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Wikidata weekly summary #250
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Press/Blogs
- International Open Data Day was on Saturday, 4 March (tweets about Wikidata)
- Wikidata documentation sprint during the Wikimedia hackathon (May 19-21): We need your help to improve Wikidata help pages!
- Getting to know Wikidata (from Bob DuCharme, author of the book "learning SPARQL")
- Tutorial to mashup Wikidata and government data with Dataiku DSS and Palladio (fr)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Library of Congress updated their inventory of Format Description Documents to include Wikidata URIs
- Surfacing Wikidata objects with coordinates to match them with OSM
- The Wikiproject Welcome has been created to work on welcoming the new editors, feel free to participate
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: FIH player ID, seed dispersal, number of works, inflorescence, minimum wavelength of electromagnetic sensitivity, maximum wavelength of electromagnetic sensitivity, Eurovision Song Contest song ID, Ghetto Encyclopedia ID, category for value same as Wikidata, MOOMA artist ID, PhilPapers record, Serbia cadastral municipality ID, next higher rank, next lower rank, New Zealand Heritage List number, Serbia municipality ID, Eu-football.info player ID, CEV player ID, USHMM Holocaust Encyclopedia ID, USCG Lighthouse ID, Commons maps category, public key fingerprint
- Query examples:
- Countries with similar populations (source)
- Items that have "feminist art" as a value (source)
- Books, incipits, concatenating a sentence to the incipit (source and inspiration)
- Paintings by Vermeer depicting maps (source)
- Painters sorted by the number of Wikipedia articles about their works (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Fashion
- Development
- Finishing touches on the new geo shape data type. It is available on the first test wiki now (phabricator:T57549).
- SetLabel, SetDescription, SetAliases, SetLabelDescriptionAliases, SetSiteLink have been migrated to ooUI. Thanks, Ricordisamoa! (phabricator:T48248)
- Making progress on integrating the new Lexeme entity type with the wbeditentity API (phabricator:T155699).
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
Wikidata weekly summary #251
redigér Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Ladies that FOSS, March 15th, 18:00, Berlin. Meetup dedicated to women who want to start coding for Wikidata, Mediawiki or other open source software
- Wikidata workshop in Manchester, March 17th, 10:00, at the Manchester Central Library (information)
- Wikidata workshop in Paris, March 17th, 20:30. More questions about SPARQL and the Query Service (information and registration)
- Would you like to attend to a Wikidata meetup in Berlin? You can choose the next date!
- Wizards, Muggles and Wikidata: The Room of Requirements for structured knowledge by Jens Ohlig, John Cummings and Navino Evans
- Wikidata for winners (in Economics) by Martin Poulter
- Des Successions à Wikidata : vers un réseau social des philosophes antiques ? (fr) by Pierre-Carl Langlais
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Do you want to help watching the recent changes? Have a look at this useful collection of links by YMS
- Watch the gender gap on Wikipedia and Wikidata with this tool by Envlh
- Play Stadt, Fluss, Land with Wikidata! (by Knut)
- Deadline for submitting a presentation for Wikimania 2017 is March 30th: discuss about ideas or ask for help
- WMF is hiring a program manager, a product manager and a community liaison to work on the structured data project on Commons
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: pole position, MIMO instrument ID, openMLOL author ID, IPv4 range, Iditarod musher ID, SAHRA heritage site ID, DOCOMOMO Ibérico ID, average space complexity, best-case space complexity, worst-case space complexity, average performance, best-case performance, worst-case performance, Shoftim BeIsrael judge ID, KMDb documentary ID, Google Maps CID, Israel Football Association player ID, SSRN author ID, Wildflowers of Israel ID, World Rugby Sevens Series ID, number of subscribers, ITU/ISO/IEC object identifier
- Query examples:
- List of female bioinformaticians/computational biologists (source)
- Most gender-imbalanced occupations in US citizens (source)
- Awards received by more women than men (source)
- Transgender characters played by trangender actors/actresses (source)
- The most famous astronomical objects in Solar System according to Wikipedia sitelinks (source)
- Natural arches around the globe (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Board Games
- Newest external tools: official first release of WikidataIntegrator
- Development
- Converted undo/restore interface to use OOUI. You can test it here (phab:T134643).
- Fixed an other rounding issue on geo coordinates (phab:T158772).
- Added thumbnail images to the Wikimedia Commons suggester (phab:T160319).
- Continued working on introducing Lexeme entity type.
- Finishing federation prototype.
- We are going to change all snak, reference, and qualifier hashes with the planned DataModel 7.0 release. If you are a tool developer, make sure you do not persist hashes, and never use them to request edits to entities. Statement IDs are safe (phab:T157965).
- Removed unnecessary CSS on ooui special pages (phabricator:T159702)
- Allowed example queries to be searched for SPARQL commands (phabricator:T154768)
- Converted Wikibase interface for undoing/restoring a revision to OOUI (phabricator:T134643)
- Converted image header user script to gadget (phabricator:T159929)
- Started writing spec for technical data model for Wiktionary support (phabricator:T150785)
- Worked on providing API for constraint check (phabricator:T102757)
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 - proposals needing attention
- 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!