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ANN: A platform to annotate text with Wikidata IDs (report) "Report of the work done by the Ann team at the eLife Sprint 2020. It describes the effort pursued towards a system for universal annotation of biomedical articles using the collaborative knowledge graph of Wikidata".
How the content of Wikidata can be represented in RDF -
YouTube
Tool of the week
EntityShape.js is a script that allows you to check an Item against an EntitySchema. On the Item page, it will display various information about the Item, like the properties that should be present on the Item.
Query Builder: We're making it possible to switch between querying for specific values (e.g. all Items with a specific post code) or any value (all Items with a post code statement regardless of which one it is)
Correcting the behaviour of what automatically happens on Wikidata when a page is moved on Wikipedia and co to an excluded namespace with the "suppress redirect" option (
phab:T261275)
Making language fallback indicators not show up for language variant fallbacks in a few more places (
phab:T267502)
Adding html language attributes for statements linking to Forms and Senses (
phab:T267023)
Working on language and lexical category fields turning red on unfocus even though no changes are made after a change in ooui (
phab:T266936)
Finished building the 1.35 versions of the Wikibase base and bundle docker images and published to
dockerhub (
phab:T264538)
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December with Women in Red
Women in Red| December 2020, Volume 6, Issue 12, Numbers 150, 173, 178, 182, 183
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: We will have several speakers joining us to discuss their projects in lightning talks, 1 December.
Agenda
Upcoming: WMF search platform team office hour, Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020. 16:00-17:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PST / 11:00-12:00 EST / 17:00-18:00 CET.
Etherpad,
Google Meet. You can come and chat about the Wikidata & Commons Query Service.
Round 2 of the consultation on using Wikidata for curriculum digitization begun on November 24th, and will end on December 7th. You can participate by sharing your ideas in
this response form (Google forms)
My pleasure. The image is, of course, one that you took.
Oronsay (
talk) 23:22, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
what a very important milestone! well done!
JarrahTree 01:39, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
Thanks, @
JarrahTree: PS I love the image on your talk page (its size too & the fact that you change it from time to time.)
MargaretRDonald (
talk) 06:40, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #445
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
User:Zvpunry/EntitySchemaHighlighter.js user script highlights the entities in the content of a Schema and shows information when hovering the link. (2020-12-07)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
We now have a central repository for
wikibase-cli templates, with the aim to document best practices, offer general purpose request/create/edit templates, but also offer more niche templates as examples of what's possible: contributions and template requests welcome!
Simple Query Builder development continues. We worked on combining different query conditions as well as internationalisation.
Making the precision translatable in geocoordinate and date inputs (
phab:T269102)
Changes to descriptions in a specific language now show up on watchlist and recent changes on the Wikipedia and co for that language (
phab:T191831)
Finished working on the problem of incorrectly-escaped label being included in a link to Special:NewItem if there are no search results (
phab:T263258)
Investigating why we're currently skipping a significant number of Item IDs (
phab:T268625)
Wikibase Release Strategy/Infrastructure: We have decided where to host future Docker and tarball releases of Wikibase. You can read about the details and the reasoning in the following ADRs:
Docker Image Repository,
Tarball Repository
Template:Notebook Given name is a new template which gives for each given name a list of useful SPARQL queries. The template can be used on the talk page of given names. See
Alexandre (Q16002466) for an example. Comments are Contributions are welcome.
The
next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 17 December 2020
(Add to calendar). We will have a few people share out about their project in the first half of the call and then continue our conversation from the last session about what will be a better platform for community discussions. Everyone is welcome to attend!
We spend the week doing some exploratory work for the next year. Among other things we looked into how to measure the number of constraint violations on an average Item and what we can learn from it.
Toby/99 as well in the loop he might have some further comments ?
JarrahTree 00:51, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
Hi @
JarrahTree: I am assuming you are referring to the note I put on Australian biota about the usefulness of cite Q??
MargaretRDonald (
talk) 02:02, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
Damn, you've been a busy beaver all day. Thanks for linking
Laura A. Katz all over Wikipedia!
HickoryOughtShirt?4 (
talk) 22:04, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
Continuing to work on the query builder. It can now have more than one query conditions. One of the next steps is making it possible to query for Item values. You can follow along on the
demo system.
Finished working on the problem of values of Statements that link to Forms and Senses not having language attributes associated with them in the HTML code (
phab:T267023)
Fixed language selectors covering other input fields when using keyboard navigation for Special:NewItem and Special:NewLexeme (
phab:T266638)
Fixed language fallback indicators sometimes still shown for variant fallbacks (
phab:T267502)
Working on whitespace stripped while typing when editing lexemes (
phab:T250550)
Mismatch Finder: We are making good progress on the tool. We made it possible to retrieve mismatches that are in the store part of the tool via an API.
Regular expressions in constraints are now no longer checked via the Query Service. The checks have been completely moved over to a dedicated service for regular expression checking. (
phab:T204031)
Edits made via the user interface (as opposed to with tools, bots, etc.) are now tagged as such to make them easier to filter (
example - edits made to labels, descriptions and aliases on mobile are still missing but will follow soon)
Working on allowing to restrict constraints to certain entity types (
phab:T269724)
The
next Wikibase live session is at 16:00 UTC on Thursday 26th August 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). You're welcome to come and share your work around Wikibase.
BiCIKL Hackathon at the
Meise Botanic Garden, September 20 - 24. Theme: adding articles/items about “Hidden women in science” on Wikipedia/Wikidata. If you're interested to participate, please write to maarten.trekelsplantentuinmeise.be
50 cool new things you can now do with KB’s collection highlights - In this series of 5 articles we show the added value of putting images and metadata of
digitised collection highlights of the KB, national library of the Netherlands, into the Wikimedia infrastructure. By putting our collection highlights into Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia, dozens of new functionalities have been added. As a result of Wikifying this collection in 2020, you can now do things with these highlights that were not possible before. Article by
OlafJanssen,
DanielleJWiki and
1Veertje_(KB)
The
"Wikidata Quickstatements" translator which lets users transfer metadata about citation sources fromZotero into Wikidata, no longer needs to be manually installed. Existing manually-installed versions should update automatically, like other translators.
Edits to labels, descriptions and aliases on mobile are now also tagged as edits made via the user interface. All edits made via the user interface are now tagged as such. (
phab:T286775)
ArticlePlaceholder pages will now indicate that they are generated by the ArticlePlaceholder thanks to a patch by Luca (
phab:T124191)
Working on making it possible to restrict constraints to certain entity types (
phab:T269724)
Adding a new constraint type to ensure Items have a label in a certain language (
phab:T195178)
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Data Quality Days, September 8-15, a series of community-powered events on the topic of data quality. If you're interested in presenting a tool or a topic, feel free to add something to the schedule.
Depictor is a mobile-friendly tool to verify if people depicted on Wikimedia Commons are the same, and adds structured data statements (using Wikidata)
Nicolas Vigneron (
User:VIGNERON,
User:VIGNERON en résidence) has started a one-year residence at the libraries of Clermont-Ferrand, more info and batch upload to come
WikidataCon update: news about the online conference, grants for affiliates in Latin America and Carribean, glimpse on the keynotes topics and next steps
Data Quality Days - a week of all things data quality around Wikidata from Septempber 8th to 15th. Check the schedule, join sessions and add more if you would like to facilitate a discussion or workshop!
Next Linked Data for Libraries
LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: developing Wikidata tools and gadgets with Andrew Lih.
[1], Sep 7th.
LIVE Wikidata editing #52 -
YouTube,
Facebook, September 11 at 18:00 UTC
Template:Generic queries for authors : new generic queries template designed for authors (fiction and non-fiction). Feedback and translations are welcome.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
User:SuccuBot has made its 100.000.000th edit. It is the first user account in Wikidata to reach this milestone.
In the frame of a
Google Summer of Code project a new tool, called WikidataComplete was created. The tool smoothly integrates in the Wikidata UI and proposes new statements extracted by machine learning algorithms. Editors are asked to either approve or reject them. To activate it check
here for a short tutorial check
here. Any feedback is welcome
here.
Continued work on the
Mismatch Finder. We are now working on creating the page where mismatches will be listed for review.
Worked on support for "separators" parameter for distinct value constraints (
phab:T277855)
Made it possible to restrict constraints to certain entity types (
phab:T269724)
Added a new constraint type to ensure that the Item has a label in a particular language (
phab:T195178)
Added a button for the Query Builder to query.wikidata.org to make the Query builder discoverable (
phab:T276210) - integration in the example dialog is still in progress (
phab:T280229)
We started work on some behind-the-scenes improvements to the way Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects are notified about a change that affects their articles. (They need this notification so the article can be purged and show the latest data from Wikidata again. It is also required for showing the edit in the watchlist and recent changes on those wikis. This should have no visible impact for editors but is needed maintenance work.
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the
current talk page.
ANN: A platform to annotate text with Wikidata IDs (report) "Report of the work done by the Ann team at the eLife Sprint 2020. It describes the effort pursued towards a system for universal annotation of biomedical articles using the collaborative knowledge graph of Wikidata".
How the content of Wikidata can be represented in RDF -
YouTube
Tool of the week
EntityShape.js is a script that allows you to check an Item against an EntitySchema. On the Item page, it will display various information about the Item, like the properties that should be present on the Item.
Query Builder: We're making it possible to switch between querying for specific values (e.g. all Items with a specific post code) or any value (all Items with a post code statement regardless of which one it is)
Correcting the behaviour of what automatically happens on Wikidata when a page is moved on Wikipedia and co to an excluded namespace with the "suppress redirect" option (
phab:T261275)
Making language fallback indicators not show up for language variant fallbacks in a few more places (
phab:T267502)
Adding html language attributes for statements linking to Forms and Senses (
phab:T267023)
Working on language and lexical category fields turning red on unfocus even though no changes are made after a change in ooui (
phab:T266936)
Finished building the 1.35 versions of the Wikibase base and bundle docker images and published to
dockerhub (
phab:T264538)
Hello! Voting in the 2020 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 7 December 2020. All eligible users are allowed 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.
If you wish to participate in the 2020 election, please review
the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{
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December with Women in Red
Women in Red| December 2020, Volume 6, Issue 12, Numbers 150, 173, 178, 182, 183
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: We will have several speakers joining us to discuss their projects in lightning talks, 1 December.
Agenda
Upcoming: WMF search platform team office hour, Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020. 16:00-17:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PST / 11:00-12:00 EST / 17:00-18:00 CET.
Etherpad,
Google Meet. You can come and chat about the Wikidata & Commons Query Service.
Round 2 of the consultation on using Wikidata for curriculum digitization begun on November 24th, and will end on December 7th. You can participate by sharing your ideas in
this response form (Google forms)
My pleasure. The image is, of course, one that you took.
Oronsay (
talk) 23:22, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
what a very important milestone! well done!
JarrahTree 01:39, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
Thanks, @
JarrahTree: PS I love the image on your talk page (its size too & the fact that you change it from time to time.)
MargaretRDonald (
talk) 06:40, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #445
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
User:Zvpunry/EntitySchemaHighlighter.js user script highlights the entities in the content of a Schema and shows information when hovering the link. (2020-12-07)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
We now have a central repository for
wikibase-cli templates, with the aim to document best practices, offer general purpose request/create/edit templates, but also offer more niche templates as examples of what's possible: contributions and template requests welcome!
Simple Query Builder development continues. We worked on combining different query conditions as well as internationalisation.
Making the precision translatable in geocoordinate and date inputs (
phab:T269102)
Changes to descriptions in a specific language now show up on watchlist and recent changes on the Wikipedia and co for that language (
phab:T191831)
Finished working on the problem of incorrectly-escaped label being included in a link to Special:NewItem if there are no search results (
phab:T263258)
Investigating why we're currently skipping a significant number of Item IDs (
phab:T268625)
Wikibase Release Strategy/Infrastructure: We have decided where to host future Docker and tarball releases of Wikibase. You can read about the details and the reasoning in the following ADRs:
Docker Image Repository,
Tarball Repository
Template:Notebook Given name is a new template which gives for each given name a list of useful SPARQL queries. The template can be used on the talk page of given names. See
Alexandre (Q16002466) for an example. Comments are Contributions are welcome.
The
next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 17 December 2020
(Add to calendar). We will have a few people share out about their project in the first half of the call and then continue our conversation from the last session about what will be a better platform for community discussions. Everyone is welcome to attend!
We spend the week doing some exploratory work for the next year. Among other things we looked into how to measure the number of constraint violations on an average Item and what we can learn from it.
Toby/99 as well in the loop he might have some further comments ?
JarrahTree 00:51, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
Hi @
JarrahTree: I am assuming you are referring to the note I put on Australian biota about the usefulness of cite Q??
MargaretRDonald (
talk) 02:02, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
Damn, you've been a busy beaver all day. Thanks for linking
Laura A. Katz all over Wikipedia!
HickoryOughtShirt?4 (
talk) 22:04, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
Continuing to work on the query builder. It can now have more than one query conditions. One of the next steps is making it possible to query for Item values. You can follow along on the
demo system.
Finished working on the problem of values of Statements that link to Forms and Senses not having language attributes associated with them in the HTML code (
phab:T267023)
Fixed language selectors covering other input fields when using keyboard navigation for Special:NewItem and Special:NewLexeme (
phab:T266638)
Fixed language fallback indicators sometimes still shown for variant fallbacks (
phab:T267502)
Working on whitespace stripped while typing when editing lexemes (
phab:T250550)
Mismatch Finder: We are making good progress on the tool. We made it possible to retrieve mismatches that are in the store part of the tool via an API.
Regular expressions in constraints are now no longer checked via the Query Service. The checks have been completely moved over to a dedicated service for regular expression checking. (
phab:T204031)
Edits made via the user interface (as opposed to with tools, bots, etc.) are now tagged as such to make them easier to filter (
example - edits made to labels, descriptions and aliases on mobile are still missing but will follow soon)
Working on allowing to restrict constraints to certain entity types (
phab:T269724)
The
next Wikibase live session is at 16:00 UTC on Thursday 26th August 2021 (18:00 Berlin time). You're welcome to come and share your work around Wikibase.
BiCIKL Hackathon at the
Meise Botanic Garden, September 20 - 24. Theme: adding articles/items about “Hidden women in science” on Wikipedia/Wikidata. If you're interested to participate, please write to maarten.trekelsplantentuinmeise.be
50 cool new things you can now do with KB’s collection highlights - In this series of 5 articles we show the added value of putting images and metadata of
digitised collection highlights of the KB, national library of the Netherlands, into the Wikimedia infrastructure. By putting our collection highlights into Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia, dozens of new functionalities have been added. As a result of Wikifying this collection in 2020, you can now do things with these highlights that were not possible before. Article by
OlafJanssen,
DanielleJWiki and
1Veertje_(KB)
The
"Wikidata Quickstatements" translator which lets users transfer metadata about citation sources fromZotero into Wikidata, no longer needs to be manually installed. Existing manually-installed versions should update automatically, like other translators.
Edits to labels, descriptions and aliases on mobile are now also tagged as edits made via the user interface. All edits made via the user interface are now tagged as such. (
phab:T286775)
ArticlePlaceholder pages will now indicate that they are generated by the ArticlePlaceholder thanks to a patch by Luca (
phab:T124191)
Working on making it possible to restrict constraints to certain entity types (
phab:T269724)
Adding a new constraint type to ensure Items have a label in a certain language (
phab:T195178)
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Disambiguation link notification for August 27
An automated process has detected that when you recently edited
The Trinity in art, you added links pointing to the disambiguation pages
Weilheim and
Freudenberg.
Data Quality Days, September 8-15, a series of community-powered events on the topic of data quality. If you're interested in presenting a tool or a topic, feel free to add something to the schedule.
Depictor is a mobile-friendly tool to verify if people depicted on Wikimedia Commons are the same, and adds structured data statements (using Wikidata)
Nicolas Vigneron (
User:VIGNERON,
User:VIGNERON en résidence) has started a one-year residence at the libraries of Clermont-Ferrand, more info and batch upload to come
WikidataCon update: news about the online conference, grants for affiliates in Latin America and Carribean, glimpse on the keynotes topics and next steps
Data Quality Days - a week of all things data quality around Wikidata from Septempber 8th to 15th. Check the schedule, join sessions and add more if you would like to facilitate a discussion or workshop!
Next Linked Data for Libraries
LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: developing Wikidata tools and gadgets with Andrew Lih.
[1], Sep 7th.
LIVE Wikidata editing #52 -
YouTube,
Facebook, September 11 at 18:00 UTC
Template:Generic queries for authors : new generic queries template designed for authors (fiction and non-fiction). Feedback and translations are welcome.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
User:SuccuBot has made its 100.000.000th edit. It is the first user account in Wikidata to reach this milestone.
In the frame of a
Google Summer of Code project a new tool, called WikidataComplete was created. The tool smoothly integrates in the Wikidata UI and proposes new statements extracted by machine learning algorithms. Editors are asked to either approve or reject them. To activate it check
here for a short tutorial check
here. Any feedback is welcome
here.
Continued work on the
Mismatch Finder. We are now working on creating the page where mismatches will be listed for review.
Worked on support for "separators" parameter for distinct value constraints (
phab:T277855)
Made it possible to restrict constraints to certain entity types (
phab:T269724)
Added a new constraint type to ensure that the Item has a label in a particular language (
phab:T195178)
Added a button for the Query Builder to query.wikidata.org to make the Query builder discoverable (
phab:T276210) - integration in the example dialog is still in progress (
phab:T280229)
We started work on some behind-the-scenes improvements to the way Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects are notified about a change that affects their articles. (They need this notification so the article can be purged and show the latest data from Wikidata again. It is also required for showing the edit in the watchlist and recent changes on those wikis. This should have no visible impact for editors but is needed maintenance work.