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Wikidata weekly summary #200 redigér
Wikidata weekly summary #186
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming: WikiArabia
- Upcoming: Wikimedia Hackathon
- Upcoming: digikult.se
- Wikidata Tour Down-Under
- Open culture session at Open Belgium
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Coming to Wikimania? Consider submitting a Wikidata related poster, training or discussion! Deadline is on the 20th.
- Wikidata has passed the milestone of 1 Billion Datapoints (Triples) on Wednesday, 9th of March.
- Wikidata Graph Builder now supports arbitrary SPARQL queries (example)
- ESWC 2016 has a new Wikidata Bonus Challenge
- Playing with Wikidata in BigQuery
- There will be server maintenance work next week on all Wikimedia servers that will prevent editing for a short time.
- Wikidata external ID resolver now uses SPARQL and supports lookup of properties via English name (fragment)
- iSpecies now has multilingual summaries and links to Wikidata (example)
- Awarder lets you add awards to a biographical item, or use the Wikipedia text of the award to add all recipients]
- A new version of the Wikidata nuclide chart is online
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: thickness, World Heritage criteria (2005), Valencian Property of Local Relevance id, BookBrainz creator ID, PlayStation ID, ČSFD person ID, Kinopoisk person ID, Kinopoisk film ID, Hockeydb.com player ID, Eurohockey.com player ID, Geni.com profile ID, block size, serial number, Gram staining, culture, maximum gradient, Latvian Olympic Committee athlete ID
- Query examples: Number of museums by U. S. state on map, Film directors ranked by number of sitelinks multiplied by their number of films, all museums in Barcelona with coordinates, women mushers, women scientists, women artists, air accidents, Twitter accounts of biologists, torture devices, public art in Paris, Locations of Pablo Picasso works
- Development
- We reduced the loading time of items significantly. Enjoy a faster Wikidata :)
- Wikidata Query GUI now supports maps. Check it out with one of the example queries above. (Select Map under Display results menu).
- Pywikibot now has SPARQL endpoint support.
- We worked on getting the first pieces of Commons support on a test system. Nothing shiny to see yet but we're making progress.
- Converted more identifier to the new identifier datatype. Still some to go but 450 properties have been converted by now.
- Updated the data that generates suggestions when adding a new statement
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- 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(s), for the new properties listed above.
The Signpost: 16 March 2016 redigér
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News and notes: Wikipedia Zero: Orange mobile partnership in Africa ends; the evolution of privacy loss in Wikipedia
- In the media: Wales at SXSW; lawsuit over Wikipedia PR editing
- Discussion report: Is an interim WMF executive director inherently notable?
- Featured content: This week's featured content
- Traffic report: Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States
- Technology report: Watchlists, watchlists, watchlists!
- Wikipedia Weekly: Podcast #119: The Foundation and the departure of Lila Tretikov
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Wikidata weekly summary #201 redigér
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Reforming the property creation process
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Color History with the Smithsonian!
- Past: Accessibility Edit-a-Thon at the DC Public Library
- Past: Admin meetup of the German-language Wikipedia
- Automatic Extraction of Knowledge from Biomedical literature
- Identifying problematic statements in Wikidata via multi-level modeling theory
- Wikidata as a semantic framework for the Gene Wiki initiative
- Adding disclosures to Wikidata with Bioclipse
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Dutch language Wikipedia has a consistently low number of articles unconnected to Wikidata: Duplicity statistics for nlwiki
- MusicBrainz now uses Wikidata to fetch images for their entities
- The query service is now linked in the sidebar
- Mix'n'match has new catalogs among them TED speakers
- Maarten made some reports to make it easier to connect paintings on Wikidata with images on Wikimedia Commons
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: BBFC rating, German tax authority ID, ISO 9362 SWIFT/BIC code, DNF person ID, PASE ID, MetroLyrics ID, MEK ID, Companies House ID, Site of Special Scientific Interest (England) ID, ISO 15924 numeric code, Hungarian company ID, SHOWA ID, formatterURL for Wikidata ID, World Heritage criteria (2005), TED talk ID, TED topic ID, TED speaker ID
- Query examples: distribution of public art by place
- Development
- The query service now has Ctrl+enter as a shortcut to run a query
- Started working on improving input for geocoordinates and dates (changing the advanced settings)
- Worked on database performance improvements for the client (Wikipedia and co) (phabricator:T125838)
- Experimenting with arbitrary access for Wikimedia Commons on http://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org
- Converted more identifiers from string datatype to identifier datatype
- Worked on improved localization of dates that are very far in the past or future (phabricator:T127820)
- Fixed undo actions going through abuse filter (phabricator:T126861)
- Fixed issues in the query service with Internet Explorer 11
- Improved query service display on small screens
- Improved autocompletion in the query service
- Fixed a bug with an add button for qualifiers being shown when it shouldn't (phabricator:T128317)
- Further work on Wikimedia Commons support (Special Pages, API)
- You can now add a default view to a query like here. This then shows the defined view (map, table, image grid) when executing the query.
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- 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(s), for the new properties listed above.
The Signpost: 23 March 2016 redigér
News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia
- News_and_notes: Lila Tretikov a Young Global Leader; Wikipediocracy blog post sparks indefinite blocks
- In_the_media: Angolan file sharers cause trouble for Wikipedia Zero; the 3D printer edit war; a culture based on change and turmoil
- Editorial: "God damn it, you've got to be kind."
- Traffic report: Be weary on the Ides of March
- Featured content: Watch out! A slave trader, a live mascot and a crested serpent awaits!
- Arbitration report: Palestine-Israel article 3 case amended
- Wikipedia_Weekly: Podcast #120: Status of Wikimania 2016
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