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Wikidata weekly summary #240
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Voting on Make family member properties gender neutral: replacement of mother/father with a new "parent" properties
- Switch Wikidata entities from http to https: T153563
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Blog post about the Wikidata workshop at Code for Germany (de)
- Wikidata people will be at the Chaos Communication Congress (Hamburg, December 27th-30th) on the Open Knowledge Assembly stand
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Basque language Wikipedia develops a most prominent basque and worlwide person born/death in this day for all the day related articles. For example, eu:Abenduaren 19. It also displays interesting red links for people born and dead that day that are not represented in eu:wp.
- WDQ about to be shut down (you can add sub-tasks for remaining uses to T153439)
- SQID now supports PrimarySources
- Project Grants program will fund 12 community-led projects, several of them directly related to Wikidata
- Citoid, a script for editing references that can automatically populate parts of the reference, is now available for testing!
- New parser function has been enabled
- Histropedia added new features to the Wikidata query timeline
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Yle Areena ID, Leopoldina member ID, Protected areas of Canada ID, Saxon Academy of Sciences member ID, Clergy of the Church of England database ID, Catalogus Professorum Lipsiensis ID, FINA Athlete ID, Klosterdatenbank, Saccharomyces Genome Database ID, Nederlands Soortenregister ID, The Vogue List ID, coextensive with
- Query examples:
- Timeline of the Christmas movies (source)
- All Theatre World Award winners, in a timeline with pictures (source)
- Birthplaces of people buried in Norra Begravningsplatsen (source)
- Planets, their moons, and the things they are named after (source)
- Items with no father or no mother (source)
- People born on Christmas day (source)
- Newest external tools: “short author name” resolver tool
- Newest database reports: hospital lists
- Development
- Statements will soon be ordered as specified in MediaWiki:Wikibase-SortedProperties (phab:T150788)
- Getting ready the basic Lexeme prototype (phab:T146662), we're discussing some details in the data model (phab:T152019)
- Continued work on federation basics (phab:T149580)
- We removed the page property
wb-status, old entries will not be updated any more (phab:T146792) - Removed a visible jump while an entity page loads (gerrit:325924)
- Fixed a formatting issue in which the geo coordinate formatter may output "60 seconds" (phab:T153429)
- Fixed a bug in Special:NewProperty where it was not possible to provide the property type as part of the URL (phab:327496)
- Working on a major rewrite of Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel/Description, one of many steps to phase numeric entity IDs out (phab:T140891)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Help with one of the bot requests
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
The Signpost: 22 December 2016
- Year in review: Looking back on 2016
- News and notes: Strategic planning update; English ArbCom election results
- Special report: German ArbCom implodes
- Featured content: The Christmas edition
- Technology report: Labs improvements impact 2016 Tool Labs survey results
- Traffic report: Post-election traffic blues
- Recent research: One study and several abstracts
Wikidata weekly summary #241
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Belvedere artist ID, Calflora ID, basic unit of settlement code (Czech/Slovak), Google Play Store ID, Quora topic ID, end period, start period
- Query examples:
- List of heads of state by Erdős number (source)
- Airports named after people (source)
- Graves with no grave pictures of people buried in Norra Begravningsplatsen (source)
- Graves with grave pictures of people buried in Norra Begravningsplatsen (source)
- Solidays occurring today (source)
- Streets in Paris named after current countries (source)
- Streets in Paris named after battles (source)
- Wikipedia articles (in any language) of paintings by painter (source)
- Sovereign state flags with no red, white, or blue (source)
- Graph of number of compositions over age at first composition (source)
- Development
- Worked more on the first entity type (Lexeme) for Wiktionary support
- Worked more on federation in order to allow using Wikidata items and properties to describe images on Commons in the future
- Fixed a bug with getLabelWithLang returning the wrong language (phabricator:T152241)
- Fixed an issue where some coordinate values displayed 60 seconds instead of rounding to 1 minute (phabricator:T153429)
- Adjusted language for simple English sitelinks (phabricator:T152915)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
Wikidata weekly summary #242
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open requests for adminship: יונה בנדלאק, Pyb
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata and the celebrity deaths of 2016 on Buzzfeed
- Welsh Wikipedia has some 16,000 lists regularly maintained from Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: INSEE arrondissement code, INSEE countries and foreign territories code
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: US Virgin Islands
- Newest external tools: "Descriptioner" - Tool to add descriptions batchwise
- Newest database reports: Popular items without claims, Portuguese-language films without articles in Portuguese
- Development
- When a
{{#statements:…}}property couldn't be resolved, a tracking category will be added (phab:T50799) - Rewrote Special:NewItem and all other Special:New… pages to use OOUI error handling (phab:T150205)
- Getting ready the basic Lexeme prototype (phab:T146662)
- Continued work on federation basics (phab:T149580)
- Release version 1.0.0 of the DataTypes component
- Enjoying the holidays and getting ready for this year's challenges. Hope you do to :)
- When a
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
Wikidata weekly summary #242
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Current: Wikimedia Dev summit in San Francisco (January 9-11th) If you are there, come and meet our developers and volunteers!
- Upcoming: WikiIndaba, January 20-22th, Accra, Ghana
- Wikidata used to connect people giving interviews for the oral history project at the computer history museum
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Video: how institutions can donate data to Wikidata, explained in a cartoon
- Category:Articles with infoboxes completely from Wikidata on English Wikipedia
- Mix'n'match encountered some problems with labels and descriptions, some of them are now fixed, cf post from Magnus
- Wikidata-powered citation lists with citation.js
- How to use objects from OpenStreetMap in Wikidata
- Video: Navigating a cemetery using Spotify and Wikidata (by Magnus Sälgö)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: eBird taxon ID, Victorian Heritage Database ID, Debian package, FIFA country code, time signature, angular resolution, vehicle normally used, people or cargo transported, AELG ID, VGMDb artist ID, ERIH PLUS ID, biological variant of, parent cell line, Publons Publication ID, Social Networks Archival Context ID, Electronic Enlightenment ID, INCAA film rating, as.com athlete ID, ArbetSam ID, Natura 2000 site ID, Polish cultural heritage register number
- Query examples:
- Newest external tools: R wrapper for WDQS API (by Mikhail Popov), Wikidata authority file mapping tool (by Jakob Voß)
- Newest database reports: list of episodes of Desperate Housewives (in English and German)
- Development
- Log of our last IRC office hour
- This week, most of the developers are at the Dev Summit hacking stuff and doing great things!
- Continued working on "federation" – support for multiple Wikibase repositories (phab:T76007)
- New dimensions for unit conversion in the query service (phab:T150881)
- Fixed a timing issue that can happen when using the property suggester (phab:T115267)
- Still investigating an issue in which the "save" button stays disabled, as reported in December
- We may remove the sliding animation when using the date, geo, monolingual, and quantity experts (gerrit:330145). The preview popup may now cover parts of the page. Please try it at wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org and tell us what you think on our contact page.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Add statements to items without
- Help with one of the bot requests
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
The Signpost: 17 January 2017
- From the editor: Next steps for the Signpost
- News and notes: Surge in RFA promotions—a sign of lasting change?
- In the media: Year-end roundups, Wikipedia's 16th birthday, and more
- Featured content: One year ends, and another begins
- Arbitration report: Concluding 2016 and covering 2017's first two cases
- Traffic report: Out with the old, in with the new
- Technology report: Tech present, past, and future