidata example string, Wikidata example media file, Wikidata property example
- Development
- We rolled out usage tracking on the first two wikis (French Wikisource and Dutch Wikipedia). Users should not notice anything. More wikis will follow in the next weeks. This is the remaining step for enabling arbitrary access on wikis other than Commons.
- The students team is working hard to get a first release of the improved constraint reports and checks against 3rd party databases out.
- Ricordisamoa fixed the issue with long descriptions being cut off.
- We fixed the focus flow in the property selector.
- We improved the messages on Special:EntityData to make it more understandable.
- 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.
Notificare de traducere: Wikimedia Highlights, March 2015[change source]
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Please consider helping non-English-language Wikimedia communities to stay updated about the Wikimedia blog's most notable posts from March, covering Wikimedia Foundation activities and other important events from across the Wikimedia movement. Completed translations will be announced on social media, project village pumps and (for some languages) mailing lists.
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