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Wikidata weekly summary #452
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events
- Past: Wikidata+Wikibase office hour happened on January 21st. See notes here (English).
- Past: 2021 OpenStreetMap x Wikidata Beginner Teaching Workshop (in Chinese). Replay on YouTube 1, 2, 3, 4
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Wikibase, the Integrated Authority File (GND) pilot at the German National Library, and the WikiLibrary Manifesto, 26 January. Agenda
- Upcoming: SPARQL queries and OpenRefine live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, Januray 26 at 18:00 CET
- Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #29 - YouTube, Facebook, 30 January
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #47, 31 January
- Upcoming: The Open Festival of Persistent Identifiers starts from 27 January 2021. See schedule here.
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blog: Adding New Literature Sources to the Wikidata Integrator, by Charles Tapley Hoyt
- Blog: Using Wikidata for teaching computer programming using real-world cases (in Basque)
- Bog: Wikidata: data for everyone (in Dutch)
- Methodology paper: A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata: aligning resources on human coronaviruses
- Video: Wikidata editing #28 - YouTube, Facebook
- Video: Wikidata for research (webinar in French) - YouTube
- Video: Let's make sparks with SPARQL tools(in French), by Nicolas Vigneron -YouTube
- Video: Wrap up presentation of the SWAT4HCLS hackathon project
- Tool of the week
- TAViewer is a web-based anatomy atlas viewer that cross-references Terminologia Anatomica terms with data from Wikipedia and Wikidata.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Change to how Cloud VPS and Toolforge contact Wikis to go live on 2021-02-08. If you are a Cloud VPS user or Toolforge developer, check your tools after that date to make sure they are properly running.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: character type, derived from organism type, applicable “stated in” value, number of aid beneficiaries
- External identifiers: BABEL author ID, Base de Dados de Autores Portugueses ID, Povos Indígenas no Brasil ID, Parabola package, FL number, Hungarian Film Archive ID, IFPI Danmark work ID, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia ID, Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine ID, NZ Museums ID, StrategyWiki page, Australian Fungi ID, Discord invite ID, Red Cross FDRS ID, JAANUS ID, SEARCH on line catalogue ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: onscreen participant, catégorie d'établissement sanitaire et social, code Activité principale exercée, catégorie d'entreprise, Imagehash perceptual hash
- External identifiers: SISSCO ID, 45cat release ID, Aracne author ID, Malpedia ID, Kulturdenkmal-ID Sachsen-Anhalt, Swiss Games Showcase ID, Baudenkmal-ID Niedersachsen, PeriodO ID, Pepys Encylopedia ID, Pantone color ID, Family Video Game Database ID, AAR ID, github topic, TeatralRo ID, Landshuth ID, Patrinum ID, ChemRxiv ID, TlF ID, PO ID, Jewish Museum Berlin object ID, CinefanRo person ID, CinefanRo film ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali archive producer IDs, BookBub Author ID, HERIS-ID
- Query examples:
- Czech religious buildings used also as a fire station
- Common ingredients to prepare a sandwich (Source)
- Location of GLAMs with open access policies (Source)
- Mexican presidents who have an image of their signature on Wikidata (Source)
- Timeline of Mexican writers who were born between 1800 and 1900 (Source)
- TV-Series in Spain by Decade (Source)
- Diplomats who are also art collectors (Source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Continued working on the Query Builder: made it possible to limit the number of results in the result set, made it possible to include results from subclasses when querying for Item values, worked on negating queries and started on sharing of queries via URL. As always you can try the current state on the test system.
- Making links in the Query Service redirect to the proper translations of their pages on-wiki by using Special:MyLanguage redirects (phab:T267656)
- Working on fixing an issue with displaying large numbers for quantity values (phab:T268456)
- Fixed a case where no error message was shown when trying to save a Lemma with an invalid language code (phab:T265783)
- Talked to a few more people about checking Wikidata's data against other databases to find potential errors
- Continuing the Release Strategy project for Wikibase, with the following progress:
- Created a “release pipeline” for Wikibase extension (phab:T267627)
- Created MediaWiki docker images based off release branches (phab:T270133)
- Defined format and contents of Wikibase suite components not maintained by Wikimedia Germany (phab:T271194)
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
- 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!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for a short time on 26 January at 07:00 (UTC). You will not be able to read or edit Wikitech for a short time on 28 January at 09:00 (UTC). [1][2]
Changes later this week
- Bracket matching will be added to the CodeMirror syntax highlighter on the first wikis. The first wikis are German and Catalan Wikipedia and maybe other Wikimedia wikis. This will happen on 27 January. [3]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (calendar).
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Wikidata weekly summary #453
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events
- Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #30 - YouTube, Facebook, 6 February
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #48, 7 February
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Paper: A Review of the Semantic Web Field
- Paper: Towards a Systematic Approach to Sync FactualData across Wikipedia, Wikidata and ExternalData Sources
- Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #29 - YouTube, Facebook
- Video: Set preferences and common.js (in Italian) - YouTube
- Video: Entity Linking and Neural Semantic Parsing - YouTube
- Video: Persistent identifiers as the basis for multilingual and human-machine collaboration - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- Labelcleaner is a script by Andrew Gray used to clean up Wikidata labels/aliases/descriptions for a given language on a set of items.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- OpenRefine has got a new user manual and your feedback is welcome;
- A new tool, Ranker (documentation, announcement tweet and video), lets you edit the ranks of multiple statements at once.
- The SPARQL endpoint for linguaLibre is now available (Source)
- New Wikidata property GitHub topic (P9100) announced at the GITHUB community
- Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a Wikidata Query Service(WDQS) Data Analyst Consultant. Apply today!
- Clean-up tasks to experiment with bots or other tools
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: BAMID film rating
- External identifiers: Akademická encyklopedie českých dějin ID, 45cat 7" release ID, ABC News topic ID, Aracne author ID, Econlib person ID, KBR Catalogue ID, Songlexikon ID, Swiss Games Showcase ID, MNBAQ ID, Art in the Christian Tradition ID, Australian Lichen ID, Pantone color ID, Kunstmuseum Basel ID, Malpedia ID, AAR ID, BiblioLMC ID, Cultural heritage ID in Lower Saxony, GitHub topic, Discord username
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: represented in sport by, photographer of, reissue, master's thesis, service status information URL, unusualness, Debian Package Tracker ID, Seismic classification
- External identifiers: Dictionnaire des journalistes ID, EMS ID, FloGrappling ID, SOUNZ contributor ID, Wolfram language WordData word ID, Mathematica Italiana person ID, Musica Brasilis score ID, Finna ID, LexML ID, Swedish Literature Bank placeID, BVFE author ID, Union Catalog of Armenian Continuing Resources authority ID, playDB play ID, playDB artist ID, DicoPolHiS ID, Pandektis ID, NHS Organisation Data Service ID, Bayerischer Denkmal-Atlas Objekt-ID (Baudenkmal), Bayerischer Denkmal-Atlas Objekt-ID (Bodendenkmal), Whiskybase distillery ID
- Query examples:
- Basque lexemes and their attestations in a 1745 Spanish-Basque dictionary, with links to dictionary entries in Wikisource
- Lexemes describing a color (Source)
- Danish-Hebrew Lexeme pairs (Source)
- Lexemes in Swedish with usage example that demonstrates both a form and a sense and a reference (Source)
- Episodes of the TV series "The Mentalist"
- Nationality of authors publishing papers relevant to the Australian fauna (Source)
- Number of musicians on Wikidata by country (Source)
- Map of ISO 3166-2 codes (Source)
- Map films that have been filmed in Mexico (Source)
- Map of Githubtopics on Wikidata (Source)
- Eye color distribution of the people on Wikidata (Source)
- Timeline with the start date of the Summer Olympics (Source)
- Newest database reports: Czech given names
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Continuing development on the first version of the Query Builder. It's starting to be able to do the first really meaningful queries now. Latest addition was the ability to negate conditions. Up next is the ability to connect conditions with OR instead of only AND as well as querying for quantities and ranges. You can follow along on the test system.
- Exploring possible solutions for how to compare Wikidata's data against other databases to find and highlight mismatches automatically.
- Added lexicographical data codes for a few languages: rkt, ctg (phab:T271589), and az-cyrl (phab:T265906)
- Finished working on the issue of TypeError on a diff of a Wikidata talk page phab:T271402
- Updated Wikidata unit conversion configuration (phab:T267644)
- Fixed two last places where links in the the Query Service UI were not using Special:MyLanguage yet to redirect to the documentation page in the user's language (phab:T267656)
- Pushing JSON dumps for Lexemes over the finish line (phab:T264883)
- Working on showing an error when trying to save lemmas with invalid language codes (phab:T265783)
- Wikibase Release Strategy
- Investigated the release of Wikibase suite components not maintained by Wikimedia (phab:T271193)
- Continued process of adding additional components to the Wikibase release, including OAuth (phab:T272580)
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
- 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!
Administrators' newsletter – February 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2021).
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Arbitration
- The standard discretionary sanctions authorized for American Politics were amended by motion to cover
post-1992 politics of United States and closely related people
, replacing the 1932 cutoff.
- The standard discretionary sanctions authorized for American Politics were amended by motion to cover
Miscellaneous
- Voting in the 2021 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2021, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2021, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
- Wikipedia has now been around for 20 years, and recently saw its billionth edit!
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:10, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- IPv6 addresses were written in lowercase letters in diffs. This caused dead links since Special:Contributions only accepted uppercase letters for the IPs. This has been fixed. [4]
Changes later this week
- You can soon use Wikidata to link to pages on the multilingual Wikisource. [5]
- Often editors use a "non-breaking space" to make a gap between two items when reading but still show them together. This can be used to avoid a line break. You will now be able to add new ones via the special character tool in the 2010, 2017, and visual editors. The character will be shown in the visual editor as a space with a grey background. [6][7]
Wikis use abuse filters to stop bad edits being made. Filter maintainers can now use syntax like 1.2.3.4 - 1.2.3.55as well as the1.2.3.4/27syntax for IP ranges. [8]- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (calendar).
Future changes
- Minerva is the skin Wikimedia wikis use for mobile traffic. When a page is protected and you can't edit it you can normally read the source wikicode. This doesn't work on Minerva on mobile devices. This is being fixed. Some text might overlap. This is because your community needs to update MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext to work on mobile. You can read more. [9][10]
- Cloud VPS and Toolforge will change the IP address they use to contact the wikis. The new IP address will be
185.15.56.1. This will happen on February 8. You can read more.
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22:37, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The Wikipedia app for Android now has watchlists and talk pages in the app. [11]
Changes later this week
- You can see edits to chosen pages on Special:Watchlist. You can add pages to your watchlist on every wiki you like. The GlobalWatchlist extension will come to Meta on 11 February. There you can see entries on watched pages on different wikis on the same page. The new watchlist will be found on Special:GlobalWatchlist on Meta. You can choose which wikis to watch and other preferences on Special:GlobalWatchlistSettings on Meta. You can watch up to five wikis. [12]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (calendar).
Future changes
- When admins protect pages the form will use the OOUI look. Special:Import will also get the new look. This will make them easier to use on mobile phones. [13][14]
- Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance. [15]
- Last week Tech News reported that the IP address Cloud VPS and Toolforge use to contact the wikis will change on 8 February. This is delayed. It will happen later instead. [16]
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17:40, 8 February 2021 (UTC)