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Wikidata weekly summary #298
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- AICAT grants proposal
- ScienceSource grants renewal
- Open request for adminship: Kostas20142
- Events/Press/Blogs
- From the life of Wikidata: with the Wikidata Concepts Monitor we can now begin to discover how our communities use knowledge across the Wikimedia projects, by Goran S. Milovanović
- See also: WDCM Journal, several examples of the use of Wikidata on the Wikimedia projects
- What GLAM can teach us about multimedia metadata on Wikimedia Commons, by Jonathan Morgan and Sandra Fauconnier
- Wikidata and the German handball player nicknames by k-nut
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- We are saddened to report that Polish Wikimedian Krzysztof Machocki (who was also active on Wikidata) died on 31 January 2018, aged 36, after a couple of weeks of illness. Our condolences to his family and friends.
- Notes of the IRC office hour of January 30th
- The call for submissions for Wikimania (Cape Town, July 2018) is now open. Deadline is March 18th. Ideas of submissions related to Wikidata can be discussed here
- Based on community discussions, the ArticlePlaceholder will soon be deployed on Urdu and Estonian Wikipedias.
- Statistics
- January 2018 brought us 9,770,248 edits, 445,027 new items were created.
- The number of users that edited Wikidata per day grew in 2017 from 2439 to 2672 users, 9,6% more compared to 2016. The number of edits by them grew with 18% to 190k edits per day. We also get edited by 542 IP adresses per day, 50% more than in 2016.
- In 2017, Wikidata got edited by 46 various bots per day, executing 334k edits per day (63% more than in 2016). The most active bot in 2017 was Emijrpbot, who added 18 million edits to Wikidata.
- 284 million statements now contain references, compared to 67 million at the start of 2017. The average number of statements per item grew from 5 to almost 9. 73 million qualifiers are now used to provide more details for statements, 13 million in early 2017.
- New tool based on Wikidata: Random TV episodes
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: uses data storage type, commanded by, dam
- External identifiers: Who's Who UK ID, Basketball-Reference.com euro player ID
- Query examples:
- Items that have or will have been gone for as long as they were there this month (source)
- Members of the current UK Parliament who have ancestors in Wikidata who are identified as possibly mythical (source)
- Older siblings who died less than a month before their younger sibling entered an office (source)
- List of tram lines in Vienna (source)
- Adjacent districts in Vienna that have no tram line connecting them (source)
- Places of birth, death and burial of the artists hosted in the Sweden’s museum of art and design (source)
- Newest gadgets and scripts: a script for semi-automated import of information from Commons categories is waiting for feedback
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Diffs now show the entity ID in the page title (phab:T181077)
- Improved handling of translations in the Query Service UI (gerrit:406301, gerrit:406996), thanks to Li Song
- Continued working on diffs for forms on Lexemes (eg. phab:T186317)
- Added summaries for edits on representations or grammatical features of a form (phab:T184702)
- Worked on showing links to Lexemes and statements (phab:T185332)
- Rolling out fine grain usage tracking on more wikis, so only relevant changes are shown in the watchlist and recent changes (phab:T185032)
- Improved scalability of fine grain usage tracking (phab:T185693)
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!
Wikidata weekly summary #299
redigér Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Monthly Wikidata workshop in Paris, February 16th
- Upcoming: Wikimedia Community User Group Brasil promotes the 4th Wikdata Lab: How to add a lot of data, 22th February 2018
- Upcoming: #datatónCervantes, Wikidata workshop in Madrid, February 24th
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Lausanne, February 24th
- Discovering Types for Entity Disambiguation, on OpenAI blog
- The File (Dis)connect, by Magnus Manske
- WDCM Journal: What is Love (Q316)? Accessing Wikidata P279 and P31 paths from WDCM by Goran Milovanović
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- IRC office hour for Structured Data on Commons on Tuesday, 13 February from 18:00-19:00 UTC. More information available on Meta.
- mySociety is looking for a vacancy for a WikiData-experienced Community Manager for their Democratic Commons project
- The next Weekly Summary (February 19th) will be the 300th edition of the newsletter! To help making it special, you can share your favorite Wikidata tool, so the other readers discover nice tools
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: identifiers.org prefix, season starts, make-up artist, sets environment variable, reads environment variable, Technical Element Score, deductions (in figure skating), Program Component Score
- External identifiers: Basketball-Reference.com referee ID, Basketball-Reference.com NBL player ID, member of the Assembly of Madrid ID, BTO Birds of Britain ID, Rugby Australia ID, EUAP ID, LoC and MARC vocabularies ID, BVPB authority ID, Amtrak station code, Compagnon de la Libération ID, Gaming-History identifier, Fauna Europaea New ID, Royal Academy new identifier, BWSA ID, Statistical Service of Cyprus Geocode, PARES ID, Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture control number, Lemon 64 ID, Panoptikum identifier, Swedish portrait archive, TORA ID, Cour des comptes magistrate ID, La Poste personality ID, American National Biography ID, org-id.guide ID, Swimrankings meet ID, JORFsearch person ID, Swiss Enterprise Identification Number, Landslagsdatabasen ID, Bandysidan player ID, World Sailing regatta ID, Sailboatdata ID, Deutsche Synchronkartei series ID
- Query examples:
- Timeline of the Soviet Space Program (source)
- Countries with the most sister cities with French towns (source)
- JO2018: all 108 French competitors at the 2018 Winter Olympics by year of birth (source)
- Languages used by poeple in Austria, other than German (source)
- Biologists with Twitter accounts (source)
- Feed readers by license and operating system (source)
- List of female UK MPs who were descended from UK MPs (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Make grammatical forms persistent (phab:T173742)
- Improve the edit summary of Forms (phab:T184702)
- Handle adding and/or removing forms in lexeme diffs (phab:T186317)
- Improve formatting of the Lexemes(phab:T185332)
- Enable Lua fine grained usage tracking on more wikis (phab:T186645)
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!