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EditGroups can now revert batches which created items. These items are deleted in the revert batch. This feature is only available to administrators but other users can easily request revert from the tool.
populationWDvsOSM: a new script that compares the population in OSM place nodes and boundary relations with Wikidata
user:Lakokat is back to adminship, congratulations!
Terminator, a tool by Magnus Manske that finds Wikidata items that lack a label, description, or article in a specific language, has now a version 2 (
blog post)
Working on adding a better HTML title to Lexeme pages (
phabricator:T195386)
Further work on supporting Senses on Lexemes - specifically persistent IDs for Senses and preventing the deletion of the last Gloss of a Sense (
phabricator:T198032,
phabricator:T198199)
Adjusted colors of the Query Service UI to be more in line with Wikimedia style guide (
phabricator:T192235, Thanks abian!)
Past:
State of the Map, the OpenStreetMap equivalent of Wikimania, was held in Milan from 28-30 July. There were two meetups on interactions between Wikimedia and OSM, and Wikidata was mentioned in several sessions, including:
JOSM/Plugins/Wikipedia/GSoC 2018: 'Floscher' has been working to improve the Wikidata/Wikipedia-related functionality of the 'JOSM' editor for OpenStreetMap
Design Challenges in Named Entity Transliteration - a paper discussing "fundamental design challenges that impact the development of a multilingual state-of-the-art named entity transliteration system", with reference to Wikidata
Quicksilver: Training an #ML system to generate draft Wikipedia articles and Wikidata entries simultaneously,
slides by John Bohannon and Vedant Dharnidharka
It's possible to add somevalue and novalue using
QuickStatements, and to use the tool on test.wikidata.org as well.
More properties can be searched using haswbstatement. This includes all properties with "external identifier", "string", "item", "property", "lexeme", "form" and "sense" datatypes, except published in (P1433) and cites (P2860). In addition you may make queries without a specified value.
The page creation and edit rate limit imposed in April will be removed in the next days. However, users who are not bots or administrators are throttled to 90 edits per minute (
which was set up on all Wikimedia wikis in May).
These new languages are now supported for monolingual text strings: mid, mnw, gmy, rar, haz, uga. The language doesn't show up in the suggester, but you can save the statement and it will be stored properly.
Continued work on merging Lexemes. Merging via the SpecialPage is done and will be rolled out soon. Merging via the API is still being worked on. (
phabricator:T189129)
Long Lemmas in Lexemes look bad because they are not flowing to the next line and instead break the layout. Working on a fix. (
phabricator:T195367)
Improving the validity of the HTML of the Lexeme headers. (
phabricator:T196228)
Worked on showing the Lemma(s) or Representation(s) when Lexemes or Forms are mentioned in constraint reports. (
phabricator:T195315)
Got a new beta feature ready for deployment that will improve the suggestions for properties like sex/gender by first suggesting the values defined in the one-of constraint. (
phabricator:T202712)
Continuing through September and early October: Andy Mabbett is
touring Australia for a series of open-science and GLAM Wiki-focused talks, workshops, and meetups.
An increasing number of reports from This Month in GLAM Wikidata related stories. To follow,
subscribe here. Though most country reports include Wikidata activities, highlights from this month include:
Collection Explorer, a Wikidata-driven tool bringing together collection data from the Ashmolean Museum, the Bodleian Library, and the Pitt Rivers Museum.
There were
three Wikidata-related presentations at the 10th International Conference on Ecological Informatics that took place on 23-28 September in Jena.
Upcoming: German-speaking WikiCon, October 3-5 in St Gallen (Switzerland). Several Wikidata-related talks and workshops
in the programme.
SPNHC & TDWG Conference 2018 — blog post on a talk (
slides,
speaker notes) about using Wikimedia projects and materials from the Biodiversity Heritage Library and other sources to collect information regarding New Zealand's biodiversity
A new Wikidata game has been created to suggest corrections for some constraints violations. These corrections are learned from the Wikidata edit history.
A Wikidata workshop will be led by
Shani Evenstein, in collaboration with
Wikimedia Israel & and the
Israel Internet Association, on 18th & 25th of October in Tel Aviv. The first meeting will be dedicated to an introduction and adding information to WD, and the second meeting will focus on querying & SPARQL.
An Introduction to Wikidata by Harmonia Amanda, an Introduction to Wikibase by Sandra Müllrick and a Wikicite workshop by Miriam Redi at the
Wiki Techstorm in the Dutch National Library in the Hague on the 26th & 27th of October
Many events to celebrate Wikidata's birthday around the world. You can check
the full list and
the map to find one near you
Die vergessene fünfte Partnerstadt (German), Der Landbote, October 18, 2018. Press article about the discoverage of
Winterthur's sister city
Ontario thanks to Wikidata, which only became official in Ontario in the year 1982, while it got forgotten in Winterthur.
A new academic course featuring Wikidata opened on October 15th at
Tel Aviv University. The elective is called "
From Web 2.0 to Web 3.0, from Wikipedia to Wikidata" and it's the 1st for-credit course in the world to focus on Wikidata! The course is available to all undergraduate students at TAU, from all disciplines, and is led by educator & Wikimedian
Shani Evenstein.
Change on QuickStatements: all your new QuickStatements batch job edits will now be done under your own account, rather than QuickStatementsBot (thanks to
Lucas)
Wikidata Image Positions, showing the relative position of depicted elements within the images of items (
example,
documentation)
Plenty of
Wikidata 6th birthday events happen all around the world. You can check the
Commons category and the hashtag #WikidataBirthday on social networks.
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A new tool to display Wikimedia Commons categories (and Wikipedia/Wikidata tags) with coordinates on the OSM map
The Association of Research Libraries published the draft of a
Wikidata Task Force White Paper on how libraries and Wikidata/ Wikibase con join forces aroud linked open data for both library discovery systems and Wikipedia, and advancing a diversity and inclusion agenda in the cultures of both libraries and Wikimedia. The draft is open for public comment until 30 November.
The Swedish National Heritage Board has
started working on a project, related to Structured Data on Commons, that focuses on ways to feed back improved (crowdsourced) metadata to cultural institutions who contribute media files to Wikimedia Commons.
Upcoming: "Researcher meets Curator", with a subquestion: "What are the consequences of collecting born digital sources, working with digital network analysis and engaging with linked open data initiatives such as Wikidata", in Maastricht on 22 March 2019.
Call for papers
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We added a Page property for easier programmatic access to the number of Senses and Forms of a Lexeme (
phabricator:T199611)
The code samples in the query service have been improved (
phabricator:T207749, thanks abian!)
We're working on tracking how often the different Lua functions that Wikibase provides are used in the Wikimedia project to see how that changes over time (
phabricator:T191416)
We worked on and fixed a security incident related to blocking (
phabricator:T210953)
We are continuing to bring the termbox (showing labels, descriptions, aliases) to mobile viewers
Call for contribution for the
WikiWorkshop, forum bringing together researchers exploring all aspects of the Wikimedia projects, held in May 2019 in San Francisco, is now open until January 31st
Scholia's "missing" pages (
example) now link to the new
Author Disambiguator tool, and a
Listeria list is available to help prioritize co-author disambiguation for authors with sitelinks.
Progress of the project has been generally delayed since September due to development issues (more bitrot than expected, some of the code just being genuinely confusing, etc) and personal injury (I suffered a concussion in October and was out of commission for almost two months as a result).
I currently expect to be putting out a proper call for CollaborationKit pilots in January/February, with estimated deployment in February/March if things don't go horribly wrong (they will, though, don't worry). As a part of that, I will properly update
the page and send out announcement and reach out to all projects
already signed up as pilots for WikiProject X in general, at which point those (still) interested can volunteer specifically to test the
CollaborationKit extension.
Wikipedia:WikiProject X/Pilots was originally created for the first WikiProject X prototype, and given this is where the project has since gone, it's only logical to continue to use it. While I haven't yet updated the page to properly reflect this:
If you want to add your project to this page now, feel free. Just bear in mind that more information what to actually expect will be added later/included in the announcement, because by then I will have a much better idea myself.
Until then, you can find me in my corner working on making the CollaborationKit code do what we want and not just what we told it, per
the workboard.
Working on getting final pieces in place to regularly run constraint check jobs so all constraint violations get fed into the query service (
phabricator:T204031)
Working on getting the layout right for the termbox in the mobile view so that in the future you can also see labels, descriptions and aliases in different languages on mobile (
phabricator:T207150)
Getting ready to start working on basic Shape Expression support
Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in WikiBär, Berlin, January 15th (
in German)
Upcoming: Academic workshop on data quality management in Wikidata, Berlin, January 18th (
registration needed)
Upcoming:
Wikidata hackathon in Ulm, Germany, on February 22-24. The organization team
is looking for people who can give introduction to Wikidata, QuickStatements or gadgets (in German).
Structured data for Commons: multilingual captions are deployed on Commons on January 10th (
documentation)
The Wikidata Query Service has been encountering some data corruption issues that impact the results you can see when running a query. Some may still be running. You can check
the current ticket for more updates.
New dashboard for percentage of pages on a Wikimedia project make use of data from Wikidata (doesn't include sitelinks, doesn't include Commons file and category pages for now)
Science Stories, a project highlighting women in sciences, uses Wikidata
If you add a proposed merge template, you are really obliged to provide a rationale for merging and link the discussion from the template. I can't reply to a rationale that has not been made.
SpinningSpark15:49, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
City-Country-Shapes visualization based on Wikidata: how many of a country's largest cities do you need to put on a map to be able to recognise the country?
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SpeedPatrolling, a tool to simplify patrolling of recent changes on Wikidata (
documentation), has been
announced and you can use it to help fight vandalism.
Making progress towards first showable version of basic Shape Expression support
Layout polishing for the mobile termbox (the box that shows labels, desctiptions and aliases) and continuing work on the "in more languages" and "all entered languages" sections in it
Working on making Federation (reusing Wikidata's Items and Properties to make statements) work for Wikimedia Commons to get the rollout of the next stage (support for depicts statements) unstuck
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Congratulations to Siobhan Leachman (
d:User:Ambrosia10), awarded the "Companion of the Auckland War Memorial Museum" medal for her volunteer work, including contributions to Wikidata:
[1].
Creative Commons has
a proposal for tool development with Wikidata's copyright metadata for the 2019 edition of Google Summer of Code. Interested student developers are invited to apply.
A new beta version of the Daty Wikidata Editor has been released,
check out the changelog. You can also show your endorsement to the project
over here.
Client wikis calling geocoordinate statements from Wikidata using mw.wikibase.entity:formatStatements or the #statements parser function will now have it displayed using
a Kartographer <maplink> if available. In case of bug or question, feel free to ask in
phab:T210926. Thanks to Tpt for the change!
A Google Summer of Code/Outreachy
project seeks to add structure to the
Commons app. Photographers will be able to pick Wikidata items that are depicted by the picture they upload.
On
Wikimedia Research from March 2019: Learning How to Correct a Knowledge Base from the Edit History, by Thomas Pellissier Tanon, Camille Bourgaux and Fabian Suchanek (
slides,
video)
The panEuropean Research Infrastructure "Mobilising Data, Experts and Policies in Scientific Collections" initiative's kick-off meeting had a workshop on the "Authority Management of People Names". Wikidata featured strongly - and was highly praised:
Twitter thread
While editing OpenStreetMap from the iD editor,
it will now be possible to match map data with Wikidata by typing in names and getting an autocompleted label.
OpenStreetMap is participating in this year's Google Summer of Code, and
quite a few of the project ideas involve Wikidata integration.
The Wikimedia URL shortener will be launched on 11 April; see
Wikidata:URLShortener. It will not be immediately incorporated into the Query Service but the feature is planned.
The Library of the African Studies Centre in Leiden compiled an
experimental web dossier which combines the components of a classical ASCL web dossier with features offered by Wikidata.
The gender gap tool
Delenezh is online again and now hosted by Wikimedia France
More work on documenting and preparing the announcement for the Wikidata External Landscape dashboard (
phab:T204440)
Improved the documentation of WMDE analytic documents (
phab:T219844)
Set up translatable schema edit summaries using the FormatAutocomments hook (
phab:T218893)
Improved right-to-left support on schema pages (
phab:T219298)
Protected schemas against imports (
phab:T218181) and page moves (
phab:T219313) and disabled the useless “move” and “create” protections for them (
phab:T219980)
Improved schema edit conflict detection to allow merging of non-conflicting edits (
phab:T218300,
phab:T219173)
Improved the Extension:WikibaseSchema documentation on mediawiki.org (
phab:T219979)
Fixed a bug on Lexicographical Data when editing existing grammatical features (
phab:T219318)
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Past:
WikiNusantara 2019, the first Wikimedia Indonesia conference was successfully held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on Apr 27-28, 2019. The conference included two Wikidata talks:
New tool:
Wikimedia Related Projects provides statistics about Wikimedia projects and the relations between them, using the number of sitelinks they have in common
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Wikidata weekly summary #364
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Wikidata Quality Score Display: Gadget that displays on a Wikipedia article the quality level of the related Wikidata item
Wikidocumentaries service approaches beta quality and displays content from Wikimedia and other openly licensed sources for each Wikidata item. The latest user interface translations are Indonesian and Russian, and the newest content source plugin for the related images section is the brand new
Creative Commons Search catalog.
Several developers from the Wikidata team attended to the hackathon, discussed with the community, gathered feedback, hacked on things together with volunteers :)
Past: Wikidata workshop, May 27th at UIN Maliki, Malang, Indonesia (in collaboration with Faculty of Computer Science, UI) -
Slideset link -
Press release
Blogpost by RightStatements.org - a system of standardised interoperable rights and reuse information for GLAMs - describing the role and importance of the property
P6426.
At WikiWoordenboek (Dutch wiktionary)
a project titled Widawiwo has begun to explore how the maximal mutual benefit of Wikidata and WikiWoordenboek can be achieved.
Scale the machine learning components of the WDCM system w. {text2vec} WarpLDA implementation (
phab:T203366)
Inspect strange behavior of the WD_percentUsageDashboard (
phab:T217994)
WDCM dashboards maintenance: eliminating the need to use the wdcm.maintable in Hive, WDCM Geo is now independent of it (with its update engine running Spark instead) and re-designed to match the WDCM standards (
phab:T217994,
phab:T214586,
phab:T217997)
Further preparations for the Wikidata Languages Landscape project (
phab:T221965)
More progress in order to get the mobile service deployed
Adding an IP edit warning popup for mobile termbox (
phab:T221831)
Allowing users to ignore this popup permanently (
phab:T221833)
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Wikidata weekly summary #369
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Updates: I've been focusing largely on the development side of things, so we are a lot closer now to being ready to actually start discussing deploying it and testing it out here.
There's just a few things left that need to be resolved:
A bunch of language support issues in particular, plus some
other release blockers, such as the fact that currently there's no good way to find any hubs people do create.
We also probably need some proper documentation and examples up to even reference if we want a meaningful discussion. We have
the extension documentation and
some test projects, but we probably need a bit more. Also I need to be able to even find the test projects! How can I possibly write reports about this stuff if I can't find any of it?!
Some other stuff that's happened in the meantime:
Midpoint report is out for this round of the project, if you want to read in too much detail about all the problems I've been running into.
WikiProject Molecular Biology have successfully set up using the
old module system that CollaborationKit is intended to replace (eventually), and it even seems to work, so go them. Based on the issues they ran into, it looks like the members signup thing on that system has some of the same problems as we've been unable to resolve in CK, though, which is... interesting. (Need to
change the content model to the right thing for the formwizard config to take. Ugh, content models.)
Des identifiants ouverts pour la science ouverte by the Comité pour la Science ouverte (Open Science Committee), June 2019. Extract: "Since 2012, the Wikidata database has gradually become the global point of convergence for open identifiers." (Depuis 2012, la base Wikidata est devenue progressivement le point de convergence mondial des identifiants ouverts.)
Structured Data on Commons: RDF output for MediaInfo is now available (
example)
Edits with the tag #suggestededit-add 1.0 come from the suggested edit feature on Wikipedia's Android app:
see the FAQ for more information
Property number 7000:
DigitalNZ ID is live. This data aggregator has over 30 million records. The proposal was the first from
Ambrosia10, a New Zealand editor.
Storm surge (disambiguation), which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created. The article has been assessed as Disambig-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. If your account is more than four days old and you have made at least 10 edits you can
create articles yourself without posting 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.
The open source geocoder
w:en:Nominatim used by the OpenStreetMap project is participating in the Google Summer of Code with an internship working on integrating Wikidata as a ranking metric for its search results. Check the
development blog.
Current: Wikimania in Stockholm and hackathon, August 14 to 18. Check out
the list of all Wikidata-related events. Each session page should include notes, slides and streaming if available.
NameGuzzler allows you to automatically add an identical label or alias into many languages (for example, the name of a person or a place). You can define your own custom list of languages that you want to add.
New Wikidata-related projects developed during the Wikimania hackathon:
Documentation translation sprint: several people translated Wikidata help pages in their own language. Feel free to continue the efforts to make Wikidata more accessible!
Integraality generates tables to assess the completeness of properties on sets of items, such as
properties on railway stations for instance. Tables are automatically updated and highly configurable.
Starting from July 2019, Wikimedia Sverige and the Wikimedia Foundation's GLAM team work together to create a more sustainable technical infrastructure for global heritage and content partnerships.
Read more about this initiative on meta.wikimedia.org.
moveClaim allows you to move or copy claims from one item to another. This is especially useful when splitting items, or creating lots of similar items.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Seventh birthday of Wikidata: you can start thinking about organizing a meetup in your area to celebrate the birthday, or about a present for the community!
The first draft of
the program of the WikidataCon is now available. The content of the three main session rooms will be live-streamed and recorded for people who cannot participate in the conference.
Because of a database switch, Wikidata will be in read-only more on September 10th at 05:00 UTC, for max. 30min (
phab:T230762)
Recent tool:
@Wikidatabot, a Telegram bot that allows you to search for something on Wikidata from Telegram
New game:
Wikidata Mall, a Telegram management simulation game where content is generated from Wikidata
Wikidata got a high-resolution logo, thanks to
Odder (
phab:T230120)
New monolingual code languages are added, thanks to
Jon Harald Søby: TLI (Tlingit), clc (Tsilhqotʹin), alc (Kawésqar), kld (Gamilaraay), peo (Old Persian)
Fixed a bug in constraint violations indicator that was not showing up sometimes (
phab:T227866)
Make Lua's function mw.wikibase.entityExists return true for redirects (
phab:T192462)
Reviewed and followed up on highlighting statements when using "#P" in URL (
phab:T178745)
Wikidata Bridge: saving the Wikidata edit when submitting (
phab:T226999)
Showing the label for the Property instead of the id (
phab:T227759)
Overcoming a conceptional oversight between mediawiki and standard language codes (
phab:T231833)
The third grant-funded round of
WikiProject X has been completed. Unfortunately, while this round has not resulted in a deployed product, I am not planning to resume working on the project for the foreseeable future. Please see the
final report for more information.
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Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!
Hello,
Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at the English Wikipedia.
I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at
the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!
From my own experience, Google Code-In can be fun, you can make several new friends, attract new people to your wiki and make them part of your community.
If you have any questions, please let us know at google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org.
Hi, Fgnievinski. I noticed that you added new sub-(sub-sub-)section headings to the article
Median. Please don't use ; (Name here) for that purpose; use == (Name here) == or similar instead. ; is meant to indicate categories of a list, so it doesn't show up in the table of contents or have handy section-editing links. Thanks,
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Hi Fgnievinski, I have removed
Informal from
Illegal because I couldn't understand why it would be there. I'd be happy to revert myself if I've made an error. Thanks,
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13:14, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
This doesn't seem very useful. The first paragraph is about a different topic than the second, and the picture is something different entirely. And all three are redundant with other articles.
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Sorry for the second revert at
Beam divergence, but please take a closer look. The article you are linking to,
Angular diameter, is describing a different thing than the quantity you mean to refer to. The phrase you quoted in your summary (from
Beam diameter rather than
Beam width) mentions "angular width", not "
angular diameter". Your text would not be wrong without the erroneous link to
angular diameter, but by itself the phrase "angular diameter" is vague. The original text is clearer. I don't see any way to fix it that is better than simply reverting it, so I have reverted it again. --
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Journal stubs
You've created a bit of journal stubs recently. It would be really helpful if you expanded them a bit more per
WP:JWG, and added the infobox (there's a useful script for that
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EditGroups can now revert batches which created items. These items are deleted in the revert batch. This feature is only available to administrators but other users can easily request revert from the tool.
populationWDvsOSM: a new script that compares the population in OSM place nodes and boundary relations with Wikidata
user:Lakokat is back to adminship, congratulations!
Terminator, a tool by Magnus Manske that finds Wikidata items that lack a label, description, or article in a specific language, has now a version 2 (
blog post)
Working on adding a better HTML title to Lexeme pages (
phabricator:T195386)
Further work on supporting Senses on Lexemes - specifically persistent IDs for Senses and preventing the deletion of the last Gloss of a Sense (
phabricator:T198032,
phabricator:T198199)
Adjusted colors of the Query Service UI to be more in line with Wikimedia style guide (
phabricator:T192235, Thanks abian!)
Past:
State of the Map, the OpenStreetMap equivalent of Wikimania, was held in Milan from 28-30 July. There were two meetups on interactions between Wikimedia and OSM, and Wikidata was mentioned in several sessions, including:
JOSM/Plugins/Wikipedia/GSoC 2018: 'Floscher' has been working to improve the Wikidata/Wikipedia-related functionality of the 'JOSM' editor for OpenStreetMap
Design Challenges in Named Entity Transliteration - a paper discussing "fundamental design challenges that impact the development of a multilingual state-of-the-art named entity transliteration system", with reference to Wikidata
Quicksilver: Training an #ML system to generate draft Wikipedia articles and Wikidata entries simultaneously,
slides by John Bohannon and Vedant Dharnidharka
It's possible to add somevalue and novalue using
QuickStatements, and to use the tool on test.wikidata.org as well.
More properties can be searched using haswbstatement. This includes all properties with "external identifier", "string", "item", "property", "lexeme", "form" and "sense" datatypes, except published in (P1433) and cites (P2860). In addition you may make queries without a specified value.
The page creation and edit rate limit imposed in April will be removed in the next days. However, users who are not bots or administrators are throttled to 90 edits per minute (
which was set up on all Wikimedia wikis in May).
These new languages are now supported for monolingual text strings: mid, mnw, gmy, rar, haz, uga. The language doesn't show up in the suggester, but you can save the statement and it will be stored properly.
Continued work on merging Lexemes. Merging via the SpecialPage is done and will be rolled out soon. Merging via the API is still being worked on. (
phabricator:T189129)
Long Lemmas in Lexemes look bad because they are not flowing to the next line and instead break the layout. Working on a fix. (
phabricator:T195367)
Improving the validity of the HTML of the Lexeme headers. (
phabricator:T196228)
Worked on showing the Lemma(s) or Representation(s) when Lexemes or Forms are mentioned in constraint reports. (
phabricator:T195315)
Got a new beta feature ready for deployment that will improve the suggestions for properties like sex/gender by first suggesting the values defined in the one-of constraint. (
phabricator:T202712)
Continuing through September and early October: Andy Mabbett is
touring Australia for a series of open-science and GLAM Wiki-focused talks, workshops, and meetups.
An increasing number of reports from This Month in GLAM Wikidata related stories. To follow,
subscribe here. Though most country reports include Wikidata activities, highlights from this month include:
Collection Explorer, a Wikidata-driven tool bringing together collection data from the Ashmolean Museum, the Bodleian Library, and the Pitt Rivers Museum.
There were
three Wikidata-related presentations at the 10th International Conference on Ecological Informatics that took place on 23-28 September in Jena.
Upcoming: German-speaking WikiCon, October 3-5 in St Gallen (Switzerland). Several Wikidata-related talks and workshops
in the programme.
SPNHC & TDWG Conference 2018 — blog post on a talk (
slides,
speaker notes) about using Wikimedia projects and materials from the Biodiversity Heritage Library and other sources to collect information regarding New Zealand's biodiversity
A new Wikidata game has been created to suggest corrections for some constraints violations. These corrections are learned from the Wikidata edit history.
A Wikidata workshop will be led by
Shani Evenstein, in collaboration with
Wikimedia Israel & and the
Israel Internet Association, on 18th & 25th of October in Tel Aviv. The first meeting will be dedicated to an introduction and adding information to WD, and the second meeting will focus on querying & SPARQL.
An Introduction to Wikidata by Harmonia Amanda, an Introduction to Wikibase by Sandra Müllrick and a Wikicite workshop by Miriam Redi at the
Wiki Techstorm in the Dutch National Library in the Hague on the 26th & 27th of October
Many events to celebrate Wikidata's birthday around the world. You can check
the full list and
the map to find one near you
Die vergessene fünfte Partnerstadt (German), Der Landbote, October 18, 2018. Press article about the discoverage of
Winterthur's sister city
Ontario thanks to Wikidata, which only became official in Ontario in the year 1982, while it got forgotten in Winterthur.
A new academic course featuring Wikidata opened on October 15th at
Tel Aviv University. The elective is called "
From Web 2.0 to Web 3.0, from Wikipedia to Wikidata" and it's the 1st for-credit course in the world to focus on Wikidata! The course is available to all undergraduate students at TAU, from all disciplines, and is led by educator & Wikimedian
Shani Evenstein.
Change on QuickStatements: all your new QuickStatements batch job edits will now be done under your own account, rather than QuickStatementsBot (thanks to
Lucas)
Wikidata Image Positions, showing the relative position of depicted elements within the images of items (
example,
documentation)
Plenty of
Wikidata 6th birthday events happen all around the world. You can check the
Commons category and the hashtag #WikidataBirthday on social networks.
Hello, Fgnievinski. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
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arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
A new tool to display Wikimedia Commons categories (and Wikipedia/Wikidata tags) with coordinates on the OSM map
The Association of Research Libraries published the draft of a
Wikidata Task Force White Paper on how libraries and Wikidata/ Wikibase con join forces aroud linked open data for both library discovery systems and Wikipedia, and advancing a diversity and inclusion agenda in the cultures of both libraries and Wikimedia. The draft is open for public comment until 30 November.
The Swedish National Heritage Board has
started working on a project, related to Structured Data on Commons, that focuses on ways to feed back improved (crowdsourced) metadata to cultural institutions who contribute media files to Wikimedia Commons.
Upcoming: "Researcher meets Curator", with a subquestion: "What are the consequences of collecting born digital sources, working with digital network analysis and engaging with linked open data initiatives such as Wikidata", in Maastricht on 22 March 2019.
Call for papers
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We added a Page property for easier programmatic access to the number of Senses and Forms of a Lexeme (
phabricator:T199611)
The code samples in the query service have been improved (
phabricator:T207749, thanks abian!)
We're working on tracking how often the different Lua functions that Wikibase provides are used in the Wikimedia project to see how that changes over time (
phabricator:T191416)
We worked on and fixed a security incident related to blocking (
phabricator:T210953)
We are continuing to bring the termbox (showing labels, descriptions, aliases) to mobile viewers
Call for contribution for the
WikiWorkshop, forum bringing together researchers exploring all aspects of the Wikimedia projects, held in May 2019 in San Francisco, is now open until January 31st
Scholia's "missing" pages (
example) now link to the new
Author Disambiguator tool, and a
Listeria list is available to help prioritize co-author disambiguation for authors with sitelinks.
Progress of the project has been generally delayed since September due to development issues (more bitrot than expected, some of the code just being genuinely confusing, etc) and personal injury (I suffered a concussion in October and was out of commission for almost two months as a result).
I currently expect to be putting out a proper call for CollaborationKit pilots in January/February, with estimated deployment in February/March if things don't go horribly wrong (they will, though, don't worry). As a part of that, I will properly update
the page and send out announcement and reach out to all projects
already signed up as pilots for WikiProject X in general, at which point those (still) interested can volunteer specifically to test the
CollaborationKit extension.
Wikipedia:WikiProject X/Pilots was originally created for the first WikiProject X prototype, and given this is where the project has since gone, it's only logical to continue to use it. While I haven't yet updated the page to properly reflect this:
If you want to add your project to this page now, feel free. Just bear in mind that more information what to actually expect will be added later/included in the announcement, because by then I will have a much better idea myself.
Until then, you can find me in my corner working on making the CollaborationKit code do what we want and not just what we told it, per
the workboard.
Working on getting final pieces in place to regularly run constraint check jobs so all constraint violations get fed into the query service (
phabricator:T204031)
Working on getting the layout right for the termbox in the mobile view so that in the future you can also see labels, descriptions and aliases in different languages on mobile (
phabricator:T207150)
Getting ready to start working on basic Shape Expression support
Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in WikiBär, Berlin, January 15th (
in German)
Upcoming: Academic workshop on data quality management in Wikidata, Berlin, January 18th (
registration needed)
Upcoming:
Wikidata hackathon in Ulm, Germany, on February 22-24. The organization team
is looking for people who can give introduction to Wikidata, QuickStatements or gadgets (in German).
Structured data for Commons: multilingual captions are deployed on Commons on January 10th (
documentation)
The Wikidata Query Service has been encountering some data corruption issues that impact the results you can see when running a query. Some may still be running. You can check
the current ticket for more updates.
New dashboard for percentage of pages on a Wikimedia project make use of data from Wikidata (doesn't include sitelinks, doesn't include Commons file and category pages for now)
Science Stories, a project highlighting women in sciences, uses Wikidata
If you add a proposed merge template, you are really obliged to provide a rationale for merging and link the discussion from the template. I can't reply to a rationale that has not been made.
SpinningSpark15:49, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
City-Country-Shapes visualization based on Wikidata: how many of a country's largest cities do you need to put on a map to be able to recognise the country?
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SpeedPatrolling, a tool to simplify patrolling of recent changes on Wikidata (
documentation), has been
announced and you can use it to help fight vandalism.
Making progress towards first showable version of basic Shape Expression support
Layout polishing for the mobile termbox (the box that shows labels, desctiptions and aliases) and continuing work on the "in more languages" and "all entered languages" sections in it
Working on making Federation (reusing Wikidata's Items and Properties to make statements) work for Wikimedia Commons to get the rollout of the next stage (support for depicts statements) unstuck
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Congratulations to Siobhan Leachman (
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[1].
Creative Commons has
a proposal for tool development with Wikidata's copyright metadata for the 2019 edition of Google Summer of Code. Interested student developers are invited to apply.
A new beta version of the Daty Wikidata Editor has been released,
check out the changelog. You can also show your endorsement to the project
over here.
Client wikis calling geocoordinate statements from Wikidata using mw.wikibase.entity:formatStatements or the #statements parser function will now have it displayed using
a Kartographer <maplink> if available. In case of bug or question, feel free to ask in
phab:T210926. Thanks to Tpt for the change!
A Google Summer of Code/Outreachy
project seeks to add structure to the
Commons app. Photographers will be able to pick Wikidata items that are depicted by the picture they upload.
On
Wikimedia Research from March 2019: Learning How to Correct a Knowledge Base from the Edit History, by Thomas Pellissier Tanon, Camille Bourgaux and Fabian Suchanek (
slides,
video)
The panEuropean Research Infrastructure "Mobilising Data, Experts and Policies in Scientific Collections" initiative's kick-off meeting had a workshop on the "Authority Management of People Names". Wikidata featured strongly - and was highly praised:
Twitter thread
While editing OpenStreetMap from the iD editor,
it will now be possible to match map data with Wikidata by typing in names and getting an autocompleted label.
OpenStreetMap is participating in this year's Google Summer of Code, and
quite a few of the project ideas involve Wikidata integration.
The Wikimedia URL shortener will be launched on 11 April; see
Wikidata:URLShortener. It will not be immediately incorporated into the Query Service but the feature is planned.
The Library of the African Studies Centre in Leiden compiled an
experimental web dossier which combines the components of a classical ASCL web dossier with features offered by Wikidata.
The gender gap tool
Delenezh is online again and now hosted by Wikimedia France
More work on documenting and preparing the announcement for the Wikidata External Landscape dashboard (
phab:T204440)
Improved the documentation of WMDE analytic documents (
phab:T219844)
Set up translatable schema edit summaries using the FormatAutocomments hook (
phab:T218893)
Improved right-to-left support on schema pages (
phab:T219298)
Protected schemas against imports (
phab:T218181) and page moves (
phab:T219313) and disabled the useless “move” and “create” protections for them (
phab:T219980)
Improved schema edit conflict detection to allow merging of non-conflicting edits (
phab:T218300,
phab:T219173)
Improved the Extension:WikibaseSchema documentation on mediawiki.org (
phab:T219979)
Fixed a bug on Lexicographical Data when editing existing grammatical features (
phab:T219318)
The page
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Reminder: you can apply to participate to the
WikidataCon 2019 before April 29th
Past:
WikiNusantara 2019, the first Wikimedia Indonesia conference was successfully held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on Apr 27-28, 2019. The conference included two Wikidata talks:
New tool:
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Wikidata weekly summary #364
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Wikidata Quality Score Display: Gadget that displays on a Wikipedia article the quality level of the related Wikidata item
Wikidocumentaries service approaches beta quality and displays content from Wikimedia and other openly licensed sources for each Wikidata item. The latest user interface translations are Indonesian and Russian, and the newest content source plugin for the related images section is the brand new
Creative Commons Search catalog.
Several developers from the Wikidata team attended to the hackathon, discussed with the community, gathered feedback, hacked on things together with volunteers :)
Past: Wikidata workshop, May 27th at UIN Maliki, Malang, Indonesia (in collaboration with Faculty of Computer Science, UI) -
Slideset link -
Press release
Blogpost by RightStatements.org - a system of standardised interoperable rights and reuse information for GLAMs - describing the role and importance of the property
P6426.
At WikiWoordenboek (Dutch wiktionary)
a project titled Widawiwo has begun to explore how the maximal mutual benefit of Wikidata and WikiWoordenboek can be achieved.
Scale the machine learning components of the WDCM system w. {text2vec} WarpLDA implementation (
phab:T203366)
Inspect strange behavior of the WD_percentUsageDashboard (
phab:T217994)
WDCM dashboards maintenance: eliminating the need to use the wdcm.maintable in Hive, WDCM Geo is now independent of it (with its update engine running Spark instead) and re-designed to match the WDCM standards (
phab:T217994,
phab:T214586,
phab:T217997)
Further preparations for the Wikidata Languages Landscape project (
phab:T221965)
More progress in order to get the mobile service deployed
Adding an IP edit warning popup for mobile termbox (
phab:T221831)
Allowing users to ignore this popup permanently (
phab:T221833)
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Wikidata weekly summary #369
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Updates: I've been focusing largely on the development side of things, so we are a lot closer now to being ready to actually start discussing deploying it and testing it out here.
There's just a few things left that need to be resolved:
A bunch of language support issues in particular, plus some
other release blockers, such as the fact that currently there's no good way to find any hubs people do create.
We also probably need some proper documentation and examples up to even reference if we want a meaningful discussion. We have
the extension documentation and
some test projects, but we probably need a bit more. Also I need to be able to even find the test projects! How can I possibly write reports about this stuff if I can't find any of it?!
Some other stuff that's happened in the meantime:
Midpoint report is out for this round of the project, if you want to read in too much detail about all the problems I've been running into.
WikiProject Molecular Biology have successfully set up using the
old module system that CollaborationKit is intended to replace (eventually), and it even seems to work, so go them. Based on the issues they ran into, it looks like the members signup thing on that system has some of the same problems as we've been unable to resolve in CK, though, which is... interesting. (Need to
change the content model to the right thing for the formwizard config to take. Ugh, content models.)
Des identifiants ouverts pour la science ouverte by the Comité pour la Science ouverte (Open Science Committee), June 2019. Extract: "Since 2012, the Wikidata database has gradually become the global point of convergence for open identifiers." (Depuis 2012, la base Wikidata est devenue progressivement le point de convergence mondial des identifiants ouverts.)
Structured Data on Commons: RDF output for MediaInfo is now available (
example)
Edits with the tag #suggestededit-add 1.0 come from the suggested edit feature on Wikipedia's Android app:
see the FAQ for more information
Property number 7000:
DigitalNZ ID is live. This data aggregator has over 30 million records. The proposal was the first from
Ambrosia10, a New Zealand editor.
Storm surge (disambiguation), which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created. The article has been assessed as Disambig-Class, which is recorded on the article's
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create articles yourself without posting 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.
The open source geocoder
w:en:Nominatim used by the OpenStreetMap project is participating in the Google Summer of Code with an internship working on integrating Wikidata as a ranking metric for its search results. Check the
development blog.
Current: Wikimania in Stockholm and hackathon, August 14 to 18. Check out
the list of all Wikidata-related events. Each session page should include notes, slides and streaming if available.
NameGuzzler allows you to automatically add an identical label or alias into many languages (for example, the name of a person or a place). You can define your own custom list of languages that you want to add.
New Wikidata-related projects developed during the Wikimania hackathon:
Documentation translation sprint: several people translated Wikidata help pages in their own language. Feel free to continue the efforts to make Wikidata more accessible!
Integraality generates tables to assess the completeness of properties on sets of items, such as
properties on railway stations for instance. Tables are automatically updated and highly configurable.
Starting from July 2019, Wikimedia Sverige and the Wikimedia Foundation's GLAM team work together to create a more sustainable technical infrastructure for global heritage and content partnerships.
Read more about this initiative on meta.wikimedia.org.
moveClaim allows you to move or copy claims from one item to another. This is especially useful when splitting items, or creating lots of similar items.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Seventh birthday of Wikidata: you can start thinking about organizing a meetup in your area to celebrate the birthday, or about a present for the community!
The first draft of
the program of the WikidataCon is now available. The content of the three main session rooms will be live-streamed and recorded for people who cannot participate in the conference.
Because of a database switch, Wikidata will be in read-only more on September 10th at 05:00 UTC, for max. 30min (
phab:T230762)
Recent tool:
@Wikidatabot, a Telegram bot that allows you to search for something on Wikidata from Telegram
New game:
Wikidata Mall, a Telegram management simulation game where content is generated from Wikidata
Wikidata got a high-resolution logo, thanks to
Odder (
phab:T230120)
New monolingual code languages are added, thanks to
Jon Harald Søby: TLI (Tlingit), clc (Tsilhqotʹin), alc (Kawésqar), kld (Gamilaraay), peo (Old Persian)
Fixed a bug in constraint violations indicator that was not showing up sometimes (
phab:T227866)
Make Lua's function mw.wikibase.entityExists return true for redirects (
phab:T192462)
Reviewed and followed up on highlighting statements when using "#P" in URL (
phab:T178745)
Wikidata Bridge: saving the Wikidata edit when submitting (
phab:T226999)
Showing the label for the Property instead of the id (
phab:T227759)
Overcoming a conceptional oversight between mediawiki and standard language codes (
phab:T231833)
The third grant-funded round of
WikiProject X has been completed. Unfortunately, while this round has not resulted in a deployed product, I am not planning to resume working on the project for the foreseeable future. Please see the
final report for more information.
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10:04, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
November 2019
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Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!
Hello,
Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at the English Wikipedia.
I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at
the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!
From my own experience, Google Code-In can be fun, you can make several new friends, attract new people to your wiki and make them part of your community.
If you have any questions, please let us know at google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org.
Hi, Fgnievinski. I noticed that you added new sub-(sub-sub-)section headings to the article
Median. Please don't use ; (Name here) for that purpose; use == (Name here) == or similar instead. ; is meant to indicate categories of a list, so it doesn't show up in the table of contents or have handy section-editing links. Thanks,
Bernanke's Crossbow (
talk)
01:36, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
Hi Fgnievinski, I have removed
Informal from
Illegal because I couldn't understand why it would be there. I'd be happy to revert myself if I've made an error. Thanks,
Leschnei (
talk)
13:14, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
This doesn't seem very useful. The first paragraph is about a different topic than the second, and the picture is something different entirely. And all three are redundant with other articles.
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Hi Fgnievinski! You created a thread called Pending edits in semi-protected page? at
Wikipedia:Teahouse, but it has been
archived because there was no discussion for a few days. You can still find the archived discussion
here. If you have any additional questions that weren't answered then, please
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15:24, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
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Sorry for the second revert at
Beam divergence, but please take a closer look. The article you are linking to,
Angular diameter, is describing a different thing than the quantity you mean to refer to. The phrase you quoted in your summary (from
Beam diameter rather than
Beam width) mentions "angular width", not "
angular diameter". Your text would not be wrong without the erroneous link to
angular diameter, but by itself the phrase "angular diameter" is vague. The original text is clearer. I don't see any way to fix it that is better than simply reverting it, so I have reverted it again. --
Srleffler (
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03:49, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
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P,TO 19104 (
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16:06, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
Journal stubs
You've created a bit of journal stubs recently. It would be really helpful if you expanded them a bit more per
WP:JWG, and added the infobox (there's a useful script for that
here). Headbomb {
t ·
c ·
p ·
b}13:51, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
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Disambiguation link notification for September 13
An automated process has detected that when you recently edited
Position line, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page
Line.
Hello there, while reviewing the pending drafts at AfC, I came across this draft which was submitted by you earlier today. I also noticed that after submitting the draft for review, you created a redirect at
Sentinel-6 which is blocking the move. To be honest, I was ready to accept this but now I wonder whether you think this topic is suitable for a standalone article at the moment or not. It appears that you have an expertise in this field so I prefer to take my decision on accepting this draft after knowing your opinion. Regards.
Hitro talk15:42, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
@
HitroMilanese: yes, please move the draft over the redirect, I've only created it because I thought it'd take much longer for the AfC to be processed. The subject will attract a lot of attention from the press by November. Thanks.
fgnievinski (
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16:18, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
Sentinel-6, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.
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09:10, 7 October 2020 (UTC)
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