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Wikidata weekly summary #245
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Data donation: BBC Things ID (P1617) for news topics, kindly supplied by the BBC. All now uploaded, via Mix'n'Match
- The StrepHit grant tool was renewed, so the Primary Sources tool can be improved in the future
- The Bodleian Libraries (Oxford University) are looking for a Wikimedia data assistant to work on Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: FIBA player ID, MLB ID, NFL.com ID, fussballdaten.de ID, FootballDatabase.eu ID, euroleague.net ID, JapanTour ID, Australian Government Organisations Register ID, draftexpress.com ID, databaseFootball.com ID, AZBilliards ID, par, median income, Luding game ID, eurobasket.com ID, wisdenindia.com ID, acb.com ID, Simple Modular Architecture Research Tool ID, Rfam ID, NHL.com ID, EuroTour ID, databaseOlympics.com ID, Pfam ID, Smithsonian trinomial, Geographical Names Board of New South Wales ID, National Park Foundation ID, NPCA ID, U.S. National Geodetic Survey ID, peakware ID, means of locomotion, VGMDb label ID, Dagens Nyheter topic ID, Bivouac Mountain Encyclopedia ID, Luding designer ID, BoardGameGeek designer ID, Florentine Inventario Palatina art ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali building ID, Ameblo username, Catholic rite, Ringgold identifier, Gentoo package
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Wikidata:WikiProject Companies
- Newest database reports: film festivals this month
- Development
- RDF exports will contain sitelink page names as strings in addition to the URLs (phab:T148923)
- Switching the remaining special pages for labels, descriptions and aliases to the OOUI design (phab:T48248)
- Finalizing the security review of the Cognate extension for Wiktionary (phab:T149082)
- We plan to provide
og:imageOpen Graph tags for sharing Item pages in social networks (phab:T51859) - Introducing a new test framework for special pages (phab:T69122)
- Refactoring the wbeditentity API to work with the new Lexeme entity type (phab:T154288)
- Added docs/change-op-serializations.wiki documenting how to use the wbeditentity API
- Added a CREDITS file to the Wikibase code base, listing all authors
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- 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!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
The Signpost: 6 February 2017
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- Arbitration report: WMF Legal and ArbCom weigh in on tension between disclosure requirements and user privacy
- WikiProject report: For the birds!
- Technology report: Better PDFs, backup plans, and birthday wishes
- Traffic report: Cool It Now
- Featured content: Three weeks dominated by articles
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The Signpost: 6 February 2017
redigér - Arbitration report: WMF Legal and ArbCom weigh in on tension between disclosure requirements and user privacy
- WikiProject report: For the birds!
- Technology report: Better PDFs, backup plans, and birthday wishes
- Traffic report: Cool It Now
- Featured content: Three weeks dominated by articles
Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 6. feb 2017, 11:47 (CET)
Wikidata weekly summary #246
redigér Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- We need your input about quality criteria for building a tool to evaluate item quality
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Past: FOSDEM
- Upcoming: WSDM Cup 2017
- Upcoming: WikiCite 2017, Vienna, May 23-25, 2017
- Upcoming: A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners, by Asaf Bartov, February 9th, 19:00 UTC (livestream on Youtube)
- Scaling the matching of Wikidata to OpenStreetMap with wikimama
- Software product management as an internship in the Wikidata development team
- Being a Volunteer Developer for Wikimedia projects: An Interview with Greta Doçi
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Inspire Campaign on outside knowledge networks launched
- What would you like to talk about during Wikimania Montreal?
- Join the Wikimania program committee!
- OpenStreetMap uses several
wikidata-related tags in its database. See also the related documentation - Dutch is now the most used language for descriptions on Wikidata (56,7%), leaving English (55,8%) and German (34,7%) behind.
- An OpenRefine service for Wikidata is waiting for testing: https://tools.wmflabs.org/openrefine-wikidata/
- WMDE looking for a data analyst to work mostly on Wikidata
- WMF looking for a project manager to work on structured data for Commons
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Saros cycle of eclipse, World Checklist of Selected Plant Families ID, Relations Ontology ID, GCD series ID, WNBA player ID, Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures ID, CricketArchive playing ground ID, UltraSignup runner ID, ITRA runner ID, Surfline ID, SunshineTour ID, Pro Football Hall of Fame ID, SIPCA code, Sina Weibo id, autologous cell line, Croatian Football Federation player ID, TLG author ID, data size, Fangraphs ID, European Handball Federation ID, ESPNcricinfo playing ground ID, ESPN MLB player ID, European Case Law Identifier, Cultureel Woordenboek identifier, OWGR ID, Legends of Hockey ID, Just Sports Stats ID, J.League Data Site ID, Global Poker Index ID, NGA Lighthouse ID, Admiralty number, pro-football-reference ID, College Football Data Warehouse ID, maximum size or capacity, USCF ID, World Curling Federation ID, World Curling Tour ID, World Guide to Covered Bridges ID, World Series of Poker ID, Zhihu topic ID
- Query examples:
- Development
- You can now download query results as SVG images
- When posting a link to an item to social networks and on messenger apps that show previews the previews will now be nicer and show an image. (phabricator:T51859)
- We published the results of our research around Commons usage: How do heavy Commons users work? ...and what does that mean for structured data on Commons?
- Setting up test system for federation (being able to use Wikidata's items and properties on Commons)
- Setting up test system for lexemes
- Setting up test system for improved change dispatching (sending notifications about edits on Wikidata to Wikipedia and co)
- Doing more groundwork for lexemes
- Working on better integration with Elastic
- More work on Federation
- Getting ready to deploy automated sitelinks for Wiktionary
- Fixing a number of keyboard navigation issues based on your feedback
- Working on the new datatype for geoshapes (phabricator:T57549)
- Looking into linking more complicated external identifiers properly (phabricator:T151329)
- Improved the link to the help portal on the query service (phabricator:T154993)
See all open tickets related to Wikidata.
- 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!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
- The Cebuano and Swedish wikis have a lot of bot-created content which is unconnected to other wiki articles. A good way to tackle that problem is by checking constraint violations for property GeoNames ID.