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Wikidata weekly summary #409
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- Events
- Today: Edit tools for Wikidata, on-line workshop in Polish, access link, March 30, 17:00 GMT (7pm Warsaw time)
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #7, April 5
- Upcoming: Wikidata for beginners, April 1
- Upcoming: Wiki Workshop, researchers forum (fully remote), on April 21. More information, registration
- Upcoming: The Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference will take place fully remotely in July 2020. Call for submissions with remote formats is open until April 30th.
- Upcoming: the Wikidata Wochenende (previously in Ulm) will take place fully remote on June 12-14
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Video: How can Wikimedia projects help fight the pandemic, by Susanna Ånäs
- Investigating Software Usage in the Social Sciences: A Knowledge Graph Approach ("we linked the entities of the knowledge graph to other knowledge bases such as the Microsoft Academic Knowledge Graph, the Software Ontology, and Wikidata")
- Wikidata Queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and pandemic (free eBook)
- Video: Live SPARQL editing in French by Vigneron
- Video: Live editing in English by Ainali and Abbe98: Youtube, Twitch, Periscope, Facebook
- Tool of the week
- IdentifierInput: when adding identifiers, it lets you paste the full URL, and extracts the ID part
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- About Wikidata dumps:
- No second XML dump in March
- RDF and JSON dumps generation is broken (no new dump since March 11th, fix in progress)
- Wikidata knowledge imbalance dashboard - Alpha release
- Internet Archive has launched a National Emergency Library and would like to work together with WikiCite
- wb_terms migration: a temporary table has been created, the current wb_terms table will be emptied on April 6th (more details)
- About Wikidata dumps:
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: generational suffix, LiverTox likelihood score, size designation, perpetrator, victim
- External identifiers: IGCD game ID, Kickstarter project ID, Gram.pl game ID, Kooora/Goalzz player ID, RFI Musique artist ID, VideoGamer.com game ID, Nobel Laureate API ID, VGMRips system ID, VGMRips company ID, GameRevolution game ID, PIV Online ID, Movie Review Query Engine ID, VcBA ID, m3db.com film ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Chinese Clinical Trial Registry identifier, donated to, number of hospitalized cases, number of home cases, ARK formatter, Filceolaire, viability on surface, entry receptor, birth rate
- External identifiers: SAN archive producer ID, SAR ancestor ID, National Catalog of Hospitals ID, Pinakes copyist or possessor ID, Frankfurter Personenlexikon ID, Encyklopedia Solidarności ID, Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters author ID, identifiant Geneastar, Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters work ID, Women of Scotland ID, Women of Scotland subject ID, World Biographical Information System ID, COTREX trail ID, Natural Atlas ID, Apache Project ID, Amazon Prime Video ID, Archival Resource Key, UM-BBD compound ID, BitterDB Compound ID, FooDB compound ID, ModelSEED compound ID, Hopital.fr ID, BookBrainz publisher ID, Macdonald Dictionary ID, FHF hospital group ID, FHF establishment ID, Ameli ID, Pascal et Francis ID, Retronews ID, Elephind.com, What Do They Know organisation ID, Papers Past, Internetowy Polski Słownik Biograficzny ID, I-Revues ID, BDSP ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Fix an issue with the Wikidata dumps (phab:T248612)
- Migrate to and read from new store for item terms (phab:T219123)
- Create wb_terms_no_longer_updated to ease the transition to the new tables
- Bridge: improve the rendering of references (phab:T238661)
- More work on editing references (phab:T240333)
- Continue setting up a test system to work on federated properties
- More research on suggesting references
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.
- Monthly Tasks
- Create a scraper for Mix'n'match from the catalogue list.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
This Month in Education: March 2020
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The beta version of the Wikipedia app for Android can now help users add tags on Commons. These tags are called depicts. [1]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 April. It will be on all wikis from 2 April (calendar).
Future changes
- The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. The current beta feature will become the video player for everyone. The old player will be removed. [2]
- There is a project to make templates easier to use. The next few weeks the developers will present ideas on the project page. You can watch that page if you are interested in giving feedback. [3]
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17:25, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #410
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- Discussions
- New request for comments: Should we create new properties for beaches?
- Events
- Upcoming: Wikidata office hour, April 7th at 18:00 UTC+2, on the Wikidata Telegram channel
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Google Sheets add-on, Author Disambiguator Tool, 07 April. Agenda
- Upcoming: live SPARQL queries in French by Vigneron, April 8 at 20:00 CEST
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #8, April 12
- Upcoming: Wikidata for Beginners (German, Remoted via Zoom), May 3
- Ongoing: WikiGap Challenge until April 8th
- Ongoing: covid-19 virtual biohackathon until April 11th. Information on how to participate. Instructions to participate are on the github wiki and join #wikidata room. Several Wikidata-related topics are currently presented, such as: COVID-19 Global Dashboard, sync the ICTV Virus classification and Nomenclature with Wikidata, federate between Wikidata and NextProt, use wikibase to align between (bio)schema.org and Wikidata.
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Signpost special report: Wikipedia on COVID-19: what we publish and why it matters — with mentions of COVID-related Wikidata activities
- Denny Vrandecic published a proposal that suggests some extensions to Wikidata, and also a wholly new project, Wikilambda.
- ScienceGuide's The COVID-19 pandemic stresses the societal importance of open science mentions WikiProject COVID-19
- SPARC*Europe mentions the WikiProject COVID-19 in Overnight, COVID-19 heightens the need for Open Science post
- Video: Live SPARQL queries in English by WikidataFacts
- Video: Live SPARQL queries in French by Vigneron
- Tool of the week
- Scholia highlights the scholarly data in Wikidata, including scholarly works, projects, topics, and individual researchers, including their relationships and statistics. It encourages further enrichment of Wikidata through links on the "missing" pages.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New tool: ShExStatements to generate Shape Expressions from CSV (more details)
- Job opportunity: Science Museum, London. Research Developer, "using computational techniques to create links between the SMG collection and Wikidata at scale" (deadline: 19 April).
- New tool: Wikidata Complete uses machine learning algorithms to read Wikipedia, identify facts and import them into Wikidata after manual check (blog post)
- schema.org announced an extension to allow for special announcements with regards to COVID-19. The way to identify the topic as per the example? By using the Wikidata Q-Identifier, Q81068910: Structured data for special announcements
- Interactive map showing the spread of COVID-19, updated daily with data from Wikidata.
- wb_terms table will be emptied today
- Your feedback is welcome on two projects to improve the queries and lists workflows
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: organized response related to outbreak, Latvian transcription, country of registry, number of hospitalized cases, ARK formatter, symbol of
- External identifiers: m3db.com person ID, Filmfront person ID, SIUSA archive conservator ID, National Register of Historic Monuments in Bosnia and Herzegovina ID, RPGamer game ID, DR music artist ID, PC Games Database.de game ID, ELAR ID, Frankfurter Personenlexikon ID, Women of Scotland memorial ID, Women of Scotland subject ID, Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters author ID, MusicBrainz genre ID, Latvian unified registration number, Amazon Prime Video ID, VGMRips composer ID, Apache Project ID, coinop.org game ID, Glassdoor company ID, AGROVOC ID, Ameli ID, BookBrainz publisher ID, Chinese Clinical Trial Registry identifier, CIRIS author ID, Colecovision Addict ID, Macdonald Dictionary ID, ToposText place ID, ToposText person ID, ToposText work ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: located in the statistical territorial entity, formatter for periodical, CSS Color name
- External identifiers: JournalTOCs ID, EZB ID, MUSE article ID, Paperity journal ID, Paperity article ID, Flora del Cono Sur Darwinion, MxM xref, Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada ID, TED speaker numeric ID, Sejm-Wielki.pl profile ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Working on a first prototype for automated finding references (board)
- Bridge: improve rendering of references (phab:T238661)
- Only send incremental changes through the API (phab:T230343)
- Adding a screen allowing people to go edit the references on Wikidata (phab:T240333)
- Reducing the size of the extra Javascript that the user has to download for Bridge (phab:T228857)
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.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- There was a problem with user pages not being shown properly on desktop. This was because of a bug. It will soon be fixed. [4]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 April. It will be on all wikis from 9 April (calendar).
Future changes
- MediaWiki will use a newer version of Unicode. Some characters that did not have an upper case equivalent before do now. Titles beginning with one of these characters will be moved. A list of these titles can be seen on Phabricator. The titles will be renamed by the user
Maintenance script
. This will start on 13 April 2020. You can rename them before this if you wish and the new title can be different from the one the script would rename it to. [5]
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19:02, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools
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![Screenshot showing what the Reply tool looks like](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/TalkPages-Reply-v1.0.png/300px-TalkPages-Reply-v1.0.png)
The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. The goal of the talk pages project is to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. This project is the result of the Talk pages consultation 2019.
![Reply tool improved with edit tool buttons](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/TalkPages-Reply-v2.0.png/300px-TalkPages-Reply-v2.0.png)
The team is building a new tool for replying to comments now. This early version can sign and indent comments automatically. Please test the new Reply tool.
- On 31 March 2020, the new reply tool was offered as a Beta Feature editors at four Wikipedias: Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian. If your community also wants early access to the new tool, contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF).
- The team is planning some upcoming changes. Please review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page. The team will test features such as:
- an easy way to mention another editor ("pinging"),
- a rich-text visual editing option, and
- other features identified through user testing or recommended by editors.
To hear more about Editing Team updates, please add your name to the "Get involved" section of the project page. You can also watch these pages: the main project page, Updates, Replying, and User testing.
– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)
19:05, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: March 2020
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- You can now use the
articletopic
search word on all Wikipedias. It searches articles by topic. [6] - You can see wiki tools in the new Tools Gallery. [7]
- You can see edits from the Wikimedia Cloud Services in a new dashboard.
- When you use filters on a history page you sometimes don't see any edits. There is a text explaining this now. Before it was just empty. [8]
- There is a new Wikimedia Technical Blog. [9]
Problems
- There was a problem with the Wikidata database last week. Some wikis went down for twenty minutes. Wikidata and other projects showed error messages. Interwiki links were not shown, some tools did not work and other problems. Some of this was fixed quickly. The developers are working on fixing the rest. [10][11][12]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 15. It will be on all wikis from April 16 (calendar).
Future changes
- Some graphs have not worked on mobile. This will soon be fixed. [13]
- The article tab on talk pages of redirects links to the target of the redirect. It could link to the redirect page itself instead. You can leave feedback on this.
- For pages using syntax highlighting, the use of the deprecated
<source>
tag, as well as the use of the deprecatedenclose
parameter, will add tracking categories.
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15:30, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #411
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- Discussions
- CheckUser nominations: Sotiale, Jasper Deng, Romaine
- Events
- Ongoing: Wikidata Lab XXII on the Wikidata Wikiproject COVID-19, April 14, 1pm UTC, remote, in English. Event page
- Upcoming: live SPARQL queries in French by Vigneron, Tuesday April 14 at 20:00 CEST (UTC+2)
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #9, April 19
- Past: Wikidata and Wikibase office hour, April 7, on Telegram. Notes of the discussion
- Past: Wikidata topic at the virtual biohackathon. Mid-term updates final presentations (Wikidata report starts at 1:17:40)
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata, a case report (new preprint about virus info (strains, genes, proteins), ShEx, and SPARQL)
- Multilingual enrichment of disease biomedical ontologies ("We look at the coverage of two biomedical ontologies focusing on diseases with respect to Wikidata for 9 European languages")
- Wikidata and the bibliography of life in the time of coronavirus
- Video: Editing Wikidata and creating a property proposal: YouTube, Facebook, Periscope
- Tool of the week
- COVID19 Dashboard is a Wikidata-powered one-stop information/visualization service for COVID19-related topics such as COVID19's outbreak map, deaths, symptoms, taxonomy, and publications.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A database breakage, also affecting connected sister projects such as Wikipedia, on April 6, 11pm UTC. A fix has been deployed and no data has been lost. However, issues related to sitelinks and bots creating duplicates can still occur.
- You're welcome to give feedback on ideas of improvements for the Query Service interface
- The development team is working on automated finding of references, feel free to give feedback on the first batch
- ZFOURGE UDS 19909 (Q90000000) - our ninety-millionth item, about a galaxy - was created on 10 April.
- For the first time, a Wikipedia list article populated entirely from Wikidata, and built using Listeria, has been granted "featured" status, on the Portuguese Wikipedia (video on YouTube).
- ListeriaBot blocked pending review on English Wikipedia.
- A Telegram group has been created for discussions about Wikidata in German
- Comment on QID Emoji proposal until April 20th
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: donations, network bands, bus, recommended unit of measurement, CSS color keyword
- External identifiers: BDSP ID, CAB ID, Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity ID, Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters work ID, ScreenScraper group ID, The Cover Project game ID, FHF establishment ID, FHF hospital group ID, elibrary.ru person ID, Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon ID, WBIS ID, Spanish National Catalog of Hospitals ID, Visit Tuscany ID, URL on Nintendo eShop, Curran Index contributor ID, ODMP person ID, GameTDB game ID, Elephind.com ID, EZB ID, GameReactor game ID, Archival Resource Key, EcuRed article, Geneastar person ID, Encyklopedia Solidarności ID, Pinakes copyist or possessor ID, Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada ID, I-Revues ID, JournalTOCs ID, MUSE article ID, NASA active astronaut ID - DO NOT USE, Paperity article ID, Paperity journal ID, SAN archive producer ID, SOCAN work number, Papers Past ID, Pascal et Francis ID, Retronews ID, COTREX trail ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: ACUM work ID, appendix, Wikisource index page, Unicode character, Arlington Cemetery person ID, Eigentümerhistorie, quantification instruction, language level, Included in curricula, Order number, ShEx available at URL, dialect of (computer language), file page offset, station service succession
- External identifiers: Seoul Information Disclosure Plaza management number, Wikiparques ID, NKAA ID, Described and Captioned Media Program producer ID, Provenio ID, Encyclopedia of Brno Person ID, RPPS ID, South African Company Registration Number, Sicilian Regional Assembly ID, Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis ID, SNCF station identifier, Benerail station identifier, Indian Railways train number, Soccerdonna coach ID, DLL Catalog IDs, MDN, Psocodea Species File ID, Slovak Registration ID, Swedish Glaciers, Club Identifier Netherlands Handball Association, Encyclopaedia Metallum label ID, UK Modern House Index building ID, UK Modern House Index architect ID, CPAN person, FactGrid item ID, FactGrid property ID, Texas Historic Sites Atlas ID
- Query examples:
- Schema examples: pandemic (E184), preprint (E185), Macromolecular complex (E186), hospital (E187), 2020 coronavirus pandemic local outbreaks (E188), clinical trial (E189), Lockdown (E190), lockdown part of the 2019-2020 coronavirus disease pandemic (E191), virus taxon (E192), Preprint server (E193), Complex Portal entity (E194), contact tracing app (E195)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Move wb_terms data in cloud replicas to wb_terms_no_longer_updated (phab:T248592)
- Rebuild wb_items_per_site, after incident where wb_items_per_site was dropped (phab:T249596)
- Purge / Reject client pages that were cached in parser cache during the incident (phab:T249595)
- More work on Automated finding references
- More work on federated properties: create and save a statement with federated properties
- Bridge: improve the generic error screen (phab:T241126) and on save (phab:T248087)
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.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!