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Wikidata weekly summary #389
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events
- Past: Wikidata Zurich Training 2019
- Upcoming: Next Wikidata office hour on Tuesday, November 5th at 18:00 Berlin time (UTC+1) on the the Wikidata Telegram channel
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Martin Poulter on Wikidata projects at the University of Oxford, 05, November. Agenda
- Press, articles, blog posts
- ZBW Labs: 20th Century Press Archives: Data donation to Wikidata
- The WikidataCon Card Game, Envel Le Hir
- The Great(er) Bear - using Wikidata to generate better artwork
- Linked (Open) Data for Knowledge Solutions, Artificial Intelligence and more presentation touching amongst others Wikidata and schema.org at Semantics 2019 by Felix Sasaki and Christian Lieske
- Querying the Edit History of Wikidata - Thomas Pellissier Tanon & Fabian Suchanek
- Online Disinformation and the Role of Wikipedia - Diego Saez-Trumper (WMF)
- Tool of the week
- SPARQL RC is showing the recent changes on items that are listed from a specific query. It is very useful to monitor the changes on a specific subset of data, for example data that you recently imported in Wikidata.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikimedia Deutschland is hiring a Product Manager for Wikibase
- Live Wikidata editing videos: Jan Ainali makes videos showing his process while editing Wikidata. Magnus Sälgö also makes videos showing specific features and tools
- {{query page}} is a new template that can be used to store SPARQL queries on a dedicated wiki page, to be transcluded in various styles (announcement)
- New feature on Mix'n'match: job management
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: comorbidity, audio system, election called by, XML namespace
- External identifiers: Austrian Parliament 1848 - 1918 ID, Eu-football.info match ID, playmarkerstats.com match ID, Soccerway match ID, Fussballdaten.de team ID, NZPCN ID, Wolfram Language entity type, Women Film Pioneers ID, Van Wijngaarden quarry ID, Golden ID, Ovrtur Biography ID, Jeugdliteratuur ID, ACL Anthology article ID, Naver Encyclopedia ID, Ben Yehuda author ID, Estonian biographical database ID, doujinshi.org author ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: food composition, landscape architect, charge conjugation quantum number, IP address or range, featured in, Room number, Jabber channel, lighting, Mentioned at
- External identifiers: Sega Retro ID, CA Prop 65 ID, Gaming-History company ID, dp.ru company ID, Filmový přehled film ID, Filmový přehled person ID, SK cinema film ID, SK cinema authority ID, ePSD ID, classicamiga ID, Czech cadastral area ID, MEA Indian Mission ID, Planète Aventure ID, AaRC person ID, fyyd podcast identifer, Encyclopedia of Mathematics wiki ID, fyyd podcast episode ID, UEFA referee ID, Flowers of India ID, Panoptikum podcast episode ID, NBAIR pest ID, Reptiles of India ID, Odonata of India ID, Birds of India ID, Moths of India ID, India Biodiversity Portal species ID, Indian Medicinal Plants Database ID, ZSI author ID, Biodiversity of West Bengal species ID, UK Lakes Portal ID, askArt person ID
- Deleted properties: P2035 (LinkedIn personal profile URL), P1946 (N6I ID)
- Query examples:
- Map of UK MPs coloured by party (source) - may change in the next few weeks
- Maintenance query: items which have a value of "unknown" (Q24238356) rather than the "unknown" special value (source)
- 100 cities closest to the North pole with more than 200k inhabitants (source)
- Actors with whom Shah Rukh Khan collaborated, in a bubble chart showing how many times it happened (source)
- New Integraality dashboards: Journals by publisher, Theses by institution
- Schema examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Sum of all Podcasts
- Newest database reports:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Made the Lua functions mw.wikibase.getBestStatements and mw.wikibase.getAllStatements faster if called more than once for the same statement on a single page
- Fix a bug on the mobile termbox (phab:T236677)
- Update Wikibase Lua documentation (phab:T225497)
- Highlight individual statements when selecting them in the URL (phab:T234079)
- Add monolingual language code "sa-Sidd", "pi-Sidd", tnq (Taíno), car (Kalinago) and bdr (phab:T230881, phab:T220284, phab:T234330)
- Make it possible to collapse the "All entered languages" section when at the end of the section (phab:T232595)
- Cache php.getEntityStatements in mw.wikibase (phab:T236491)
- Tracking Wikidata Bridge openings by Datatype in Grafana (phab:T231204)
- Not showing Bridge edit pens when the editor cannot edit the article (phab:T235152)
- A bugfix to only show scrollbars where they are supposed to be shown (phab:T235622)
- Enabling/Disabling the Save button depending on the bridge state (phab:T230342)
- More work on tainted references
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!
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
- At Special:Contributions you could see up to 5000 edits at the same time if you edited the URL. This has been lowered to 500. This is to stop requests which break the sites. [1]
Changes later this week
MediaWiki:ipb-default-expirycan set the default length to block a user for your wiki. You will be able to useMediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ipto set a different default block length for IP editors. [2]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 November. It will be on all wikis from 7 November (calendar).
Meetings
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You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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16:48, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #390
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Wikidata to use data schemas to standardise data structure on a subject
- Events
- Past: Wikidata office hour (notes)
- Past: "Using Wikidata to describe the structure of a book" Webinar by Martin Poulter for LD4P2 project (Video), (Slides), (Notes)
- Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop OpenRefine in Prague on 12 November
- Upcoming: Online editathon in Swedish 17 November
- Tool of the week
- Speedpatrolling is a tool to easily patrol Wikidata recent changes, typically on mobile devices.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikipedia Personality Infobox in Catalan and French display now the Heritage Institution in charge of their archives via P485 (archives at).
- The Discord server Wikimedia Community has now a Wikidata channel.
- @Wikipedia talks about @Wikidata by GerardM
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: landscape architect, charge conjugation quantum number, statement is regarded as spoiler for, room number, scope and content
- External identifiers: startrek.com Database ID, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant ID, Chinese Professional Baseball League player ID, Software Preservation Society ID, Sega Retro ID, classicamiga ID, Filmový přehled film ID, Filmový přehled person ID, Gaming-History company ID, SK cinema authority ID, SK cinema film ID, CA PROP 65 ID, ePSD identifier, Czech cadastral area ID, dp.ru company ID, Fortuna liga player ID, MEA Indian Mission ID, AaRC person ID, MIC market code
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: general law, population rank, area rank, population density rank, references, territorial entity ranking context, mentions named entity, plot features event, Jyutping (2)
- External identifiers: National Health Portal hospital ID, IPC ID, Plusliga player ID, Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility's Species List ID, Sinemalar person ID, UVL game ID, WikiTreeCategories, Ahotsak Lexeme, UVL platform ID, Inguma database ID, UVL company ID, UVL group ID, Home of the Underdogs game ID, name-suggestion-index identifier, OGDB game title ID, common exchange code, Memorial Book Bundesarchiv ID, CISCE school code, CBSE Affiliation No., JNAF artist ID, OGDB compilation ID
- Query examples:
- Persons in the genealogy family tree WikiTree were WIkidata has a source from the Swedish National Archives Birth/Death records
- Minimum temperature records on Earth
- Map of districts of India by ratio of illiterate to literate population in 2011 (source)
- List of episodes of Detective Conan's Case Closed, with date and place of publication and series and season number, sorted by date of publication (source)
- Parent and child who both had a governor mandate in the USA (source)
- Belgian artists whose work will be in public domain starting in 2020 (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Wolfram Language, most frequent first names in Poland, Paintings and images of signatures of painters
- Newest properties:
- Development
- In order to decrease the size of what we store in caches we stopped storing the actual EntityUsage objects in ParserOutput and now just store minimal identifier strings (phabricator:T236749)
- Investigated why Termbox broke on an update (phabricator:T235261)
- Removed auto jump of focus from Property field to value field (phabricator:T234322 - thanks to Envlh for the patch)
- Removed non-functional site link groups for other Wikibase installations that don't need them (phabricator:T232248)
- Continued working on the migration of the wb_terms table to address scalability issues
- Continued working on the shortened version of edit summaries for edits made through the mobile termbox (phabricator:T224013)
- For the Wikidata Bridge we are not showing edit pens when the user can not edit the article anymore (phabricator:T235152)
- Working on viewing existing references in the Wikidata Bridge (phabricator:T233397)
- Worked on showing an information popup when clicking the tainted reference icon to tell you what went wrong and how to solve it.
- Worked on defining first version of Federation for wikis outside Wikimedia
- Commons search have stopped indexing statements (structured data) since 30 October 2019 (phabricator:T237849)
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!
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
- MediaWiki2LaTeX can put different pages from a Wikimedia wiki into a PDF. It can now make a PDF with around 5000 pages. Previously this was 800 pages.
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Wikimedia will take part in Google Code-in. This is for young students who want to help with open source software. You can read more. Experienced technical Wikimedians can mentor students.
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Wikidata weekly summary #391
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Recap of WikidataCon and WikiConference North America, 19 November. Agenda
- Tool of the week
- The Mix'n'Match gadget displays on an item all unconfirmed matches on Mix'n'match, allowing to quickly add them.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- There are now over 2.5 million Wikidata Infoboxes in Commons categories.
- OpenRefine is awarded a USD 200,000 grant by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to fund its development in 2020.
- Autojump from a field to another will be removed
- Panandâ, a mobile app powered by Wikidata (and Wikimedia Commons), won the top prize in the App for Social Good category in the Android Masters 2019 competition organized by Google Developer Group Philippines. Eugene, the app's developer, recently gave a lightning talk about the app at WikidataCon 2019.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: Commons category for the interior of the item
- External identifiers: Birds of India ID, India Biodiversity Portal species ID, Moths of India ID, NBAIR pest ID, Odonata of India ID, Planète Aventure ID, Reptiles of India ID, ZSI author ID, Indian Medicinal Plants Database ID, askArt person ID, Flowers of India ID, National Health Portal hospital ID, UK Lakes Portal ID, Biodiversity of West Bengal species ID, International Paralympic Committee athlete alphabetical ID, Plusliga player ID, Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility's Species List ID, Sinemalar person ID, Encyclopedia of Mathematics wiki ID, UVL game ID, UVL platform ID, Inguma database ID, Ahotsak Lexeme, UVL company ID, UVL group ID, Home of the Underdogs game ID, OGDB game title ID, CISCE school code, JNAF artist ID, OGDB compilation ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: IAST transliteration, Hunterian transliteration, IFCO rating, stellar age, Wildlife Protection Act 1972 schedule, nominalisated form, date of assent, effective date, valid for, supervisor, Xmodmap keysym, Properties for Indian ragas
- External identifiers: Digital Corpus of Sanskrit ID, OGDB company ID, Sri Granth Punjabi word ID, Broadcast Radio Bearer URI, AboutTheArtists artist ID, Czech city district ID, Prague administrative district ID, NinDB game ID, DUC ID, VideoGameGeek game ID, VideoGameGeek platform ID, Cinepub person ID, Disney+ movie ID, Disney+ series ID, Lutris game ID, Cinept film ID, CinePT person ID, Finnish generals and admirals in the Imperial Russian Army 1809–1917 ID, Biblioteche dei filosofi ID, Lutris platform ID, Beaux-arts ID, Dictionary of Wisconsin History ID, India PlayStation Store ID, Enciclopedia dei Papi ID, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church ID, SHARE Catalogue work ID, Czech municipality ID, Lutris genre ID
- Query examples:
- Adaptations of The War of the Worlds (source)
- Graves at the Stockholm church Riddarholmskyrkan who use book Riddarholmskyrkan - inventories and graves (Q61765464) as a source, source
- Map of sisterly relationships with cities in India (source)
- Map of the languages without any Wikidata Lexemes yet (source)
- Newest database reports: translations for port/starboard and windward/leeward
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Tainted references: Show warning icon if statement value is changed but reference is not changed in the same edit (phab:T231728)
- Make WikibaseQualityConstraints link using SpecialMyLanguage (phab:T233003)
- Work on the issue of property labels not showing up on some pages (phab:T237984)
- Track Bridge openings by property datatype (phab:T231204)
- Viewing existing references in the Bridge (phab:T233397)
- Attaching the link listener sooner, so the user gets a bit less often wrongly forwarded to wikidata (phab:T235765)
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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- You will be able to read but not to edit some wikis for up to 30 minutes on 26 November at 06:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. It will probably last much shorter than 30 minutes. This will also affect the
centralauthdatabase. This could for example affect changing passwords, logging in to new wikis, changing emails or global renames. [3]
Changes later this week
- You can soon vote on proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year.
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- The mobile beta mode will be disabled to have less maintenance. The developers will focus on the desktop improvements project. You can turn on advanced mobile contributions mode if you want to see the categories. You could also jump back to the top. This can instead be done with a gadget or user script. [4]
- Parsoid is software we use for the visual editor, content translation, Flow and the Android app. This has been rewritten. It will come to the wikis gradually over the next two weeks. It has been tested, but there could be some diffs or previews that don't look right. If you see any you can report them. [5]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 November. It will be on the other wikis next week (calendar). This is because of holidays.
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- You will switch between the article and the talk page in a new way in the mobile view in the future. It will use tabs. This is more like in the desktop view. [6]
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Wikidata weekly summary #392
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events
- Join the global m:WikiForHumanRights Campaign by participating with WikiProject Human rights. The campaigns is focused on increasing coverage of human rights topics on Wikimedia projects through January 30.
- Upcoming: Online editathon in Swedish 1 December
- Past: ProWD, a tool for PROfiling the multi-dimensional completeness of WikiData, was presented at the K-CAP 2019 conference on Nov 21, 2019 in Marina del Rey, USA. Using ProWD, one may compare, for example, the completeness of computer scientists by nationality and sex. The slides are available by clicking this link. The ProWD developers are welcoming any feedback!
- Past: WikiTechStorm in Amsterdam. See the videos of the sessions, including a lot of Wikidata-related introductions
- Past: Wikidata Zurich Hackathon
- Past: Wikimedia Tech Talk: Wikidata, behind the curtain, by Ladsgroup
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Die Datenlaube launched diedatenlaube.github.io - a collection of blog posts, links and scripts around "wikidatafying" the big German Wikisource project Die Gartenlaube (in German).
- Tool of the week
- Cradle enables editors to create a new item by completing a form. You can create a new form on the Cradle help page. Cradle forms can be used as templates to ensure that similar new items are structured the same way. This can be especially helpful for specific WikiProjects or datathons, and is a great timesaver if you are creating many similar items by hand.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- 570k VIAF identifiers have been added to Wikidata items in an effort of synchronisation between the two databases, thanks to Bargioni. In order to report errors in VIAF an apposite page has been created. More information here.
- Query Service lag now affects maxlag. You may need to retry/reset error multiple times when you run QuickStatement or OpenRefine in busy hours.
- Wikidata now documented more than six million people, more than the number of articles in English Wikipedia
- New documentation page: Wikidata:Map data
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: Wikimedia page-version URL, IFCO rating, IAST transliteration, Wildlife Protection Act 1972 (India) schedule, age estimated by a dating method, effective date, date of assent, ascending scale, descending scale, primary note, secondary note, CITES Appendix, supervisor, Hunterian transliteration
- External identifiers: CBSE Affiliation No., OGDB company ID, Memorial Book Bundesarchiv ID, Digital Corpus of Sanskrit ID, Swedish Royal Theater Archive, Sri Granth Punjabi word ID, Broadcast Radio Bearer URI, Czech city district ID, DUC ID, Prague administrative district ID, AboutTheArtists artist ID, fyyd podcast ID, NinDB game ID, Cinepub person ID, eFloraSA ID, eBay username, VideoGameGeek game ID, VideoGameGeek platform ID, CinePT film ID, CinePT person ID, Disney+ movie ID, Disney+ series ID, Lutris game ID, Ratingraph MALE person ID, Czech municipality ID, WikiTreeCategories, P7608, SHARE Catalogue work ID, Taiwan Cinema company ID, Taiwan Cinema Film ID, Taiwan Cinema person ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: amends, syndicate, corporate domicile, Latvian transcription, implies, stargate-wiki.de article ID
- External identifiers: SciProfiles ID, Scilit journal ID, YVNG ID, TheGamesDB game ID, VLR ID, Archives Portal Europe ID, Church Heritage Cymru ID, NVE Powerplant ID, TheGamesDB platform ID, Artsdata ID, WPI ID, TheGamesDB developer ID, MPPDA Digital Archive person ID, MPPDA Digital Archive film ID, MPPDA Digital Archive organisation ID, Dictionary of Scottish Architects building ID, Czech municipality with authorized municipal office ID, Czech municipality with expanded powers ID, IDU theatre ID, Scienza a due voci ID, TheGamesDB publisher ID, OverDrive publisher ID, RomanianActors person ID, Encyclopedia of Cleveland History ID, Cochrane concept ID, Vectrex Game Database ID, OverDrive creator ID, OverDrive series ID, Hoopla series ID, Speiderhistorisk leksikon article, super-famicom.jp ID, Arolsen ID, Doctrine court decision ID, Juricaf decision ID, Riksdagen person guid, Places of Worship in Scotland ID, Museum of Family History ID, MovieGe person ID, GameFAQs credit ID, IMovies person ID, Ratingraph FEMALE person ID, Scilit publication ID, FMV World ID
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Human Rights
- Newest database reports: poems by Emily Dickinson
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Add Wikidata query service lag to Wikidata maxlag (phab:T221774)
- More work on tainted references and getting the feature ready to be tested
- Fix a bug with Wikibase test builds (phab:T238575)
- More work on improving the edit summaries (phab:T224013)
- Bridge: Viewing existing references (phab:T233397)
- Preserving native behavior on key+click (phab:T234060)
- Speeding up initialization, by attaching link listeners sooner (phab:T235765) and reducing the size of the init module (phab:T235771)
- Recording metrics for bridge opening performance (phab:T237368)
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!
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The Signpost: 29 November 2019
- From the editor: Put on your birthday best
- News and notes: How soon for the next million articles?
- In the media: You say you want a revolution
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
- Arbitration report: Two requests for arbitration cases
- Traffic report: The queen and the princess meet the king and the joker
- Technology report: Reference things, sister things, stranger things
- Gallery: Winter and holidays
- Recent research: Bot census; discussions differ on Spanish and English Wikipedia; how nature's seasons affect pageviews
- Essay: Adminitis
- From the archives: WikiProject Spam, revisited