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Facto Post – Issue 8 – 15 January 2018
Facto Post – Issue 8 – 15 January 2018
Metadata on the MarchFrom the days of hard-copy liner notes on music albums, metadata have stood outside a piece or file, while adding to understanding of where it comes from, and some of what needs to be appreciated about its content. In the GLAM sector, the accumulation of accurate metadata for objects is key to the mission of an institution, and its presentation in cataloguing. Today Wikipedia turns 17, with worlds still to conquer. Zooming out from the individual GLAM object to the ontology in which it is set, one such world becomes apparent: GLAMs use custom ontologies, and those introduce massive incompatibilities. From a recent article by sadads, we quote the observation that "vocabularies needed for many collections, topics and intellectual spaces defy the expectations of the larger professional communities." A job for the encyclopedist, certainly. But the data-minded Wikimedian has the advantages of Wikidata, starting with its multilingual data, and facility with aliases. The controlled vocabulary — sometimes referred to as a "thesaurus" as term of art — simplifies search: if a "spade" must be called that, rather than "shovel", it is easier to find all spade references. That control comes at a cost. Case studies in that article show what can lie ahead. The schema crosswalk, in jargon, is a potential answer to the GLAM Babel of proliferating and expanding vocabularies. Even if you have no interest in Wikidata as such, simply vocabularies V and W, if both V and W are matched to Wikidata, then a "crosswalk" arises from term v in V to w in W, whenever v and w both match to the same item d in Wikidata. For metadata mobility, match to Wikidata. It's apparently that simple: infrastructure requirements have turned out, so far, to be challenges that can be met. Links
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Wikidata weekly summary #295
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Wikidata weekly summary #296
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BitConnect
Not sure if I'm missing some context here, but shouldn't you have sent the article to WP:DRV rather than unilaterally restoring it? I've tagged it as G4. Rentier (talk) 23:19, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
- I agree that this was an out of process restoration and that Premeditated Chaos should have been consulted first as the closing admin. Under policy, it should be G4 eligible, but any admin who deletes it now could be accused of wheel warring. Unilateral restoration of articles deleted by other administrators as the result of an XfD is not normal. Also, having reviewed that XfD, it was a great close. The only keep !votes were from obviously recruited and affiliated SPA IPs that did not give any policy based rationale and misrepresented their sourcing. The close would likely be endorsed in a heartbeat at a DRV. TonyBallioni (talk) 23:33, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
- I'm normally fine with people challenging my actions, even in an IAR kind of way, but most admins doing things out-of-process leave a note to the original admin explaining themselves. I'm disappointed that you didn't do so anywhere. AfD is not a numerical vote and restoring this article out-of-process with no discussion because there were more keep votes (which as Tony noted were affiliated SPAs with no policy arguments to stand on) is way out of line. I would appreciate you reversing yourself; I will be taking it to DRV if you choose not to do so. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 23:49, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
- It's simple. This company has been in the news in the last 24 hours with coverage on Bloomberg, NY Magazine, Gizmodo, Techcrunch, Fortune, The Verge, Motley Fool, among others. These are not fringe sites or Bitcoin industry newsletters. BitConnect has been highlighted related to the recent crash in cryptocurrency values as regulators put pressure on blockchain operators. I go to check Wikipedia's article about it. It doesn't exist. I check the AfD, and see it's been closed as delete when there's more keep than delete votes. I have a chance to re-create the article given this new notability or start from scratch. I choose the former. This is not a protest of the deletion decision but rather a recognition that BitConnect is notable and the public is served by being able to read about it. I've re-created articles from the depths of deletion without controversy many times for more than a decade. If you concur that the firm is notable (do a quick Google News search) let's get back to writing articles and forgo pointless deletion debates. WP:NOTBUREAUCRACY. -- Fuzheado | Talk 00:05, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
- Ok, so, to be clear, you are aware of, and chose to disregard, the fact that AfD is not a numerical vote? And you chose to restore unilaterally rather than discussing it either with me, the closing admin, or taking it to DRV to contest the close? ♠PMC♠ (talk) 00:10, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
- With all due respect – it's not about you. Read the above and read Google News. Events of the past week mean BitConnect notability has shot through the roof. An article about BitConnect is justified using very basic WP:Notability standards. Rather than getting hung up on AfD technicalities and bureaucracy, can you recognize that it's about the articles and the reading public? The landscape has changed and the conditions around this article's notability have changed. WP:BEBOLD and let's get back to writing an encyclopedia. -- Fuzheado | Talk 00:23, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
- With all due respect - you unilaterally restored an article which at least in part is based on UDPE, making it a violation of the TOU, rather than writing new content of your own (speaking of "let's get back to writing"). At the very least that's irresponsible of you. We're not a bureaucracy, but we do have processes for a reason, and admins are expected to follow them, and to account for themselves fully when they don't. I see now that Anachronist has deleted it under G4. I would suggest that you not restore it again, and I invite you to take it to DRV if you continue to have issues with the closure. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 00:33, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
- Not to belabor the point, but I wanted to clarify - are you talking about this Action1212 SPI as the source of the supposed undisclosed paid editing [1] It came back as inconclusive. -- Fuzheado | Talk 01:48, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
- Uh Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Action1212/Archive#16_October_2017 has them confirmed to be a part of a sock farm using proxies. Sorry to butt in again, but since I'd mentioned it also below, I'm also trying to figure out what you're talking about in case this does go to a DRV. TonyBallioni (talk) 02:10, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks, I didn't see the additional info below the first section. -- Fuzheado | Talk 02:18, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
- Uh Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Action1212/Archive#16_October_2017 has them confirmed to be a part of a sock farm using proxies. Sorry to butt in again, but since I'd mentioned it also below, I'm also trying to figure out what you're talking about in case this does go to a DRV. TonyBallioni (talk) 02:10, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
- Not to belabor the point, but I wanted to clarify - are you talking about this Action1212 SPI as the source of the supposed undisclosed paid editing [1] It came back as inconclusive. -- Fuzheado | Talk 01:48, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
- With all due respect - you unilaterally restored an article which at least in part is based on UDPE, making it a violation of the TOU, rather than writing new content of your own (speaking of "let's get back to writing"). At the very least that's irresponsible of you. We're not a bureaucracy, but we do have processes for a reason, and admins are expected to follow them, and to account for themselves fully when they don't. I see now that Anachronist has deleted it under G4. I would suggest that you not restore it again, and I invite you to take it to DRV if you continue to have issues with the closure. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 00:33, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
- With all due respect – it's not about you. Read the above and read Google News. Events of the past week mean BitConnect notability has shot through the roof. An article about BitConnect is justified using very basic WP:Notability standards. Rather than getting hung up on AfD technicalities and bureaucracy, can you recognize that it's about the articles and the reading public? The landscape has changed and the conditions around this article's notability have changed. WP:BEBOLD and let's get back to writing an encyclopedia. -- Fuzheado | Talk 00:23, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
- Ok, so, to be clear, you are aware of, and chose to disregard, the fact that AfD is not a numerical vote? And you chose to restore unilaterally rather than discussing it either with me, the closing admin, or taking it to DRV to contest the close? ♠PMC♠ (talk) 00:10, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
- It's simple. This company has been in the news in the last 24 hours with coverage on Bloomberg, NY Magazine, Gizmodo, Techcrunch, Fortune, The Verge, Motley Fool, among others. These are not fringe sites or Bitcoin industry newsletters. BitConnect has been highlighted related to the recent crash in cryptocurrency values as regulators put pressure on blockchain operators. I go to check Wikipedia's article about it. It doesn't exist. I check the AfD, and see it's been closed as delete when there's more keep than delete votes. I have a chance to re-create the article given this new notability or start from scratch. I choose the former. This is not a protest of the deletion decision but rather a recognition that BitConnect is notable and the public is served by being able to read about it. I've re-created articles from the depths of deletion without controversy many times for more than a decade. If you concur that the firm is notable (do a quick Google News search) let's get back to writing articles and forgo pointless deletion debates. WP:NOTBUREAUCRACY. -- Fuzheado | Talk 00:05, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
Apologies.... I re-deleted the article before I came across this conversation. Had I seen this first, I would have moved on. But so be it.
The proper procedure would be to first ask the deleting admin for an explanation and restoration, and if the response isn't satisfactory, take it to WP:DRV. None of that was done here. My reading of the AFD discussion suggested to me that the close discounted comments from single-purpose editors and block evaders, in which case the consensus would be to delete. This is definitely something to take to DRV, or if Premeditated Chaos agrees the topic is now notable, he can restore it. ~Anachronist (talk) 00:36, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
- Anachronist While I think I would be perfectly justified in restoring the article at this point, out of courtesy I am going to ask you to reconsider this deletion first. While the initial restoration may have been out of process, and PC should have been notified first, the most paramount consideration is the encyclopedia itself, not procedures. IAR is a policy and was properly invoked in this case to take an action that this particular admin considered in the best interests of the encyclopedia. You would have been within your rights to delete the article again were it still in the state that it was at the time of its initial deletion, but once Fuzheado added numerous mainstream media sources and original text, the article became a substantially new one that should have been considered on its own merits, and thus your deletion was out of process. Gamaliel (talk) 00:43, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
- There are considerations about the article history here as well as PMC noted, and this content is actively harmful to the encyclopedia. You might not agree with my view on that, but it is a view that many people hold and is a valid consideration to take into account at an XfD. The fact that immediately after a G4 tag was placed an apparent SPA came up to remove it demonstrates this. If Fuzheado wants the history back, he should take it to DRV. If he thinks he can write an article on a notable topic on his own without the issues that the first article had, he should write it. The restoration here was the controversial use of the tools, and it is the restoration that needs to gain consensus. TonyBallioni (talk) 00:49, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
- The article was properly nominated as WP:G4. There was an AFD, closed as delete, and the article looked to me identical to the deleted one (in fact it was, since it had been restored). In my years on Wikipedia, and 7+ years as an admin, I have never seen a reason to invoke IAR. I find it to be an unnecessary policy. However, now that the article has been re-started afresh, I can restore the history if Fuzheado believes it would be useful. Doing that for a rewritten article is usually not controversial. ~Anachronist (talk) 05:16, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
- Anachronist, restoring the history of a page created by a UPE sock farm would be controversial, and is typically not done even when the article is recreated by good faith editors. That was I’m assuming what Rentier and PMC’s main objections were. TonyBallioni (talk) 05:22, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
- Got it. The new article is an improvement, IMO. And it contains a lot of sources already. The latest deleted source text can still be emailed or put in user space for reference if it's useful. ~Anachronist (talk) 05:25, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
- Anachronist So you criticize Fuzheado for not following procedure and then state that we should ignore an actual policy dating to 2002. Wow. Gamaliel (talk) 17:09, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
- Sorry, drawing a blank here. Which policy am I ignoring? ~Anachronist (talk) 17:51, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
- Anachronist, restoring the history of a page created by a UPE sock farm would be controversial, and is typically not done even when the article is recreated by good faith editors. That was I’m assuming what Rentier and PMC’s main objections were. TonyBallioni (talk) 05:22, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
- The article was properly nominated as WP:G4. There was an AFD, closed as delete, and the article looked to me identical to the deleted one (in fact it was, since it had been restored). In my years on Wikipedia, and 7+ years as an admin, I have never seen a reason to invoke IAR. I find it to be an unnecessary policy. However, now that the article has been re-started afresh, I can restore the history if Fuzheado believes it would be useful. Doing that for a rewritten article is usually not controversial. ~Anachronist (talk) 05:16, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
- There are considerations about the article history here as well as PMC noted, and this content is actively harmful to the encyclopedia. You might not agree with my view on that, but it is a view that many people hold and is a valid consideration to take into account at an XfD. The fact that immediately after a G4 tag was placed an apparent SPA came up to remove it demonstrates this. If Fuzheado wants the history back, he should take it to DRV. If he thinks he can write an article on a notable topic on his own without the issues that the first article had, he should write it. The restoration here was the controversial use of the tools, and it is the restoration that needs to gain consensus. TonyBallioni (talk) 00:49, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
- @Anachronist and Premeditated Chaos: Sigh. Might we solve this here then, without a lengthy DRV? Would you consider undeleting, Premeditated Chaos, by recognizing that the delete votes in Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/BitConnect are no longer on point? The sources now talking about BitConnect are not "few minor trade publications" or "press releases." They are major publications:
- Thanks. -- Fuzheado | Talk 00:53, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
- I am not going to undelete the article. If you want to write a new article, without the contamination of content written by UDPE, then by all means go ahead. I have zero interest in pursuing an AfD or any other deletion process in that case. It's what you should have done in the first place; we would not be having this conversation if you had. If you want to contest the initial deletion, I invite you to go to DRV so the closure can be scrutinized and discussed by the community. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 02:03, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
- I'll create a new article. Thanks. -- Fuzheado | Talk 02:09, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
- I am not going to undelete the article. If you want to write a new article, without the contamination of content written by UDPE, then by all means go ahead. I have zero interest in pursuing an AfD or any other deletion process in that case. It's what you should have done in the first place; we would not be having this conversation if you had. If you want to contest the initial deletion, I invite you to go to DRV so the closure can be scrutinized and discussed by the community. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 02:03, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
This is tangential, but still related to BitConnect so I'll add it here: Fuzheado, I've asked this in a couple of other places but no one seems to agree or want to address it. It seems that sometimes, when Google'ing BitConnect Wikipedia, the result comes up pointing to the AfD page which clearly states the article was AfD'd and the conclusion is Delete, and that the page should not be edited, final decision etc. Shouldn't AfD's that have been revised, or otherwise overturned for whatever reason such that the article now actually exists reflect that? Currently the landing page after googleing Wikipedia BitConnect says the following: "The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. ... The result was delete." no further indication the page exists, is there any policy that wikipedia has to put an indication that the page in fact does exist? wouldn't this make sense somewhere at the top of the AfD -> Delete page? Cheesy poof (talk) 02:42, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) (Sorry I still had this on my watchlist and thought I'd jump in, feel free to remove if unwanted) Cheesy poof, the AfD page provides a historical record of the decision made at the time of the AfD, which is why the header says not to modify the page. AfD's don't get modified after the fact if the page later gets recreated (which does happen; things change). In contrast, the AfD page will be changed if the result was reversed by the original admin or at DRV.
- In this case, the AfD for BitConnect wasn't reversed or overturned. It was closed as delete and it still remains closed as delete - the old content has not been restored even in the history. The article as it exists now is a wholly new work written by Fuzheado, free of the undisclosed paid editing that made the previous content a violation of the TOU, with additional sources to confirm notability. His version of the article basically overcomes all the issues that were raised at the AfD. The AfD decision still applies to the old content, but has no bearing on the existence of the new content. People will be able to tell the article exists again even looking at the AfD because it'll be a blue link, rather than a red one. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 03:42, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
- So you are agreeing that there should be an indication that the page exists and the indication that it exists is the font color of the link to the page, correct? (Blue vs Red)? So one issue with that is that the vast majority of wikipedia users don't know what the font color represents, there is absolutely no precedent or similar use of the color red to indicate a page that doesn't exist for most users, and unless they are active wikipedians or have otherwise read through the help pages and such will not know to interpret the font color as such. Also I keep hearing this argument that in fact that page still doesn't exist - I understant the page as written and corresponding history still do not exist, but the *page* exists, it is a wikipedia page, it has the identical web address, identical page article name etc - the point I'm making here is that from a user experience perspective, someone that comes across this page (especially in this case where for whatever reason google is indexing the AfD instead of the actual page) but actually just for any AfD page in which a page of the same name ends up on the encyclopedia, there really should be an indication somewhere indicating it now exists (for example under the Delete item, it could say since this AfD was closed it was decided to create a new page or something along those lines) anyways just a thought Cheesy poof (talk) 05:33, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
- AfD is an obscure back office process that the overwhelming majority of people never see. There are very good reasons that we don’t use anything like the system you describe (as has been explained to you now by multiple administrators.) Your pushing this point on multiple pages is starting to become disruptive, as everyone who has talked to you has told you in no uncertain terms that you are wrong. I’m sorry for being this blunt (especially on another user’s talk page), but this is the third place you’ve raise this question and PMC is the third admin to patiently explain to you why we do it this way. You really need to drop this. TonyBallioni (talk) 05:48, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
- @TonyBallioni why are you even responding here? I am asking Fuzheado a question on their talk page, if I could have DM'd them I would have. I appreciate your response and time on this, but I don't think Fuzheado's talk page is the place to get aggressive like this? It is totally up to Fuzheado if they want to respond or not to my inquiry, I am not asking anything of you here. Also if you could actually point me to the page explaining why the system I am describing is not used instead of just getting aggressive about it so I can understand I'd greatly appreciate it. Otherwise I don't think we have anything to talk about on this point. Cheesy poof (talk) 11:13, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
- Because you’ve been forumshopping this anywhere you can, and you took the response of an arbitrator above to mean the exact opposite of what she said, and I knew that it wasn’t likely that she had all three pages you’ve asked this question on watchlisted. The reason we don’t follow your system is simple: it reflects the consensus at the time of deletion to delete the article, and is kept as a record. Fuzheado unilaterally recreated this page in an entirely new form, so the discussion about the previous article has not been overturned. TonyBallioni (talk) 12:34, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
- TonyBallioni, I am new to editing on wikipedia, and I honestly didn't know that it was frowned upon to comment in more than one place - I apologize for doing that. I understand your perspective, although I disagree that I took the response of an arbitrator mean the opposite of what she said. Also, I understand your perspective but you are not the only user/editor/admin on wikipedia. It is possible and likely that others will have a different opinion than you and you should be open to that. I'm pointing out a design flaw or bug and just hoping that someone with more in-depth knowledge has an open mind to pick up on this and one day address it. I am not going to continue engaging with you - your points are all gratefully acknowledge and taken into account. I will point you to the response from user Lourdes who looked into page views and pointed out that the AfD I mentioned had over a thousand page views around the time that I addressed this, and this includes the time when the article actually re-appeared. Most people probably were not aware of the blue vs red color scheme feature and most assumed that because the AfD says Deleted and closed that there was no new page created. I understand this is a fairly fringe case, but it is a fringe case that is likely to happen every time a controversial topic that was previously AfD'd had a new page created will experience, and will experience during the peak in page views and google searches, so that is why I think it is relevant. There are two issues: one is why is Google indexing the AfD instead of the actual page, and two is why is the template so misleading to novice wikipedians in terms of the article not existing. Just trying to help here! here's the link to Lourdes observation: https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Deletion_process#Relisted_AfD_that_ends_up_Keep Cheesy poof (talk) 20:50, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
- Because you’ve been forumshopping this anywhere you can, and you took the response of an arbitrator above to mean the exact opposite of what she said, and I knew that it wasn’t likely that she had all three pages you’ve asked this question on watchlisted. The reason we don’t follow your system is simple: it reflects the consensus at the time of deletion to delete the article, and is kept as a record. Fuzheado unilaterally recreated this page in an entirely new form, so the discussion about the previous article has not been overturned. TonyBallioni (talk) 12:34, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
- So you are agreeing that there should be an indication that the page exists and the indication that it exists is the font color of the link to the page, correct? (Blue vs Red)? So one issue with that is that the vast majority of wikipedia users don't know what the font color represents, there is absolutely no precedent or similar use of the color red to indicate a page that doesn't exist for most users, and unless they are active wikipedians or have otherwise read through the help pages and such will not know to interpret the font color as such. Also I keep hearing this argument that in fact that page still doesn't exist - I understant the page as written and corresponding history still do not exist, but the *page* exists, it is a wikipedia page, it has the identical web address, identical page article name etc - the point I'm making here is that from a user experience perspective, someone that comes across this page (especially in this case where for whatever reason google is indexing the AfD instead of the actual page) but actually just for any AfD page in which a page of the same name ends up on the encyclopedia, there really should be an indication somewhere indicating it now exists (for example under the Delete item, it could say since this AfD was closed it was decided to create a new page or something along those lines) anyways just a thought Cheesy poof (talk) 05:33, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #297
- 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:
- 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 properties:
- 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!
Facto Post – Issue 9 – 5 February 2018
Facto Post – Issue 9 – 5 February 2018
m:Grants:Project/ScienceSource is the new ContentMine proposal: please take a look.
Wikidata as HubOne way of looking at Wikidata relates it to the semantic web concept, around for about as long as Wikipedia, and realised in dozens of distributed Web institutions. It sees Wikidata as supplying central, encyclopedic coverage of linked structured data, and looks ahead to greater support for "federated queries" that draw together information from all parts of the emerging network of websites. Another perspective might be likened to a photographic negative of that one: Wikidata as an already-functioning Web hub. Over half of its properties are identifiers on other websites. These are Wikidata's "external links", to use Wikipedia terminology: one type for the DOI of a publication, another for the VIAF page of an author, with thousands more such. Wikidata links out to sites that are not nominally part of the semantic web, effectively drawing them into a larger system. The crosswalk possibilities of the systematic construction of these links was covered in Issue 8. Wikipedia:External links speaks of them as kept "minimal, meritable, and directly relevant to the article." Here Wikidata finds more of a function. On viaf.org one can type a VIAF author identifier into the search box, and find the author page. The Wikidata Resolver tool, these days including Open Street Map, Scholia etc., allows this kind of lookup. The hub tool by maxlath takes a major step further, allowing both lookup and crosswalk to be encoded in a single URL. Links
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Wikidata weekly summary #298
- 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.
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Wikidata weekly summary #299
- 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!
Wikidata weekly summary #300
- Welcome to the 300th Weekly Summary!
The weekly newsletter was started by Lydia at the very beginning of the Wikidata project, even before the first deployment, to keep the community informed about the developments, the new projects and tools. More than five years later, the newsletter is still there, its content powered by the community, and sent every week all along the years. I wanted to say a warm "thank you!" to each person who helped filling the Weekly Summary <3
Over the past years, as you know, Wikidata has grown a lot. More data, more tools, more editors and reusers, more exciting projects led by the community. The Weekly Summary has evolved with us, and the 300th edition seems a good moment to ask you all your suggestions about the newsletter, how it could continue evolving, and how you would like to improve it.
On that purpose, you can find a feedback page to express all your ideas about the Weekly Summary. We're very interested to know more about your reading habits, the parts you're more or less interested in, the new topics you would like to share with the community. Thanks in advance for filling it.
I stay available anytime to discuss with you, feel free to contact me if you have any question or concern! Cheers, Léa
- A selection of cool tools on Wikidata
Here are a few tools that are recommended by some Wikidata community members. External websites, gadgets or scripts, they are very useful for Wikidata editors or users!
- The Wikidata Query Service is an infinite source of amazing data and one of the best ways to explore and use Wikidata. (TweetsFactsAndQueries)
- QuickStatements is a powerful tool that can edit or add Wikidata item en masse, via a text editor or importing a spreadsheet. (Éder Porto via Facebook)
- Mix'n'match (manual), which helps us to interlink Wikidata with the rest of the web and the world :-) (Spinster, Siobhan via Twitter)
- WikiShootMe! allows you to see Wikidata items plotted out on a map and shows you whether they have images or not. (Ham II)
- Yair Rand's WikidataInfo script adds the QID of the equivalent Wikidata item to the page being viewed (on sister projects), along with its Wikidata label and description. (Andy Mabbett)
- Recoin measures the degree of completeness of relevant properties of a Wikidata item and suggests any relevant statements that can be added to the item. (Rachmat04)
- Template:Wikidata list ("Listeria") Self-updating lists on wiki pages, to drive projects and show results. Over 14,000 now live. (Jheald)
- DuplicateReferences gadget adds a link to copy references and add them to other statements on the same item. (PKM)
- checkConstraints gadget adds notifications on the interface to easily notice the violation of constraints and help people fixing them (Léa)
- Resolve authors lists scientific articles with the property author name string (P2093) and groups them on the basis of co-authors and topic, which helps to distinguish people referred to by identical name strings. (Daniel Mietchen)
- The Wiki Loves Monuments map is powered by Wikidata. You can look for a city and find the monuments around. (Stefano Sabatini via Facebook)
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Wikidata Lab: How to add a lot of data, São Paulo, February 22th
- Upcoming: #datatónCervantes, Wikidata workshop in Madrid, February 24th
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Lausanne, February 24th
- Upcoming: Wikidata seminar, Oxford e-Research Centre, February 28th
- Ongoing: Fourth Annual month wide d:Wikidata:Events/Nepal#Datathon_2018
- Past: Wikidata doathon, 14-15 February 2018, Göttingen
- A Reconciliation Recipe for Wikidata by Martin Poulter
- Some ways Wikidata can improve search and discovery by Martin Poulter
- From Wikidata to Scholia: creating structured linked data to generate scholarly profiles
- Querying Wikidata about Vienna tram lines, by Stefan Daschek
- Using wikidata for linked data WordPress indexes, by Phil Barker
- Using Wikidata to build an authority list of Holocaust-era ghettos
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- There are now over 100,000 ORCID iDs in Wikidata.
- The usage history graph that is being linked to on property talk pages now shows usage since the end of August 2016. This used to be 50 days. Thanks Lockal!
- Feedback needed: ontology for structured data on Commons
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: has command line option, Wolfram Language entity code, total fertility rate, development of anatomical structure, research intervention, permitted food additive, maximum food additive use level
- External identifiers: TheTVDB.com ID, Irish Women Rugby Football Union ID, CATO ID, Directory of Czech publishers ID, ASHRAE refrigerant number, Bulbapedia article, Lemon Amiga identifier, CPC-Power identifier, Libraries.org ID, International Numbering System number, JECFA database ID, JMPR database ID, Uppslagsverket Finland ID, Phasmida Species File ID
- Query examples:
- Women with an Erdős number
- Classes that are subclass of both physical object and abstract object (thread)
- Countries sharing land borders only with larger countries (source)
- Alive actors and actresses without an image, ordered by number of films they appear in (source)
- Beast species in the Harry Potter universe (source)
- Places that have been indicated as the topic of scientific articles indexed in Wikidata (source)
- Scientists whose cause of death was "death by burning" (source)
- Women who have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (source)
- Wikidata:WikiProject ShEx
- Newest database reports: winter sport disciplines, people and equipment
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Fixed incomplete "Label:", "Description:" and "Statement:" entity usage messages in various places (phab:T178090). Thanks, Matěj!
- Improved violation messages for ranges involving the current date (e. g. “should not be in the future”).
- Continued work on caching constraint check results.
- Enabled Lua fine-grained usage tracking for better performance on several more wikis: hywiki, frwiki, svwiki, itwiki, zhwiki, bewiki, nlwiki, glwiki, and Wikimedia Commons (phab:T187265 phab:T186714)
- Representation and grammatical features of the form can be changed using the UI (WikibaseLexeme) (phab:T173743, phab:T160525)
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 #301
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: IMLD-ODD 2018 Wikidata India Edit-a-thon, February 21st to March 3rd
- Upcoming: presentation of the paper "Knowledge Graphs and Pluralism on Wikidata", February 27th, Luxembourg
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Hyderabad, India, March 2nd
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Stewards election is running until February 28th
- Structured data on Commons ontology discussion continues until March 1st.
- Decision about the licensing of Lexeme namespace
- It's been possible for a while (but not previously reported here) to include Wikidata IDs in Wikivoyage listings, like this example edit.
- Q50000000 was created on February 23rd.
- You can give feedback about this newsletter
- Constraint checks will be integrated in the interface of Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: conscription number, recognition sequence, cutting site of restriction enzyme, RFE symbol, isoschizomer, neoschizomer, number of records, P4877, symbolizes, segmental innervation
- External identifiers: AtariAge identifier, Atari Legend identifier, Atarimania identifier, BMI Work ID, Charity Navigator ID, Amazon author page, REBASE Enzyme Number, Hispania Nostra Red List of Endangered Heritage ID, Operabase ID, GEPRIS project ID, GEPRIS organization ID, GEPRIS person ID, World Rugby Women's Sevens Series player ID, FFR Sevens player ID, Maison d'écrivain ID
- Query examples:
- Actors who have starred in at least three Oscar Best Picture-nominated films in the same year (Inspired by this Vulture article)
- Items in the part of the Getty AAT thesaurus (P1014) below costume accessory (Q1065579) where the upward relationship in the thesaurus cannot as yet be 'explained' by our existing subclass (P279) relations (thread1;thread2;thread3)
- Where were people who went to space born? (source)
- National flags featuring the Union Jack as a canton (the top inner corner of a flag) (source)
- Number of mass shootings by country since 1990 (source)
- Newest database reports: sleds, sleighs and sledges
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Make it possible to link to Lexemes and Statements (phab:T1854997)
- Disabling senses for the first release of Lexemes (phab:T186995)
- Caching for constraints check
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 #302
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Past: Wikidata workshops in different places in the world for Open Data Day
- WikiCite presentation (video) as part of Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting - February 2018
- Wikidata: Knowledge as a Service, by martin Poulter
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: court, time index, 3D model, broader concept, season, number of players in region, century breaks, dialect of, produces cohesive end, isocaudomer
- External identifiers: FFF male player ID, AFL Tables coach ID, FFF female player ID, Webumenia creator ID, AFL Tables umpire ID, MuIS person or group ID, EPHE ID, Patrons de France ID, Siprojuris ID, ESPN X Games athlete ID, ACE work ID, AICTE institute ID, Chronicling America newspaper ID, Brooklyn Museum Exhibition ID, Zenodo ID, CONABIO ID, New Georgia Encyclopedia ID, Tropicos publication ID, KMSKA work PID, Bargeton ID, Guide Nicaise ID, AlloCiné company ID, Annuaire des fondations ID
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Energy, Motorsports
- Newest database reports: nomes de países em português
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Re-enable Wikidata Recent Changes integration on Russian Wikipedia (phab:T179012)
- Investigate on the size of logging table (phab:T188635)
- Fix issues with graph vizualisation UI (phab:T186467)
- Work on results of security review for the deployment of Wikibase-Lexeme (phab:T186726)
- Enable constraint result caching on Wikidata (phab:T184812)
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!
This Month in GLAM: February 2018
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Facto Post – Issue 10 – 12 March 2018
Facto Post – Issue 10 – 12 March 2018
Milestone for mix'n'matchAround the time in February when Wikidata clicked past item Q50000000, another milestone was reached: the mix'n'match tool uploaded its 1000th dataset. Concisely defined by its author, Magnus Manske, it works "to match entries in external catalogs to Wikidata". The total number of entries is now well into eight figures, and more are constantly being added: a couple of new catalogs each day is normal. Since the end of 2013, mix'n'match has gradually come to play a significant part in adding statements to Wikidata. Particularly in areas with the flavour of digital humanities, but datasets can of course be about practically anything. There is a catalog on skyscrapers, and two on spiders. These days mix'n'match can be used in numerous modes, from the relaxed gamified click through a catalog looking for matches, with prompts, to the fantastically useful and often demanding search across all catalogs. I'll type that again: you can search 1000+ datasets from the simple box at the top right. The drop-down menu top left offers "creation candidates", Magnus's personal favourite. m:Mix'n'match/Manual for more. For the Wikidatan, a key point is that these matches, however carried out, add statements to Wikidata if, and naturally only if, there is a Wikidata property associated with the catalog. For everyone, however, the hands-on experience of deciding of what is a good match is an education, in a scholarly area, biographical catalogs being particularly fraught. Underpinning recent rapid progress is an open infrastructure for scraping and uploading. Congratulations to Magnus, our data Stakhanovite! Links
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Wikidata weekly summary #303
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Notability and Commons
- Events
- Upcoming: WikiIndaba in Tunis, 16-18 March. There will be several Wikidata-related sessions
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Paris, March 16th
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Structured Data on Commons is the most important development in Wikimedia's usability, by John Lubbock
- Data on the history of Scottish witch trials added to Wikidata, by John Lubbock
- German Wikidata Workshop on "Wikidata: Potential uses and application examples for digital cultural heritage" during the conference DHd 2018
- Automatically Generating Wikipedia Info-boxes from Wikidata, by Tomás Sáez and Aidan Hogan
- Linking ImageNet WordNet Synsets with Wikidata, by Finn Årup Nielsen
- Towards a Question Answering System over the Semantic Web, by Dennis Diefenbach et al.
- Practical Linked Data Access via SPARQL: The Case of Wikidata, by Markus Krötzsch et al.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- WDQS updater switched to Kafka
- First version of Lexicographical Data will be released in April
- Wikidata:Database reports/Constraint violations updated
- "autopatrolled" entries to be removed from the logging table
- You can have a look at the Europeana migration campaign and help with translations in your languages
- Mix'n'Match new features: Creation Candidates and Top missing entries
- WDCM Journal: gender equity in Wikidata usage
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: calculated from
- External identifiers: Ready64 identifier, GameBase 64 identifier, Plus/4 World identifier, Rugby Football Union men's player ID, Snooker.org tournament ID, Rugby Football Union women's sevens player ID, Rugby Football Union men's sevens player ID, CueTracker tournament ID, Rugby Football Union women's player ID, PRotein Ontology ID, Invaluable.com artist ID, Ricorso author ID, AINM ID, Julien ID, Todotango.com artist ID, Todotango.com work ID, The Big Cartoon DataBase ID, Small Monuments of Plzeň Catalogue ID, SFMOMA artist ID, Japan Rugby Football Union men's player ID, Japan Rugby Football Union women's player ID, BFMTV.com director ID, Japan Rugby Football Union women's sevens player ID, Japan Rugby Football Union men's sevens player ID, Societe.com director ID, Dominicains ID, Premiers préfets ID
- Query examples:
- Some costume items ending in 'us'
- Women on Wikidata without article in any Wikipedia, ordered by number of statements (source)
- WikiProjects about women (source)
- Software of the KDE community (source)
- Films starring more than one future head of government (source)
- Timeline of prominent Women Computer Scientists (source)
- Newest database reports: list of episodes of Borgen
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Significantly (on average to 1/4th) reduced the number of changes from Wikidata showing up on the watchlists and recent changes on Wikipedias and the other sister projects. This way changes that do not affect an article should no longer show up. We're still holding off roll-out to Commons, Cebuano, Waray-Waray and Armenian Wikipedia because of scalability concerns.
- Working on optimizing one of the largest database tables (wb_terms) (phab:T188279)
- Fixing a bug on how Wikidata changes are shown on Wikipedia (phab:T189320)
- Continued addressing security review issues for Wikibase-Lexeme extension (phab:T186726)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- 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!
Final note from Léa: thanks to people who participated to the feedback page! Today's Weekly Summary is already improved thanks to your suggestions. Feel free to add more comments, and feel free to edit the newsletter yourself: all small contributions are welcome :)
Wikidata weekly summary #304
- Events
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Eindhoven, NL, March 24th
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Mind the (Language) Gap: Generation of Multilingual Wikipedia Summaries from Wikidata for ArticlePlaceholders by Lucie-Aimée Kaffee et al.
- Semantic labeling for quantitative data using Wikidata, by Phuc Nguyen and Hideaki Takeda
- OpenStreetMap Interview: Andy Mabbett, Wikidata and OSM - The OpenCage Geocoder blog
- How we’re using machine learning to visually enrich Wikidata, by Miriam Redi on WMF's blog
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The property suggestions were updated last week, the last update was in December 2017. The most noticable effect is the higher ranking of "family name" (P734) on items about people. Input about the suggester is still welcome.
- There is an early conversation about structured licensing and copyright on Wikimedia Commons.
- George, le deuxième texte (fr), a website querying Wikidata to find French female authors, in order to bring more diversity in the literature school programs
- New, configurable download page for Mix’n’match catalogs (example)
- The Su Lab is looking for a postdoctoral researcher to work on Wikidata in the Gene Wiki team
- Help:Conflation of 2 persons
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: download link, INCI name, safety classification and labelling, may prevent, classification of the best at metas volantes
- External identifiers: Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms ID, TMDb movie ID, DDB ID, Irish Rugby Football Union men's sevens player ID, Irish Rugby Football Union women's sevens player ID, Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms ID, MR Author ID, BDH edition ID, AIDA freediver ID, equipement.paris.fr place ID, Generation MSX identifier, Sega8bit.com identifier, Abandonia identifier
- New property proposals to review: Norwegian war sailor register ID, PRS Legislative Research MP ID, Thésaurus de la désignation des œuvres architecturales et des espaces aménagés ID, Thésaurus de la désignation des objets mobiliers ID, TMDB person id, TMDB TV series ID, Biographical Dictionary of Georgia ID, ruchess ID, UK Provider Reference Number, Hungarian public body ID, medical evacuation to, hearing date, TMDB person id, TMDB TV series ID, RKDlibrary ID, IDA place ID, Kinoliste ID, Routard.com place ID, Scottish Rugby Union men's player ID, Scottish Rugby Union women's player ID, Scottish Rugby Union men's sevens player ID, Scottish Rugby Union women's sevens player ID, Women’s Elite Rugby ID
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Indigenous peoples of North America
- Newest database reports: Friends episodes list
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Looking into current Lua usage to see where we can improve the Lua functions we provide (phab:T189506)
- When there is a constraint violation in a reference, the reference is now automatically expanded to make it more visible (phab:T177970)
- Looked into issues around notifying the Wikipedias about changes happening on Wikidata (sometimes delayed due to too quick bot editing) (phab:T189772)
- Fixed some translation issues in the embeded part of the Query Service (phab:T188990)
- Fixed an issue with usernames being broken for Wikidata changes in watchlist and RC on Wikipedia (phab:T189320)
- Optimizing a heavily used database table (wb_terms) (phab:T188279)
- Polishing a lot of things for lexicographical data first deployment
- Make it possible to remove a Form (phab:T173332)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- 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!
DYK for 1838 Georgetown slave sale
On 24 March 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article 1838 Georgetown slave sale, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in 2017 Georgetown University named a building after Isaac Hawkins because his name appeared first on the list of enslaved people sold by them in 1838? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/1838 Georgetown slave sale. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, 1838 Georgetown slave sale), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Wikidata weekly summary #305
- Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: Putnik, Okkn. Welcome on board!
- Closed request for comments: Former ATE
- Events
- Upcoming: 1st Workshop on Quality of Open Data, Berlin, July 18–20 (submission deadline May 27)
- Upcoming: EuropeanaTech and Wikidata Workshop Day for GLAMs, Rotterdam (NL), Monday 14 May. A day of GLAM-related workshops around Wikidata and Structured Commons, for beginners and advanced users.
- Press, articles, blog posts
- SPLASHes in Wikidata, by Egon Willighagen
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- report about items with identical birth and death dates updated
- Relator, a tool to improve family relations in Wikidata
- Descendants check: consistency across multiple generations
- Due to Easter Monday, the next issue of the Weekly Summary will be sent on Tuesday, April 3rd. Until that day, feel free to add information in there
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: prerequisite, relevant qualification, derivative work, alternate names, test method
- External identifiers: Biographical Dictionary of Swedish Women, SPLASH, Behind the voice Actors video games ID, Hungarian MP identifier, UK Provider Reference Number, Norwegian war sailor register ID, Wikitribune category, Scottish Rugby Union men's player ID, Scottish Rugby Union men's sevens player ID, Scottish Rugby Union women's player ID, IDA place ID, PRS Legislative Research MP ID, Thésaurus de la désignation des objets mobiliers ID, Thésaurus de la désignation des œuvres architecturales et des espaces aménagés ID, Kinoliste ID, Women’s Elite Rugby ID, TMDb TV series id, TMDb person id, Routard.com place ID, Scottish Rugby Union women's sevens player ID, RKDlibrary ID, Statistics Canada Geographic code, Biographical Dictionary of Georgia ID, DBA ID, Hungarian public body ID, ruchess ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: had part, METAR code, Zulassungszahlen, Analog or derivative of, GHS labelling elements, en opposition à, output method
- External identifiers: Filmweb.pl film ID, Filmweb.pl person ID, Orthodox Encyclopedia Online ID, National Thesis Number, Deutsche Biographie Identifikator, Welsh Rugby Union IDs (women's XV and men's 7s)
- Query examples:
- Airports named after a person, color-coded by gender (source)
- Movies that Wikidata knows about and that have a German title that implies that someone or something doesn't answer (source)
- Software developed by people/organizations that have archival material at the ComputerHistory museum (source)
- Most common eponyms of French departments (source)
- Newest database reports: HOLBY CI+Y episode list, list of 2-part episodes
- Newest properties:
- Development
- New search code for Wikidata merged. You may notice the improvement in the search results output for Wikidata item. However, new code for search is not enabled, only new results format. The search code will be enabled next week.
- Improving formatting of language and lexical category in diff for Lexemes (phab:T189679)
- Allow to remove a Form (phab:T189675)
- Translate the grammatical feature properly on Lexemes (phab:T189143)
- Investigate and fix a bug on Lexemes when undoing an edit (phab:T187215)
- Progress on refactoring the table wb_terms (phab:T189777, phab:T188993, phab:T188279)
- Fixing an error on the caching of the constraint checks (phab:T189842)
- Improving the performance of a table in the database (phab:T180834)
- Improving the way we're building dumps (phab:T177550)
- Investigate on improving Lua functions (phab:T143970)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- 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!
Courses Modules are being deprecated
Hello,
Your account is currently configured with an education program flag. This system (the Courses system) is being deprecated. As such, your account will soon be updated to remove these no longer supported flags. For details on the changes, and how to migrate to using the replacement system (the Programs and Events Dashboard) please see Wikipedia:Education noticeboard/Archive 18#NOTICE: EducationProgram extension is being deprecated.
Thank you! Sent by: xaosflux 20:28, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #306
- Events
- Talk by Morane Gruenpeter and Katherine Thornton, presented at LibrePlanet 2018 about software metadata in Software Heritage and Wikidata. Video of the talk. Slides for the talk.
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Making women more visible online—with Wikidata tools by Sandra Fauconnier on WMF's blog
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- if you're working with Lua modules, you can give input here about new functions
- you can still fill this page if you encounter a problem with suggester ranking
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: National Governors Association biography URL, key press, number of clubs, analog or derivative of, in opposition to
- External identifiers: Biographical Dictionary of Georgia ID, DBA ID, Hungarian public body ID, ruchess ID, World Para Snowboard athlete ID, METAR code, Orthodox Encyclopedia ID, Amphibians of India ID, National Thesis Number (France)
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: maximum operating temperature, minimum operating temperature, maximum non-operating temperature, minimum non-operating temperature, Специальное звание или классный чин, member of the crew of, service life, Gens, Code of Household Registration and Conscription Information System, Wikipedia glossary entry, assistant director, choral conductor, lighting designer, sound designer, projection designer, video designer, stage crew member, number of representations, talk show guest, adaptation or arrangement of, revival or touring version of
- External identifiers: DNV GL Vessel register ID, Behind the voice Actors person ID, Identifier of object at prazdnedomy.cz, Digital Typhoon ID, Territographie ID, Chile Rugby player ID, Directory of Open Access Journals ID, Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID, Researchmap ID, OpenEdition Books ID, KIT Linked Open Numbers ID, Animated Knots ID
- Sparsely used properties created >3 months:
- Deleted properties: P1124 (teu), P3484 (name shares origin with), P4990 (Statistics Canada Geographic code)
- Query examples:
- Newest database reports: pilot and first episodes of television series
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Work on a script to generate MassMessage target lists (phab:T190812)
- Test validity of Wikidata IDs in Lua modules (phab:T143970)
- Rename Lua functions in old naming scheme (phab:T190382)
- More work on wb_terms table (phab:T188992)
- More work on logging autopatrol actions (phab:T184485)
- Include checksums in dumps (phab:T190457)
- Add mobile edits to Grafana (phab:T191111)
- Allowing to remove a Form from a Lexeme (phab:T173332)
- Fixing bugs on Lexemes (phab:T189185)
- Checking permissions for actions on Lexemes
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- 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 #307
- Events
- Role of Wikimedia in the era of Open Science, Barcelona, April 16th
- Wikidata meetup in Berlin, April 20th. Please sign up if you want to attend (the meetup takes place in the venue of the Wikimedia Conference)
- Wikidata workshop in Paris, April 20th
- Wikidata for science workshop in Paris, April 23rd
- Wikidata meetup in Zürich, April 25th
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Some improvements have been made on the search results
- The administrative territorial entities of the Ottoman Empire are now largely complete. They include the elayets, vilayets and their sanjaks.
- A new version of Denelezh, a tool to monitor the gender gap in Wikidata, has been released, including a new methodology to produce the data (explained at the top of the main page and in the documentation), and an overview of the gender gap by Wikimedia project.
- Items now contain an average of 9 statements.
- Item Q2937606, created 5 years ago, got its first statement
- New tool: The property explorer sorts and displays properties per category (developed by Stevenliuyi based on a suggestion from Micru)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: Wikimedia project focus list, complies with, special rank, last update, test taken, test score, activity policy in this place, choral conductor, gens, lighting designer, number of representations, sound designer
- External identifiers: DNV GL Vessel register ID, Behind the voice Actors person ID, Territographie ID, Prazdne Domy building ID, Welsh Rugby Union women's player ID, Welsh Rugby Union men's sevens player ID, Digital Typhoon typhoon ID, Digital Typhoon cyclone ID, Chile Rugby player ID, Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID, Code of Household Registration and Conscription Information System (Taiwan)
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: majority opinion, KMC Heritage Building Grade, accreditation, Number of spoilt votes, Number of blank votes, Number of abstentions, greater than (2), subdomain URL, International Classification for Standards, Wind speed, Wikimedia outline, list combines topics
- External identifiers: Authorea Author ID, Lambiek Comiclopedia ID, FOGIS ID, Behind the voice Actors character ID, KIT Linked Open Numbers ID, Harvard designation, Yahoo Answers category, UMAC ID, Internet Adult Film Database film ID, Adult Film Database film ID
- Sparsely used properties created >3 months:
- Berlinische Galerie artist ID (P4580), Kulturelles Erbe Köln object ID (P4582), Argentinian Historic Heritage ID (P4587), National Inventory of Canadian Military Memorials ID (P4591), Mountain Project ID (P4592), arXiv author ID (P4594), post town (P4595), NIOSH Publication Number (P4596), monomer of (P4599), Lives of WWI ID (P4601)
- Query examples:
- Timeline of weather satellites (source)
- Map with lighthouses all over the world (source)
- Number of articles about humans by gender on Welsh Wikipedia (source)
- List of French rivers with different names and SANDRE ids on Sophox (SPARQL endpoint querying OpenStreetMap and Wikidata) (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Differences between range constraints now work only if both properties are present (phab:T185480)
- Work on a new constraint unit which defines which units are alowed for a given property (phab:T164372)
- Make the Special:ConstraintReport easier to understand (phab:T188728)
- Work on a Lua function which checks if an item is a subclass of or instance of another item (phab:T179155)
- Started deleting old autopatrolled from the loggin table (phab:T190447, phab:T184791)
- More work on setting up permissions for Lexeme (phab:T189480)
- Fixing a bug about removing the last Lemma (phab:T189185)
- Disabling the possibility to move a Lexeme (phab:T189481)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- 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!
Facto Post – Issue 11 – 9 April 2018
Facto Post – Issue 11 – 9 April 2018
The 100 Skins of the OnionOpen Citations Month, with its eminently guessable hashtag, is upon us. We should be utterly grateful that in the past 12 months, so much data on which papers cite which other papers has been made open, and that Wikidata is playing its part in hosting it as "cites" statements. At the time of writing, there are 15.3M Wikidata items that can do that. Pulling back to look at open access papers in the large, though, there is is less reason for celebration. Access in theory does not yet equate to practical access. A recent LSE IMPACT blogpost puts that issue down to "heterogeneity". A useful euphemism to save us from thinking that the whole concept doesn't fall into the realm of the oxymoron. Some home truths: aggregation is not content management, if it falls short on reusability. The PDF file format is wedded to how humans read documents, not how machines ingest them. The salami-slicer is our friend in the current downloading of open access papers, but for a better metaphor, think about skinning an onion, laboriously, 100 times with diminishing returns. There are of the order of 100 major publisher sites hosting open access papers, and the predominant offer there is still a PDF. From the discoverability angle, Wikidata's bibliographic resources combined with the SPARQL query are superior in principle, by far, to existing keyword searches run over papers. Open access content should be managed into consistent HTML, something that is currently strenuous. The good news, such as it is, would be that much of it is already in XML. The organisational problem of removing further skins from the onion, with sensible prioritisation, is certainly not insuperable. The CORE group (the bloggers in the LSE posting) has some answers, but actually not all that is needed for the text and data mining purposes they highlight. The long tail, or in other words the onion heart when it has become fiddly beyond patience to skin, does call for a pis aller. But the real knack is to do more between the XML and the heart. Links
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Wikidata weekly summary #308
- Events
- Role of Wikimedia in the era of Open Science, Barcelona, April 16th (slides of Andy Mabbett's keynote)
- Wikidata meetup in Berlin, April 20th. Please sign up if you want to attend (the meetup takes place in the venue of the Wikimedia Conference)
- Wikidata workshop in Paris, April 20th
- Wikidata for science workshop in Paris, April 23rd
- Wikidata meetup in Zürich, April 25th
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- GLAM wiki Conference (November 2018 in Tel Aviv): you can now apply for a scholarship. You can still make submissions for the program until end of April.
- Lua function to get Wikibase entity by site link: mw.wikibase.getEntityIdForTitle (thanks Tpt!) (ticket)
- Wikidata:FactGrid#Problems and more, a brief status report of the FactGrid Project on Friday 13, April 2018
- Should OpenStreetMap use Wikibase to store data on tags? (Discussion on OSM wiki)
- Prop explorer UI can now be translated using Tool Translate.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: talk show guest, GHS hazard pictogram, GHS hazard statement, GHS precautionary statement, number of abstentions, number of spoilt votes, number of blank votes, International Classification for Standards, towards, supervisory board member
- External identifiers: Researchmap ID, Animated Knots ID, Filmweb.pl film ID, Filmweb.pl person ID, National Library of Korea Identifier (KRNLK), Lambiek Comiclopedia ID, AmphibiaWeb Species ID, Plants of the World online ID, FOGIS ID, Authorea author ID, Rosetta Code ID, Church of Sweden ID, Harvard designation, UMAC ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: French standard sizes for oil paintings, operating temperature, non-operating temperature, reference value, ILI ID, Portable Game Notation, SNOMED CT identifier, Mercalli intensity, fault type, fault, areas affected
- External identifiers: IRMNG taxon ID, e-teatr.pl ID, World of Physics identifier, Kunstenpunt people, DOAB publisher ID, aviation-safety.net ID, IAFD company ID, JAAF ID, Athletics Canada ID, Russian Athletics ID, Polish Athletics Federation ID, Römpp online ID, Pschyrembel Online ID, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy ID, ISC event, USGS-ANSS event page, HanCinema drama, ARRS race ID, hpip
- Barely used properties created >3 months:
- National Film Board of Canada movie ID (P4606), AUSNUT 2011–13 Food Group ID (P4618), squadron embarked (P4624), trophy awarded (P4622), EK number (P4627), premiere type (P4634), identity of object in context (P4626), photosphere image (P4640), FoodEx2 code (P4637), Estonian Football Association team ID (P4639)
- Query examples:
- Longest chain of mutual murders (source)
- 6 couples killed each other (source)
- All things named after Leonardo da Vinci (source)
- German municipality pairs with the name pattern -ing/-ingen (source)
- Timeline of early silent movies produced before 1900 (source)
- French citizens with at least 5 Wikipedia pages but not in French (source)
- Newest database reports: family names by soundex, définitions de ville
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Disable Senses in the API for the initial version of the WikibaseLexeme extension (phab:T187198)
- Create a new data type to allow linking to Forms (phab:T165579)
- Fix a bug happening when editing a Form (phab:T187215)
- Enforce permission checks when editing Lexeme (phab:T189480)
- Make not possible to remove the last lemma (phab:T189185)
- Make not possible to move a Lexeme (phab:T189481)
- Implement “Units” constraint (phab:T164372)
- More work on the possibility to pick an item's parent in Lua (phab:T179155)
- Show a thumbnail for image/video/audio properties in statements (phab:T46727)
- Add “no bounds” constraint (phab:T170610)
- Make the “difference within range” constraint not requiring “item requires claim” constraint (phab:T185480)
- New Lua function to test for validity of Wikidata entity IDs (phab:T143970)
- Include checksums in dumps (phab:T190457)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- 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!
Your draft article, Draft:The Jade Pendant
Hello, Fuzheado. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "The Jade Pendant".
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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. JMHamo (talk) 20:53, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #309
- Events
- Past: Wikimedia Conference in Berlin
- Wikibase workshop in Antwerp, Belgium, April 23-25
- WikiWorkshop, a forum bringing together researchers exploring all aspects the Wikimedia projects, in Lyon, April 24th. Seven papers related to Wikidata will be presented.
- Wikidata meetup in Zurich, Switzerland, April 25th
- DDJ Monaco: Wikidata for digital Journalists; Open-Source-Treffen: SPARQL-Workshop, Munich, April 25 and 27
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Old Periodicals, a New Datatype and Spiderfied Query Results in Wikidata by Simon Cobb (National Library of Wales)
- Wikimedia and The Met: A Shared Digital Vision by Katherine Maher and Loic Tallon
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata:Tools has been reorganized and updated, thanks to Pasleim! Feel free to help keeping this page up to date.
- Wikidata:List of properties has also been reorganized and updated.
- Lexicographical data on Wikidata will start at the end of May. Some property proposals are already discussed
- A rate limit for edits and page creation has been set up
- Please give feedback on a first proposal on GLAM metadata and ontology mapping for Structured Data on Commons. This feedback round runs until 4 May.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: fastest lap, cabinet, patronym or matronym for this person, modified version of, unit symbol, wind speed, operating temperature, non-operating temperature, service life, French standard size for oil paintings, boiler pressure, presented in
- External identifiers: IRMNG taxon ID, Handball Bundesliga ID, e-teatr.pl ID, DOAB publisher ID, ILI ID, World of Physics identifier, Flanders Arts Institute person ID, JAAF ID, Polish Athletics Federation ID, Römpp online ID, Russian Athletics ID, Athletics Canada ID, NVE lake ID, Norsk biografisk leksikon ID, Norsk kunstnerleksikon ID, Store medisinske leksikon ID, Adult Film Database film ID, Yahoo Answers category, Pschyrembel Online ID, FIPS string code for US states, FIPS numeric code for US states, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy ID, USGS-ANSS event page, ARRS race ID, HanCinema drama ID, ISC event ID, road number (Estonia), Heritage of Portuguese Influence ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Commercialized from, synonym, translation, antonym, demonym of, item for this sense, pronunciation variety, grammatical gender, grammatical number, etymology, person, areas affected, award category, nature of statement, donation platform, has grammatical gender, has grammatical person, Phonetic pronunciation, medical finding model, landmass, accessed from, research measurement, hyperonym, hyponym, meronym, holonym, troponym
- External identifiers: Swedish Literature Bank, Logainm ID, Wikipedia glossary entry, Réunion des musées nationaux id, Il mondo dei doppiatori ID, FIS speed skier ID, cryptocurrency address, New Zealand Gazetteer ID, Bridge number, HanCinema film, Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures ID
- Scarcely used properties created >3 months:
- Indian Financial System Code (P4635), RCR number (P4645), partition type identifier (P4654), partition table type (P4653), Wiki Aves bird ID (P4664), Buenos Aires legislator ID (P4667), Sjukvårdsrådgivningen Category ID (P4670), tabular software version (P4669), constraint scope (P4680), GEMS Code (P4695)
- Query examples:
- Newest database reports: Sports equipment: balls
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Track the number of constraints by type (phab:T191891)
- Include thumbnails in image statements (phab:T46727)
- Install Query Service on Factgrid (phab:T189863)
- Page creation and edit rates (phab:T184948)
- Implement unit constraint (phab:T164372)
- Implement no bounds constraint (phab:T170610)
- Started working on the constraint violation type to restrict to indicate that certain properties can only be used on items or lexemes (phab:T164744)
- Creating a Docker container for QuickStatements (phab:T192079)
- Removed hardcoded demo data in Wikibase Lexeme (phab:T188899)
- New data type for linking to Forms (phab:T165579)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- 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
Looks like I've connected to what I needed with John Cummings & Jens Ohlig, so I won't bother you with the "further details" I promised when we talked on Sunday. - Jmabel | Talk 19:42, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
- Great to hear it. Good meeting you in Berlin! -- Fuzheado | Talk 20:31, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #310
- Events
- Past:
- Wikibase workshop in Antwerp, Belgium, April 23-25
- WikiWorkshop, a forum bringing together researchers exploring all aspects of the Wikimedia projects
- Wikidata meetup in Zurich, Switzerland, April 25th
- DDJ Monaco: Wikidata for digital Journalists; Open-Source-Treffen: SPARQL-Workshop, Munich, April 25 and 27
- Daten in Wikidata einbringen (Bringing data into Wikidata) - Hands-on tutorial within the DINI KIM Workshop 2018
- Upcoming:
- Wikidata workshop in Köln, Germany, on May 5th and 6th
- Wikidata workshop in Vienna, Austria, on May 5th
- Wikidata workshop in Pardubice, Czech Republic, on May 5th
- Past:
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New badge available for sitelinks: good list
- Sitelinks for the new Ingush Wikipedia (inhwiki) can be added
- Support for the second new Gorontalo Wikipedia (gorwiki) is here
- Articles of the third new Lingua Franca Nova Wikipedia (lfnwiki) may be connected
- A Wikidata Telegram group has been created by volunteers
- Constraint Summary script is showing the total amount of constraints reports on the top of an item page
- Contexto is a Wordpress plugin displaying Wikidata info in a hovercard. See demo, you can also let feedback to the developer
- Sixth months before Wikidata's sixth birthday: you can organize a local event
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: fault, member of the crew of, nature of statement
- External identifiers: Logainm ID, IAFD film ID, Il mondo dei doppiatori ID, Réunion des musées nationaux ID, Swedish Literature Bank AuthorID, FIS speed skier ID, New Zealand Gazetteer place ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: crop, date of first attestation, place of first attestation, Wikidata property example for lexemes, Wikidata property example for forms, Wikidata property example for senses, false-friend, demonym (Lexeme), Allaboutjazz musician ID, homonym, paronym, streetViewUrl, constraint, WikiCFP eventID, WikiCFP conference series ID, Mascot of, program committee member, applies to name, values for this type, items for this type, Maintained by Wikiproject, Amateur Radio Callsign
- External identifiers: Ontario public library ID, Italian School ID, TFRRS athlete ID, Linux Game Database properties, Swedish Literature Bank book ID, ICAA film catalogue ID, Stepwell Atlas ID, OnsOranje player ID, OnsOranje tournament ID, OnsOranje match ID
- Infrequently used properties created >3 months:
- Historic Place Names of Wales ID (P4697), American Art Collaborative object ID (P4692), Arquivo Arq ID (P4694), Argentine deputy ID (P4693), HATVP person ID (P4703), Ent'revues ID (P4706), VOGRIPA ID (P4708), Rugby Canada ID (P4707), title page number (P4714), Conseil de Presse Luxembourg journalist ID (P4698)
- Query examples:
- Timeline of Wikibase instances and WikidataCon events (federated query)
- User-friendly list of news articles by Kim Wall, as linked from the German and English Wikipedia (based on work of fnielsen)
- Places of birth of the European Parliament members (source)
- Obelisks in Rome (source)
- Artists from Cameroon and their places of birth (source)
- Place of birth of people with an ORCID ID (source)
- History of Milano metro stations on a map (source)
- Number of versions, editions and translations by language of work (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- More work on the internal API for Wikibase-Lexeme (phab:T190906)
- Fix some errors happening when editing Lexemes (phab:T192766, phab:T192264)
- Use language code validation for forms representations (phab:T193010, phab:T193011)
- Add badge for good lists to Wikidata (phab:T190976)
- Fix bugs regarding the thumbnails on media statements (phab:T192910, phab:T192601, phab:T192869)
- Investigate on dispatch lag problems (phab:T193349)
- Fix a bug on the watchlist on Wikipedia (phab:T192673)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- 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 #311
- Discussions
- Events
- Wikidata and GLAM workshop day in the context of the EuropeanaTech Conference, Rotterdam, Monday 14 May 2018
- Wikidata access methods, slides by Dan Scott
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- More than 850 living people' articles from the English Wikipedia which have date of death or place of death on their Wikidata item: manual checks needed. You can also check Category:P570 missing in Wikipedia
- Florian will be improving Wikidata support in the Wikipedia plugin for OpenStreetMap's JOSM editor, for the Google Summer of Code 2018
- Prssanna Desai will work on improvements for the Query Service during Google Summer of Code
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: Deutsche Bahn station category, has grammatical gender, has grammatical person, Wikimedia outline, assistant director, island of location, possible medical findings, suggests the existence of, has evaluation, evaluation of, greater than, less than
- External identifiers: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures ID, Behind The Voice Actors character ID, HanCinema film ID, Italian School ID, Directory of Open Access Journals ID, LGDB game ID, LGDB emulator ID, LGDB tool ID, LGDB engine ID, TFRRS athlete ID, All About Jazz musician ID, Ontario public library ID, Swedish Literature Bank book ID, WikiCFP event ID, WikiCFP conference series ID, ICAA film catalogue ID, Stepwell Atlas ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: IMDA rating, is program committee member of, officialized by, KAVI rating, topographic map, child monotypic taxon, Köppens klimaklassifisering, Möllendorff transliteration, attested, geographic center, season of club or team, sports competition competed at, factorizsation, coastline, forest cover, vehicles per capita, audio transcription
- External identifiers: e-MEC entry, Norwegian war sailor register ship ID, Thesaurus For Graphic Materials, GNOME Wiki ID, Israel Film Fund ID, The New Fund for Cinema and Television (Israel) ID, Cinema Project ID, Chinese Political Elites Database ID, Israeli Movie Testimonial Database Person ID, Israeli Movie Testimonial Database Movie ID, JMA Seismic Intensity Database ID, Portale della Canzone italiana IDs, Trustpilot company ID, Ester ID, Dictionary of Swedish Translators
- Properties lacking use created > 3 months:
- Sign@l journal ID (P4726), INRAN Italian Food ID (P4729), produced sound (P4733), IBM code page ID (P4734), IBM graphic character global ID (P4736), Line Music album ID (P4748), Line Music artist ID (P4747), is proceedings from (P4745), National Historic Ships certificate no. (P4750), Manus Online ID (P4752)
- Deleted properties: Réunion des musées nationaux ID (P5100)
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Allow continuing Wikidata entity dumps (phab:T193688)
- Make sure Wikidata entity dump scripts run for a short amount of time (phab:T190513)
- Add monolingual language code shy (phab:T184783)
- More work on preparing QuickStatements to be run by other parties (phab:T193606, phab:T192079, phab:T192365)
- Expand references with constraint violations (phab:T177970)
- Improving validation of Form representations on WikibaseLexeme (phab:T193011)
- Fixing a bug that replaces a representation by another (phab:T192264)
- Enable finding forms using wbsearchentities API (phab:T191981)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- 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!
This Month in GLAM: April 2018
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Wikidata weekly summary #312
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Adminor
- Events
- Past: GLAM forum in Yerevan, Armenia, 10-12 May 2018
- slides for 'What is Wikidata: How can GLAMs work with Wikidata?' presentation by Andy Mabbett
- A Wikidata workshop was given by Liam Wyatt and appeared at the national Armenian television
- Wikidata workshop day at GLAMwiki conference in Rotterdam, May 14th
- Wikidata workshop in Paris, May 18th
- Next Wikidata IRC office hour: May 29th at 18:00 (UTC+2, Berlin time) on the channel #wikimedia-office
- Past: GLAM forum in Yerevan, Armenia, 10-12 May 2018
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Wikidata: a platform for your library’s linked open data by Stacy Allison-Cassin & Dan Scott, in the journal Code4Lib (also posted on Reddit)
- Enriching Reconciled Data with OpenRefine, by Karen Hwang
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New feature for the Query Service: check the location of the browser
- New monolingual code available: shy (Shawiya)
- You can have a look at the draft for the RDF mapping of Wikibase Lexeme
- New feature for the Query Service: check the location of the browser
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: item for this sense, season of club or team, Möllendorff transliteration, geographic center, coastline
- External identifiers: none
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: IGAC rating, taxon described in publication, jockey, Norsk fjordkatalog-ID, Wikidata:Dataset Imports, toponym
- External identifiers: Bugs! artist ID, Bugs! album ID, KKBOX artist ID, KKBOX album ID, Norsk pop- og rockleksikon ID, Odnoklassniki profile ID, Kunstenpunt organisations, Rockipedia artist ID, Rockipedia album ID, Rockipedia label ID, Rockipedia area ID, Norsk historisk leksikon ID, Univ-droit jurist ID, Relationship Science profile ID, D&B Hoovers company profile, Victorian Heritage Register ID, CIVICUS Monitor country entry, FloraCatalana ID
- Underused properties created >3 months:
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Fix the bug where changes in the watchlist and Recent Changes on Wikipedia should have been shown but were not (phab:T192673)
- Clarify error message for the merge API (phab:T180296)
- Add violation type to restrict which entity types a property can be used (phab:T164744)
- Added a constraint to blacklist values for a property (phab:T183092)
- Fix a bug showing the wrong alias in the edit summary when editing an alias (phab:T190492)
- Fix some bugs related to displaying thumbnails in statements (phab:T193880, phab:T192667, phab:T193499)
- Continue looking into dispatch issues (phab:T194602)
- Working on adding an integer constraint (phab:T167989)
- Preparing to deploy WikibaseLexeme extension on Wikimedia cluster (phab:T168260)
- Making sure that the form ID counter is preserved when clearing the lexeme via the API (phab:T192264)
- Applying the same validation to the language code of the Lemma and the representation (phab:T191504)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- 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 #313
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Addshore, Pintoch
- New request for comments: How to manage software versions, Improving Wikidata documentation for different types of user
- Closed request for comments: Privacy and Living People
- Events
- Past: Europeana Tech Conference (including a lot of Wikidata workshops and discussions)
- Past:Wikimedia Hackathon 2018, 18-20 May in Barcelona
- Check the hashtag #wmhack on Twitter to see what has been worked on regarding Wikidata
- List of the projects that have been demoed during the showcase
- Next Wikidata IRC office hour: May 29th at 18:00 (UTC+2, Berlin time) on the channel #wikimedia-office
- Press, articles, blog posts
- A look back at the first Federated-Wikibase-Workshop
- Martin Poulter gave a TEDxBathUniversity talk about Wikidata
- The Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools (JROST) has been launched; Wikidata is represented by the Wikimedia Foundation
- "Translating a blog post into structured data" Martin Poulter, the Bodleian Digital Library blog
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A bunch of new constraint types were recently added
- A Request for comments on improving Wikidata documentation for different types of user
- We have deprecated units used for this property (P2237). Please update any tool which uses this property to use the new API before it gets deleted.
- EditGroups is a new tool that lets you review, discuss and revert entire edit groups made by various tools.
- PictureThis! Is a new tool integrated to WikiShootMe! that allows you to choose an item and upload a picture of it
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: IGAC rating, KAVI rating, established from medical condition, vehicles per capita (1000), applies to name, Wikipedia glossary entry
- External identifiers: Chinese Political Elites Database ID, amateur radio callsign, Bugs! album ID, Bugs! artist ID, Cinema Project (Israel) ID, Dictionary of Swedish Translators ID, e-MEC entry, Ester ID, Israel Film Fund ID, KKBOX album ID, KKBOX artist ID, Norwegian war sailor register ship-ID, OnsOranje match ID, OnsOranje player ID, The New Fund for Cinema and Television (Israel) ID, Thesaurus For Graphic Materials ID, Trustpilot company ID, OnsOranje tournament ID, Odnoklassniki profile ID, Flanders Arts Institute organisation ID, Norsk pop- og rockleksikon ID, Norwegian historical lexicon ID, Norwegian fjord catalog ID, Rockipedia album ID, Rockipedia artist ID, Rockipedia area ID, Rockipedia label ID, Univ-droit jurist ID, KIT Linked Open Numbers ID, Victorian Heritage Register ID, FloraCatalana ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: animal water well, World Rugby Ranking, Schulsprengel, dedicated object, conjugation class, word stem, visible by means of, Production website, software version of, Japanese pitch accent, reading pattern of kanji, has conjugation class, stroke count, radical, grade of kanji, Party coalition, Naturdenkmal ID, ISO 3950 code, software version, software developer
- External identifiers: Eurohockey.com club ID, Namuwiki, Daum Encyclopedia, Melon song ID, Sistema de Información Cultural, African Studies Thesaurus ID, nwhl.zone player ID, YouPorn ID, Pornhub ID, NWSL player ID, eBird hotspot ID, British Library system number, Flickr tag, Sveriges Dödbok, BAG Openbare ruimte ID, BAG Pand ID, SpectraBase Compound ID, Carnegie Hall event ID, Carnegie Hall work ID, Armenian National Academy of Sciences ID, Armenian Cinema ID, Armenian Parliamentary ID, National Gallery of Armenia work ID, Spyur ID, OlimpBase Women's Chess Olympiad player ID, GONIAT author ID, GONIAT taxon ID, GONIAT paper ID, GONIAT place ID
- Dormant properties created >3 months:
- USA Rugby player ID (P4778), MYmovies name ID (P4785), CiNii author ID (articles) (P4787), Who's Who UK ID (P4789), uses data storage type (P4788), Basketball-Reference.com NBL player ID (P4796), Basketball-Reference.com referee ID (P4795), PARES ID (P4813), BWSA ID (P4811), LoC and MARC vocabularies ID (P4801)
- Query examples:
- Most populous first-level country subdivisions without legislatures (source)
- Prisoners of Conscience by place of birth (source)
- Photos of railway stations from Latvia and Estonia (source)
- Map of items near me that have a label in Catalan but not in French (source)
- Places of residence of accused Scottish witches (source)
- Poets whose fathers were lawyers (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Sustainable Development, Wikipedia Sources
- Newest database reports: list of English Wikipedia outline articles, US states
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Hackathon!
- Work on adding “integer” constraint (phab:T167989)
- Fix a bug expanding the references with a constraint violation (phab:T193669)
- Add a "mis" code language to enable uncoded languages in Wikibase Lexeme (phab:T194754)
- Improve the different language fields in the interface of editing a Lexeme (phab:T191504)
- Finish work to edit Forms via the web API (phab:T190906)
- Include special Lexeme IDs (phab:T187060)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- 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!
Editor of the Week
Editor of the Week | ||
Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week in recognition of your teamwork. Thank you for the great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project) |
User:Buster7 submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:
- Fuzheado, a most interesting User, has been a mentor to over 80 students in his long WP career and teaches the power of collaborative editing. Recently, he was one member of a group of editors that displayed excellent teamwork; all working toward a common goal of managing and manipulating input into an article that was in flux; an article that's "real life history" was developing daily. This team of editors, of which Fuzheado was a part, deserve separate individual recognition as Editors of the Week because they came together and worked on location maps, before and after the event, and they did a fantastic job. One need only look at Talk:March For Our Lives#Maps to see the positive interactions that resulted in a timely and quality addition to the encyclopedia. Fuzheado has been a teacher and leader of the Encyclopedia for many years. This is but a small recognition for all he has done.
You can copy the following text to your user page to display a user box proclaiming your selection as Editor of the Week:
{{User:UBX/EoTWBox}}
Thanks again for your efforts! ―Buster7 ☎ 14:17, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
- Belated congrats! ---Another Believer (Talk) 18:12, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
Facto Post – Issue 12 – 28 May 2018
Facto Post – Issue 12 – 28 May 2018
ScienceSource fundedThe Wikimedia Foundation announced full funding of the ScienceSource grant proposal from ContentMine on May 18. See the ScienceSource Twitter announcement and 60 second video.
The proposal includes downloading 30,000 open access papers, aiming (roughly speaking) to create a baseline for medical referencing on Wikipedia. It leaves open the question of how these are to be chosen. The basic criteria of WP:MEDRS include a concentration on secondary literature. Attention has to be given to the long tail of diseases that receive less current research. The MEDRS guideline supposes that edge cases will have to be handled, and the premature exclusion of publications that would be in those marginal positions would reduce the value of the collection. Prophylaxis misses the point that gate-keeping will be done by an algorithm. Two well-known but rather different areas where such considerations apply are tropical diseases and alternative medicine. There are also a number of potential downloading troubles, and these were mentioned in Issue 11. There is likely to be a gap, even with the guideline, between conditions taken to be necessary but not sufficient, and conditions sufficient but not necessary, for candidate papers to be included. With around 10,000 recognised medical conditions in standard lists, being comprehensive is demanding. With all of these aspects of the task, ScienceSource will seek community help. Links
To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see below.
Editor Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him. Back numbers are here. Reminder: WikiFactMine pages on Wikidata are at WD:WFM. ScienceSource pages will be announced there, and in this mass message. If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page.
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Wikidata weekly summary #314
- Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: Pintoch, Addshore (both successful)
- New request for comments: Why do we have an item for dogs and another one for Canis lupus familiaris?
- Events
- IRC office hour, on May 29th at 18:00 (UTC+2, Berlin time), on the IRC channel #wikimedia-office. Special topic: Lexemes on Wikidata
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Paper on Cellosaurus, with mappings to Wikidata, by Amos Bairoch
- Blog post from Galder Gonzalez announcing the Lexemes (in Basque)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Ongoing: On 24 May, there was a significant outage affecting Wikidata and sister projects that use Wikidata. As a result, some features of are temporarily disabled: Wikidata's property suggester, Lua modules and parser functions calling by label instead of ID, search for the ArticlePlaceholder. We apologize for the inconvenience, we're working to get them back as soon as possible. For technical details, see: phab:T195520 & Incident documentation/20180524-wikidata.
- As announced last week, the “integer” constraint type and the “separators” parameter for the “single value” and “single best value” constraint types are now supported in WikibaseQualityConstraints.
- Lexicographical data is now available on Wikidata! Check the announcement for more details. Feel free to try adding words and give feedback
- Structured Data on Commons has designs for displaying and using multilingual captions on the file page. Feedback is welcome on the talk page.
- You can try the new Drag&Drop gadget developed by Yarl and give feedback
- The European Commission announces a review of the Database Directive.
- OpenRefine 3.0 beta was released. You can get an overview of the new Wikidata-related features with tutorials and videos.
- TextRazor is a web service which analyses text and identifies the entities and concepts discussed, giving the corresponding Wikidata QIDs.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: grammatical gender, conjugation class, word stem, Sandbox-Lexeme, Sandbox-Form, synonym, derived from, Wikidata property example for lexemes, Wikidata property example for forms, officialized by, Wikidata dataset import page, output method, IMDA rating, adapted by, topographic map, date of commercialization, stroke count, has conjugation class
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Vocalized form, display technology, compound of, Chromosome number, Vietnamese character reading pattern, fanqie, evokes, homograph lexeme, homograph form, prime factor, classifier, Accomplice, Slavic Alphabet, signum
- External identifiers: BMRB ID, ICSC ID, Baidu Baike ID, Tree of Life Web Project ID, Argentine biography deputy ID, B.R.A.H.M.S. ID, Chromosome numbers of the flora of Germany database ID, Filmow ID, Cité de la musique ID, Giant Bomb ID, OpenCorporates corporate grouping, Artists in Canada record number, RollDaBeats ID, Songfacts ID, ARWU ID
- Properties not really used, created >3 months:
- Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture control number (P4814), Amtrak station code (P4803), make-up artist (P4805), sets environment variable (P4809), Technical Element Score (P4815), Rugby Australia ID (P4799), TORA ID (P4820), Panoptikum identifier (P4818), Cour des comptes magistrate ID (P4821), La Poste personality ID (P4822)
- Query examples:
- Development
- Deployed and activate WikibaseLexeme on wikidata.org so you can now store the first lexicographical data on Wikidata (phab:T191457)
- Fixing the encoding issues on labels of items linked on Lexemes (phab:T195470, phab:T195359)
- Fixed an issue that was preventing adding Forms and Lexemes in statements (phab:T195402)
- Suppressed the browser's autocomplete that covers WikibaseLexeme's suggestion on Special:NewLexeme (phab:T195383, phab:T191526)
- Worked on a bug about representation overwriting other representation with the same language code (phab:T193636)
- Changed title of the field of a lemma language to make it less likely for people to add a translation as a second Lemma (phab:T193603)
- Working on the RDF mapping of WikibaseLexeme (phab:T160260)
- Working on implementing fulltext search for Lexemes (phab:T189739)
- Working on showing Lemmas for linked Lexemes instead of just their ID on special pages like Special:AllPages (phab:T195382)
- Fixing issues that happened after dropping an index from the wb_terms table (phab:T194270, phab:T195642, phab:T195611)
- Made constraint check result appear directly after adding a new statement (phab:T194247)
- Working on looking up entities by external identifiers on Special:Search (phab:T99899)
- Added Docker image to Wikibase website (phab:T189936)
- Added WikibaseImport script to Docker images to make it easier for people to start their own Wikibase install with some data imported from Wikidata (phab:T192080)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- 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!