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Wikidata weekly summary #296

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Closed request for adminship: Mahir256 (as successful)

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Getting data from Wikidata into WordPress custom taxonomy
  • PIDapalooza - Girona, 23-24 January,with a session on PIDs in Wikidata by Andy Mabbett
  • The EuropeanaTech Call for Proposals is open till February 7. Themes are Data, Discovery, Delivery. The conference will take place in Rotterdam, NL, May 15-16, 2018.
  • Call for papers for Celtic Knot conference is open

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Nominations for the Steward elections are open
  • Grant proposal for GlobalFactSync
  • repology is a nice new project about software packages with the help of Wikidata. They have a list of potentially outdated packages on Wikidata that might need updating or fixing.
  • Painters gives you a list of paintings that don't have a creator statement but "painting by" in the description
  • Big City Lights: where are the cities whose items are most used across the Wikimedia projects?

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: Commons compatible image available at URL, is a hydrated form of, biological phase, lot number, MAC Address Block Large ID, has boundary
    • External identifiers: SRCBB coach ID, Manus Online ID, Ecocrop ID, Harvard botanical journal ID, UK railway station code, V Live channel ID, Songwriters Hall of Fame ID, MONA ID, Luminous-Lint ID, LTI Korea Library ID, Images d'Art artwork ID, Common Database on Designated Areas ID, crates.io ID, Arcade artwork ID, Australian honours ID, cinematografo company ID, cinematografo name ID, GameRankings game ID, compArt institution ID, compArt person ID, MobyGames company ID, USA Rugby player ID, MYmovies actor ID, MYmovies movie ID, MYmovies director ID, Movieplayer characters ID, Movieplayer film ID, Movieplayer TV-series ID, MYmovies name ID
  • Query examples:
    • Map of nuclear tests (source)
    • Languages with more than one writing system (source)
    • Subclasses of malware (source)
    • Male actors who starred in a trilogy of movies when they were in their 20s and then no fewer than 40 years later played the same character again(source - see whole thread for more)
    • Bands from the UK whose member's average age is at least 70 (source)
    • Disney movie narrative locations (source)

• Development
  • Worked on persistent editing of grammatical features of a lexeme’s form (phab:T173742)
  • Made diffs for statements, grammatical features and representations of a form work (phab:T182424)
  • Turned off access to lexicographical data from the clients for now (phab:T178904)
  • Started logging warning on pages that use too many items (phab:T184319)
  • Added support for relation instance or subclass of in the constraint checks (phab:T169858)
  • Now also checking single value and multi value constraints on qualifiers and references (phab:T175566)
  • Now also checking difference within range constraints on qualifiers and references (phab:T175565)
  • Fixed a bug with duplicate items in “distinct values” violation message in the constraint checks gadget (phab:T184705)

• 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 23. jan 2018, 09:10 (CET)

Wikidata weekly summary #297

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Closed request for comments: Defining account creators

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: IRC office hour on the channel #wikimedia-office, January 30th, at 18:00 (UTC+1). Special topic: how to address the growth of Wikidata
  • Upcoming: Wikidata hackathon in London, February 3rd
  • Past: PIDapalooza 2018 - Slides on FigShare
  • Mapping Wikidata to Bibframe (representation of books)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Breaking change: wbcheckconstraints status parameter
  • Wikidata-driven infoboxes, with multilingual labels, are now available on Wikimedia Commons category pages
  • Wikidata vandalism dashboard for Wikipedians
  • Grant proposals looking for review: WikidataJS, GlobalFactSync

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: none
    • External identifiers: cinematografo film ID, CiNii author ID (articles)
  • Query examples:
    • Buildings higher than the Eiffel Tower (source)
    • Descendants of Charlemagne by year of birth (source)
    • Cinemas in Berlin (source)
    • Things (or people) depicted in the xkcd webcomic (source)
    • Image grid of inductees to WITI Hall of Fame (source)
    • Movies filmed in Austria (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects:
  • Newest gadgets: Mix'n'Match gadget: loads all Mix’m’match entries about an item, shows descriptions, lets you drag’n’drop entries as references

• • Newest database reports: tennis federations, Davis Cup and Fed Cup teams
  • Showcase items:

• Development
  • Constraint violations can now be checked on qualifiers and references (phab:T168532)
  • Implemented usage tracking deduplication to reduce database load (phab:T178079). This should not have any effect on what users see on recent changes and watchlists.
  • Redirects on client wikis that are connected to a Wikidata item can have a tracking category, if set up (phab:T185743). Thanks, Matěj!
  • Improved documentation of the pageterms query module (gerrit:406240). Thanks, Niedzielski!
  • Improved empty "content was:" in deletion logs for entities (phab:T184025)
  • Fixed links to external user pages in recent changes (phab:T183019)
  • Fixed user names beginning with a star sometimes being rendered as a list (phab:T182800)
  • Fixed constraint check results possibly showing up in the wrong language (phab:T185688)
  • Fixed ArticlePlaceholders possibly not showing up in search results (gerrit:406168)
  • Some of the developers attended to the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2018. You can find some notes on the Phabricator board

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
  • 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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 29. jan 2018, 16:27 (CET)

The Signpost: 5 February 2018

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• Op-ed: Do editors have the right to be forgotten?

• Featured content: Wars, sieges, disasters and everything black possible

• Recent research: Automated Q&A from Wikipedia articles; Who succeeds in talk page discussions?

• Blog: New monthly dataset shows where people fall into Wikipedia rabbit holes

• Interview: Interview with The Rambling Man, Wikipedia's top contributor of Featured Lists

• Traffic report: TV, death, sports, and doodles

• Special report: Cochrane–Wikipedia Initiative

• Arbitration report: New cases requested for inter-editor hostility and other collaboration issues

• In the media: Solving crime; editing out violence allegations

• Humour: You really are in Wonderland

Read this Signpost in full · Single-page · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 5. feb 2018, 06:12 (CET)