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.
Continuing development on the first version of the Query Builder. It's starting to be able to do the first really meaningful queries now. Latest addition was the ability to negate conditions. Up next is the ability to connect conditions with OR instead of only AND as well as querying for quantities and ranges. You can follow along on the
test system.
Exploring possible solutions for how to compare Wikidata's data against other databases to find and highlight mismatches automatically.
Added lexicographical data codes for a few languages: rkt, ctg (
phab:T271589), and az-cyrl (
phab:T265906)
Finished working on the issue of TypeError on a diff of a Wikidata talk page
phab:T271402
Updated Wikidata unit conversion configuration (
phab:T267644)
Fixed two last places where links in the the Query Service UI were not using Special:MyLanguage yet to redirect to the documentation page in the user's language (
phab:T267656)
Pushing JSON dumps for Lexemes over the finish line (
phab:T264883)
Working on showing an error when trying to save lemmas with invalid language codes (
phab:T265783)
Wikibase Release Strategy
Investigated the release of Wikibase suite components not maintained by Wikimedia (
phab:T271193)
Continued process of adding additional components to the Wikibase release, including OAuth (
phab:T272580)
Video: Wikidata as a PID community. By Simon Cobb -
YouTube
Tool of the week
Item documentation has two new features. First, it now includes two predefined SPARQL queries. The first one give the number of statements about the item by property and the second the list of statement about the properties. Second, for items of class award, it includes predefined SPARQL queries from
TP award. See
Q1624297 for an example.
Ranker lets you edit the ranks of several statements at once.
Made it possible to connect query conditions with OR (instead of only AND) in the Query Builder (
phab:T272694)
Making it possible to query only for statements with or without a reference in the Query Builder (
phab:T272699)
Continuing to work on adding a rate limit for creating Item IDs to prevent people from allocating a large number of unassigned Item IDs that are then lost (
phab:T272032)
Working on the problem of Lexeme merging failing if the source Lexeme has links to its own Senses (
phab:T273830)
Working on showing an error when trying to save a Lemma with invalid language code on a Lexeme (
phab:T265783)
Fixing an issue in the Property selector fallback where it is not falling back from language variant to major language (
phab:T272712)
Making it possible to add Interwiki links to/from Multilingual Wikisource (
phab:T138332)
Video: Wikidata editing #31 Free Software Day -
YouTube,
Facebook
Video: Knowledge Graphs for AI: Wikidata and beyond -
YouTube
Tool of the week
UseAsRef script allows you to add references to statements using one external ID as source (see
User:Bargioni/UseAsRef and this
YouTube video for more information)
Public Domain Tool, developed by the Flemish Institute for Archives automates the process of determining whether their collection items could be in the public domain.
Sizes of country items (like
"Portugal" (Q45)) were recently reduced by 30% to 50% by moving a few economics properties to "economy of"-items (sample:
"economy of Portugal" (Q1649355)). The item "economy of Portugal" is currently larger than "Portugal". This can simplify uses of country items that previously timed-out. Infoboxes can still access the properties with the link through
"economy of topic" (P8744).
Later this week, the development team will enable a rate limit for assigning new item IDs. Bots and users who successfully create items should notice no change, since the rate limit is equal to the existing limit on all edits. However, bots that often fail to create items may start to see different error messages than usual. This will hopefully reduce the problem of skipped item IDs.
Work on the Simple Query Builder continues. We finished connecting query conditions via OR (
phab:T272694). Next we will work on adding the UI for sharing the visual query via a link (
phab:T272887)
Improved the deployment process for the Query Service UI to make it easier to deploy
Fixed language code "dag" for Dagbani not working for Lemmas for Lexemes (
phab:T272242)
Fixing the bug where the Property selector is not falling back from language variant to major language for Property labels (
phab:T272712)
Adding a rate limit for creating Item IDs to avoid skipping so many due to misbehaving bots (
phab:T272032)
Fixed the case where no error was shown when trying to save a lemma with an invalid language code (
phab:T265783)
Fixed a but where merging two Lexemes fails if the source Lexeme has links to its own Senses (
phab:T273830)
Increasing the rate of edits that trigger a check by the constraint checker to 50%. This will increase the number of constraints violations that you can query in the Query Service. (
phab:T204031)
Making it possible to add interwiki links to/from Multilingual Wikisource (
phab:T138332)
Past: Online Talk Show on Fri, Feb 19, 2021, by Wikimedia Indonesia and Fariz Darari - Take a peek into the data warehouse of Wikimedia projects (= Wikidata):
Youtube link
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries
LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Adding bibliographic data to Wikidata with Jason Evans, Wikimedian in residence at the Wales National Library, Tuesday, February 23rd.
[2]
Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #33 -
YouTube,
Facebook, February 27
Upcoming:
Wikidata-based Data Sprint hosted by the University of New Brunswick. One Wikidata data set will be provided on 11th March 2021 and various teams will have 2 hours to run a set of SPARQL queries against the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) and showcase their results.
Video: How to create new Wikidata item (in Dutch) -
YouTube
Video: Merging Wikidata items (in Dutch) -
YouTube
Tool of the week
EditSum, a new user script which allows to attach custom summary text to any label/statement/sitelink/etc. modification.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
User:Nikki/LexemeInterwikiLinks.js, is a userscript that adds Wiktionary interwiki links in the sidebar on Lexeme pages. (It links to pages corresponding to the first lemma and puts the lexeme language's Wiktionary first, followed by languages in the user's Babel box).
Shared Citations, a proposal arising from the WikiCite project, for a central reference management database supporting all Wikimedia projects, with significant relationship to Wikidata. Seeking feedback.
Modèle:Indice de diversité de genre (Template:Gender diversity index) is a new template in the French Wikipedia which use P21 (gender property) to count the number of people by gender mentioned in an article. It helps to find articles which "forget" to cite women.
Lexeme JSON dumps are now available as a collection of individual lexeme data in the regular JSON format, separate from the regular Wikidata dumps containing Items and Properties.
phab:T264883
Working on first version of small tool that lets you get the average ORES quality score for a list of Items and find the lowest-quality Items in the batch so it's easier to improve them.
Taking a closer look at what larger improvements we want to make to Lexemes later this year.
Thinking through different ways how we can technically get mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases so we can later expose them.
Thinking through what the first version of the REST API should contain and what should come later.
Fixed an issue with whitespaces when editing Lexemes (
phab:T250550)
Made sure all languages show up in the language selector for monolingual text Properties at least with their language code because them not showing up was very confusing (
phab:T124758)
Fixed an issue with generating correct links for external IDs with + (
phab:T271126)
Fixing an issue with Property selector not falling back from language variant to major language (
phab:T272712)
Due to the planned delay of the release of MediaWiki 1.36, the Wikibase team has been working on preparing a Wikibase update that includes new functionality (such as the “Federated Properties” feature) based on v1.35. To that end, we started backporting certain features and fixes into the Wikibase 1.35 release. Follow our progress
here.
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries
LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: OCLC Research’s CONTENTdm Wikibase data model for pilot project to improve collection discoverability, Tuesday, March 9th.
[3]
Upcoming:
SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, March 9 at 18:00 CET
Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #35 -
YouTube,
Facebook, March 13
"
Giving knowledge back to Wikipedia: Towards a Systematic Approach to Sync Factual Data across Wikipedia, Wikidata and External Data Sources" (by DBPedia)
Fixed an issue where the Property selector is not falling back from language variant to major language (
phab:T272712)
Working on support for editing statements on Senses on Lexemes via wbeditentity (
phab:T199896)
Continuing to work on the
Query Builder and making it possible to query for quantities and dates with it.
Putting finishing touches on a small tool that lets you get the average ORES quality score for a list of Items as well as the individual scores for each of the Items
Plant Humanities Lab is a website you can use to explore the cultural histories of plants and their influence on human societies.
DX Lab Art Index is an interactive database of over 18,000 nineteenth century Australian Artworks by over 2000 artists with links to Wikidata & compiled by volunteers over 10 years.
The new WDQS Streaming Updater is live as of March 15, 2021 on a pre-production test server for feedback. Available at
https://query-preview.wikidata.org/. Release details
here.
Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations! The research must be on, about, using data from, and/or of importance to Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia projects. Deadline to submit your nomination is no later than 2021-03-22.
Continued working on the
Query Builder and focused on querying for quantity values (
phab:T268942), handling special cases around sub classes for taxons and locations (
phab:T274634) adding tooltips (
phab:T275542) and sharing a visual query (
phab:T272887)
Making changes to how Cognate handles redirects on Wiktionary to make more pages accessible through interwiki links (
phab:T165061)
Creating a dashboard to break down the number of editors by namespace (
phab:T275999)
Finishing support for editing statements on Senses on Lexemes via wbeditentity API module (
phab:T199896)
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.
Continuing development on the first version of the Query Builder. It's starting to be able to do the first really meaningful queries now. Latest addition was the ability to negate conditions. Up next is the ability to connect conditions with OR instead of only AND as well as querying for quantities and ranges. You can follow along on the
test system.
Exploring possible solutions for how to compare Wikidata's data against other databases to find and highlight mismatches automatically.
Added lexicographical data codes for a few languages: rkt, ctg (
phab:T271589), and az-cyrl (
phab:T265906)
Finished working on the issue of TypeError on a diff of a Wikidata talk page
phab:T271402
Updated Wikidata unit conversion configuration (
phab:T267644)
Fixed two last places where links in the the Query Service UI were not using Special:MyLanguage yet to redirect to the documentation page in the user's language (
phab:T267656)
Pushing JSON dumps for Lexemes over the finish line (
phab:T264883)
Working on showing an error when trying to save lemmas with invalid language codes (
phab:T265783)
Wikibase Release Strategy
Investigated the release of Wikibase suite components not maintained by Wikimedia (
phab:T271193)
Continued process of adding additional components to the Wikibase release, including OAuth (
phab:T272580)
Video: Wikidata as a PID community. By Simon Cobb -
YouTube
Tool of the week
Item documentation has two new features. First, it now includes two predefined SPARQL queries. The first one give the number of statements about the item by property and the second the list of statement about the properties. Second, for items of class award, it includes predefined SPARQL queries from
TP award. See
Q1624297 for an example.
Ranker lets you edit the ranks of several statements at once.
Made it possible to connect query conditions with OR (instead of only AND) in the Query Builder (
phab:T272694)
Making it possible to query only for statements with or without a reference in the Query Builder (
phab:T272699)
Continuing to work on adding a rate limit for creating Item IDs to prevent people from allocating a large number of unassigned Item IDs that are then lost (
phab:T272032)
Working on the problem of Lexeme merging failing if the source Lexeme has links to its own Senses (
phab:T273830)
Working on showing an error when trying to save a Lemma with invalid language code on a Lexeme (
phab:T265783)
Fixing an issue in the Property selector fallback where it is not falling back from language variant to major language (
phab:T272712)
Making it possible to add Interwiki links to/from Multilingual Wikisource (
phab:T138332)
Video: Wikidata editing #31 Free Software Day -
YouTube,
Facebook
Video: Knowledge Graphs for AI: Wikidata and beyond -
YouTube
Tool of the week
UseAsRef script allows you to add references to statements using one external ID as source (see
User:Bargioni/UseAsRef and this
YouTube video for more information)
Public Domain Tool, developed by the Flemish Institute for Archives automates the process of determining whether their collection items could be in the public domain.
Sizes of country items (like
"Portugal" (Q45)) were recently reduced by 30% to 50% by moving a few economics properties to "economy of"-items (sample:
"economy of Portugal" (Q1649355)). The item "economy of Portugal" is currently larger than "Portugal". This can simplify uses of country items that previously timed-out. Infoboxes can still access the properties with the link through
"economy of topic" (P8744).
Later this week, the development team will enable a rate limit for assigning new item IDs. Bots and users who successfully create items should notice no change, since the rate limit is equal to the existing limit on all edits. However, bots that often fail to create items may start to see different error messages than usual. This will hopefully reduce the problem of skipped item IDs.
Work on the Simple Query Builder continues. We finished connecting query conditions via OR (
phab:T272694). Next we will work on adding the UI for sharing the visual query via a link (
phab:T272887)
Improved the deployment process for the Query Service UI to make it easier to deploy
Fixed language code "dag" for Dagbani not working for Lemmas for Lexemes (
phab:T272242)
Fixing the bug where the Property selector is not falling back from language variant to major language for Property labels (
phab:T272712)
Adding a rate limit for creating Item IDs to avoid skipping so many due to misbehaving bots (
phab:T272032)
Fixed the case where no error was shown when trying to save a lemma with an invalid language code (
phab:T265783)
Fixed a but where merging two Lexemes fails if the source Lexeme has links to its own Senses (
phab:T273830)
Increasing the rate of edits that trigger a check by the constraint checker to 50%. This will increase the number of constraints violations that you can query in the Query Service. (
phab:T204031)
Making it possible to add interwiki links to/from Multilingual Wikisource (
phab:T138332)
Past: Online Talk Show on Fri, Feb 19, 2021, by Wikimedia Indonesia and Fariz Darari - Take a peek into the data warehouse of Wikimedia projects (= Wikidata):
Youtube link
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries
LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Adding bibliographic data to Wikidata with Jason Evans, Wikimedian in residence at the Wales National Library, Tuesday, February 23rd.
[2]
Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #33 -
YouTube,
Facebook, February 27
Upcoming:
Wikidata-based Data Sprint hosted by the University of New Brunswick. One Wikidata data set will be provided on 11th March 2021 and various teams will have 2 hours to run a set of SPARQL queries against the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) and showcase their results.
Video: How to create new Wikidata item (in Dutch) -
YouTube
Video: Merging Wikidata items (in Dutch) -
YouTube
Tool of the week
EditSum, a new user script which allows to attach custom summary text to any label/statement/sitelink/etc. modification.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
User:Nikki/LexemeInterwikiLinks.js, is a userscript that adds Wiktionary interwiki links in the sidebar on Lexeme pages. (It links to pages corresponding to the first lemma and puts the lexeme language's Wiktionary first, followed by languages in the user's Babel box).
Shared Citations, a proposal arising from the WikiCite project, for a central reference management database supporting all Wikimedia projects, with significant relationship to Wikidata. Seeking feedback.
Modèle:Indice de diversité de genre (Template:Gender diversity index) is a new template in the French Wikipedia which use P21 (gender property) to count the number of people by gender mentioned in an article. It helps to find articles which "forget" to cite women.
Lexeme JSON dumps are now available as a collection of individual lexeme data in the regular JSON format, separate from the regular Wikidata dumps containing Items and Properties.
phab:T264883
Working on first version of small tool that lets you get the average ORES quality score for a list of Items and find the lowest-quality Items in the batch so it's easier to improve them.
Taking a closer look at what larger improvements we want to make to Lexemes later this year.
Thinking through different ways how we can technically get mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases so we can later expose them.
Thinking through what the first version of the REST API should contain and what should come later.
Fixed an issue with whitespaces when editing Lexemes (
phab:T250550)
Made sure all languages show up in the language selector for monolingual text Properties at least with their language code because them not showing up was very confusing (
phab:T124758)
Fixed an issue with generating correct links for external IDs with + (
phab:T271126)
Fixing an issue with Property selector not falling back from language variant to major language (
phab:T272712)
Due to the planned delay of the release of MediaWiki 1.36, the Wikibase team has been working on preparing a Wikibase update that includes new functionality (such as the “Federated Properties” feature) based on v1.35. To that end, we started backporting certain features and fixes into the Wikibase 1.35 release. Follow our progress
here.
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries
LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: OCLC Research’s CONTENTdm Wikibase data model for pilot project to improve collection discoverability, Tuesday, March 9th.
[3]
Upcoming:
SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, March 9 at 18:00 CET
Upcoming: LIVE Wikidata editing #35 -
YouTube,
Facebook, March 13
"
Giving knowledge back to Wikipedia: Towards a Systematic Approach to Sync Factual Data across Wikipedia, Wikidata and External Data Sources" (by DBPedia)
Fixed an issue where the Property selector is not falling back from language variant to major language (
phab:T272712)
Working on support for editing statements on Senses on Lexemes via wbeditentity (
phab:T199896)
Continuing to work on the
Query Builder and making it possible to query for quantities and dates with it.
Putting finishing touches on a small tool that lets you get the average ORES quality score for a list of Items as well as the individual scores for each of the Items
Plant Humanities Lab is a website you can use to explore the cultural histories of plants and their influence on human societies.
DX Lab Art Index is an interactive database of over 18,000 nineteenth century Australian Artworks by over 2000 artists with links to Wikidata & compiled by volunteers over 10 years.
The new WDQS Streaming Updater is live as of March 15, 2021 on a pre-production test server for feedback. Available at
https://query-preview.wikidata.org/. Release details
here.
Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations! The research must be on, about, using data from, and/or of importance to Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia projects. Deadline to submit your nomination is no later than 2021-03-22.
Continued working on the
Query Builder and focused on querying for quantity values (
phab:T268942), handling special cases around sub classes for taxons and locations (
phab:T274634) adding tooltips (
phab:T275542) and sharing a visual query (
phab:T272887)
Making changes to how Cognate handles redirects on Wiktionary to make more pages accessible through interwiki links (
phab:T165061)
Creating a dashboard to break down the number of editors by namespace (
phab:T275999)
Finishing support for editing statements on Senses on Lexemes via wbeditentity API module (
phab:T199896)