User talk:Aschroet/Archive 42

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OpenRefine and SDC updates: user survey and monthly office hours

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Monthly OpenRefine and Wikimedia office hours

OpenRefine's community meetup of February 22 was very well attended. You can see its recording, slides and notes here. The team now hosts monthly, informal office hours for Wikimedians (online, via Zoom). Upcoming office hours are:

The Zoom link of the next office hour will be posted on OpenRefine's info page on Wikimedia Commons. Please drop by and say hi!

All the best! SFauconnier (talk) 14:00, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #515

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Glitter another R package to write SPARQL queries and query Wikidata and other SPARQL endpoints. This package provides a domain specific language to write queries directly from R.
    • Conzept is a topic-exploration tool based on Wikidata and other information sources.
  • Development
    • Lexicographical data: Continued work on the new Special:NewLexeme page. We worked on displaying error messages and inferring the spelling variant from the language. We also looked into the non-JavaScript version of the page.
    • REST API: Worked on conditional requests (do not return data the client already has) and authorization.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


Wikidata weekly summary #516

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship: Pi admin bot (RfP scheduled to end after 20 April 2022 17:58 UTC)
    • Closed request for adminship: Stang (successful)
    • New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • Tool of the week
    • Bird O'Clock! is a tool based on Wikidata and other data sources that shows pictures and numbers from actual people counting actual birds in the actual world!
    • Tiago's Coin Herbarium is a coin collection depicting different plant information displayed via Wikidata SPARQL queries.
  • Development
    • Lexicographical data: Worked on inferring the spelling variant from the language's Item on the new Special:NewLexeme page and started building a little help box on the special page to explain what lex. data is.
    • REST API: Getting closer to having a first version of the REST API that returns Item data.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


Wikidata weekly summary #517

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Closed request for adminship:
    • New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • Tool of the week
    • Wikitaxa is a software of taxonomy data written in R.
    • User:So9q/fatcat-link.jsscrip is a userscript for looking up fatcat! DOIs. It adds a link to the fatcat! database in the Tools' section on items.
  • Development
    • Lexicographical data: Worked on showing the name of language variants in the language variant selector and added the new information box to help people get a better understanding of lex. data.
    • REST API: Finished the initial implementation of the endpoint for getting data for a full Item and discussed feedback, testing and roll-out plans.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Wikidata weekly summary #518

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • The new "mul" term language code is now available on Test Wikidata
    • Lexicographical data: We are finishing up the information box that should help new users understand quickly what lexicographical data is. We also added the help text to encourage people to check if the Lexeme already exists before creating one.
    • REST API: We started working on the REST routes to get all statements of an Item and retrieve a single statement from an Item.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


Wikidata weekly summary #519

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
      • PangolinBot. Task/s: Automatically replace one property value with another (Approved)
  • Development
    • REST API: We are continuing to implement the REST routes to get all statements of an Item and retrieve a single statement from an Item (phab:T305988, phab:T307087, phab:T307088)
    • Lexicographical data: We are finishing the version of the page for browsers without JavaScript support (phab:T298160). We started working on the feature to pre-fill the input fields by URL parameter (phab:T298154). And we started working on better suggestions for lexical categories so commonly-used ones can more easily be added to avoid mistakes (phab:T298150).
    • We fixed an issue with recently added new language codes not being usable for Lexemes and not being sorted correctly on Special:NewItem (phab:T277836).

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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Wikidata weekly summary #520

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
  • Development

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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