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Wikidata weekly summary #484
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events
- Upcoming:
- Data Quality Days - a week of all things data quality around Wikidata from Septempber 8th to 15th. Check the schedule, join sessions and add more if you would like to facilitate a discussion or workshop!
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: developing Wikidata tools and gadgets with Andrew Lih. [1], Sep 7th.
- LIVE Wikidata editing #52 - YouTube, Facebook, September 11 at 18:00 UTC
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #78, September 12
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Videos
- LIVE Wikidata editing #51 - YouTube, Facebook
- Wikidata Lab XXXI: Reimagining Wikidata from the margins
- Other
- Wikipedia Is Trying to Transcend the Limits of Human Language
- Ancient Hellenistic philosophers, visualized as a chain from master to student (Source)
- Generating text with Ninai and Udiron (prototyping using Wikidata items and lexemes in text generation)
- Over 3000 landscape paintings 'depict' something with coordinates. You can now browse them by country (Source)
- Tool of the week
- Template:Generic queries for authors : new generic queries template designed for authors (fiction and non-fiction). Feedback and translations are welcome.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- User:SuccuBot has made its 100.000.000th edit. It is the first user account in Wikidata to reach this milestone.
- In the frame of a Google Summer of Code project a new tool, called WikidataComplete was created. The tool smoothly integrates in the Wikidata UI and proposes new statements extracted by machine learning algorithms. Editors are asked to either approve or reject them. To activate it check here for a short tutorial check here. Any feedback is welcome here.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: National Diet Library persistent work ID, Svensk ordbok ID, ECO code, izeltlabuak.hu ID, Food.com ID, Jornal do Vôlei ID, MART catalog person ID, IRIS UNINA author ID, IRIS UNIPV author ID, Overnia ID, HandiSport Équipes de France ID, Cinemaitaliano person ID, Cinemaitaliano film ID, Mozilla extension ID, Enciclopedia dell'Arte Medievale ID, DC Character ID, Media Bias/Fact Check ID, Australian Medical Pioneers Index ID, eAmbrosia ID, Edizioni Ares author ID, Al-Jazeera author ID, Center for Turkish Cinema Studies film ID, Civilisti Italiani member ID, Government Publications Number, Global Location Number, Iași Central University Library ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (second edition) ID, Gujarati Vishwakosh entry
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: літературний редактор, Rotten Tomatoes score
- External identifiers: Eneström Number, Télé-Loisirs ID, PDDikti higher education institution ID, HMS, Barnivore ID, RAWG game ID, Materials Project material ID, INAPP IDs, INAPP Thesaurus ID, Fondation du patrimoine ID, Slangopedia ID, Festivaletteratura person ID, Urban Dictionary ID, Indonesian Museum National Registration System ID, Enciclopedia dello Sport ID, Glitchwave genre ID, Endemia.nc animal ID, Yiddish Dictionary Online ID, Casefile ID, Every Noise at Once ID, museum-digital place ID, EPA Facility Registry Service ID
- Query examples:
- Paintings by Waldmüller in the Belvedere, Vienna - Austria (Source)
- Coauthors of coauthors of Birgit Meldal (Q46168094) that have never directly coauthored a paper with her (Source)
- Country-level citation network in biometrics (Scholia) (Source)
- Council Information Systems with OParlOrg API endpoints (Q47450936) (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Continued work on the Mismatch Finder. We are now working on creating the page where mismatches will be listed for review.
- Worked on support for "separators" parameter for distinct value constraints (phab:T277855)
- Made it possible to restrict constraints to certain entity types (phab:T269724)
- Added a new constraint type to ensure that the Item has a label in a particular language (phab:T195178)
- Added a button for the Query Builder to query.wikidata.org to make the Query builder discoverable (phab:T276210) - integration in the example dialog is still in progress (phab:T280229)
- We started work on some behind-the-scenes improvements to the way Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects are notified about a change that affects their articles. (They need this notification so the article can be purged and show the latest data from Wikidata again. It is also required for showing the edit in the watchlist and recent changes on those wikis. This should have no visible impact for editors but is needed maintenance work.
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
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Deploy d:Template:Item documentation in the talk page of each item.
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The wikis that have Growth features deployed have been part of A/B testing since deployment, in which some newcomers did not receive the new features. Now, all of the newcomers on 21 of the smallest of those wikis will be receiving the features. [2]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
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15:20, 6 September 2021 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #485
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events
- Upcoming:
- WikidataCon update: you can now check in the program of the first day of the online conference
- Transbordados: WikidataCon's preconference for Latin America - September 14, 21 and 28 (21h UTC) - with simultaneous translation for Portuguese and Spanish, via YouTube - set of events to discuss Wikidata and decoloniality, knowledge organization and digital dissemination of collections in Latin America contexts. Join us!
- 14/09 - Towards a decolonial wiki: overflowing knowledge from the Latin American horizon - speakers: Amanda Jurno (Wiki Movimento Brasil), Bianca Santana (journalist, writer and activist) and Silvia Gutiérrez (El Colégio de México) - watch it in PT-BR / ES
- 21/09 - The universe of libraries: Wikidata and the multiplication of knowledge potencies - speakers: Lilian Viana (GLAM das Bibliotecas da USP) and Maurício Genta (Wikimedia Argentina e Biblioteca Nacional da Argentina) - watch it in PT-BR / ES
- 28/09 - Digital collections and Wikidata: organizing a network of knowledge - speakers: Evelin Heidel (a.k.a. Scann; Wikimedistas do Uruguai) and Karen Worcman (Museu da Pessoa) - watch it in PT-BR / ES
- Demo of the Query Builder live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 14 at 18:00 CEST
- Ongoing:
- Data Quality Days - several sessions happened over the past days and more are coming this week. Recordings, slides and notes are linked in the program
- Past:
- Forex - 36C3 Wikipaka WG: Live querying: let’s explore Wikidata together! - YouTube
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Papers
- Linking Data and Descriptions on Moths Using the Wikimedia Ecosystem Part of collection TDWG Proceedings 2021
- other
- Ainali talks about Wikidata on The World According to Wikipedia podcast.
- Papers
- Tool of the week
- Wwwyzzerdd for Wikidata is a browser extension that allows you to view and edit Wikidata information from Wikipedia (demo video). Install it in Firefox or Chrome
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Face The Facts mobile app allows you to scan election posters and see the true facts about politicians.
- Wikidata now has over 150,000 Senses on Lexemes!
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: GRAC rating
- External identifiers: Center for Turkish Cinema Studies film ID, Civilisti Italiani member ID, Government Publications Number (Taiwan), Global Location Number, Iași Central University Library ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (second edition) ID, Gujarati Vishwakosh entry, Télé-Loisirs ID, Anagrafe degli studiosi ID, e-Maapõu stratigraphy ID, INAPP Thesaurus ID, Douyin video ID, IndieMag game ID, INAPP author ID, TBDB ID, Enciclopedia dello Sport ID, INAPP work ID, Fondation du patrimoine ID, Endemia.nc animal taxon ID, Gry Online game ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (first edition) ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (third edition) ID, Festivaletteratura person ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Mexican Video Game content classification category, NZTCS conservation status, Unique Identifier, relevant date for copyright, Allaboutjazz musician ID, Google Fonts ID
- External identifiers: museum-digital place ID, EPA Facility Registry Service ID, thefreedictionary dictionary term ID, TermCymru ID, Bildatlas-Künstler-ID, Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law ID, NZTCS ID, Australian Research Council Grant ID, PSC, SAM id, Dictionary of Old Norse Prose ID, Norsk Akademis Ordbok ID, Swedish Food Agency food ID, e-Maapõu locality ID, Grand dictionnaire terminologique ID, Kallías, Owler company ID
- Query examples:
- List of movies with Jean-Paul Belmondo ordered by number of sitelinks (based on source via d:Template:Generic queries for actors)
- List of actors with whom Jean-Paul Belmondo has played the most (based on source via d:Template:Generic queries for actors)
- count of movies with Jean-Paul Belmondo by decade
- List of characters in Tintin ordered by number of apparitions (source)
- People with no birth/death/floruit dates but which have a position from which dates can be inferred (source)
- Map of the origin of diamond open access journal (Q108440863) publications (source)
- Map of place names in Ghana ending with "li", "ti", "om" (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Mismatch Finder: The website part of the tool is taking shape but is not quite functional yet. We worked on creating the results page. You can see the current very much not finished state at https://mismatch-finder.toolforge.org/
- Linked the Query Builder from the Query Service so it is discoverable (phab:T280229)
- Finished work on normalizing filenames when linking to media files on Commons (phab:T251480)
- All new wbstack.com wikis will now be created with elastic search support, including Wikibase indexes! All existing sites will have elastic search soon! (Source)
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
- 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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- 45 new Wikipedias now have access to the Growth features. [5]
- A majority of Wikipedias now have access to the Growth features. The Growth team has published an FAQ page about the features. This translatable FAQ covers the description of the features, how to use them, how to change the configuration, and more.
Problems
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on 14 September. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [6]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 September. It will be on all wikis from 16 September (calendar).- Starting this week, Wikipedia in Italian will receive weekly software updates on Wednesdays. It used to receive the updates on Thursdays. Due to this change, bugs will be noticed and fixed sooner. [7]
- You can add language links in the sidebar in the new Vector skin again. You do this by connecting the page to a Wikidata item. The new Vector skin has moved the language links but the new language selector cannot add language links yet. [8]
- The syntax highlight tool marks up code with different colours. It now can highlight 23 new code languages. Additionally,
golangcan now be used as an alias for the Go programming language, and a specialoutputmode has been added to show a program's output. [9][10]
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15:36, 13 September 2021 (UTC)