Hey folks :)
Here is your summary of what happened around Wikidata over the past week.
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Connecting OpenStreetMap and Wikidata
<https://www.mapbox.com/blog/id-wikidata/>, blog post by Mapbox
- Past: office hour on IRC (log
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2016/wikimedia-office.2016-07-08-16.03.log.html>
)
- Now: ISMB 2016 Editathon
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Computational_Biology/ISMB_2016_Editathon>
- Upcoming: Viquimarató de Wikidata sobre Ramon Llull
<http://www.cccb.org/ca/activitats/fitxa/de-lars-combinatoria-a-wikidata/224219>
- Upcoming: OpenSym <http://www.opensym.org/os2016/>
- Monitoring the Gender Gap with Wikidata Human Gender Indicators
<http://wigi.wmflabs.org/monitoring-gender-gap.pdf>
- An Empirical Evaluation of Property Recommender Systems for Wikidata
and Collaborative Knowledge Bases
<http://www.evazangerle.at/wp-content/papercite-data/pdf/opensym16.pdf>
- Mapping street names to Wikidata entities they refer to and enriching
OpenStreetMap with linked data
<https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-42089-9_1>
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The removal of Persondata
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Persondata> from the English
Wikipedia is completed. There are still much information to migrate to
Wikidata at KasparBot's tool
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/kasparbot/persondata/>.
- Tour de France data is coming from Wikidata in at least 3 Wikipedias
<https://twitter.com/JGH_JAEHNICK/status/750075844652072961>
- Freebase API will be shut down on August 31
- TXT Werk <http://www.txt-werk.de/> is now using Wikidata to identify
entities (previously Freebase)
- Magnus' reference drag and drop script is now a gadget
- Got an idea for a cool project around Wikidata but need some funding?
A project grant <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/07/01/project-grants/>
might be an option.
- There are several full PhD/postdoc positions available at TU Dresden
with Markus including work on Wikidata
<https://iccl.inf.tu-dresden.de/web/Stellenausschreibung4/en>
- Magnus' Wiki Loves Monuments tool now also reads cultural identifiers
from Wikidata and was switched to use SPARQL
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/wlmuk/index_wd.html>
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: archive date
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2960>, permanent duplicated item
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2959>, throughput
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2957>, NAIF ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2956>, point of penalty
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2955>, Transferred Account Data
Interchange Group Code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2954>, Estonian
Research Portal person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2953>,
bateau d'intérêt patrimonial
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2952>, Cultural heritage
database in Austria ObjektID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2951>, Nomisma ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2950>, WikiTree ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2949>, Estonian cultural
monument ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2948>, BacDive ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2946>
- Query examples: timeline of space probes
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ATimeline%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Flaunchdate%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fimage%29%20AS%20%3Fimage%29%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%09%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ26529%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP619%20%3Flaunchdate%20.%0A%09SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Flaunchdate>
(source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/750336305679241216>),
countries
with most UNESCO World Heritage Sites
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ABubbleChart%0ASELECT%20distinct%20%3Fcountry%20%3FcountryLabel%20%20%28count%28%3Fsite%29%20as%20%3Fsites%29%0A%0AWHERE%20%7B%20%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%3Fsite%20wdt%3AP1435%20wd%3AQ9259%20.%20%0A%20%20%3Fsite%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fcountry%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%09%09bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%09%7D%0A%7D%0A%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fcountry%20%3FcountryLabel%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fsites%29%0A>
(source <https://twitter.com/Histropedia/status/751726988872839168>), places
in America named after places in England
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3FplaceInAmerica%20%3FplaceInEngland%20%3FamericaName%20%3FenglandName%20%3FamericaLocation%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%3FplaceInAmerica%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ1496967%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP17%20wd%3AQ30%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP138%20%3FplaceInEngland%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP625%20%3FamericaLocation.%0A%20%20%3FplaceInEngland%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ1496967%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP17%20wd%3AQ145.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FplaceInAmerica%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FamericaName.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FplaceInEngland%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FenglandName.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D>
(source <https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/751867482542137344>), emergency
number by country size
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23Emergency%20numbers%20by%20population%20using%20them%0A%23Lists%20emergency%20numbers%20and%20the%20total%20amount%20of%20people%20which%20can%20use%20them%0A%23defaultView%3ABubbleChart%0ASELECT%20%3FemergencyNumber%20%3FemergencyNumberLabel%20%3Ftel%20%3Fpopulation%20%3Fcountries%20%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%3FemergencyNumber%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ694554%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%7BSELECT%20%3FemergencyNumber%20%28COUNT%28%3Fstate%29%20as%20%3Fcountries%29%20%28SUM%28%3Fpop%29%20as%20%3Fpopulation%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%09%3Fstate%20wdt%3AP2852%20%3FemergencyNumber%20.%0A%20%20%09OPTIONAL%7B%3Fstate%20wdt%3AP2046%20%3Fpop%7D%20.%0A%20%20%09%3Fstate%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ6256%0A%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3FemergencyNumber%20%7D%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%7B%3FemergencyNumber%20wdt%3AP1329%20%3Ftel%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fpopulation%29>
(source <https://twitter.com/RSeppelt/status/751381151529463808>)
Development
- Working on an infographic <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T132782>
to represent the flow of data in Wikidata
- Work on multi-content revisions in order to be able to store an entity
(item, property, mediainfo) and wiki text in the same page (This is needed
for Commons) (phabricator:T107595
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107595>)
- Did more interviews with editors as preparation for the work on
automated list generation for Wikipedia and co based on Wikidata data
- Fixed a bug with data parsing in Korean and a few other languages (
phabricator:T139509 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139509>)
- Added "non" as a language code for monolingual text values (
phabricator:T137115 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137115>)
- Removed display of calendar model for dates with precision of 10 years
or larger (phabricator:T133973
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133973>)
- Fixed issues in some of the forms on special pages on mobile (
phabricator:T138413 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138413>)
- Disabled PDF export in item and property pages (phabricator:T136814
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136814>)
- Worked on making it possible to have quantities with no bounds set (
phabricator:T115270 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115270>)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>.
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/R8GRzX1eH0tb/#R>.
- Help develop the next summary here!
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next>
- Contribute to a Showcase item
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items>
- Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats>
or proofread pages in your own language!
- Help merge identical items
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge> across
Wikimedia projects.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed
above.
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers
Lydia
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Lydia Pintscher -
http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
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