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Wikidata weekly summary #316

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events
  • Wikidata workshop in Paris, June 15
  • Wikidata Datathon on June 16 in Zurich
  • Wikibase meetup on June 17-19 in Berlin

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Learning to Generate Wikipedia Summaries for Underserved Languages from Wikidata, presented at the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics by Lucie Kaffee and Hady Elsahar (see the poster and the paper)

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A proposal for using Wikidata for PeerTube.
  • New constraint type: citation needed constraint
  • Sitelinks can be:
    • added for Bengali Wikivoyage ^{(bnwikivoyage)}
    • defined for Piedmontese Wikisource ^{(pmswikisource)}
    • completed for Pashto Wikivoyage ^{(pswikivoyage)}
    • entered to Sakha Wikiquote ^{(sahwikiquote)}
  • A template listing the new Lexicographical properties is available
  • Draft of consultation about creating separate user group for editing sitewide CSS/JavaScript
  • Wikidata now appears in the LOD cloud and you can help improving it

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: reading pattern of Han character, medical evacuation to, sports competition competed at, winter view, Slavic Alphabet, grade of kanji, gender inflection of surname, hyphenation, radical, residual stroke count, ground level 360 degree view, Portable Game Notation
    • External identifiers: ARWU university ID, Canal-U person ID, myschool ID, Pornhub ID, Giant Bomb ID, IAB code, Corago opera ID, FilmTv.it movie ID, FilmTv.it person ID, FilmTv.it TV series ID, OpenCorporates corporate grouping, BirdLife International ID, Czech Geomorphological Unit Code, Swedish Gravestone ID, iTunes App Store developer ID, Les Enfoirés participant ID, Les Enfoirés song ID, Czech NDOP taxon ID, Relationship Science person ID, Dordrechts Museum artwork ID, Finnish national bibliography corporate name ID, YouPorn performer ID, MNAV work ID, Web umenia work ID, MonDO ID, Saint Louis Art Museum person ID, CDMC musician ID, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art person ID, SJP Online ID, OED Online ID, Strava ID of a professional sport person, Douban Movie Celebrity ID, Firmenbuchnummer, Songfacts artist ID, StadiumDB identifier, World Stadium Database identifier
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: permanent resident of, type locality, SPARQL endpoint, property scope, Romanization of Belarusian, factorizsation, Jones polynomial, Alexander polynomial, Conway polynomial, number of videos, Han character in this lexeme, número de etapas, Angular size, Red List status of species, United Kingdom railway station category, reference has role, mathematical concept defining formula, mathematical concept definition, subject facet
    • External identifiers: Redump.org, Church of Norway building ID, Taratata ID, B.R.A.H.M.S. work ID, NRJ ID, Akout ID, Lafonoteca ID, Swedish Academy member, Party Number (Taiwan), DLCM ID, AntWeb, Webb-site person ID, Webb-site organization ID, Companies House officer ID, France Culture ID, Dictionary of Scottish Architects ID, LONSEA people ID, Protected Buildings Register in Finland ID, Protected Buildings Register in Finland Building ID, Kino-teatr.ua film ID, Drouot ID, Kino-teatr.ua person ID, Swedish Signaturer.se, BioStor work ID, César Award film ID, César Award person ID, National Archive of Sweden, Libris-URI, IUF member ID, Museo del Prado artist ID, fernsehserien.de ID, ARMB member ID, OCLC work id
  • Properties awaiting widespread use, created >3 months:
    • research intervention (P4844), International Numbering System number (P4849), BMI Work ID (P4860), Atarimania identifier (P4859), AtariAge identifier (P4857), RFE symbol (P4867), Operabase ID (P4869), GEPRIS person ID (P4872), GEPRIS organization ID (P4871), GEPRIS project ID (P4870)
  • Deleted properties: Property:P2439 ("language"), Property:P2237 ("units used for this property"), Property:P883 ("FIPS 5-2 (code for US states)"), Property:P5190 ("synonym")
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of discoveries in the Solar System (source)
    • Map of Suffragettes around the world (source)
    • Female ministers in African countries (source)
    • References with only a quote but no other properties (source)
    • Islands in capital cities (source)
    • Map of titles in the Welsh Journals & Welsh Newspapers (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Wikidata:WikiProject BHL (books etc from the Biodiversity Heritage Library)
  • Newest gadgets: derivedstatements.js adds at the end of all item pages a new button to load inverse statements
  • Newest database reports: list of films (चलचित्र) from Nepal

• Development
  • Developing a prototype for usability testing for how the term box (labels, descriptions, aliases) could work on mobile
  • Investigating how we can do the display of items (their label and sometimes description when linked to in a statement or in listings like Recent Changes) in a way that is less of an issue for the database
  • Working on including the dispatch lag in the maxlag API to make it easier for bots to see when they should stop editing because of performance reasons (phabricator:T194950)
  • Working on adding a Lua function to check if an item is a subclass/instance of another one (phabricator:T179155)
  • Created an API that returns constraint violations for an item in TTL format in preparation for making constraint violations queryable in the query service (phabricator:T194762)
  • Started planning for support for Senses
  • Added more helpful text on Special:NewLexeme to make it easier to understand what information is required (phabricator:T193602)
  • Working on pre-filling the spelling variant for a new Form's representation (phabricator:T195708)
  • Worked on showing the Lemma of a Lexeme instead of just its ID in Special:AllPages, Recent Changes and diffs (phabricator:T191600, phabricator:T195382, phabricator:T195511)
  • Made the representation of a Form in a diff link to the Form (phabricator:T195512)
  • Fixed an issue on the Wikipedias and co when a statement in an item that was used there linked to a Form or Lexeme (phabricator:T195615)
  • Made the "publish" button stay disabled for a Lexeme's header when there is nothing to save (phabricator:T196342)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:20, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #317

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Clarifying rights and responsibilities of Property Creators

• Events
  • Wikibase meetup on June 17-19 in Berlin
  • Past: Wikidata Lab VIII in São Paulo
    • Images, metadata, and gamification of Wikidata by Magnus Manske (video, slides)
    • Discovering and modeling knowledge in Wikidata by Andrew Lih (video, slides)

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • WDAqua: Question Answering over Wikidata, by Dennis Diefenbach
  • CyTargetLinker app update: A flexible solution for network extension in Cytoscape, showing citation data in Cytoscape, by Martina Summer-Kutmon et al.
  • Harnessing the power of structured data: a Wikidata workshop, report of the Wikidata workshop day and Wikidata presence at EuropeanaTech 2018 last May in Rotterdam, Europeana Blog.
  • The new This Month in GLAM newsletter has, as always, a lot of Wikidata-related news!
  • Making Wikidata fit as a linking hub for knowledge organization systems. Lightning talk at ELAG 2018 in Prague by Jneubert

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The program of Wikimania 2018 in Cape Town is out, and here's a summary of all the Wikidata-related sessions
  • If you're building a tool using wb_terms database table, please give us input about it

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: type locality (biology), SPARQL endpoint, display technology, property scope, jockey, attested in, publication in which this taxon name was established, revival or touring version of, United Kingdom railway station category
    • External identifiers: Redump.org ID, Taratata artist ID, NRJ artist ID, Akout ID, Church of Norway building ID, Lafonoteca artist ID, Party Number (Taiwan), Companies House officer ID, Webb-site person ID, AntWeb ID, Webb-site organization ID, France Culture person ID, B.R.A.H.M.S. work ID, DLCM ID, LONSEA people ID, Dictionary of Scottish Architects ID, Drouot artist ID, Protected Buildings Register in Finland ID, Kino-teatr.ua film ID, Kino-teatr.ua person ID, Protected Buildings Register in Finland Building ID, BioStor work ID, Swedish Signaturer.se ID, César Award film ID, César Award person ID, IUF member ID, Museo del Prado artist ID, Swedish National Archive ID, Swedish Academy member ID, fernsehserien.de ID, ARMB member ID, OCLC work ID, OpenDOAR ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: runner-up, laps completed, load limit, abgeordnetenwatch.de ID for German politicians, API endpoint, type of water, ranking order, JMA Seismic Intensity Scale
    • External identifiers: Rom Galil settlement ID, Or Movement settlement ID, Bérose ID, AFI person ID, Google News ID, Legaseriea.it ID, Silentera.com movie ID, PC Engine Software Bible identifier, CAGE code, Printemps des poètes ID, Poetry Foundation ID, Poets.org ID, Playmates ID, SGJP Online ID, Laut.de ID, Amphibian Species of World ID, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction ID, BNB person ID, MobyGames group ID, Operone composer ID, Operone opera ID, Encyclopædia Universalis author ID, YouTube Gaming game ID, National Gallery of Canada artist ID, GAMECIP platform ID, GAMECIP media format ID, Operissimo artist ID, British Council writer ID, IBDOF ID, Entomologists of the World ID, ASMP member ID, Académie des beaux-arts member ID, Dictionnaire critique des historiens de l’art ID, Académie des sciences d'outre-mer ID, Artcyclopedia ID, École normale alumnus ID, BIU Santé ID, Étonnants voyageurs ID, hoopla, Medicina ID, Akadem person ID, IGN video game ID, National Academy of Sciences ID, EGROKN ID
  • Low use properties, created >3 months ago:

    FAPESP institution ID (P4597), title page number (P4714), symbolizes (P4878), World Rugby Women's Sevens Series player ID (P4879), FFR Sevens player ID (P4880), AFL Tables coach ID (P4885), AFL Tables umpire ID (P4888), ACE work ID (P4894), Patrons de France ID (P4891), segmental innervation (P4882)

  • Query examples:
    • Artworks and rooms of The Louvre museum shown in the latest Beyoncé video (source)
    • Goalscorers for the 2018 FIFA World Cup (source)
    • Female dancers and choregraphs having a picture and a Wikipedia article in English but not in French (source)
    • Nudes with cats (source)
    • Museums in Italy colored by number of Wikipedia articles (source)
    • Countries and their official languages, ISO codes and Wikimedia language codes (source)
  • Newest database reports: number of sitelinks to new WMF projects

• Development
  • Prototype for mobile termbox
  • Moving away from wb_terms table
  • Continued work on making WikibaseLexeme compatible with Wikibase clients (T195615)
  • Error handling and usability for entering lemmas was improved (T196342, T197453)
  • Lexemes no longer randomly pop up in rdf dumps (T194627)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:41, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #318

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events
  • Wikidata LGBT group at the Pride march in Paris, June 30th

• Press, articles, blog posts
  • Archives and Wikidata (in French) by Baptiste de Coulon
  • Share cultural data in Wikidata (in French) video workshop by La cinématèque québécoise

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Try the new prototype of the termbox on mobile and give feedback
  • There will be an IRC Office Hour for Structured Data on Commons on Tuesday, 26 June from 18:00-19:00 UTC. More information, including time and date conversion, is available on Meta. There is no set topic, you are welcome to bring any discussion that you would like to the office hour.
  • Edit #700,000,000 happened on June 21th
  • Magnus Manske released a new interface for QuickStatements V2. Among other changes, it now include links to EditGroups, a tool that allows people to discuss about or revert batch edits
  • WikiCite 2018 will take place in the San Francisco Bay Area on November 27-29

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties:
    • General datatypes: angular diameter, laps completed, Alexander polynomial, Conway polynomial, Jones polynomial, school district
    • External identifiers: Bérose ID, Rom Galil settlement ID, Or Movement settlement ID, Or Movement regional council ID, Google News ID, SilentEra.com film ID, Lega Serie A soccer player ID, AFI person ID, Poetry Foundation ID, Poets.org poet ID, Printemps des poètes poet ID, PC Engine Software Bible ID, Playmates Playmate ID, Amphibian Species of World ID, abgeordnetenwatch.de politician ID, Laut.de artist ID, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction ID, Operone opera ID, Operone composer ID, MobyGames group ID, BNB person ID, ASMP member ID, Académie des beaux-arts member ID, British Council writer ID, Internet Book Database of Fiction writer ID, Operissimo artist ID, YouTube Gaming game ID, National Gallery of Canada artist ID, Encyclopædia Universalis author ID, Entomologists of the World ID, GAMECIP media format ID, Dictionnaire critique des historiens de l'art ID
  • New property proposals to review:
    • General datatypes: auxiliary verb, Number of works accessible online, model year, CETAF specimen ID, floor number, has pattern
    • External identifiers: MobyGames game group ID, Amazon.com ID, Behind the voice Actors tv show ID, Behind the voice Actors movie ID, Behind the voice Actors franchise ID, Radio Courtoisie host ID, archINFORM project ID, Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer ID, Classiques des sciences sociales ID, cipM ID, Poets & Writers ID, Poetry Archive ID, Norwegian Polar Institute place name ID, VIN, GeoNLP ID, Online Books Page publication ID, Tierstimmenarchiv ID, The Canadian Encyclopedia article ID, TDKIV term ID, Gfycat tag, Gfycat user ID, RYM ID, Identifient pour artistes du Centre national des arts plastiques, Whonamedit? ID
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline of scientists dying a non natural death before 1900 (source)
    • Most P2860-cited surname (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Research projects

• Development
  • Include Wikibase dispatch lag in API "maxlag" enforcing (phab:T194950)
  • Run full constraint check when saving a statement (phab:T194760)
  • Show map on items to preview coordinates (phab:T184933)
  • Implement property scope constraint to say if a property should be used on main snak qualifiers or references (phab:T197473)
  • Investigate on replacements for some parts of wb_terms table (phab:T197161)
  • Fix a UI glitch on Lexeme editing interface (phab:T195298)
  • Add names and descriptions for Lexeme, Form and Sense datatypes on Special:ListDatatypes (phab:T189935)
  • Display a warning message and prevent entering of lemmas with the same spelling variant (phab:T195372)
  • Work on showing description in Item selector in Special:NewLexeme (phab:T165597)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:05, 25 June 2018 (UTC)