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
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New Wikipedia Library Collections Available Now (February 2021)
PNAS – Official journal of the National Academy of Sciences
EBSCO – New Arabic and Spanish language databases added
We have a wide array of
other collections available, and a significant number now no longer require individual applications to access! Read more in our
blog post.
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects!
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
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.
New Wikipedia Library Collections Available Now (February 2021)
PNAS – Official journal of the National Academy of Sciences
EBSCO – New Arabic and Spanish language databases added
We have a wide array of
other collections available, and a significant number now no longer require individual applications to access! Read more in our
blog post.
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects!
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