Changes in how authentication in MediaWiki is handled are being rolled out (and more coming).
[1] Ordinary users and gadgets / user scripts should not be affected but bots may need to be adjusted. pywikibot already supports
[2] OAuth authentication, though bot operators need to set that up for their bot.
Investigated language support in MediaWiki and Wikibase to allow more languages in monolingual text and disallow some non-sense for label/descriptions/aliases (
phabricator:T78006)
Fixed missing license info and broken links for Wikibase libraries on Special:Version
Working on improving scoring of search results on Wikidata, on Special:Search
Preparing to take the "in other projects" sidebar out of beta features, with the Wikimedia Commons link going to the Commons category (
phabricator:T103102,
phabricator:T94989)
Amir and Aaron are turning
ORES into an extension to make it easier for you to spot bad edits \o/
Final touches on putting identifiers into their own section (
phabricator:T117421)
Switching the in other languages box to be expanded by default for new people (
phabricator:T92387)
More experimenting with adding an image to the header area (
phabricator:T119493)
Category:Academic journals associated with international learned and professional societies
Your 2 most recent edits to this page seem like they don't make sense, because they added this category to other categories that are apparently only for the societies/associations themselves, not the journals associated with them, so I think the journals cat does not belong in either of these cats (i.e. "International learned societies" and "International professional associations").
Everymorning(talk) 02:29, 4 February 2016 (UTC)reply
Why do you think they're unrelated?
fgnievinski (
talk) 02:30, 4 February 2016 (UTC)reply
B/c I think the categories you added the "Academic journals..." cat to are for learned/professional societies/associations, but the "Academic journals..." cat is, of course, for academic journals associated with these associations, not the associations themselves.
Everymorning(talk) 02:36, 4 February 2016 (UTC)reply
Hm. I suppose then that it's OK to keep the journals cat in the cats you added it to. Now that I'm looking at cats like
this one, I have changed my mind and now think there's nothing wrong with the two cats you added. So I guess this issue is resolved.
Everymorning(talk) 03:00, 4 February 2016 (UTC)reply
Wikidata weekly summary #195
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Last call for comments on the new process for showcase items at
d:User:Harmonia Amanda/Showcase items. Please review and comment on the associated talk page.
Groundwork for adding new entity types to move us forward with support for structured data on Commons. (Other entity types are Item and Property. We'll need Mediainfo for Commons.)
Work on first prototype for Commons support - specifically by making it possible to have more entity types than just Item and Property (
phabricator:T125822)
Work on first prototype for Commons support - specifically by making it possible to have more entity types than just Item and Property (
phabricator:T125822)
In order to deploy the ORES extension on Wikidata we need a few more people to
help with a labeling campaign. ORES will help us a lot with anti-vandalism fighting.
The in other projects sidebar has graduated from beta features and is now turned on on all projects except Dutch Wikipedia. (They have their own hack.) This closes a wish that has been around since 2004 \o/ (
phabricator:T2708)
Added a new identifiers section in items. Everything with datatype external identifier goes there now. Once we have all identifiers converted items should be easier to scan and understand because of the clearer structure.
We have a patch upcoming that should reduce loading time of items with a lot of sitelinks by 25%
Fixed a bug where you could not add statements with external identifier or mathematical expression datatype (
phabricator:T127095)
More groundwork for Commons (making it possible to have more entities than just items and properties)
Development of the extension for setting up WikiProjects, as described in the last issue of this newsletter, is currently underway. No terribly exciting news on this front.
In the meantime, we are working on a prototype for a new service we hope to announce soon. The problem: there are requests scattered all across Wikipedia, including requests for new articles and requests for improvements to existing articles. We Wikipedians are very good at coming up with lists of things to do. But once we write these lists, where do they end up? How can we make them useful for all editors—even those who do not browse the missing articles lists, or the particular WikiProjects that have lists?
Introducing Wikipedia Requests, a new tool to centralize the various lists of requests around Wikipedia. Requests will be tagged by category and WikiProject, making it easier to find requests based on what your interests are. Accompanying this service will be a bot that will let you generate reports from this database on any wiki page, including WikiProjects. This means that once a request is filed centrally, it can syndicated all throughout Wikipedia, and once it is fulfilled, it will be marked as "complete" throughout Wikipedia. The idea for this service came about when I saw that it was easy to put together to-do lists based on database queries, but it was harder to do this for human-generated requests when those requests are scattered throughout the wiki, siloed throughout several pages. This should especially be useful for WikiProjects that have overlapping interests.
The newsletter this month is fairly brief; not a lot of news, just checking in to say that we are hard at work and hope to have more for you soon.
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Wikidata weekly summary #198
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Wikiversity is now supported by Wikidata as well. Language links can be maintained on Wikidata now. Access to the data will follow. Welcome, sister!
Wikidata now has cross-wiki notifications as a beta feature. You can enable it in your preferences. Once enabled you will see notifications you received on the other Wikimedia wikis.
Property:P1367 ("BBC Your Paintings artist-ID") has become "Art UK artist identifier". Identifier values were replaced.
The number of claims on each item is to be included in the "page property" database table. For some items where it had been missing, it was recently added. This leads to improved coverage by
database reports: without claims by site.
Mix'n'match has new catalogs: Artists of the Nationalmuseum in Sweden and Encyclopædia Britannica
Wikidata Query Service now allows to view images linked from Commons and display image galley if the query result has images. Example:
Paintings by Gustav Klimt
Fixed a bug in Special:NewItem which prevented submission of the form (
phabricator:T128075)
More performance work
In diffs for mathematical expressions we're now also showing the TeX source to make it possible to see changes that do not affect the rendering of the formula (
phabricator:T125712)
More work on cleaning up languages for multilingual text values and labels/descriptions/aliases
Fgnievinski, article talk pages are for discussing content of the article to which they are attached.
This entire set of edits was inappropriate, and I have reverted each of them.
19:45, 3 March 2016 (diff | hist) . . (+463) . . Talk:Frontiers Media (→Black-listing citations to this publisher in Wikipedia: new section)
19:45, 3 March 2016 (diff | hist) . . (+463) . . Talk:OMICS Publishing Group (→Black-listing citations to this publisher in Wikipedia: new section)
19:45, 3 March 2016 (diff | hist) . . (+463) . . Talk:World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (→Black-listing citations to this publisher in Wikipedia: new section)
19:45, 3 March 2016 (diff | hist) . . (+463) . . Talk:Libertas Academica (→Black-listing citations to this publisher in Wikipedia: new section)
19:45, 3 March 2016 (diff | hist) . . (+463) . . Talk:MDPI (→Black-listing citations to this publisher in Wikipedia: new section)
19:45, 3 March 2016 (diff | hist) . . (+463) . . Talk:Hindawi Publishing Corporation (→Black-listing citations to this publisher in Wikipedia: new section)
19:45, 3 March 2016 (diff | hist) . . (+463) . . Talk:Dove Medical Press (→Black-listing citations to this publisher in Wikipedia: new section)
19:44, 3 March 2016 (diff | hist) . . (+463) . . Talk:Scientific Research Publishing (→Black-listing citations to this publisher in Wikipedia: new section)
The header, "Black-listing citations to this publisher in Wikipedia" was also very non-neutral, and you come very close to violating
WP:CANVASS with that set of edits.
I struggle with you doing that, after I made it clear already that your
initial effort to start a discussion at
Talk:Predatory open access publishing about how the Wikipedia community will use publications by predatory publishers as sources, was inappropriate.
Please stop abusing article Talk pages this way. Meta-discussions about editing belong in Wikipedia space or User space, not mainspace. If you don't understand, please ask. You can also read this:
Wikipedia:What_is_an_article?#Namespace which describes the different namespaces in Wikipedia and what they are for. Thanks.
Jytdog (
talk) 20:16, 3 March 2016 (UTC)reply
"An editor who may wish to draw a wider range of informed, but uninvolved, editors to a discussion can place a message at any of the following: The talk page of one or more articles, WikiProjects, or other Wikipedia collaborations directly related to the topic under discussion." [emphasis added]
So I kindly request that you self-revert. Feel free to improve language neutrality (which I thought was fine), but forbidding the notification of involved articles would be inappropriate. Thanks.
fgnievinski (
talk) 01:13, 4 March 2016 (UTC)reply
Fgnievinski thanks for replying. One thing at a time... do you understand the thing about the different "spaces" in Wikipedia now? I hope you will be open to some back and forth here.
Jytdog (
talk) 01:16, 4 March 2016 (UTC)reply
@
Jytdog: Why do you assume I don't understand Wikipedia namespaces? My total number of edits and number of years editing Wikipedia should suggest otherwise. Could you please be so kind to quote specifically what part you think I'm infringing. I did that for you above -- so now can you please justify why you think
WP:APPNOTE should be overruled and I cannot "place a message at the talk page of one or more articles directly related to the topic under discussion"? Thanks.
fgnievinski (
talk) 01:28, 4 March 2016 (UTC)reply
OK, you say you do understand - that's great. Your trying to start a meta-conversation on an article Talk page, and your
calling the Talk page of a guideline an "article Talk page" made me think otherwise. But great, we are on the same page, that community discussions about how to edit belong in Wikipedia space. OK, here is my next question. Who exactly were you trying to notify by placing those notices on the talk pages of the articles about the journals? Thanks.
Jytdog (
talk) 01:32, 4 March 2016 (UTC)reply
I answered two of your questions already, now would you please answer my first question: why do you think
WP:APPNOTE should be overruled? Your interrogation is bordering on
Wikipedia:Harassment.
fgnievinski (
talk) 01:37, 4 March 2016 (UTC)reply
I am trying to have a conversation with you. Would you please clarify - who are the "affected parties" that you mentioned
here? Thanks! I am asking this, but it seemed pretty clear that you were actually trying to notify the journals themselves somehow, not the editors who have worked on those articles. And I can't for the life of me figure out why people who work on an article about a journal would be at all relevant to a discussion about how the journal was used by wikipedia editors as actual sources in other articles - why you would think those editors would even care about the more general discussion about how the journal is cited in Wikipedia. It is just so... mixed up. The thing in APPNOTE is about the following situation - editors are working on an article about a drug. A content dispute comes up about a source relevant to that drug. One of the editors creates a case at RSN about the the source and the content supported by it. That would be a situation where it would be relevant to provide notice at the article Talk page about the RSN posting. That case, is not this case. Do you see that?
Jytdog (
talk) 01:38, 4 March 2016 (UTC)reply
I'm open to dialogue; that means give and take. Thanks for answering one of my questions. We seem to have different interpretations of
WP:APPNOTE, and I don't think my interpretation invalidates yours or vice versa. In my view, discussing the subject stealthily with no notification at the related talk pages would only seem intended to biasing
Wikipedia:Consensus. So I've just explained how overruling
WP:APPNOTE would cause harm; can you explain why following
WP:APPNOTE would cause any harm? I think the chance of notifying interested editors is greater than the risk of possibly distracting uninterested editors.
fgnievinski (
talk) 02:03, 4 March 2016 (UTC)reply
I explained why APPNOTE is not relevant - it is for situations like the sourcing dispute at the Talk page of article X taken to RSN, and so notification is provided back at the talk page of article X about the RSN posting. There is no dispute at the journal article Talk pages that requires notice - the current discussion at RSN is not even about the journal article. Do you not see that? And again, my sense from what you wrote at RSN is that you were actually trying to inform the publishers themselves and if that is the case; it is not their business what sources WP uses, and they would only bring a conflict of interest to bear in the discussion, and it is really inappropriate to try to communicate with the subject of an article through its Talk page - that is just weird all around. There is all kinds of harm in that. Your calling the discussion at RSN (a board open to all WP editors) "stealth" only reinforces the notion that you were doing that...
Jytdog (
talk) 02:25, 4 March 2016 (UTC)reply
@
Jytdog: I have not infringed what's in the actual text of the behavioral guideline ("An editor who may wish to draw a wider range of informed, but uninvolved, editors to a discussion can place a message at any of the following: The talk page of one or more articles ... directly related to the topic under discussion"). There's nothing about "it is [only] for situations like the sourcing dispute at the Talk page of article X taken to RSN", that's just your own explanation of your personal interpretation, which I'm not required to abide by. I'm not going to comment on your sense of who I'm trying to notify, you're free to imagine, just don't act on it. I already explained that I believe greater exposure would bring a wider consensus, and I find it suspicious your insistence on keeping it quiet about a discussion happening in a high-traffic forum such as RSN that most users don't monitor. So I, again, kindly request that we agree to disagree and you stop forbidding me from editing in ways that actually comply with the guidelines. If we fail to reach an agreement, I'd like to escalate this discussion, asking for a third opinion, if you don't mind. Thanks.
fgnievinski (
talk) 17:16, 4 March 2016 (UTC)reply
holy cow, you have not acknowledged a single thing that you have done wrong here - not even trying to start meta-discussions on article Talk pages. You are not disagreeing with me, you are not even in dialogue with me. Let me try a different angle. The discussion is at RSN where people who care about sourcing visit. You provided notice at WT:MEDRS. Maybe we could also do WT:RS, although that is a bit redundant with RSN. But where else do you think we will find editors who will be interested in questions about sourcing from scientific journals in particular? We could leave notice at the Talk pages of various science-oriented WikiProjects - WT:MED, WT:PHARM, WT:CHEM... what else?
Jytdog (
talk) 18:00, 4 March 2016 (UTC)reply
Those editing communities have been informed of the discussion. Who else?
Jytdog (
talk) 18:14, 4 March 2016 (UTC)reply
I wasn't aware of ongoing discussion in
WP:RSN, sorry about that. I wasn't sure where in Wikipedia-talk namespace to start the discussion --
WT:JOURNALS would have been my choice (which I just notified
now). Instead, I elected the talk page of the most relevant article:
Predatory journals. Sorry about starting a meta-discussion under in the wrong namespace. I immediately followed your indication of proceeding with the discussion in Wikipedia-talk namespace instead of article-talk namespace. Yet I maintain that
WP:APPNOTE allows and encourages posting notes to (article) talk pages "of subjects directly related to the topic under discussion". Now the crucial part is this: we disagree about what constitutes "directly related". I'm only asking you to stop suppressing my view of what's directly related. Wikipedia forum discussion facilities are already arcane enough, you don't need to make it harder to inform possibly interested editors. Thanks for your understanding.
fgnievinski (
talk) 20:34, 4 March 2016 (UTC)reply
Sorry, I am too frustrated with you to continue this discussion. Sorry for expressing that; I should not have. Do whatever you want, this aggravation is not worth ruining my day over.
Jytdog (
talk) 21:09, 4 March 2016 (UTC)reply
Wikidata weekly summary #199
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Lucie and Charlie handed in their Bachelor theses on the Article Placeholder and Editing Wikidata from Wikipedia. Work on both topics will continue. We'll publish both theses soon. A big congrats to both of them!
I started the article
normal plane (geometry) in which I want to include all small subjects related to the normal plane in
differential geometry (the normal plane itself, normal section, normal curvature , this last one still to do ) I allready included all from the
normal section article that you started in 2014
I am thinking therefore to reduce your
normal section article to a mere redirect page. But before I do this I would like your opinion on this.
This article from Russian Wikipedia is generated only with Lua Module and Listeria, based on its Wikidata item.
If you're into Wikidata, GLAM and Facebook there is now a
Facebook group for you.
There are
4 new games to help with the migration of the Persondata template on English Wikipedia.
There was a huge increase in the number of qualifiers over the last 2 weeks. It went from 2.6 to 3.7 Million due to additions of qualifiers for evidence codes on human and mouse proteins.
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Wikidata weekly summary #204
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In the last issue of the WikiProject X Newsletter, I discussed the upcoming Wikipedia Requests system: a central database for outstanding work on Wikipedia. I am pleased to announce Wikipedia Requests is live! Its purpose is to supplement automatically generated lists, such as those from
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Reports bot, or Wikidata. It is currently being demonstrated on
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WikiProject Women scientists.
Adding a request is as simple as filling out a form. Just go to the
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With this new service is a template to transclude these requests: {{Wikipedia Requests}}. It's simple to use: add the template to a page, specifying article=, category=, or wikiproject=, and the list will be transcluded. For example, for requests having to do with all living people, just do {{
Wikipedia Requests|category=Living people}}. Use these lists on WikiProjects but also for edit-a-thons where you want a convenient list of things to do on hand. Give it a shot!
Help us build our list!
The value of Wikipedia Requests comes from being a centralized database. The long work to migrating individual lists into this combined list is slowly underway. As of writing, we have 883 open tasks logged in Wikipedia Requests. We need your help building this list.
If you know of a list of missing articles, or of outstanding tasks for existing articles, that you would like to migrate to this new system, head on over to
Wikipedia:Wikipedia Requests#Transition project and help out. Doing this will help put your list in front of more eyes—more than just your own WikiProject.
An open database means new tools
WikiProject X maintains a database that associates article talk pages (and draft talk pages) with WikiProjects. This database powers many of the reports that
Reports bot generates. However, until very recently, this database was not made available to others who might find its data useful. It's only common sense to open up the database and let others build tools with it.
And indeed: Citation Hunt, the game to add citations to Wikipedia, now lets you filter by WikiProject, using the data from our database.
Are you a tool developer interested in using this? Here are some details: the database resides on Tool Labs with the name s52475__wpx_p. The table that associates WikiProjects with articles and drafts is called projectindex. Pages are stored by talk page title but in the future this should change. Have fun!
On the horizon
The work on the CollaborationKit extension continues. The extension will initially focus on reducing template and Lua bloat on WikiProjects (especially our WPX UI demonstration projects), and will from there create custom interfaces for creating and maintaining WikiProjects.
The
WikiCite meeting will be in Berlin in May. The goal of the meeting is to figure out how to build a bibliographic database for use on the Wikimedia projects. This fits in quite nicely with WikiProject X's work: we want to make it easier for people to find things to work on, and with a powerful, open bibliographic database, we can build recommendations for sources. This feature was
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Your edit on [Astrophysical plasma] finds that "space plasma" is not in common usage. It is avoided because it can be confused with solar physics and the Earth against the wider study of astrophysics/astronomy. There is no justification to use contradictory terms which can be confusing or non-specific. Spreading such terms across multiple pages without seeking consensus will always cause problems with editors. Considering the many problems with [plasma cosmology] pages, etc., it has taken much time to settle arguments down on terminologies. Also this reverts in dispute should be discussed on the Talk page.
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Substantially reduced server load for item and property displaying (
phab:T132662)
There are currently some issues with the order of latitude/longitude inn coordinates in the query service map visualization. It will be fixed tonight.
Removed unsupported sort and dir parameters from the wikibase.api.RepoApi JavaScript module. This may break user JavaScript calling getEntitiesByPage (
phab:T119856).
Worked on new flyers for institutions that want to cooperate with Wikidata and developers wanting to use our data (will be published on Commons once they're done)
Moved forward with internationalization of the query service interface (not on translatewiki.net yet but being worked on)
Worked on making it possible to extend SPARQL queries in simplified natural language version. It will also no longer add query prefixes when editing the query. Those are not live yet.
Fixed a bug where admins got a blank page when trying to view deleted revisions (
phabricator:T132645)
Investigating issues with bad suggestions for properties when adding new statements (
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Our
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I have remove the tag for the article, because I think it essentially misunderstand the purpose of the tag. Science is international, and the research is conducted in cooperation with Chinese institutions and authority. There is no such thing as a Western or Chinese perspective on scientific research, unless you want to see science as inherently Western, in which case scientific research conducted by Chinese would still be Western. The only criteria for inclusion of information in the article would be significance of research result.
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Wikidata weekly summary #209
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Hello, a few weeks ago you posted a CFD/S nomination in order to harmonize branches, fields and sub-disciplines of various academic disciplines. Your nomination has been
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Wikidata weekly summary #210
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2016 Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Search Community Survey
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Worked on creating mediainfo entities on demand when a file is viewed that doesn't have an associated mediainfo entity yet. This is needed for structured data support for Commons.
Worked on making it possible to embed query results in other websites. You can get a preview at
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Added timeline as a possible visualization for the query service.
Investigated issues with downloading query result sets in Safari.
Got ArticlePlaceholder ready for the second round of Wikipedias.
Fixed bug where map wasn't enabled as a possible visualization for queries with cooridnates.
You can soon specify the color of the bubbles in a bubble chart visualization. (
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Fixed a bug with terms sometimes not showing up, language fallback not working correctly in Lua modules and connection to master database
Fixed a bug with URL encoding in the query service.
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Wikidata weekly summary #214
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ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 100 can avoid timeouts on Wikidata Query Service (
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Worked on making it easier to add new query examples right from the query service by just clicking a button. There are some technical issues with it still though. Will take a while to sort through.
More work on creating new Media-Info entities (the equivalent of item for media file data) on the fly (
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EasyQuery is now a gadget that you can enable in your preferences. It gives you an icon next to each statement value. That gives you a list of other items with the same statement.
Stats have been updated and show a significant jump in references.
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There is now a
100wikidatadays challenge based on the
100wikidays challenge for Wikipedia. The goal: convert 100 templates to make use of Wikidata over the course of 100 days.
Thiemo
wrote a user script to pre-fill "date retrieved" in a reference with the current date. Please test and let us know what you think ont he linked page. If you like it it can become a gadget.
More groundwork for Commons. We can now save a statement in the new MediaInfo entity type \o/ (Some minor issues still with the demo system but should be solved next week.)
Fixed a display issue with description tooltips in recent changes. Thanks Matěj Suchánek! (
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Refactored quite some of the sitelinks-related JavaScript code (
phabricator:T127056 and
gerrit:294687. This may break some existing gadgets and user scripts temporarily.
Updated the graphic representing the data model in Wikidata:
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medium,
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Fixed problem with editing statements on Wikidata, after last week's deployment (
phabricator:T138974)
Started interviews to find user needs and workflows for automated list generation (
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Working on an
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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)
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)
Added "non" as a language code for monolingual text values (
phabricator:T137115)
Removed display of calendar model for dates with precision of 10 years or larger (
phabricator:T133973)
Fixed issues in some of the forms on special pages on mobile (
phabricator:T138413)
Numbers on
Wikidata:Database reports/without claims by site for some projects decreased (e.g. dewiki), remained consistently low (e.g. nlwiki), or recently increased to new highs (e.g. enwiki).
Development
Finished first rough prototype for structured data on Commons. Wanted to sent out announcement on Friday but one configuration issue is still unsolved. Should be solved in the next 1 or 2 days.
We are adding a "no match found" message to the suggester that you get when selecting an item or property while adding a new statement for example (
phabricator:T140085)
When a query result contains a mathematical expression it will soon be rendered correctly (
phabricator:T137784)
Added support for Haida (hai) for monolingual text values (
phabricator:T138131)
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You can now translate all sister project pages to your language, like
Wikidata:Wikipedia. Please, link to them from your projects to give your fellow users chance to learn Wikidata basics.
You can now enable the CoordinateDiffMap Gadget in your preferences to get a map for coordinate changes.
Got the demo system for structured data on Commons ready for first show (see above)
Wikipedia editors will soon get a notification when an article they created was connected to a Wikidata item. Thanks Matej! (
phabricator:T110604)
Worked on improving handling of +-1 etc in quantities (
phabricator:T115269)
Added a message to the suggester that pops up when you search for items or properties. When no matching property or item is found it will now tell you. (
phabricator:T140085)
Considerably improved our browser tests to find more issues before You ever see them.
Added Haida as a language available for monolingual text properties (
phabricator:T138131)
Worked on layout improvements to have a better visual separation of qualifiers and references (
phabricator:T141862)
Added a line to the suggester to indicate when no matching item or property was found (
phabricator:T142034)
Fixed and issue with scroll bars in the logo section of the ArticlePlaceholder (
phabricator:T139977)
Worked more on making it possible to translate an article in the ArticlePlaceholder (
phabricator:T124036)
Worked on fixing link in in other languages section for ArticlePlaceholder (
phabricator:T137933)
Worked more on groundwork for multi content revisions which we need for structured data support for Commons in order to have structured and unstructured data on the file page at the same time (
phabricator:T141878)
Worked on automatically creating a mediainfo entity when adding a statement - so far it is only possible by adding a label or description (
phabricator:T140760)
WikiShootMe has a lot of new updates: OAuth-based image upload button, uploads to Commons and adds to Wikidata item with one click, right-click on the map to add a missing item, build-in Wikidata search, free images search (
example for Central Cambridge)
A famous Italian song, Tanti Auguri by
Raffaella Carrà, states "Com'è bello far l'amore da Trieste in giù" (literally, in English: "How great it is to make love from Trieste to below").
This is a query to find out where you shouldn't make love.
In this new article you misused the word "generalize". To say that the Gamma distribution "generalizes" the chi-square distribution means that every chi-square distribution is a Gamma distribution. Similarly, to say that the folded t-distribution generalizes Student's t-distribution means that Student's t-distribution is a folded t-distribution. And that is plainly not true.
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You're right, I had in mind the relationship between folded t and folded normal. In contrast, the relationship between folded and ordinary (normal or t) is not a generalization.
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Wikidata weekly summary #224
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Planet to Earth: this tool uses data from Wikidata to visualise the links between places on an astronomical body named after a place on planet Earth.
WikiDataScape is a Cytoscape app for interactive browsing of Wikidata.
The property "KML file" was created last week (see list below) and has already a full list of values, sample LUA module and property documentation page available (
Property talk:P3096)
Welsh Wikipedia includes Wikidata-based article placeholders,
like this one
Wiki Loves Monuments started! You can help by improving the items about heritage buildings or use
Wikishootme to find unpictured monuments
English Wikipedia now has a
WikiProject Wikidata to coordinate integration with Wikidata. Why not start one for your local Wikipedia? Add it to
Q20855878 if you do.
I removed the "lead too long" tag; the introduction doesn't apparently violate the length clause of
MOS:LEAD. Two paragraphs doesn't qualify as very long. Going over four paragraphs may make the lead too long (though
Napoleon is an exception). Do you have issues with the lead? --
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Wikidata weekly summary #226
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Upcoming: Andy Mabbett (
User:Pigsonthewing) & Liam Wyatt (
User:Wittylama) speaking about GLAM-Wiki (including Wikidata) in Warsaw, 19 October. Details tbc.
Upcoming: Andy Mabbett (
User:Pigsonthewing) speaking & running workshop about Wikidata at
SFK 16 ("Software Freedom Kosova Conference") in Pristina, 21-23 October.
#SundayQuery on Twitter: every Sunday, you can ask for help or advice about SPARQL queries, how to build or fix it, some SPARQL-ninjas will be there to answer you!
Researcher? You can participate in the
WSDM Cup 2017 challenge and improve Wikidata vandalism detection
New templates: {{
Denmark properties}}, {{
Greece properties}}. Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar template for your country or region.
Development
Lowered relevance threshold for ArticlePlaceholder search results from 3 to 2 sitelinks (
T144188)
Added 'otk' as an available language for monolingual text values (
T137809)
Working on making it possible to paste partial URLs into the site selector (
T144310)
Made progress on showing editors on all Wikimedia projects which articles on their project use data from a given Wikidata item. We will also show in the page information (action=info) which items a given article uses. Also worked on showing which projects use a given item in the page information. (
T103091)
Added meta information to the html header of item pages (
T88475)
Made progress on making ArticlePlaceholders indexable for search engines (
T144590)
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Discussions
We're starting working on lexicographical data! Please
read the proposal and give us your feedback :)
The
Project Grants program is accepting proposals from September 12 to October 11 to fund new tools, research, offline outreach, online organizing and other experiments that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers.
The
RevisionSlider is now available as a beta feature, try it to have a visual overview of your diffs.
The Wikidata team attended and participated to a lot of conference these past days (
WikiCon,
ViewSource,
DPpedia,
SoCraTes,
Write the doc) that's why we don't have many tasks to share with you this week :)
You are editing statistical articles, but demonstrate a lack of understanding of what you are doing. I kindly ask you to not make technical changes to statistical articles, unless you are confident of your technical understanding. (same user as before)
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Please quit the harassment.
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Your accusation of harassment is wrong: I care about the technical validity of the articles.
I agree that
Multilevel model should have been changed: now done.
TXT Werk is doing automatic entity recognition in text with the help of Wikidata. Previously only German was supported. English is now supported as well.
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Wikidata weekly summary #229
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Proposition for upgrading the default copyright license for Wikimedia projects to CC-by-SA 4.0 (does not affect the structured data part of Wikidata, which uses CC0).
More work on automated sitelinks for Wiktionary (
phabricator:T987)
More work on federation for Commons in order to be able to use Wikidata's items and properties there (
phabricator:T76007)
Adding entity usage information in action=edit on Wikipedia and co (
phabricator:T144921)
Working on making it possible to get formatted values back on the client. With this we will for example link the value to a Wikipedia article where possible. (
phabricator:T142940)
Upcoming: Andy Mabbett speaking about Wikidata & running a GLAM-Wiki workshop at
SFK 16 ("Software Freedom Kosova Conference") in Pristina, 21-23 October.
New template:
d:Template:Poland properties. Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar template for your country or region.
Development
Worked further on automatic linking of pages between Wiktionary language editions
Worked further on making it possible to use Wikidata's items and properties to describe files on Commons
Reviewed error messages and made them easier to understand
Added tooltips in some places in the UI to make them more understandable (e.g. ranks, special values)
Made the loading animation clearer in embedded query results (
phabricator:T148042)
Making it possible to paste the full URL of an image on Commons into image properties (
phabricator:T147917)
Worked on a small birthday present
Fixed run button not being reenabled after some queries (
phabricator:T147114)
More work on better parser function and Lua functions that return formatted values (
phabricator:T142940)
Undoing the last edit to an item will now show a undo summary, not a restore one (
phabricator:T147631) Thanks Matěj!
Lule Sami and Pite Sami are now supported languages in Wikidata (
phabricator:T146707)
Brainstormed about how to make it easier to write queries without knowing SPARQL
A lot of surprises, stories and presents will be shared between October 29th and November 4th. Check the
project chat or the
mailing-list every day to see what happens!
You can also participate by posting a story (
more info here), a tweet with #WikidataBirthday, let a message or a present
on the birthday page.
If you're participating to Wikidata's birthday, you can add
this template to your user page.
Four new types of charts for the
Query Service: line chart, bar chart, scatter chart and area chart (read more and try examples
in the documentation) by
Jonas
{{#statements:…}}, a new parser function is currently in development with better features that
you can try on beta by the Wikidata dev team and volunteers
Search field added in
Scholia, a tool to create scholarship profiles, by
fnielsen
The birthday party is not finished yet, every day until November 4th you will discover new presents and stories. Follow the
project chat or the
mailing-list or
#Wikidatabirthday to get the news!
Thanks to everyone who celebrated the birthday by organizing or attending to an event, letting a message on Wikidata or on the social networks, writing a story or creating a present!
Here's the list of the birthday presents from the community and development team:
Four new types of charts for the
Query Service: line chart, bar chart, scatter chart and area chart! Read more and try examples
in the documentation (
Jonas)
{{#statements:…}}, a new parser function is currently in development with better features:
try it here! (
Thiemo, Wikidata dev team and volunteers)
Search field added in
Scholia, a tool to create scholarship profiles (
fnielsen)
Technical documentation about Wikibase for
PHP and
JS scripts (
Ladsgroup and
Jonas)
new feature for the graph view in the Query Service: it can now browse the properties of items.
see in the video (
Jonas)
graph builder tool for the query service to create and export graphs (
demo video) (
Jonas, [[d:user:Smalyshev (WMF)|Smalyshev)
More work on federation in order to be able to use Wikidata's items and properties to describe media files on Wikimedia Commons in the future (
phabricator:T149580)
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Wikidata weekly summary #235
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This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-11-12.
A new
Wikidata PageRank dataset has been published. The dataset was computed in August 2016 and provides PageRank scores for 10,364,840 Wikidata entities.
Due to
a possible hack, please consider resetting your passwords.
Parlement & Politiek ID (P1749) has been completed in Mix'n'match. Over 5000 politicians from the Netherlands (and also Belgium) now have a link to this resource
Unit conversion has been rolled out for the first dimension for a short while now.
Undo diffs now utilize language fallbacks for property and item labels (
gerrit:315291). Thanks to Matěj Suchánek!
Reworked database schema for Cognate (the extension that will do automatic interwiki links for Wiktionary). It is still waiting for security review before it can be deployed.
Worked more on basic version of Lexeme entity type
Fixed a bug where the links on action=info where wrong (
phabricator:T149598)
Getting close to finishing the groundwork for Federation so that in the future you'll be able to use Wikidata's items and properties to describe files on Commons.
Added Innu-aimun as a language for monolingual text values (
phabricator:T151129)
Worked on linking to Wikipedia articles in the statements on an ArticlePlaceholder (
phabricator:T113955)
Hello, Fgnievinski. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.
The
Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the
Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose
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arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
The
Fossasia Opentech Submit in Singapore is looking for speakers. If you're in the area and want to introduce attendees to Wikidata, feel free to send your application!
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of User:Coyau. He was a very active editor on Wikidata and the other Wikimedia projects. He will be deeply missed by his friends and family but his great work on open culture will stay. Feel free to browse and share his work. Thanks Guillaume
for this message.
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.
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.
Attended the Wikimedia Developer Summit to talk about a lot of things (including editing Wikidata from Wikipedia directly, back-end work for structured data support for Commons - specifically Multi Content Revisions, ideas for improvements to the query service)
Final touches to get ArticlePlaceholder pages ready for search engine indexing
Continued working on "federation" – support for multiple Wikibase repositories (
phab:T76007)
Clickable prototype for
client editing is finally in the works!
Coordinates on Russian Wikipedia now link to maps generated with the
Kartographer extension. The map includes the location outline, if that object exists in OpenStreetMap (OSM) with a corresponding Wikidata ID (ways and relations only, not nodes). Example:
w:ru:Зальцбург (click coordinates in the upper right corner, or in the infobox on the side). If you create a Wikidata item about a specific administrative area, building, or other physical individual object which appears on maps, then please add the Wikidata ID to the relevant object in OSM, using
key:wikidata= (here's
how to contribute to OSM).
QuickStatements V2 can now run your commands in the background, no need to keep the browser tab open anymore
When posting a link to an item to social networks and on messenger apps that show previews the previews will now be nicer and show an image. (
phabricator:T51859)
The Cebuano and Swedish wikis have a lot of bot-created content which is unconnected to other wiki articles. A good way to tackle that problem is by
checking constraint violations for property
GeoNames ID.
Module
Wikidata on Wikidata received an update to improve its performance. If your wiki has forked this one, consider updating it and
report any problems (already reported
one).
Experimental
c:Template:Category contains for categories on Commons, including a per-category Wikidata query. See
introductory discussion on Commons Village Pump. Presented together with current statistics on Commons category <-> Wikidata links
Doing a trial run of allowing search engines to index a number of ArticlePlaceholder pages on Welsh Wikipedia. If there are no major issues we will enable this for all placeholders.
Improving Federation-related after initial tests,
Getting ready to deploy automated sitelinks for Wiktionary
Making final fixes to initial version of Federation (needed to be able to use Wikidata items and properties to describe media on Commons in the future)
More work on baseline for Lexeme entity type for Wiktionary support
Wikidata Query Service got additional servers, the data has been reloaded to fix a number of issues caused by missed updates and an increase of the time-out of 30s is being looked into.
You can now make your
Harvest Templates tasks run automatically. After you have generated a permalink to your task, add &run= to the url. When you open it next time, it will load and then run automatically. Alternatively, you can use &load= which will only prepare the task for running.
Continued to finalize the initial version of Federation (needed to be able to use Wikidata items and properties to describe media on Commons in the future)
More work on baseline for Lexeme entity type for Wiktionary support
Converted undo/restore interface to use OOUI. You can test it
here (
phab:T134643).
Fixed an other rounding issue on geo coordinates (
phab:T158772).
Added thumbnail images to the Wikimedia Commons suggester (
phab:T160319).
Continued working on introducing Lexeme entity type.
Finishing federation prototype.
We are going to change all snak, reference, and qualifier hashes with the planned DataModel 7.0 release. If you are a tool developer, make sure you do not persist hashes, and never use them to request edits to entities. Statement IDs are safe (
phab:T157965).
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A warm welcome to our new intern, Lucas Werkmeister! You may now him for his work on queries as
WikidataFacts. He will work in the team for the next months.
There's now also a
#100wikidays challenge on Wikidata, aptly named
#100wikidatadays! It is a personal challenge in which a person very significantly improves (at least) one Wikidata items per day, for 100 days in a row. There was already a version of the challenge on various Wikipedias, on Commons and on Wikisource - now on Wikidata as well. Participate and make Wikidata shine!
Fgnieevinski, Your attempt to prevent discussion and criticism of the article, Global Positioning System, is unprofessional and irresponsible. I am a highly qualified contributor to Wikipedia and I do have the right to criticize and point out what needs to be done to improve the article. The fact that you have been unable or unwilling to remove erroneous content in the past is no excuse to stop criticizing the article. We are in great need of truly competent editors for the Global Positioning System article. It is important that the article be criticized so that all the work needed to improve the article can be clearly seen.
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Your recent article submission to
Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Primefac was:
This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability. Wikipedia requires significant coverage about the subject in
reliable sources that are independent of the subject—see the
guidelines on the notability of organizations and companies and
the golden rule. Please improve the submission's referencing (see
Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners), so that the information is
verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is
notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia. If additional reliable sources cannot be found for the subject, then it may not be suitable for Wikipedia at this time.
The comment the reviewer left was:
Okay, so here's the issue. The references provided are fine for verifying the facts in the draft, but none of them actually talks about Pix4D specifically. I'm not sure if this means it's
TOOSOON or if the right references just haven't been used yet, but at the moment there's no indication of notability. Please add additional independent
reliable sources that discuss the subject in detail.
Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.
If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to
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Pix4D, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created. The article has been assessed as Stub-Class, which is recorded on the article's
talk page. You may like to take a look at the
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You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to
Wikipedia. Note that because you are a logged-in user, you can
create articles yourself, and don't have to post a request. However, you may continue submitting work to
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If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the help desk.
Worked more on support for lexicographical data (specifically support for lexicographic category and statements on forms)
Dealt with issues after the deployment of automatic interwiki links for Wiktionary
Worked on constraint violation user script based on your feedback (improving messages to make it more understandable, layout, etc)
Add support for the following new language codes for monolingual text properties: brx, chn, cop, gez, quc, kjh, nr (will become available in a few days)
Past:
WikiCite, May 23rd-25th in Vienna. Documentation will be available soon, in the meantime you can check
on Twitter and
the video streams to see what happened
MySociety (
Q10851773) are publishing a "five part series examining how to use Wikidata to answer the question: 'What is the gender breakdown of heads of government across the world?'".
Data donation: following WikiCite, our friends at
DBLP (
Q1224715) have begun to donate data, with >4,800 values in the first batch, including >1,300 DBLP ID (
P2456) plus assorted aliases, and values for VIAF ID (
P214), GND ID (
P227), ORCID iD (
P496), ACM Digital Library author ID (
P864), zbMATH author ID (
P1556), & Google Scholar ID (
P1960).
MySociety (
Q10851773) have now completed publishing a "five part series examining how to use Wikidata to answer the question: 'What is the gender breakdown of heads of government across the world?'". Here is the full set:
Due the necessary time for people to get visas (about 3 months), we changed the deadline for the scholarship applications. You can
apply for a scholarship before July 16th. We will then make sure that the applicants receive a response on July 25th.
WikidataCon: We reached 100 registrations, the event is complete for now. More tickets will be released in September. You can still register on the waitlist.
Newest gadgets:
Units converter converts from 20 currencies to a selected currency. Converts metric units (mass, dimensions, area, temperature, speed) to/from United States units. The currency amounts are inflation adjusted if data is available.
Development
Worked more on support for lexicographical data and Wiktionary. The focus was on creating a necessary new datatype to link to Lexemes as well as making Glosses and statements on Glosses editable.
Getting ready to migrate the constraints definitions from templates on the property talk page to statements on the property.
Citation management tool
Zotero can now read data from Wikidata, and can write data from other sources to Wikidata via
QuickStatements. See
Wikidata:Zotero for details.
The scholarship process is now closed. Recipients will be informed around July 25th.
You can still
suggest ideas for the program, or
submit a project until July 31st. The program of the conference is made by the attendees, only what you bring will be in there :)
Ma Commune Wikipédia is a website developed by Wikimedia France to give information about the state of the Wikipedia articles for every French municipality and encourage people to edit the Wikimedia projects. It uses Wikidata to identify the communes.
The wbEntity JavaScript variable will not miss elements any more but contain empty arrays instead (
gerrit:365604). Please check if this affects your scripts, and have a look at
the wikibase.entityPage.entityLoaded hook as a possible replacement.
Wikidata Constraint Violations tool visualizes changes in constraint violations for last few weeks. Some of constraints produce millions of violations (marked as red).
Doing last polishing on the Lexeme entity type and cleaning up the demo data for the demo at Wikimania
Improving the dispatching of changes to Wikipedia and co to cope with the increased demand that lead to
delays in Wikidata changes showing up in Wikipedia watchlist and recent changes
Working on making constraints work on qualifiers and references (
phabricator:T168532)
Working on making it easier to see when input in property or value fields is not recognized/wrong (
phabricator:T170531)
Added new language codes (eya, fuf, ood, pjt, yap, zun) for use in monolingual text values
Fixed an issue with badges not being shown next to interwiki links on Wikipedia and co (
phabricator:T172592)
Worked on showing labels when linking to a redirect (
phabricator:T96553)
Worked on making change dispatching to Wikipedia and co work better so changes made on Wikidata show up there in a reasonable time. There were issues because of significantly increased edit activity on Wikidata.
Upcoming:
WikiArabia, in Cairo, Egypt, on 23-25 October. They're looking for a volunteer to give a Wikidata workshop. Please contact them if you're interested!
The Gene Wiki: Using Wikipedia and Wikidata to organize biomedical knowledge August Wikimedia Research Showcase (second half), presented by Andrew Su, about how
GeneWiki is using Wikidata.
Video on YouTube
Citation.js: Endpoint on RunKit shows a demo REST API to convert Wikidata entries into BibTeX, Bib.TXT, citations, and CSL-JSON.
The organization team is still looking for sponsors to support the event and provide even more awesome stuff to the attendees. If your company can support the WikidataCon, please get in touch with
Lydia.
Seeing the enthusiasm of the community for the WikidataCon, we raised our attendees limit from 150 to 200 persons. The last tickets will be released on September 1st. People who registered on the waitlist will be notified when a ticket is available.
The program committee is currently reviewing and organizing the submissions. We will contact the speakers soon, and publish the program in the beginning of September (around 6th).
We're looking for a keynote speaker who could bring an external point of view on ontologies. If you know interesting people,
feel free to help
Looking into not showing language fallback hints for dialects to make the UI less cluttered for them and make it less necessary to enter labels and descriptions for them (
phabricator:T174318)
Wrapping up our experiments with the new front-end technologies
Open Library, the biggest resource of freely-licensed books, now links to Wikidata (through Reasonator) and to VIAF (
example here; see "Wikidata" in the right-hand column).
With 200 attendees, the
WikidataCon is now complete. Thanks all for your enthusiasm \o/ If you registered on the waitlist or submitted a talk, check your mailbox for more information.
The WikidataCon program will be released this week, and we will call for volunteers soon
Looked into all the things necessary to make it possible to store forms and senses on Lexeme pages.
Worked more on caching constraints checks results which is needed to enable constraints checks for all logged-in users (
phabricator:T173696)
Making progress on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references (
phabricator:T168532)
Removed language fallback hints for dialects to make the UI less cluttered for them and make it less necessary to enter labels and descriptions for them (
phabricator:T174318)
Fixed an issue that links to an item were not showing the label when it pointed to a redirect (
phabricator:T96553)
Unrecognized input in entity selectors will be highlighted in red (
phabricator:T170531)
Added an additional normalization for page titles when linking pages on Wiktionary via Cognate (
phabricator:T172987)
The API will not only output the hashes for qualifier snaks, but also for main snaks as well as references snaks (
phabricator:T174692). Note that hashes (other than IDs) are not meant to be stable identifiers, and should not be stored for a longer time.
Snak hashes will also appear as part of CSS classes in entity pages (
phabricator:T171725)
The program of the WikidataCon is now
published on-wiki. You will find there a lot of different formats, topics and speakers, during the two days of the conference.
The event is now complete, no more tickets available. The last tickets have been attributed to the first persons who registered on the waitlist. If some more seats get free because another attendee cancels participation, the next person on the waitlist will be informed.
Rolled out more fine-grained usage tracking on Greek Wikipedia. This will lead to less irrelevant changes showing up in watchlist and recent changes on those projects. We're testing this on Greek Wikipedia to see if the solution we have scales before rolling it out further. (
phabricator:T151717)
Adding an API module to copy a statement from one item to another (
phabricator:T55619)
Working more on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references (
phabricator:T168532)
Added support for the Creator namespace to the constraints check for Commons links (
phabricator:T176062)
Added a css class to values that link to redirects so they can more easily be identified by editors who want that for maintenance work (
phabricator:T70567) Thanks Matej!
Finishing touches on adding full URIs for external identifiers to our RDF export so we're good citizens of the semantic web (
phabricator:T121274)
Added a new mw.wikibase.getAllStatements Lua function in addition to the existing getBestStatements, that returns all statements regardless of their rank (
phabricator:T176124)
Looking into an issue where unwanted email notifications are being sent (
phabricator:T174794)
Upcoming: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out)
We will have two exciting keynotes. The first keynote speaker is
Fabian M. Suchanek, professor at Télécom Paris Tech University, working on the knowledge base
YAGO. The second keynote speaker is
Michael Kreil, datajournalist working on the project Data Sciences and Stories.
Please
volunteer for some tasks at the conference if you are attending.
Breaking change: "wb_entity_per_page" table will not be updated and replicated on ToolLabs anymore
A mw.wikibase.getLabelByLang Lua function will be added (
phabricator:T173262)
The mw.wikibase.sitelink Lua function will accept a second parameter with the global identifier of a wiki (e.g. "enwiki") to link to (
phabricator:T142903)
Had to temporarily turn off showing Wikidata's changes on Commons and Russian Wikipedia because of database issues. We're working on turning it back on.
Continued work on persistently storing edits to Forms on Lexemes
Finishing work on checking constraints on qualifiers and references with the constraint checks gadget
Fixed a bug where notification emails for Wikidata changes were sent when they shouldn't have been (
phabricator:T174794)
Full URIs for external identifiers will soon be in the RDF export (
phabricator:T121274)
Monthly Tasks
Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Upcoming: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out)
If you organize a local event for the Wikidata birthday, feel free to add it on the
events page and the
birthday page
A blog post describing
Textes d'affiches, a tool using Wikidata to show movies and the works they are adapted from, developed during a hackathon at the national French library (by Shonagon, in French)
More work on checking constraints on qualifiers and references (
phabricator:T168532)
Now caching constraints results to make it ready for rollout for more users
Continued work on more fine-grained usage tracking so we better know which parts of an item is used on an article on Wikipedia and the other sister projects
Improved the way Wikidata changes are shown in watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and Co so they are more in-line with the other changes (
phabricator:T48329,
phabricator:T50684) Thanks Matej!
Upcoming : Wikidata and Wiki Loves Monuments editathon in Berlin, 24-26 November (
in German). We're looking for trainers to explain the basic use of QuickStatements, Open Refine and Mix'n'Match. If you want to join, please contact
MB-one
Wikidata's birthday
The fifth anniversary of Wikidata was celebrated, as every year, with a lot of presents, events and stories. You can find an overview
on the birthday page.
inventaire.io CC0 Wikidata-ready NDJSON and TTL dumps are now accessible at
dumps.inventaire.io
You can now move claims to new items with
moveClaim.js. You can do so by typing "new".
Prefix search on Wikidata (wbsearchentities API) now is
using ElasticSearch as backend. This should improve search quality and also is more flexible and tunable.
If you want to review what happened during the WikidataCon,
here is the list of all the sessions, with slides, notes and videos, when available
Release of wikidata-edit v2.0.0: brings qualifiers and references support, and a few breaking changes. See
changelogs
Release of wikidata-cli v5.0.0: brings qualifiers and references support, multi-entity summary|label|description|description requests, a new `edit-item` command, and a few breaking changes. See
changelogs
The Cebuano and Swedish wikis have a lot of bot-created content which is unconnected to other wiki articles. A good way to tackle that problem is by
checking constraint violations for property
GeoNames ID.
Latitudes, longitudes, as well as coordinate precisions have accidentally been exported to RDF as xsd:decimal, and are going to be exported as xsd:double soon (
phabricator:T179228)
Continue on refactoring PropertySuggester-python for better maintainability and performance (
phab:T179664)
Make AffectedPagesFinder take DESCRIPTION_USAGE into account (
phab:T176417)
Accessing mw.config.get( 'wbEntity' ) will trigger a deprecation warning, gadgets and user script should use the wikibase.entityPage.entityLoaded hook instead (
phabricator:T169771)
Work on caching constraint check results (
phab:T179849) and indicating that they are cached (
phab:T179844)
Work on JSON-LD support in the Purtle library used for exports (
gerrit:379669)
Wikibase code base does not use Composer class autoloading any more (
phabricator:T180067) as another step towards getting rid of our own build process and being more in line with the rest of Wikimedia
Monthly Tasks
Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Hello, Fgnievinski. Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 10 December. All users who registered an account before Saturday, 28 October 2017, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Wednesday, 1 November 2017 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
The
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site bans,
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arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
Working on fixing a regression after a change in MediaWiki core that makes edit links show up on diff pages (
phabricator:T181807)
More work on persistent editing of statements on Forms of a Lexeme (specifically
phabricator:T180467)
Improved size of the diff that we sent to Wikipedia and co for changes happening on Wikidata. This is one more needed step towards only showing meaningful edits in the watchlists and recent changes there. (
phabricator:T113468)
Incoming:Next Structured Commons
IRC office hour will be on Tuesday, February 13, 2018, at 18:00 UTC.
Past: Tech-talk about knowledge technologies, featuring Wikidata, DBpedia, and Histropedia at Jakarta Digital Valley, Jakarta, Indonesia on Dec 8, 2017. Slides are available at
Slideshare link.
Structured Data on Commons:
Participate in this survey to help the team understand which tools and functionalities are most important to the Commons and Wikidata communities
QuickStatements now has a CSV-like import function (under "import commands")
Final step towards being able to store statements on Forms of a Lexeme
Disabled RDF support for Lexemes as the mapping isn't defined yet (
phabricator:T182660)
Adding some more smart tracking for Lua usage so we better know which properties from an item are used on a Wikipedia article even when the whole item is loaded (
phabricator:T179923)
Past: Wikidata team and volunteers were at 34C3. Check the videos,
the tweets, a new design made by Bleeptrack for
a cake. Videos of Wikidata-related workshops will be published soon.
Prevented checking of constraints on "Wikidata property example" statements (
phabricator:T183267)
Added link to the property's talk page to the constraint violation dialog to guide people there to discuss the constraint if necessary (
phabricator:T164351)
Monthly Tasks
Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Wikipedia editor
Nick Moyes just reviewed your page, and wrote this note for you:
I can accept that this page has a value as a disambiguation page. It can't however, coexist with another page of the same name (i.e. University Reform), so have redirected that page away from the Argentine university reform of 1918 so as to redirect here. I hope this seems logical to you.
To reply, leave a comment on Nick Moyes's
talk page.
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!
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
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.
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.
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
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
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!
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)
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)
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:T187265phab:T186714)
Representation and grammatical features of the form can be changed using the UI (WikibaseLexeme) (
phab:T173743,
phab:T160525)
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D.Lazard (
talk) 11:25, 3 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Wikidata weekly summary #302
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
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)
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
the newsletter yourself: all small contributions are welcome :)
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.
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)
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
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.
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)
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Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.
RobP (
talk) 14:52, 3 April 2018 (UTC)reply
Wikidata weekly summary #307
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
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.
WikiWorkshop, a forum bringing together researchers exploring all aspects the Wikimedia projects, in Lyon, April 24th. Seven papers related to Wikidata will be presented.
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.
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 now use
global preferences on most wikis. This means you can set preferences for all wikis at the same time. Before this you had to change them on each individual wiki.
Country geoshape data have been added to Commons and linked to the corresponding Wikidata items. These geoshapes can be used to visualise query results e.g.
World map showing population of each country.
You may want to consider using the
Article Wizard to help you create articles.
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Nick Moyes (
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Hassle for the readers is a hassle
Sorry to bother you about an effort from so long ago, but I've just come from trying to understand why links to such as
Professor ordinarius were, well, useless. As still found in articles such as
Johann Radon.
Back in 2014 you elected to break up the long article
Professor
Note also that in the above trail of pages, continually searching for the text 'ordinarius' does find the word, but under
Belgium and
Poland, not for Germany due to the extra layer of redirection.
This reorganization has its justifications. However, it is a tragedy that repair after reorganization is given short shrift. It is all too often that the resulting occasions needing repair are left to others to discover. Invalidating links as seen here is just one type of damage to WP articles that seems somehow discounted by editors, yet is frustrating to readers. In fact, it lends the impression to readers that WP is continually broken in its details. And as we see here, that is true.
You may feel like "no good deed goes unpunished" applies. Yet what I'm trying to point out is that so many "good deeds" here at WP are simply unfinished, incomplete. Leaving work for others to do.
Shenme (
talk) 18:46, 30 June 2018 (UTC)reply
Yes, Wikipedia, as an editing platform, sucks. It only improves because there are so many of us sacrificing countless hours.
fgnievinski (
talk) 19:20, 30 June 2018 (UTC)reply
Let me add this on as more examples and I'll go away and fix a few. And hours, yes. There are thousands of 'tehsil's and 'tahsil's, when there should be only the one term, as one very minor item. Then there was the external pop music reference site that changed its URL scheme, and people explicitly knew about it years ago, but no one bothered to fix templates to use the URL, nor fix the hundreds of now invalid date formats. Is there no understanding at WP that preserving what is already here is at least as important as having new information?
Professor extraordinarius (außerordentlicher Professor', {{anchor|aoProf}}ao. Prof.)
And what does one do with
Visiting Associate Professor where the definitions are literally spread all over the place now? And
Catedratico which redirects to
Professor#Spain, but which now links to the section on salaries rather than describing the
position! Because time only makes incomplete changes worse.
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FayenaticLondon 18:51, 15 July 2018 (UTC)reply
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Changes in how authentication in MediaWiki is handled are being rolled out (and more coming).
[1] Ordinary users and gadgets / user scripts should not be affected but bots may need to be adjusted. pywikibot already supports
[2] OAuth authentication, though bot operators need to set that up for their bot.
Investigated language support in MediaWiki and Wikibase to allow more languages in monolingual text and disallow some non-sense for label/descriptions/aliases (
phabricator:T78006)
Fixed missing license info and broken links for Wikibase libraries on Special:Version
Working on improving scoring of search results on Wikidata, on Special:Search
Preparing to take the "in other projects" sidebar out of beta features, with the Wikimedia Commons link going to the Commons category (
phabricator:T103102,
phabricator:T94989)
Amir and Aaron are turning
ORES into an extension to make it easier for you to spot bad edits \o/
Final touches on putting identifiers into their own section (
phabricator:T117421)
Switching the in other languages box to be expanded by default for new people (
phabricator:T92387)
More experimenting with adding an image to the header area (
phabricator:T119493)
Category:Academic journals associated with international learned and professional societies
Your 2 most recent edits to this page seem like they don't make sense, because they added this category to other categories that are apparently only for the societies/associations themselves, not the journals associated with them, so I think the journals cat does not belong in either of these cats (i.e. "International learned societies" and "International professional associations").
Everymorning(talk) 02:29, 4 February 2016 (UTC)reply
Why do you think they're unrelated?
fgnievinski (
talk) 02:30, 4 February 2016 (UTC)reply
B/c I think the categories you added the "Academic journals..." cat to are for learned/professional societies/associations, but the "Academic journals..." cat is, of course, for academic journals associated with these associations, not the associations themselves.
Everymorning(talk) 02:36, 4 February 2016 (UTC)reply
Hm. I suppose then that it's OK to keep the journals cat in the cats you added it to. Now that I'm looking at cats like
this one, I have changed my mind and now think there's nothing wrong with the two cats you added. So I guess this issue is resolved.
Everymorning(talk) 03:00, 4 February 2016 (UTC)reply
Wikidata weekly summary #195
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Last call for comments on the new process for showcase items at
d:User:Harmonia Amanda/Showcase items. Please review and comment on the associated talk page.
Groundwork for adding new entity types to move us forward with support for structured data on Commons. (Other entity types are Item and Property. We'll need Mediainfo for Commons.)
Work on first prototype for Commons support - specifically by making it possible to have more entity types than just Item and Property (
phabricator:T125822)
Work on first prototype for Commons support - specifically by making it possible to have more entity types than just Item and Property (
phabricator:T125822)
In order to deploy the ORES extension on Wikidata we need a few more people to
help with a labeling campaign. ORES will help us a lot with anti-vandalism fighting.
The in other projects sidebar has graduated from beta features and is now turned on on all projects except Dutch Wikipedia. (They have their own hack.) This closes a wish that has been around since 2004 \o/ (
phabricator:T2708)
Added a new identifiers section in items. Everything with datatype external identifier goes there now. Once we have all identifiers converted items should be easier to scan and understand because of the clearer structure.
We have a patch upcoming that should reduce loading time of items with a lot of sitelinks by 25%
Fixed a bug where you could not add statements with external identifier or mathematical expression datatype (
phabricator:T127095)
More groundwork for Commons (making it possible to have more entities than just items and properties)
Development of the extension for setting up WikiProjects, as described in the last issue of this newsletter, is currently underway. No terribly exciting news on this front.
In the meantime, we are working on a prototype for a new service we hope to announce soon. The problem: there are requests scattered all across Wikipedia, including requests for new articles and requests for improvements to existing articles. We Wikipedians are very good at coming up with lists of things to do. But once we write these lists, where do they end up? How can we make them useful for all editors—even those who do not browse the missing articles lists, or the particular WikiProjects that have lists?
Introducing Wikipedia Requests, a new tool to centralize the various lists of requests around Wikipedia. Requests will be tagged by category and WikiProject, making it easier to find requests based on what your interests are. Accompanying this service will be a bot that will let you generate reports from this database on any wiki page, including WikiProjects. This means that once a request is filed centrally, it can syndicated all throughout Wikipedia, and once it is fulfilled, it will be marked as "complete" throughout Wikipedia. The idea for this service came about when I saw that it was easy to put together to-do lists based on database queries, but it was harder to do this for human-generated requests when those requests are scattered throughout the wiki, siloed throughout several pages. This should especially be useful for WikiProjects that have overlapping interests.
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Wikidata weekly summary #198
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Wikiversity is now supported by Wikidata as well. Language links can be maintained on Wikidata now. Access to the data will follow. Welcome, sister!
Wikidata now has cross-wiki notifications as a beta feature. You can enable it in your preferences. Once enabled you will see notifications you received on the other Wikimedia wikis.
Property:P1367 ("BBC Your Paintings artist-ID") has become "Art UK artist identifier". Identifier values were replaced.
The number of claims on each item is to be included in the "page property" database table. For some items where it had been missing, it was recently added. This leads to improved coverage by
database reports: without claims by site.
Mix'n'match has new catalogs: Artists of the Nationalmuseum in Sweden and Encyclopædia Britannica
Wikidata Query Service now allows to view images linked from Commons and display image galley if the query result has images. Example:
Paintings by Gustav Klimt
Fixed a bug in Special:NewItem which prevented submission of the form (
phabricator:T128075)
More performance work
In diffs for mathematical expressions we're now also showing the TeX source to make it possible to see changes that do not affect the rendering of the formula (
phabricator:T125712)
More work on cleaning up languages for multilingual text values and labels/descriptions/aliases
Fgnievinski, article talk pages are for discussing content of the article to which they are attached.
This entire set of edits was inappropriate, and I have reverted each of them.
19:45, 3 March 2016 (diff | hist) . . (+463) . . Talk:Frontiers Media (→Black-listing citations to this publisher in Wikipedia: new section)
19:45, 3 March 2016 (diff | hist) . . (+463) . . Talk:OMICS Publishing Group (→Black-listing citations to this publisher in Wikipedia: new section)
19:45, 3 March 2016 (diff | hist) . . (+463) . . Talk:World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (→Black-listing citations to this publisher in Wikipedia: new section)
19:45, 3 March 2016 (diff | hist) . . (+463) . . Talk:Libertas Academica (→Black-listing citations to this publisher in Wikipedia: new section)
19:45, 3 March 2016 (diff | hist) . . (+463) . . Talk:MDPI (→Black-listing citations to this publisher in Wikipedia: new section)
19:45, 3 March 2016 (diff | hist) . . (+463) . . Talk:Hindawi Publishing Corporation (→Black-listing citations to this publisher in Wikipedia: new section)
19:45, 3 March 2016 (diff | hist) . . (+463) . . Talk:Dove Medical Press (→Black-listing citations to this publisher in Wikipedia: new section)
19:44, 3 March 2016 (diff | hist) . . (+463) . . Talk:Scientific Research Publishing (→Black-listing citations to this publisher in Wikipedia: new section)
The header, "Black-listing citations to this publisher in Wikipedia" was also very non-neutral, and you come very close to violating
WP:CANVASS with that set of edits.
I struggle with you doing that, after I made it clear already that your
initial effort to start a discussion at
Talk:Predatory open access publishing about how the Wikipedia community will use publications by predatory publishers as sources, was inappropriate.
Please stop abusing article Talk pages this way. Meta-discussions about editing belong in Wikipedia space or User space, not mainspace. If you don't understand, please ask. You can also read this:
Wikipedia:What_is_an_article?#Namespace which describes the different namespaces in Wikipedia and what they are for. Thanks.
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"An editor who may wish to draw a wider range of informed, but uninvolved, editors to a discussion can place a message at any of the following: The talk page of one or more articles, WikiProjects, or other Wikipedia collaborations directly related to the topic under discussion." [emphasis added]
So I kindly request that you self-revert. Feel free to improve language neutrality (which I thought was fine), but forbidding the notification of involved articles would be inappropriate. Thanks.
fgnievinski (
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Fgnievinski thanks for replying. One thing at a time... do you understand the thing about the different "spaces" in Wikipedia now? I hope you will be open to some back and forth here.
Jytdog (
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@
Jytdog: Why do you assume I don't understand Wikipedia namespaces? My total number of edits and number of years editing Wikipedia should suggest otherwise. Could you please be so kind to quote specifically what part you think I'm infringing. I did that for you above -- so now can you please justify why you think
WP:APPNOTE should be overruled and I cannot "place a message at the talk page of one or more articles directly related to the topic under discussion"? Thanks.
fgnievinski (
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OK, you say you do understand - that's great. Your trying to start a meta-conversation on an article Talk page, and your
calling the Talk page of a guideline an "article Talk page" made me think otherwise. But great, we are on the same page, that community discussions about how to edit belong in Wikipedia space. OK, here is my next question. Who exactly were you trying to notify by placing those notices on the talk pages of the articles about the journals? Thanks.
Jytdog (
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I answered two of your questions already, now would you please answer my first question: why do you think
WP:APPNOTE should be overruled? Your interrogation is bordering on
Wikipedia:Harassment.
fgnievinski (
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I am trying to have a conversation with you. Would you please clarify - who are the "affected parties" that you mentioned
here? Thanks! I am asking this, but it seemed pretty clear that you were actually trying to notify the journals themselves somehow, not the editors who have worked on those articles. And I can't for the life of me figure out why people who work on an article about a journal would be at all relevant to a discussion about how the journal was used by wikipedia editors as actual sources in other articles - why you would think those editors would even care about the more general discussion about how the journal is cited in Wikipedia. It is just so... mixed up. The thing in APPNOTE is about the following situation - editors are working on an article about a drug. A content dispute comes up about a source relevant to that drug. One of the editors creates a case at RSN about the the source and the content supported by it. That would be a situation where it would be relevant to provide notice at the article Talk page about the RSN posting. That case, is not this case. Do you see that?
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I'm open to dialogue; that means give and take. Thanks for answering one of my questions. We seem to have different interpretations of
WP:APPNOTE, and I don't think my interpretation invalidates yours or vice versa. In my view, discussing the subject stealthily with no notification at the related talk pages would only seem intended to biasing
Wikipedia:Consensus. So I've just explained how overruling
WP:APPNOTE would cause harm; can you explain why following
WP:APPNOTE would cause any harm? I think the chance of notifying interested editors is greater than the risk of possibly distracting uninterested editors.
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I explained why APPNOTE is not relevant - it is for situations like the sourcing dispute at the Talk page of article X taken to RSN, and so notification is provided back at the talk page of article X about the RSN posting. There is no dispute at the journal article Talk pages that requires notice - the current discussion at RSN is not even about the journal article. Do you not see that? And again, my sense from what you wrote at RSN is that you were actually trying to inform the publishers themselves and if that is the case; it is not their business what sources WP uses, and they would only bring a conflict of interest to bear in the discussion, and it is really inappropriate to try to communicate with the subject of an article through its Talk page - that is just weird all around. There is all kinds of harm in that. Your calling the discussion at RSN (a board open to all WP editors) "stealth" only reinforces the notion that you were doing that...
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@
Jytdog: I have not infringed what's in the actual text of the behavioral guideline ("An editor who may wish to draw a wider range of informed, but uninvolved, editors to a discussion can place a message at any of the following: The talk page of one or more articles ... directly related to the topic under discussion"). There's nothing about "it is [only] for situations like the sourcing dispute at the Talk page of article X taken to RSN", that's just your own explanation of your personal interpretation, which I'm not required to abide by. I'm not going to comment on your sense of who I'm trying to notify, you're free to imagine, just don't act on it. I already explained that I believe greater exposure would bring a wider consensus, and I find it suspicious your insistence on keeping it quiet about a discussion happening in a high-traffic forum such as RSN that most users don't monitor. So I, again, kindly request that we agree to disagree and you stop forbidding me from editing in ways that actually comply with the guidelines. If we fail to reach an agreement, I'd like to escalate this discussion, asking for a third opinion, if you don't mind. Thanks.
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holy cow, you have not acknowledged a single thing that you have done wrong here - not even trying to start meta-discussions on article Talk pages. You are not disagreeing with me, you are not even in dialogue with me. Let me try a different angle. The discussion is at RSN where people who care about sourcing visit. You provided notice at WT:MEDRS. Maybe we could also do WT:RS, although that is a bit redundant with RSN. But where else do you think we will find editors who will be interested in questions about sourcing from scientific journals in particular? We could leave notice at the Talk pages of various science-oriented WikiProjects - WT:MED, WT:PHARM, WT:CHEM... what else?
Jytdog (
talk) 18:00, 4 March 2016 (UTC)reply
Those editing communities have been informed of the discussion. Who else?
Jytdog (
talk) 18:14, 4 March 2016 (UTC)reply
I wasn't aware of ongoing discussion in
WP:RSN, sorry about that. I wasn't sure where in Wikipedia-talk namespace to start the discussion --
WT:JOURNALS would have been my choice (which I just notified
now). Instead, I elected the talk page of the most relevant article:
Predatory journals. Sorry about starting a meta-discussion under in the wrong namespace. I immediately followed your indication of proceeding with the discussion in Wikipedia-talk namespace instead of article-talk namespace. Yet I maintain that
WP:APPNOTE allows and encourages posting notes to (article) talk pages "of subjects directly related to the topic under discussion". Now the crucial part is this: we disagree about what constitutes "directly related". I'm only asking you to stop suppressing my view of what's directly related. Wikipedia forum discussion facilities are already arcane enough, you don't need to make it harder to inform possibly interested editors. Thanks for your understanding.
fgnievinski (
talk) 20:34, 4 March 2016 (UTC)reply
Sorry, I am too frustrated with you to continue this discussion. Sorry for expressing that; I should not have. Do whatever you want, this aggravation is not worth ruining my day over.
Jytdog (
talk) 21:09, 4 March 2016 (UTC)reply
Wikidata weekly summary #199
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Lucie and Charlie handed in their Bachelor theses on the Article Placeholder and Editing Wikidata from Wikipedia. Work on both topics will continue. We'll publish both theses soon. A big congrats to both of them!
I started the article
normal plane (geometry) in which I want to include all small subjects related to the normal plane in
differential geometry (the normal plane itself, normal section, normal curvature , this last one still to do ) I allready included all from the
normal section article that you started in 2014
I am thinking therefore to reduce your
normal section article to a mere redirect page. But before I do this I would like your opinion on this.
This article from Russian Wikipedia is generated only with Lua Module and Listeria, based on its Wikidata item.
If you're into Wikidata, GLAM and Facebook there is now a
Facebook group for you.
There are
4 new games to help with the migration of the Persondata template on English Wikipedia.
There was a huge increase in the number of qualifiers over the last 2 weeks. It went from 2.6 to 3.7 Million due to additions of qualifiers for evidence codes on human and mouse proteins.
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Wikidata weekly summary #204
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In the last issue of the WikiProject X Newsletter, I discussed the upcoming Wikipedia Requests system: a central database for outstanding work on Wikipedia. I am pleased to announce Wikipedia Requests is live! Its purpose is to supplement automatically generated lists, such as those from
SuggestBot,
Reports bot, or Wikidata. It is currently being demonstrated on
WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health (which I work on as part of my
NIOSH duties) and
WikiProject Women scientists.
Adding a request is as simple as filling out a form. Just go to the
Add form to add your request. Adding sources will help ensure that your request is fulfilled more quickly. And when a request is fulfilled, simply click "mark as complete" and it will be removed from all the lists it's on. All at the click of a button! (If anyone is concerned, all actions are logged.)
With this new service is a template to transclude these requests: {{Wikipedia Requests}}. It's simple to use: add the template to a page, specifying article=, category=, or wikiproject=, and the list will be transcluded. For example, for requests having to do with all living people, just do {{
Wikipedia Requests|category=Living people}}. Use these lists on WikiProjects but also for edit-a-thons where you want a convenient list of things to do on hand. Give it a shot!
Help us build our list!
The value of Wikipedia Requests comes from being a centralized database. The long work to migrating individual lists into this combined list is slowly underway. As of writing, we have 883 open tasks logged in Wikipedia Requests. We need your help building this list.
If you know of a list of missing articles, or of outstanding tasks for existing articles, that you would like to migrate to this new system, head on over to
Wikipedia:Wikipedia Requests#Transition project and help out. Doing this will help put your list in front of more eyes—more than just your own WikiProject.
An open database means new tools
WikiProject X maintains a database that associates article talk pages (and draft talk pages) with WikiProjects. This database powers many of the reports that
Reports bot generates. However, until very recently, this database was not made available to others who might find its data useful. It's only common sense to open up the database and let others build tools with it.
And indeed: Citation Hunt, the game to add citations to Wikipedia, now lets you filter by WikiProject, using the data from our database.
Are you a tool developer interested in using this? Here are some details: the database resides on Tool Labs with the name s52475__wpx_p. The table that associates WikiProjects with articles and drafts is called projectindex. Pages are stored by talk page title but in the future this should change. Have fun!
On the horizon
The work on the CollaborationKit extension continues. The extension will initially focus on reducing template and Lua bloat on WikiProjects (especially our WPX UI demonstration projects), and will from there create custom interfaces for creating and maintaining WikiProjects.
The
WikiCite meeting will be in Berlin in May. The goal of the meeting is to figure out how to build a bibliographic database for use on the Wikimedia projects. This fits in quite nicely with WikiProject X's work: we want to make it easier for people to find things to work on, and with a powerful, open bibliographic database, we can build recommendations for sources. This feature was
requested by the Wikipedia Library back in September, and this meeting is a major next step. We look forward to seeing what comes out of this meeting.
Your edit on [Astrophysical plasma] finds that "space plasma" is not in common usage. It is avoided because it can be confused with solar physics and the Earth against the wider study of astrophysics/astronomy. There is no justification to use contradictory terms which can be confusing or non-specific. Spreading such terms across multiple pages without seeking consensus will always cause problems with editors. Considering the many problems with [plasma cosmology] pages, etc., it has taken much time to settle arguments down on terminologies. Also this reverts in dispute should be discussed on the Talk page.
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Substantially reduced server load for item and property displaying (
phab:T132662)
There are currently some issues with the order of latitude/longitude inn coordinates in the query service map visualization. It will be fixed tonight.
Removed unsupported sort and dir parameters from the wikibase.api.RepoApi JavaScript module. This may break user JavaScript calling getEntitiesByPage (
phab:T119856).
Worked on new flyers for institutions that want to cooperate with Wikidata and developers wanting to use our data (will be published on Commons once they're done)
Moved forward with internationalization of the query service interface (not on translatewiki.net yet but being worked on)
Worked on making it possible to extend SPARQL queries in simplified natural language version. It will also no longer add query prefixes when editing the query. Those are not live yet.
Fixed a bug where admins got a blank page when trying to view deleted revisions (
phabricator:T132645)
Investigating issues with bad suggestions for properties when adding new statements (
phabricator:T132839)
Our
Main Page now has a section for popular items to show you what is trending on Wikidata based on several people editing an item over the last few days
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I have remove the tag for the article, because I think it essentially misunderstand the purpose of the tag. Science is international, and the research is conducted in cooperation with Chinese institutions and authority. There is no such thing as a Western or Chinese perspective on scientific research, unless you want to see science as inherently Western, in which case scientific research conducted by Chinese would still be Western. The only criteria for inclusion of information in the article would be significance of research result.
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Wikidata weekly summary #209
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Hello, a few weeks ago you posted a CFD/S nomination in order to harmonize branches, fields and sub-disciplines of various academic disciplines. Your nomination has been
in the Opposed nominations section for some time now. Are you still planning to transfer it to CFD or would you like to remove it from CFD/S?
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Wikidata weekly summary #210
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2016 Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Search Community Survey
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Worked on creating mediainfo entities on demand when a file is viewed that doesn't have an associated mediainfo entity yet. This is needed for structured data support for Commons.
Worked on making it possible to embed query results in other websites. You can get a preview at
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Added timeline as a possible visualization for the query service.
Investigated issues with downloading query result sets in Safari.
Got ArticlePlaceholder ready for the second round of Wikipedias.
Fixed bug where map wasn't enabled as a possible visualization for queries with cooridnates.
You can soon specify the color of the bubbles in a bubble chart visualization. (
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Fixed a bug with terms sometimes not showing up, language fallback not working correctly in Lua modules and connection to master database
Fixed a bug with URL encoding in the query service.
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Wikidata weekly summary #214
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ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 100 can avoid timeouts on Wikidata Query Service (
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Development
Worked on making it easier to add new query examples right from the query service by just clicking a button. There are some technical issues with it still though. Will take a while to sort through.
More work on creating new Media-Info entities (the equivalent of item for media file data) on the fly (
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EasyQuery is now a gadget that you can enable in your preferences. It gives you an icon next to each statement value. That gives you a list of other items with the same statement.
Stats have been updated and show a significant jump in references.
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Wikidata weekly summary #216
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There is now a
100wikidatadays challenge based on the
100wikidays challenge for Wikipedia. The goal: convert 100 templates to make use of Wikidata over the course of 100 days.
Thiemo
wrote a user script to pre-fill "date retrieved" in a reference with the current date. Please test and let us know what you think ont he linked page. If you like it it can become a gadget.
More groundwork for Commons. We can now save a statement in the new MediaInfo entity type \o/ (Some minor issues still with the demo system but should be solved next week.)
Fixed a display issue with description tooltips in recent changes. Thanks Matěj Suchánek! (
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Refactored quite some of the sitelinks-related JavaScript code (
phabricator:T127056 and
gerrit:294687. This may break some existing gadgets and user scripts temporarily.
Updated the graphic representing the data model in Wikidata:
long,
medium,
short
Fixed problem with editing statements on Wikidata, after last week's deployment (
phabricator:T138974)
Started interviews to find user needs and workflows for automated list generation (
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Working on an
infographic 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)
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)
Added "non" as a language code for monolingual text values (
phabricator:T137115)
Removed display of calendar model for dates with precision of 10 years or larger (
phabricator:T133973)
Fixed issues in some of the forms on special pages on mobile (
phabricator:T138413)
Numbers on
Wikidata:Database reports/without claims by site for some projects decreased (e.g. dewiki), remained consistently low (e.g. nlwiki), or recently increased to new highs (e.g. enwiki).
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Finished first rough prototype for structured data on Commons. Wanted to sent out announcement on Friday but one configuration issue is still unsolved. Should be solved in the next 1 or 2 days.
We are adding a "no match found" message to the suggester that you get when selecting an item or property while adding a new statement for example (
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When a query result contains a mathematical expression it will soon be rendered correctly (
phabricator:T137784)
Added support for Haida (hai) for monolingual text values (
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Wikidata weekly summary #220
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You can now translate all sister project pages to your language, like
Wikidata:Wikipedia. Please, link to them from your projects to give your fellow users chance to learn Wikidata basics.
You can now enable the CoordinateDiffMap Gadget in your preferences to get a map for coordinate changes.
Got the demo system for structured data on Commons ready for first show (see above)
Wikipedia editors will soon get a notification when an article they created was connected to a Wikidata item. Thanks Matej! (
phabricator:T110604)
Worked on improving handling of +-1 etc in quantities (
phabricator:T115269)
Added a message to the suggester that pops up when you search for items or properties. When no matching property or item is found it will now tell you. (
phabricator:T140085)
Considerably improved our browser tests to find more issues before You ever see them.
Added Haida as a language available for monolingual text properties (
phabricator:T138131)
Worked on layout improvements to have a better visual separation of qualifiers and references (
phabricator:T141862)
Added a line to the suggester to indicate when no matching item or property was found (
phabricator:T142034)
Fixed and issue with scroll bars in the logo section of the ArticlePlaceholder (
phabricator:T139977)
Worked more on making it possible to translate an article in the ArticlePlaceholder (
phabricator:T124036)
Worked on fixing link in in other languages section for ArticlePlaceholder (
phabricator:T137933)
Worked more on groundwork for multi content revisions which we need for structured data support for Commons in order to have structured and unstructured data on the file page at the same time (
phabricator:T141878)
Worked on automatically creating a mediainfo entity when adding a statement - so far it is only possible by adding a label or description (
phabricator:T140760)
WikiShootMe has a lot of new updates: OAuth-based image upload button, uploads to Commons and adds to Wikidata item with one click, right-click on the map to add a missing item, build-in Wikidata search, free images search (
example for Central Cambridge)
A famous Italian song, Tanti Auguri by
Raffaella Carrà, states "Com'è bello far l'amore da Trieste in giù" (literally, in English: "How great it is to make love from Trieste to below").
This is a query to find out where you shouldn't make love.
In this new article you misused the word "generalize". To say that the Gamma distribution "generalizes" the chi-square distribution means that every chi-square distribution is a Gamma distribution. Similarly, to say that the folded t-distribution generalizes Student's t-distribution means that Student's t-distribution is a folded t-distribution. And that is plainly not true.
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You're right, I had in mind the relationship between folded t and folded normal. In contrast, the relationship between folded and ordinary (normal or t) is not a generalization.
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Planet to Earth: this tool uses data from Wikidata to visualise the links between places on an astronomical body named after a place on planet Earth.
WikiDataScape is a Cytoscape app for interactive browsing of Wikidata.
The property "KML file" was created last week (see list below) and has already a full list of values, sample LUA module and property documentation page available (
Property talk:P3096)
Welsh Wikipedia includes Wikidata-based article placeholders,
like this one
Wiki Loves Monuments started! You can help by improving the items about heritage buildings or use
Wikishootme to find unpictured monuments
English Wikipedia now has a
WikiProject Wikidata to coordinate integration with Wikidata. Why not start one for your local Wikipedia? Add it to
Q20855878 if you do.
I removed the "lead too long" tag; the introduction doesn't apparently violate the length clause of
MOS:LEAD. Two paragraphs doesn't qualify as very long. Going over four paragraphs may make the lead too long (though
Napoleon is an exception). Do you have issues with the lead? --
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Wikidata weekly summary #226
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Upcoming: Andy Mabbett (
User:Pigsonthewing) & Liam Wyatt (
User:Wittylama) speaking about GLAM-Wiki (including Wikidata) in Warsaw, 19 October. Details tbc.
Upcoming: Andy Mabbett (
User:Pigsonthewing) speaking & running workshop about Wikidata at
SFK 16 ("Software Freedom Kosova Conference") in Pristina, 21-23 October.
#SundayQuery on Twitter: every Sunday, you can ask for help or advice about SPARQL queries, how to build or fix it, some SPARQL-ninjas will be there to answer you!
Researcher? You can participate in the
WSDM Cup 2017 challenge and improve Wikidata vandalism detection
New templates: {{
Denmark properties}}, {{
Greece properties}}. Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar template for your country or region.
Development
Lowered relevance threshold for ArticlePlaceholder search results from 3 to 2 sitelinks (
T144188)
Added 'otk' as an available language for monolingual text values (
T137809)
Working on making it possible to paste partial URLs into the site selector (
T144310)
Made progress on showing editors on all Wikimedia projects which articles on their project use data from a given Wikidata item. We will also show in the page information (action=info) which items a given article uses. Also worked on showing which projects use a given item in the page information. (
T103091)
Added meta information to the html header of item pages (
T88475)
Made progress on making ArticlePlaceholders indexable for search engines (
T144590)
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Discussions
We're starting working on lexicographical data! Please
read the proposal and give us your feedback :)
The
Project Grants program is accepting proposals from September 12 to October 11 to fund new tools, research, offline outreach, online organizing and other experiments that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers.
The
RevisionSlider is now available as a beta feature, try it to have a visual overview of your diffs.
The Wikidata team attended and participated to a lot of conference these past days (
WikiCon,
ViewSource,
DPpedia,
SoCraTes,
Write the doc) that's why we don't have many tasks to share with you this week :)
You are editing statistical articles, but demonstrate a lack of understanding of what you are doing. I kindly ask you to not make technical changes to statistical articles, unless you are confident of your technical understanding. (same user as before)
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Please quit the harassment.
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Your accusation of harassment is wrong: I care about the technical validity of the articles.
I agree that
Multilevel model should have been changed: now done.
TXT Werk is doing automatic entity recognition in text with the help of Wikidata. Previously only German was supported. English is now supported as well.
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Wikidata weekly summary #229
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Proposition for upgrading the default copyright license for Wikimedia projects to CC-by-SA 4.0 (does not affect the structured data part of Wikidata, which uses CC0).
More work on automated sitelinks for Wiktionary (
phabricator:T987)
More work on federation for Commons in order to be able to use Wikidata's items and properties there (
phabricator:T76007)
Adding entity usage information in action=edit on Wikipedia and co (
phabricator:T144921)
Working on making it possible to get formatted values back on the client. With this we will for example link the value to a Wikipedia article where possible. (
phabricator:T142940)
Upcoming: Andy Mabbett speaking about Wikidata & running a GLAM-Wiki workshop at
SFK 16 ("Software Freedom Kosova Conference") in Pristina, 21-23 October.
New template:
d:Template:Poland properties. Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar template for your country or region.
Development
Worked further on automatic linking of pages between Wiktionary language editions
Worked further on making it possible to use Wikidata's items and properties to describe files on Commons
Reviewed error messages and made them easier to understand
Added tooltips in some places in the UI to make them more understandable (e.g. ranks, special values)
Made the loading animation clearer in embedded query results (
phabricator:T148042)
Making it possible to paste the full URL of an image on Commons into image properties (
phabricator:T147917)
Worked on a small birthday present
Fixed run button not being reenabled after some queries (
phabricator:T147114)
More work on better parser function and Lua functions that return formatted values (
phabricator:T142940)
Undoing the last edit to an item will now show a undo summary, not a restore one (
phabricator:T147631) Thanks Matěj!
Lule Sami and Pite Sami are now supported languages in Wikidata (
phabricator:T146707)
Brainstormed about how to make it easier to write queries without knowing SPARQL
A lot of surprises, stories and presents will be shared between October 29th and November 4th. Check the
project chat or the
mailing-list every day to see what happens!
You can also participate by posting a story (
more info here), a tweet with #WikidataBirthday, let a message or a present
on the birthday page.
If you're participating to Wikidata's birthday, you can add
this template to your user page.
Four new types of charts for the
Query Service: line chart, bar chart, scatter chart and area chart (read more and try examples
in the documentation) by
Jonas
{{#statements:…}}, a new parser function is currently in development with better features that
you can try on beta by the Wikidata dev team and volunteers
Search field added in
Scholia, a tool to create scholarship profiles, by
fnielsen
The birthday party is not finished yet, every day until November 4th you will discover new presents and stories. Follow the
project chat or the
mailing-list or
#Wikidatabirthday to get the news!
Thanks to everyone who celebrated the birthday by organizing or attending to an event, letting a message on Wikidata or on the social networks, writing a story or creating a present!
Here's the list of the birthday presents from the community and development team:
Four new types of charts for the
Query Service: line chart, bar chart, scatter chart and area chart! Read more and try examples
in the documentation (
Jonas)
{{#statements:…}}, a new parser function is currently in development with better features:
try it here! (
Thiemo, Wikidata dev team and volunteers)
Search field added in
Scholia, a tool to create scholarship profiles (
fnielsen)
Technical documentation about Wikibase for
PHP and
JS scripts (
Ladsgroup and
Jonas)
new feature for the graph view in the Query Service: it can now browse the properties of items.
see in the video (
Jonas)
graph builder tool for the query service to create and export graphs (
demo video) (
Jonas, [[d:user:Smalyshev (WMF)|Smalyshev)
More work on federation in order to be able to use Wikidata's items and properties to describe media files on Wikimedia Commons in the future (
phabricator:T149580)
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Wikidata weekly summary #235
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This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-11-12.
A new
Wikidata PageRank dataset has been published. The dataset was computed in August 2016 and provides PageRank scores for 10,364,840 Wikidata entities.
Due to
a possible hack, please consider resetting your passwords.
Parlement & Politiek ID (P1749) has been completed in Mix'n'match. Over 5000 politicians from the Netherlands (and also Belgium) now have a link to this resource
Unit conversion has been rolled out for the first dimension for a short while now.
Undo diffs now utilize language fallbacks for property and item labels (
gerrit:315291). Thanks to Matěj Suchánek!
Reworked database schema for Cognate (the extension that will do automatic interwiki links for Wiktionary). It is still waiting for security review before it can be deployed.
Worked more on basic version of Lexeme entity type
Fixed a bug where the links on action=info where wrong (
phabricator:T149598)
Getting close to finishing the groundwork for Federation so that in the future you'll be able to use Wikidata's items and properties to describe files on Commons.
Added Innu-aimun as a language for monolingual text values (
phabricator:T151129)
Worked on linking to Wikipedia articles in the statements on an ArticlePlaceholder (
phabricator:T113955)
Hello, Fgnievinski. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.
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arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
The
Fossasia Opentech Submit in Singapore is looking for speakers. If you're in the area and want to introduce attendees to Wikidata, feel free to send your application!
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of User:Coyau. He was a very active editor on Wikidata and the other Wikimedia projects. He will be deeply missed by his friends and family but his great work on open culture will stay. Feel free to browse and share his work. Thanks Guillaume
for this message.
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.
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.
Attended the Wikimedia Developer Summit to talk about a lot of things (including editing Wikidata from Wikipedia directly, back-end work for structured data support for Commons - specifically Multi Content Revisions, ideas for improvements to the query service)
Final touches to get ArticlePlaceholder pages ready for search engine indexing
Continued working on "federation" – support for multiple Wikibase repositories (
phab:T76007)
Clickable prototype for
client editing is finally in the works!
Coordinates on Russian Wikipedia now link to maps generated with the
Kartographer extension. The map includes the location outline, if that object exists in OpenStreetMap (OSM) with a corresponding Wikidata ID (ways and relations only, not nodes). Example:
w:ru:Зальцбург (click coordinates in the upper right corner, or in the infobox on the side). If you create a Wikidata item about a specific administrative area, building, or other physical individual object which appears on maps, then please add the Wikidata ID to the relevant object in OSM, using
key:wikidata= (here's
how to contribute to OSM).
QuickStatements V2 can now run your commands in the background, no need to keep the browser tab open anymore
When posting a link to an item to social networks and on messenger apps that show previews the previews will now be nicer and show an image. (
phabricator:T51859)
The Cebuano and Swedish wikis have a lot of bot-created content which is unconnected to other wiki articles. A good way to tackle that problem is by
checking constraint violations for property
GeoNames ID.
Module
Wikidata on Wikidata received an update to improve its performance. If your wiki has forked this one, consider updating it and
report any problems (already reported
one).
Experimental
c:Template:Category contains for categories on Commons, including a per-category Wikidata query. See
introductory discussion on Commons Village Pump. Presented together with current statistics on Commons category <-> Wikidata links
Doing a trial run of allowing search engines to index a number of ArticlePlaceholder pages on Welsh Wikipedia. If there are no major issues we will enable this for all placeholders.
Improving Federation-related after initial tests,
Getting ready to deploy automated sitelinks for Wiktionary
Making final fixes to initial version of Federation (needed to be able to use Wikidata items and properties to describe media on Commons in the future)
More work on baseline for Lexeme entity type for Wiktionary support
Wikidata Query Service got additional servers, the data has been reloaded to fix a number of issues caused by missed updates and an increase of the time-out of 30s is being looked into.
You can now make your
Harvest Templates tasks run automatically. After you have generated a permalink to your task, add &run= to the url. When you open it next time, it will load and then run automatically. Alternatively, you can use &load= which will only prepare the task for running.
Continued to finalize the initial version of Federation (needed to be able to use Wikidata items and properties to describe media on Commons in the future)
More work on baseline for Lexeme entity type for Wiktionary support
Converted undo/restore interface to use OOUI. You can test it
here (
phab:T134643).
Fixed an other rounding issue on geo coordinates (
phab:T158772).
Added thumbnail images to the Wikimedia Commons suggester (
phab:T160319).
Continued working on introducing Lexeme entity type.
Finishing federation prototype.
We are going to change all snak, reference, and qualifier hashes with the planned DataModel 7.0 release. If you are a tool developer, make sure you do not persist hashes, and never use them to request edits to entities. Statement IDs are safe (
phab:T157965).
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A warm welcome to our new intern, Lucas Werkmeister! You may now him for his work on queries as
WikidataFacts. He will work in the team for the next months.
There's now also a
#100wikidays challenge on Wikidata, aptly named
#100wikidatadays! It is a personal challenge in which a person very significantly improves (at least) one Wikidata items per day, for 100 days in a row. There was already a version of the challenge on various Wikipedias, on Commons and on Wikisource - now on Wikidata as well. Participate and make Wikidata shine!
Fgnieevinski, Your attempt to prevent discussion and criticism of the article, Global Positioning System, is unprofessional and irresponsible. I am a highly qualified contributor to Wikipedia and I do have the right to criticize and point out what needs to be done to improve the article. The fact that you have been unable or unwilling to remove erroneous content in the past is no excuse to stop criticizing the article. We are in great need of truly competent editors for the Global Positioning System article. It is important that the article be criticized so that all the work needed to improve the article can be clearly seen.
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Your recent article submission to
Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Primefac was:
This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability. Wikipedia requires significant coverage about the subject in
reliable sources that are independent of the subject—see the
guidelines on the notability of organizations and companies and
the golden rule. Please improve the submission's referencing (see
Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners), so that the information is
verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is
notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia. If additional reliable sources cannot be found for the subject, then it may not be suitable for Wikipedia at this time.
The comment the reviewer left was:
Okay, so here's the issue. The references provided are fine for verifying the facts in the draft, but none of them actually talks about Pix4D specifically. I'm not sure if this means it's
TOOSOON or if the right references just haven't been used yet, but at the moment there's no indication of notability. Please add additional independent
reliable sources that discuss the subject in detail.
Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.
If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to
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Pix4D, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created. The article has been assessed as Stub-Class, which is recorded on the article's
talk page. You may like to take a look at the
grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.
You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to
Wikipedia. Note that because you are a logged-in user, you can
create articles yourself, and don't have to post a request. However, you may continue submitting work to
Articles for Creation if you prefer.
If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the help desk.
Worked more on support for lexicographical data (specifically support for lexicographic category and statements on forms)
Dealt with issues after the deployment of automatic interwiki links for Wiktionary
Worked on constraint violation user script based on your feedback (improving messages to make it more understandable, layout, etc)
Add support for the following new language codes for monolingual text properties: brx, chn, cop, gez, quc, kjh, nr (will become available in a few days)
Past:
WikiCite, May 23rd-25th in Vienna. Documentation will be available soon, in the meantime you can check
on Twitter and
the video streams to see what happened
MySociety (
Q10851773) are publishing a "five part series examining how to use Wikidata to answer the question: 'What is the gender breakdown of heads of government across the world?'".
Data donation: following WikiCite, our friends at
DBLP (
Q1224715) have begun to donate data, with >4,800 values in the first batch, including >1,300 DBLP ID (
P2456) plus assorted aliases, and values for VIAF ID (
P214), GND ID (
P227), ORCID iD (
P496), ACM Digital Library author ID (
P864), zbMATH author ID (
P1556), & Google Scholar ID (
P1960).
MySociety (
Q10851773) have now completed publishing a "five part series examining how to use Wikidata to answer the question: 'What is the gender breakdown of heads of government across the world?'". Here is the full set:
Due the necessary time for people to get visas (about 3 months), we changed the deadline for the scholarship applications. You can
apply for a scholarship before July 16th. We will then make sure that the applicants receive a response on July 25th.
WikidataCon: We reached 100 registrations, the event is complete for now. More tickets will be released in September. You can still register on the waitlist.
Newest gadgets:
Units converter converts from 20 currencies to a selected currency. Converts metric units (mass, dimensions, area, temperature, speed) to/from United States units. The currency amounts are inflation adjusted if data is available.
Development
Worked more on support for lexicographical data and Wiktionary. The focus was on creating a necessary new datatype to link to Lexemes as well as making Glosses and statements on Glosses editable.
Getting ready to migrate the constraints definitions from templates on the property talk page to statements on the property.
Citation management tool
Zotero can now read data from Wikidata, and can write data from other sources to Wikidata via
QuickStatements. See
Wikidata:Zotero for details.
The scholarship process is now closed. Recipients will be informed around July 25th.
You can still
suggest ideas for the program, or
submit a project until July 31st. The program of the conference is made by the attendees, only what you bring will be in there :)
Ma Commune Wikipédia is a website developed by Wikimedia France to give information about the state of the Wikipedia articles for every French municipality and encourage people to edit the Wikimedia projects. It uses Wikidata to identify the communes.
The wbEntity JavaScript variable will not miss elements any more but contain empty arrays instead (
gerrit:365604). Please check if this affects your scripts, and have a look at
the wikibase.entityPage.entityLoaded hook as a possible replacement.
Wikidata Constraint Violations tool visualizes changes in constraint violations for last few weeks. Some of constraints produce millions of violations (marked as red).
Doing last polishing on the Lexeme entity type and cleaning up the demo data for the demo at Wikimania
Improving the dispatching of changes to Wikipedia and co to cope with the increased demand that lead to
delays in Wikidata changes showing up in Wikipedia watchlist and recent changes
Working on making constraints work on qualifiers and references (
phabricator:T168532)
Working on making it easier to see when input in property or value fields is not recognized/wrong (
phabricator:T170531)
Added new language codes (eya, fuf, ood, pjt, yap, zun) for use in monolingual text values
Fixed an issue with badges not being shown next to interwiki links on Wikipedia and co (
phabricator:T172592)
Worked on showing labels when linking to a redirect (
phabricator:T96553)
Worked on making change dispatching to Wikipedia and co work better so changes made on Wikidata show up there in a reasonable time. There were issues because of significantly increased edit activity on Wikidata.
Upcoming:
WikiArabia, in Cairo, Egypt, on 23-25 October. They're looking for a volunteer to give a Wikidata workshop. Please contact them if you're interested!
The Gene Wiki: Using Wikipedia and Wikidata to organize biomedical knowledge August Wikimedia Research Showcase (second half), presented by Andrew Su, about how
GeneWiki is using Wikidata.
Video on YouTube
Citation.js: Endpoint on RunKit shows a demo REST API to convert Wikidata entries into BibTeX, Bib.TXT, citations, and CSL-JSON.
The organization team is still looking for sponsors to support the event and provide even more awesome stuff to the attendees. If your company can support the WikidataCon, please get in touch with
Lydia.
Seeing the enthusiasm of the community for the WikidataCon, we raised our attendees limit from 150 to 200 persons. The last tickets will be released on September 1st. People who registered on the waitlist will be notified when a ticket is available.
The program committee is currently reviewing and organizing the submissions. We will contact the speakers soon, and publish the program in the beginning of September (around 6th).
We're looking for a keynote speaker who could bring an external point of view on ontologies. If you know interesting people,
feel free to help
Looking into not showing language fallback hints for dialects to make the UI less cluttered for them and make it less necessary to enter labels and descriptions for them (
phabricator:T174318)
Wrapping up our experiments with the new front-end technologies
Open Library, the biggest resource of freely-licensed books, now links to Wikidata (through Reasonator) and to VIAF (
example here; see "Wikidata" in the right-hand column).
With 200 attendees, the
WikidataCon is now complete. Thanks all for your enthusiasm \o/ If you registered on the waitlist or submitted a talk, check your mailbox for more information.
The WikidataCon program will be released this week, and we will call for volunteers soon
Looked into all the things necessary to make it possible to store forms and senses on Lexeme pages.
Worked more on caching constraints checks results which is needed to enable constraints checks for all logged-in users (
phabricator:T173696)
Making progress on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references (
phabricator:T168532)
Removed language fallback hints for dialects to make the UI less cluttered for them and make it less necessary to enter labels and descriptions for them (
phabricator:T174318)
Fixed an issue that links to an item were not showing the label when it pointed to a redirect (
phabricator:T96553)
Unrecognized input in entity selectors will be highlighted in red (
phabricator:T170531)
Added an additional normalization for page titles when linking pages on Wiktionary via Cognate (
phabricator:T172987)
The API will not only output the hashes for qualifier snaks, but also for main snaks as well as references snaks (
phabricator:T174692). Note that hashes (other than IDs) are not meant to be stable identifiers, and should not be stored for a longer time.
Snak hashes will also appear as part of CSS classes in entity pages (
phabricator:T171725)
The program of the WikidataCon is now
published on-wiki. You will find there a lot of different formats, topics and speakers, during the two days of the conference.
The event is now complete, no more tickets available. The last tickets have been attributed to the first persons who registered on the waitlist. If some more seats get free because another attendee cancels participation, the next person on the waitlist will be informed.
Rolled out more fine-grained usage tracking on Greek Wikipedia. This will lead to less irrelevant changes showing up in watchlist and recent changes on those projects. We're testing this on Greek Wikipedia to see if the solution we have scales before rolling it out further. (
phabricator:T151717)
Adding an API module to copy a statement from one item to another (
phabricator:T55619)
Working more on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references (
phabricator:T168532)
Added support for the Creator namespace to the constraints check for Commons links (
phabricator:T176062)
Added a css class to values that link to redirects so they can more easily be identified by editors who want that for maintenance work (
phabricator:T70567) Thanks Matej!
Finishing touches on adding full URIs for external identifiers to our RDF export so we're good citizens of the semantic web (
phabricator:T121274)
Added a new mw.wikibase.getAllStatements Lua function in addition to the existing getBestStatements, that returns all statements regardless of their rank (
phabricator:T176124)
Looking into an issue where unwanted email notifications are being sent (
phabricator:T174794)
Upcoming: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out)
We will have two exciting keynotes. The first keynote speaker is
Fabian M. Suchanek, professor at Télécom Paris Tech University, working on the knowledge base
YAGO. The second keynote speaker is
Michael Kreil, datajournalist working on the project Data Sciences and Stories.
Please
volunteer for some tasks at the conference if you are attending.
Breaking change: "wb_entity_per_page" table will not be updated and replicated on ToolLabs anymore
A mw.wikibase.getLabelByLang Lua function will be added (
phabricator:T173262)
The mw.wikibase.sitelink Lua function will accept a second parameter with the global identifier of a wiki (e.g. "enwiki") to link to (
phabricator:T142903)
Had to temporarily turn off showing Wikidata's changes on Commons and Russian Wikipedia because of database issues. We're working on turning it back on.
Continued work on persistently storing edits to Forms on Lexemes
Finishing work on checking constraints on qualifiers and references with the constraint checks gadget
Fixed a bug where notification emails for Wikidata changes were sent when they shouldn't have been (
phabricator:T174794)
Full URIs for external identifiers will soon be in the RDF export (
phabricator:T121274)
Monthly Tasks
Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Upcoming: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out)
If you organize a local event for the Wikidata birthday, feel free to add it on the
events page and the
birthday page
A blog post describing
Textes d'affiches, a tool using Wikidata to show movies and the works they are adapted from, developed during a hackathon at the national French library (by Shonagon, in French)
More work on checking constraints on qualifiers and references (
phabricator:T168532)
Now caching constraints results to make it ready for rollout for more users
Continued work on more fine-grained usage tracking so we better know which parts of an item is used on an article on Wikipedia and the other sister projects
Improved the way Wikidata changes are shown in watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and Co so they are more in-line with the other changes (
phabricator:T48329,
phabricator:T50684) Thanks Matej!
Upcoming : Wikidata and Wiki Loves Monuments editathon in Berlin, 24-26 November (
in German). We're looking for trainers to explain the basic use of QuickStatements, Open Refine and Mix'n'Match. If you want to join, please contact
MB-one
Wikidata's birthday
The fifth anniversary of Wikidata was celebrated, as every year, with a lot of presents, events and stories. You can find an overview
on the birthday page.
inventaire.io CC0 Wikidata-ready NDJSON and TTL dumps are now accessible at
dumps.inventaire.io
You can now move claims to new items with
moveClaim.js. You can do so by typing "new".
Prefix search on Wikidata (wbsearchentities API) now is
using ElasticSearch as backend. This should improve search quality and also is more flexible and tunable.
If you want to review what happened during the WikidataCon,
here is the list of all the sessions, with slides, notes and videos, when available
Release of wikidata-edit v2.0.0: brings qualifiers and references support, and a few breaking changes. See
changelogs
Release of wikidata-cli v5.0.0: brings qualifiers and references support, multi-entity summary|label|description|description requests, a new `edit-item` command, and a few breaking changes. See
changelogs
The Cebuano and Swedish wikis have a lot of bot-created content which is unconnected to other wiki articles. A good way to tackle that problem is by
checking constraint violations for property
GeoNames ID.
Latitudes, longitudes, as well as coordinate precisions have accidentally been exported to RDF as xsd:decimal, and are going to be exported as xsd:double soon (
phabricator:T179228)
Continue on refactoring PropertySuggester-python for better maintainability and performance (
phab:T179664)
Make AffectedPagesFinder take DESCRIPTION_USAGE into account (
phab:T176417)
Accessing mw.config.get( 'wbEntity' ) will trigger a deprecation warning, gadgets and user script should use the wikibase.entityPage.entityLoaded hook instead (
phabricator:T169771)
Work on caching constraint check results (
phab:T179849) and indicating that they are cached (
phab:T179844)
Work on JSON-LD support in the Purtle library used for exports (
gerrit:379669)
Wikibase code base does not use Composer class autoloading any more (
phabricator:T180067) as another step towards getting rid of our own build process and being more in line with the rest of Wikimedia
Monthly Tasks
Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Hello, Fgnievinski. Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 10 December. All users who registered an account before Saturday, 28 October 2017, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Wednesday, 1 November 2017 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
The
Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the
Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose
site bans,
topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The
arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
Working on fixing a regression after a change in MediaWiki core that makes edit links show up on diff pages (
phabricator:T181807)
More work on persistent editing of statements on Forms of a Lexeme (specifically
phabricator:T180467)
Improved size of the diff that we sent to Wikipedia and co for changes happening on Wikidata. This is one more needed step towards only showing meaningful edits in the watchlists and recent changes there. (
phabricator:T113468)
Incoming:Next Structured Commons
IRC office hour will be on Tuesday, February 13, 2018, at 18:00 UTC.
Past: Tech-talk about knowledge technologies, featuring Wikidata, DBpedia, and Histropedia at Jakarta Digital Valley, Jakarta, Indonesia on Dec 8, 2017. Slides are available at
Slideshare link.
Structured Data on Commons:
Participate in this survey to help the team understand which tools and functionalities are most important to the Commons and Wikidata communities
QuickStatements now has a CSV-like import function (under "import commands")
Final step towards being able to store statements on Forms of a Lexeme
Disabled RDF support for Lexemes as the mapping isn't defined yet (
phabricator:T182660)
Adding some more smart tracking for Lua usage so we better know which properties from an item are used on a Wikipedia article even when the whole item is loaded (
phabricator:T179923)
Past: Wikidata team and volunteers were at 34C3. Check the videos,
the tweets, a new design made by Bleeptrack for
a cake. Videos of Wikidata-related workshops will be published soon.
Prevented checking of constraints on "Wikidata property example" statements (
phabricator:T183267)
Added link to the property's talk page to the constraint violation dialog to guide people there to discuss the constraint if necessary (
phabricator:T164351)
Monthly Tasks
Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Wikipedia editor
Nick Moyes just reviewed your page, and wrote this note for you:
I can accept that this page has a value as a disambiguation page. It can't however, coexist with another page of the same name (i.e. University Reform), so have redirected that page away from the Argentine university reform of 1918 so as to redirect here. I hope this seems logical to you.
To reply, leave a comment on Nick Moyes's
talk page.
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!
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
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.
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.
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
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
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!
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)
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)
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:T187265phab:T186714)
Representation and grammatical features of the form can be changed using the UI (WikibaseLexeme) (
phab:T173743,
phab:T160525)
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D.Lazard (
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Wikidata weekly summary #302
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
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)
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
the newsletter yourself: all small contributions are welcome :)
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.
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)
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
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.
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)
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RobP (
talk) 14:52, 3 April 2018 (UTC)reply
Wikidata weekly summary #307
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
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.
WikiWorkshop, a forum bringing together researchers exploring all aspects the Wikimedia projects, in Lyon, April 24th. Seven papers related to Wikidata will be presented.
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.
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 now use
global preferences on most wikis. This means you can set preferences for all wikis at the same time. Before this you had to change them on each individual wiki.
Country geoshape data have been added to Commons and linked to the corresponding Wikidata items. These geoshapes can be used to visualise query results e.g.
World map showing population of each country.
You may want to consider using the
Article Wizard to help you create articles.
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Nick Moyes (
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Hassle for the readers is a hassle
Sorry to bother you about an effort from so long ago, but I've just come from trying to understand why links to such as
Professor ordinarius were, well, useless. As still found in articles such as
Johann Radon.
Back in 2014 you elected to break up the long article
Professor
Note also that in the above trail of pages, continually searching for the text 'ordinarius' does find the word, but under
Belgium and
Poland, not for Germany due to the extra layer of redirection.
This reorganization has its justifications. However, it is a tragedy that repair after reorganization is given short shrift. It is all too often that the resulting occasions needing repair are left to others to discover. Invalidating links as seen here is just one type of damage to WP articles that seems somehow discounted by editors, yet is frustrating to readers. In fact, it lends the impression to readers that WP is continually broken in its details. And as we see here, that is true.
You may feel like "no good deed goes unpunished" applies. Yet what I'm trying to point out is that so many "good deeds" here at WP are simply unfinished, incomplete. Leaving work for others to do.
Shenme (
talk) 18:46, 30 June 2018 (UTC)reply
Yes, Wikipedia, as an editing platform, sucks. It only improves because there are so many of us sacrificing countless hours.
fgnievinski (
talk) 19:20, 30 June 2018 (UTC)reply
Let me add this on as more examples and I'll go away and fix a few. And hours, yes. There are thousands of 'tehsil's and 'tahsil's, when there should be only the one term, as one very minor item. Then there was the external pop music reference site that changed its URL scheme, and people explicitly knew about it years ago, but no one bothered to fix templates to use the URL, nor fix the hundreds of now invalid date formats. Is there no understanding at WP that preserving what is already here is at least as important as having new information?
Professor extraordinarius (außerordentlicher Professor', {{anchor|aoProf}}ao. Prof.)
And what does one do with
Visiting Associate Professor where the definitions are literally spread all over the place now? And
Catedratico which redirects to
Professor#Spain, but which now links to the section on salaries rather than describing the
position! Because time only makes incomplete changes worse.
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