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.
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)
MartinPoulter, this review page has been open for over two months without the actual review being started. The last (July 14) post from the reviewer,
The Most Comfortable Chair, was that they would resume on August 5, but they haven't edited on Wikipedia since July 31. If you would prefer to have a new reviewer, I can put the nomination back in the pool for nominations awaiting review. In that case, it would be the oldest unreviewed nomination, so likely to be picked up for review sooner rather than later. Please let me know.
BlueMoonset (
talk) 15:51, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article
Khalili Collection of Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage you nominated for
GA-status according to the
criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by
Legobot, on behalf of
Redtigerxyz --
Redtigerxyz (
talk) 13:21, 28 August 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #483
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
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.
The article
Khalili Collection of Aramaic Documents you nominated as a
good article has passed ; see
Talk:Khalili Collection of Aramaic Documents for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can
nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by
Legobot, on behalf of
Ganesha811 --
Ganesha811 (
talk) 14:21, 10 September 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #485
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Transbordados: WikidataCon's preconference for Latin America - September 14, 21 and 28 (21h UTC) - with simultaneous translation for Portuguese and Spanish, via
YouTube - set of events to discuss Wikidata and decoloniality, knowledge organization and digital dissemination of collections in Latin America contexts. Join us!
14/09 - Towards a decolonial wiki: overflowing knowledge from the Latin American horizon - speakers: Amanda Jurno (Wiki Movimento Brasil), Bianca Santana (journalist, writer and activist) and Silvia Gutiérrez (El Colégio de México) - watch it in
PT-BR /
ES
21/09 - The universe of libraries: Wikidata and the multiplication of knowledge potencies - speakers: Lilian Viana (GLAM das Bibliotecas da USP) and Maurício Genta (Wikimedia Argentina e Biblioteca Nacional da Argentina) - watch it in
PT-BR /
ES
28/09 - Digital collections and Wikidata: organizing a network of knowledge - speakers: Evelin Heidel (a.k.a. Scann; Wikimedistas do Uruguai) and Karen Worcman (Museu da Pessoa) - watch it in
PT-BR /
ES
Demo of the Query Builder
live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 14 at 18:00 CEST
Ongoing:
Data Quality Days - several sessions happened over the past days and more are coming this week. Recordings, slides and notes are linked in the program
Wwwyzzerdd for Wikidata is a browser extension that allows you to view and edit Wikidata information from Wikipedia (
demo video). Install it in
Firefox or
Chrome
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Face The Facts mobile app allows you to scan election posters and see the true facts about politicians.
Mismatch Finder: The website part of the tool is taking shape but is not quite functional yet. We worked on creating the results page. You can see the current very much not finished state at
https://mismatch-finder.toolforge.org/
Linked the Query Builder from the Query Service so it is discoverable (
phab:T280229)
Finished work on normalizing filenames when linking to media files on Commons (
phab:T251480)
All new
wbstack.com wikis will now be created with elastic search support, including Wikibase indexes! All existing sites will have elastic search soon! (
Source)
Next Linked Data for Libraries
LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Bionomia and maintaining Wikidata synchrony with David Shorthouse (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada).
[2], Sep 21st.
Lightning Talk: Wikidata in your Civic Tech project | Summit 2021 -
YouTube
Continuing the work on the Mismatch Finder. This week we focused on the remaining groundwork for showing the first mismatches for review.
Continuing to work on improvements to the underlying system of how edits are propagated from Wikidata to the other Wikimedia projects.
Implemented two improvements for constraints: the “distinct values” constraint type now supports the “separator” parameter (
phab:T277855) and we no longer check qualifiers on some unusual™ properties (
phab:T235292)
Adding tags to some of the remaining UI edits that didn't get them yet for edits on Lexemes (
phab:T290950)
Making it possible to add tags to some remaining Lexeme API modules (
phab:T290951)
Fixed a bug in the Query Builder where it didn't show labels when opening an existing visual query from a shared link (
phab:T280684)
Made the Query Builder more visible in the Query Service UI (
phab:T280229)
We’re celebrating the
9th birthday of Wikidata on October 29 during the WikidataCon 🎂 Did you know that you can participate in the celebration by preparing a birthday present or attending events?
Here’s how you can get involved!
User-level gender statistics for Wikipedia an Observable notebook which computes the share of articles created on fr.wikipedia.org by gender using P21 property through Wikidata's API.
Changed the formatting of low year numbers so that they now show as e.g. “5 CE” instead of “5” to reduce ambiugity in dates like “March 5 (CE)” (
phab:T104750)
Working on fixing an issue where two Properties could have the same label in a given language (
phab:T289473)
Working on preventing a few more cases where two Items could have the same sitelink (
phab:T291377)
Mismatch Finder: Continuing to work on showing mismatches on the results page so that they can be reviewed
Continuing to work on technical improvements to how changes on Wikidata are propagated to Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects
You can also sign up for a slot at the birthday presents lightning talks session at WikidataCon 2021 to present your
gift for Wikidata birthday until October 16
Finished preventing a case where the same sitelink could be added to two different Items (
phab:T291377)
Continuing work on the
Mismatch Finder. Currently focusing on showing the details of the mismatches to the person reviewing mismatches.
Continued work on not allowing two Properties to have the same label after undo/revert (
phab:T289473)
Continuing work on improving how changes on Wikidata are propagated to Wikipedia and the other other Wikimedia projects. The new system is being rolled out to all wikis now. It should not change anything for editors and just be a technical improvement in the backend.
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.
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)
MartinPoulter, this review page has been open for over two months without the actual review being started. The last (July 14) post from the reviewer,
The Most Comfortable Chair, was that they would resume on August 5, but they haven't edited on Wikipedia since July 31. If you would prefer to have a new reviewer, I can put the nomination back in the pool for nominations awaiting review. In that case, it would be the oldest unreviewed nomination, so likely to be picked up for review sooner rather than later. Please let me know.
BlueMoonset (
talk) 15:51, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article
Khalili Collection of Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage you nominated for
GA-status according to the
criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by
Legobot, on behalf of
Redtigerxyz --
Redtigerxyz (
talk) 13:21, 28 August 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #483
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
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.
The article
Khalili Collection of Aramaic Documents you nominated as a
good article has passed ; see
Talk:Khalili Collection of Aramaic Documents for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can
nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by
Legobot, on behalf of
Ganesha811 --
Ganesha811 (
talk) 14:21, 10 September 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #485
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Transbordados: WikidataCon's preconference for Latin America - September 14, 21 and 28 (21h UTC) - with simultaneous translation for Portuguese and Spanish, via
YouTube - set of events to discuss Wikidata and decoloniality, knowledge organization and digital dissemination of collections in Latin America contexts. Join us!
14/09 - Towards a decolonial wiki: overflowing knowledge from the Latin American horizon - speakers: Amanda Jurno (Wiki Movimento Brasil), Bianca Santana (journalist, writer and activist) and Silvia Gutiérrez (El Colégio de México) - watch it in
PT-BR /
ES
21/09 - The universe of libraries: Wikidata and the multiplication of knowledge potencies - speakers: Lilian Viana (GLAM das Bibliotecas da USP) and Maurício Genta (Wikimedia Argentina e Biblioteca Nacional da Argentina) - watch it in
PT-BR /
ES
28/09 - Digital collections and Wikidata: organizing a network of knowledge - speakers: Evelin Heidel (a.k.a. Scann; Wikimedistas do Uruguai) and Karen Worcman (Museu da Pessoa) - watch it in
PT-BR /
ES
Demo of the Query Builder
live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 14 at 18:00 CEST
Ongoing:
Data Quality Days - several sessions happened over the past days and more are coming this week. Recordings, slides and notes are linked in the program
Wwwyzzerdd for Wikidata is a browser extension that allows you to view and edit Wikidata information from Wikipedia (
demo video). Install it in
Firefox or
Chrome
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Face The Facts mobile app allows you to scan election posters and see the true facts about politicians.
Mismatch Finder: The website part of the tool is taking shape but is not quite functional yet. We worked on creating the results page. You can see the current very much not finished state at
https://mismatch-finder.toolforge.org/
Linked the Query Builder from the Query Service so it is discoverable (
phab:T280229)
Finished work on normalizing filenames when linking to media files on Commons (
phab:T251480)
All new
wbstack.com wikis will now be created with elastic search support, including Wikibase indexes! All existing sites will have elastic search soon! (
Source)
Next Linked Data for Libraries
LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Bionomia and maintaining Wikidata synchrony with David Shorthouse (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada).
[2], Sep 21st.
Lightning Talk: Wikidata in your Civic Tech project | Summit 2021 -
YouTube
Continuing the work on the Mismatch Finder. This week we focused on the remaining groundwork for showing the first mismatches for review.
Continuing to work on improvements to the underlying system of how edits are propagated from Wikidata to the other Wikimedia projects.
Implemented two improvements for constraints: the “distinct values” constraint type now supports the “separator” parameter (
phab:T277855) and we no longer check qualifiers on some unusual™ properties (
phab:T235292)
Adding tags to some of the remaining UI edits that didn't get them yet for edits on Lexemes (
phab:T290950)
Making it possible to add tags to some remaining Lexeme API modules (
phab:T290951)
Fixed a bug in the Query Builder where it didn't show labels when opening an existing visual query from a shared link (
phab:T280684)
Made the Query Builder more visible in the Query Service UI (
phab:T280229)
We’re celebrating the
9th birthday of Wikidata on October 29 during the WikidataCon 🎂 Did you know that you can participate in the celebration by preparing a birthday present or attending events?
Here’s how you can get involved!
User-level gender statistics for Wikipedia an Observable notebook which computes the share of articles created on fr.wikipedia.org by gender using P21 property through Wikidata's API.
Changed the formatting of low year numbers so that they now show as e.g. “5 CE” instead of “5” to reduce ambiugity in dates like “March 5 (CE)” (
phab:T104750)
Working on fixing an issue where two Properties could have the same label in a given language (
phab:T289473)
Working on preventing a few more cases where two Items could have the same sitelink (
phab:T291377)
Mismatch Finder: Continuing to work on showing mismatches on the results page so that they can be reviewed
Continuing to work on technical improvements to how changes on Wikidata are propagated to Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects
You can also sign up for a slot at the birthday presents lightning talks session at WikidataCon 2021 to present your
gift for Wikidata birthday until October 16
Finished preventing a case where the same sitelink could be added to two different Items (
phab:T291377)
Continuing work on the
Mismatch Finder. Currently focusing on showing the details of the mismatches to the person reviewing mismatches.
Continued work on not allowing two Properties to have the same label after undo/revert (
phab:T289473)
Continuing work on improving how changes on Wikidata are propagated to Wikipedia and the other other Wikimedia projects. The new system is being rolled out to all wikis now. It should not change anything for editors and just be a technical improvement in the backend.