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Wikidata weekly summary #283[change source]
Wikidata weekly summary #282
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Zugang Gestalten (slides by multichill)
- Past: Coding Da Vinci (slides by Jonas)
- Upcoming: Wikidata Birthday Tokyo, 27 October from 12:00 to 14:00 in Roppongi Hills
- Upcoming: WikiArabia 2017, Cairo, Egypt, 23-25 October
- Upcoming: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out)
- Upcoming: Wikidata Birthday Seoul, 29 October from 15:00 to 18:00
- Upcoming: Biographical Data in a Digital World 2017 6-7 November 2017 (in cooperation with Wikimedia Austria)
- COOL-WD: A Completeness Tool for Wikidata (tool website)
- Provenance Information in a Collaborative Knowledge Graph: an Evaluation of Wikidata External References
- Question Answering Benchmarks for Wikidata
- Using Word Embeddings for Search in Linked Data with Ontodia (tool website)
- Unlocking the human potential of Wikidata
- Textes d’Affiches, des films à lire sur Gallica
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- If you have a present or organize an event for the Wikidata's fifth birthday, feel free to add link and pictures here
- New version of the Alexa skill for Wikidata by metaphacts
- Nice short gif tutorial for writing a Wikidata query
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Ontario Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Quora username, Women's Basketball Hall of Fame ID, Baseball Almanac ID, sports.ru player ID, Opera Vivra singer ID, Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame ID, NLBPA ID, MusicBrainz recording ID, caliber, Women's Collegiate Tennis Hall of Fame ID, Museus.br ID, Memória Globo, Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural ID, Canada's Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, International Paralympic Committee athlete ID, Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum athlete ID, BrainInfo ID (hierarchical), NeuroNames ID (plain mode), Anvisa drug ID, BC Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, TheSports.org athlete ID, mapping relation type, Science Museum people ID, Mappy place ID, update method, Virginia Sports Hall of Fame ID, Missouri Sports Hall of Fame ID, DAMIT asteroid ID, Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, LFB player ID, Soccerdonna player ID, Sandrart.net artwork ID, youth wing
- Query examples:
- Average age of members of the 19th German Bundestag (source)
- Mountains in CH by height (topographic prominence) (source)
- Mountains in CH by height (elevation above sea level) (source)
- Monuments in Berlin for which Berlin cultural heritage ID and geolocation are known in Wikidata (source)
- Initial characters of names of free software (source)
- Initial characters of names of nonfree software (source)
- First World Heritage site per country (source)
- Newest database reports: list of kinship types
- Development
- Query Service throttling has been tweaked, to block a type of abusive client
- Adding diff support for Lexeme-related edits
- More work on checking constraints on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532)
- Now caching constraints results to make it ready for rollout for more users
- Continued work on more fine-grained usage tracking so we better know which parts of an item is used on an article on Wikipedia and the other sister projects
- Improved the way Wikidata changes are shown in watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and Co so they are more in-line with the other changes (phabricator:T48329, phabricator:T50684) Thanks Matej!
- Released the Wikibase DataModel component in version 7.2.0 (phabricator:T177486)
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #284[change source]
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Defining account creators
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Past: WikiArabia 2017, Cairo, Egypt, 23-25 October
- Past: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October. You can find the slides, notes and video recordings for most of the sessions
- Past: Wikidata's fifth birthday in Tokyo, Seoul, Munich
- Upcoming: Using Wikidata to create a multi-lingual multi-dialectal dictionary for Arabic dialects in the 14th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2017), Yasmine Hammamet, Tunisia, 30 October-3 November.
- Upcoming : Wikidata and Wiki Loves Monuments editathon in Berlin, 24-26 November (in German). We're looking for trainers to explain the basic use of QuickStatements, Open Refine and Mix'n'Match. If you want to join, please contact MB-one
- Wikidata's birthday
- The fifth anniversary of Wikidata was celebrated, as every year, with a lot of presents, events and stories. You can find an overview on the birthday page.
- Birthday presents
- Search index now contains statements with {{Property|P31}} and {{P|P279}}. These can be used to influence search rankings and in the future also for matching.
- inventaire.io CC0 Wikidata-ready NDJSON and TTL dumps are now accessible at dumps.inventaire.io
- You can now move claims to new items with moveClaim.js. You can do so by typing "new".
- Prefix search on Wikidata (wbsearchentities API) now is using ElasticSearch as backend. This should improve search quality and also is more flexible and tunable.
- Wikidata becomes a proper citizen of the linked open data web
- graves.wiki – visualization of grave locations stored in Wikidata
- Wikidata Concepts Monitor (WDCM) - Wikidata semantic topics and usage statistics
- Happy Birthday to You, Dear Wikidata – recording and improvisation (Lucas Werkmeister)
- You can now create items from the command-line
- Crochet your own cute structured data bee to express your appreciation for structured data in the Wikimedia movement! And ask her/him/it to join the Wikimedia Cuteness Association (Q29169245).
- Wikidata Query Service UI: Geoshapes from Commons are now displayed in the Map view: Constituencies for the election to the German Bundestag 2017, with winning candidate and party
- Wikidata Query Service UI: The query service now shows you code examples for how to use your query in many programming languages (example query)
- Dungeon of Knowledge (source), a roguelike game where you explore a dungeon full of bits of Wikidata wisdom
- Simple WD an experiment of a simple frontend API on top of Wikidata using JSON-LD and schema.org.
- mapview widget/user script on Wikidata
- Images fragments for an item depicted on several artworks
- Histropedia Query Timeline tool - Demo of cool new features launched today for WikidataCon
- Q42395533 - the first item about a notable item!
- SQID now suggests statements that we are missing (example page, log in to see suggestions) -- more on Wikidata:WikiProject_Reasoning soon
- From labs VM to Wikibase Query Service in 2 minutes (using Docker images and docker-compose)
- Stories and reflections
- Wishes for the year to come, by Tpt
- Happy Birthday Wikidata! by the Gene Wiki Team
- Some random thoughts on the occasion of Wikidata's fifth birthday, by PKM
- Wishes and a personal story, by Spinster
- Happy Birthday, Wikidata by RolandUnger from Wikivoyage
- Happy Birthday, Wikidata by Katherine Maher
- Two years of Wikidata experience from ArthurPSmith
- Happy Birthday wishes from Wikimedia Deutschland
- Message from the development team
- Birthday presents
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Biblioteca Nacional de México ID, MNCARS artist ID, BFI Film and TV ID, FPB rating, The Coptic Library ID, snap package, LesBiographies.com ID, Indian Foundation for Butterflies ID, AKL Online Artist ID, Google Doodle, New York City Parks Monument ID, Pro14 player ID, implementation of, GACS ID, Y-DNA Haplogroup, mtDNA haplogroup, mandates, Portuguese lighthouse ID, U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame athlete ID, Sportbox.ru ID, VNDB ID, Videolectures ID, New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame ID, rfpl.org player ID, Panthéon des sports du Québec ID, Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee ID, New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Ontario Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Quora username, Women's Basketball Hall of Fame ID
- Query examples:
- Organic acids with images (source)
- People who are their father's father (source)
- 2017 German federal election results by district with geoshapes and color depending on the % of votes (source)
- Cities with most first performances of works (source)
- Count of women Vs. guys names “John” in the UK parliament (source)
- Percentage of popes who died in Rome (source)
- First sites registered at Unesco for each country (source)
- Development
- Continued working on persistent storage of edits on Lexeme pages
- Fixed an encoding problem in the SVG download of query results in the query service (phabricator:T178564)
- Fixed a problem with change dispatching changes to Wikipedia and co, that sometimes lead to single wikis falling way behind. (T179060)
- Added full URIs for external identifiers to the RDF export
- You can leave feedback on how improved fulltext search result page should look like
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!