User talk:MichaelMaggs/Archive/2015
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09:38, 2 January 2015 MichaelMaggs (talk | contribs | block) changed group membership for User:MichaelMaggs from bureaucrat and administrator to bureaucrat, administrator and OTRS member (Noting re-admission as OTRS memebr)
Hello, Please remove self from OTRS group, you are blocking phabricator:T78814. The OTRS group is now global. --Steinsplitter (talk) 09:54, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
- Ah, sorry. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 09:54, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
- No problem :) --Steinsplitter (talk) 09:55, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #139
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COM:UDR
Thanks for closing that. I hope the 'enough' wasn't an expression of frustration with me for the (I admit) TL;DR comment at the end, but I felt it was worthwhile to make it blatantly clear that it wasn't a matter of an 'allegation' that the URAA applied, but a specific case where it obviously did, since there seemed to be a likelihood of more people piling in. Revent (talk) 08:42, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
- No, not at all. Actually, I was typing the closure at the same time that you were posting your final comments, and had an edit conflict when I tried to post. 'Enough' referred to the preceding unhelpful attempts to re-open old policy arguments in a forum where we should be discussing the lawfulness or otherwise of specific uploads. I've taken the word out, as I agree that it might be incorrectly read as directed to your final comment. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 08:46, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
COM:AN
Hello Michael Maggs,
I mentioned you her -- Geagea (talk) 13:17, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
Deleted Pictures of my dad
A number of photographs taken by my father of artworks he created, and some snapshots of my father at work, that I uploaded were deleted. This was done in a rather aggressive way which I do not understand. My father died ten years ago. There's no discussion of copyrights here, there are no copyrights involved, they're just snap shots of him and his work. I scanned the pictures I own and used some of them for a Wikipedia page about him and his work. I would like an explanation. Thank you. Saflieni (talk) 01:40, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
- I'm sorry to hear about that. I expect that any deletions were for copyright issues, as all photos attract copyright protection, but I'm not sure as I don't know who you are nor which images you are referring to. If you could let me know, please (for example by giving me the exact name of an image that has been deleted), I'll happily look into it for you. With best regards, --MichaelMaggs (talk) 17:57, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
- The pictures are below. I should add that most of the artworks depicted in these scanned photographs are (or were) in public spaces, were paid for by community funds and were created for the enjoyment of the public. So they are by definition in the public domain, just like any other monumental work of art. As these artworks are made of glass, some of the older ones do not exist anymore today because the buildings were demolished in the meantime or the artworks themselves did not survive. They are documented by these pictures and should be available to anyone who wishes to view them. I replied to the notifications by explaining what the pictures are and that I am the owner of the original pictures. Therefore I have no idea why you went ahead and deleted them unless there was a complaint, which I very much doubt.
File:Glas-appliqué in Begeleidings Centrum v h Onderwijs Amsterdam 2.jpg File:Profeet. Zwevend glas in lagen gestapeld, niet verlijmd..jpg File:Glas-appliqué in gemeentehuis Dalfsen 2.jpg File:Glas-appliqué in gemeentehuis Stede Broec.jpg File:Glas-appliqué in Amsterdams Lucht en ruimtevaart laboratorium.jpg File:Glas-appliqué in gemeentehuis Zederik.jpg File:Glas-appliqué in gemeentehuis Dalfsen.jpg File:Glas-appliqué in Coöperatieve Begrafenis Onderneming Bussum.jpg File:Glas-appliqué.jpg File:Glas-appliqué detail.jpg File:Glas-appliqué in Begeleidings Centrum v h Onderwijs Amsterdam.jpg File:Glas-appliqué in Rode Kruis Ziekenhuis Den Haag.jpg File:Glas-appliqué in Gemeentehuis Emmen.jpg File:Glaswand Technische Hogeschool Eindhoven.jpg File:Miskelk Sint Willibrorduskerk buiten de veste.jpg File:Ramen Zaandam Paaskerk.jpg File:Willem van Oyen sr..jpg
Saflieni (talk) 01:40, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks for the information. I'll review and will get back to you here shortly. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 11:01, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks. While you're at it: I wish to upload pictures of a lamp, designed and produced on an industrial scale by my father in the sixties. To prevent problems I obtained permission from the current owner of the specimen in the pictures by email. Their statement: We (Nate Lights) hereby give our permission to use our photos from the lamp "Chartres by Willem Van Oyen" (http://www.nate-lights.com/products/chartres) for free use at Wikipedia. Is this enough, or else, how do I go about it? Saflieni (talk) 14:45, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
- Saflieni, I haven't forgotten this. I expect to be able to reply on Monday. Thanks for your patience --MichaelMaggs (talk) 23:14, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
- Hi Saflieni, sorry for the delay in getting back to you. We would be keen to keep the images you uploaded of works created by your father, but as I mentioned at Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Saflieni we would need to be quite sure that we have proper permissions from whoever now owns the copyright.
- Saflieni, I haven't forgotten this. I expect to be able to reply on Monday. Thanks for your patience --MichaelMaggs (talk) 23:14, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks. While you're at it: I wish to upload pictures of a lamp, designed and produced on an industrial scale by my father in the sixties. To prevent problems I obtained permission from the current owner of the specimen in the pictures by email. Their statement: We (Nate Lights) hereby give our permission to use our photos from the lamp "Chartres by Willem Van Oyen" (http://www.nate-lights.com/products/chartres) for free use at Wikipedia. Is this enough, or else, how do I go about it? Saflieni (talk) 14:45, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
- Even though the artworks are on public display, it's often unlawful to photograph them and re-distribute the resulting images without permission from the holder of the original artistic copyright. There are nearly always legal restrictions on photographs of public art in public spaces, even those paid for by community funds and created for the enjoyment of the public. The rules differ by country, but the laws in the Netherlands are complex and some of your images are definitely problematic, including the closeups and the school images: see here for more details.
- On Commons we take copyright seriously, and that means I'm afraid that there are a few hoops we will have to jump through before I can restore the images. I'm happy to help you through them, though.
- We ask that copyright releases in respect of professionally-created art be recorded on OTRS, to ensure that we have a definitive record of such releases. Could I ask you, please, to make contact with me via email to permissions-commons
wikimedia.org to start the discussions? If you could include the text 'for MichaelMaggs' in the subject line, that will ensure I'll be able to find your message easily when it arrives.
- We ask that copyright releases in respect of professionally-created art be recorded on OTRS, to ensure that we have a definitive record of such releases. Could I ask you, please, to make contact with me via email to permissions-commons
- In your email, could you please let me know who (or which company) now owns your father's artistic copyrights? In the Deletion Request, it was stated that the photos "were supplied and uploaded by the heirs of the artist (his sons)". If you are an heir and you now jointly own the copyright with your brother(s), we'd need permission from all of you. Alternatively, if the copyrights are now owned by a company (eg http://www.bevoglaskunst.nl/index.htm), we'd need permission from the company. Could you clarify, please?
- In addition to copyrights in the original artworks, there will be separate copyrights in the photographs. Do you know who took the photographs and under what conditions? If they were taken by employees of your father or his company, copyright will most likely be held by the same person or company that holds the copyright in the works themselves. If the photographers were not employees, the photographic copyright will most likely be held by the photographer and we would need his or her permission as well.
- On the question of the lamp, again we'll need permissions both from the current lamp copyright holder and from the photographer. What is the relationship with http://www.nate-lights.com/products/chartres? Presumably they have a licence to produce the lamp for sale, but who took the photo? One of their own employees?
- I'm sorry that this all seems pretty complicated. It is, but that's the nature of copyright, and we do have to get this right. I look forward to receiving your email. If you could post a note here when you've sent it, I'll look out for its arrival. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 13:42, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
- I already told you several times there are no copyrights on my fathers work. What you are asking is largely impossible. How to prove something which isn't there? Of course I can send you a message of my brother who is the current owner of Bevo glaskunst, no problem, but what stops you from asking the same questions afterwards as you do with the lamps for instance. There are no copyrights to that design. As is written in the Wikipedia page they were being copied widely already in the seventies. My father never pressed charges, not did the company that marketed them and they ended up something common for hobbyists to make in their attics until the design was finally outlawed because of sharp edges. Everybody moved on from there, except you apparently. By the way, have you looked at Nate-lights at all? They are re-selling vintage products. The company that used to market the lamps, Raak, has gone bankrupt a long time ago. Again it would be impossible to find out who might or might not own copyrights if there were any to begin with. And really, snapshots of my dad taken by a colleague, or a visitor, or my mum, or a delivery boy, or whoever passed by his studio in the 1950's, how am I to find out such a thing? Which law is relevant here? If I follow your reasoning I couldn't even upload a selfie, because how do I prove I took it myself, and there might be somebody who holds copyright to a building or a passing car in the background, who knows, and how to find out? I don't believe it works this way. So again, If you haven't received any complaints about copyrights in any of my pictures, why did you decide to give me a hard time? Saflieni (talk) 22:02, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
- I'm afraid you may have been misinformed about copyright law. There most certainly are copyrights on your father's original artistic works (they came into effect automatically when he created them). Likewise, there are copyrights in the photographs (they came into effect automatically when the shutter was pressed). Once copyrights come into effect they normally last for 70 years after the artist's or photographer's death, which is why we cannot host recent works without formal permission. We need to satisfy ourselves that where the uploader is not the artist he or she is either the current copyright owner, or is able to obtain a licence from the current owner. (Copyright may be transferred by written assignment or on death).
- If you are not prepared to address the question I posed, or if you really do not know the answers, then I am afraid we are not able to host your images. In particular, if the photos could have been taken by anyone who "passed by his studio in the 1950's" it seems that we will never be able to find out who the copyright owner is, and without that information we can't accept the pictures. I know that that might sound unreasonable, given that most social media websites would never bother with such a thing, but Commons takes care to ensure to the best of our ability that all images we host are properly licensed or copyright-free. The problem we have here is that these are so-called 'orphan works', where we know that copyright exists but we cannot tell who owns it. There are many, many millions of such historic photos held in libraries and archives throughout Europe and elsewhere that can't be used for exactly the same reason. Copyright advocates are at this very moment lobbying the European Commission to try to get the law changed so that such photos can be lawfully re-used, but for the moment we have to work within current legal restrictions, even though we may think they are ridiculous. Sorry. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 13:02, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
- You keep refusing to answer my question. If there is no complaint about possible copyrights violations, and the possibility of this ever happening is zero, why are you making a fuzz? I did address the questions. You are just ignoring everything. I told you I am the owner of the pictures and offered a waiver issued by myself, by my brother, and in the case of the lamps, by the current owner of the lamps and the pictures of the lamps. If you keep being unreasonable I will consider this harassment and lodge a complaint. Saflieni (talk) 17:29, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
- The reason for what you call a 'fuss' is that we have a formal policy here of allowing uploads only of material that is freely licensed or in the public domain both in the US and in the source country (The Netherlands) - you can read our policy here: COM:L. The fact that nobody has complained so far is not a good argument, as we have no reason to suppose they will not do so in the future. Please see COM:PRP, and in particular the common argument that "Nobody knows who the copyright owner is, so it really doesn’t matter." Our long-standing policies seem to be fatal to hosting the snapshots of your father and his work here. The lamp image might be possible, if proper permissions can be provided. Let me re-post for convenience the questions I asked about that:
- On the question of the lamp, again we'll need permissions both from the current lamp copyright holder and from the photographer. What is the relationship with http://www.nate-lights.com/products/chartres? Presumably they have a licence to produce the lamp for sale, but who took the photo? One of their own employees?
- When your father died, what happened to the copyrights he held in his works, including the lamp design? Did they pass jointly to you and your brother, or did they pass to BEVO Glaskunst? If the latter, presumably the company would be prepared to grant the necessary free licence?
- In order to work through this, if you want to and if it's legally possible, I need you to send an email to the OTRS address I mentioned above. There really is no way round these formalities. I am trying to help you, but you must be prepared to work within the rules. More complaints aimed at me here will not help. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 18:37, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #140
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CommonsDelinker
Hi Michael, Commons delinker (the bot which removes deleted files from wikis) dos not work perfect (not working on all wikis and all namespaces, a lot of bugs). Delinker need to be written completely new (phabricator:T66794). It was suggested to build a extension to replace the existing functionality of delinker. Does WMUK can help with building such a extension? See bugreport phabricator:T86483. Have a wonderful evening --Steinsplitter (talk) 17:00, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
- Hi Steinsplitter. Not sure. I'm not in charge of deciding which projects WMUK gets involved with, though from a personal point of view I would love to see this being worked on and will happily do what I can to try to get support. We have a WMUK tech committee meeting next week, where I could bring this up. What sort of support do you think the chapter could best provide? Are you looking for a volunteer programmer, for technical maintenance support, or for funding? If this were to be a Mediawiki extension, shouldn't the Foundation staff do the coding? Or perhaps they may not have the time/inclination to work in this area? Any background you could provide would be helpful. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 08:49, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
- The WMF have a lot of other things to do (no time to write such a extension). I am searching a (volunteer) programmer to build such a extension or to rewrite the bot. The current delinker bot dos not work very good (i have ssh access to delinker - but i am not profi dev, all the dev's (Siebrand, etc.) don't have time to rewrite delinker). And i have the feeling that delinker will stop working soon (big error log) :( --Steinsplitter (talk) 09:06, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
- I will ask. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 12:45, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
- I tried Magnus Manske, and he has kindly agreed to work on it. He has followed up on Phabricator. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 14:20, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
- I will ask. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 12:45, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
- The WMF have a lot of other things to do (no time to write such a extension). I am searching a (volunteer) programmer to build such a extension or to rewrite the bot. The current delinker bot dos not work very good (i have ssh access to delinker - but i am not profi dev, all the dev's (Siebrand, etc.) don't have time to rewrite delinker). And i have the feeling that delinker will stop working soon (big error log) :( --Steinsplitter (talk) 09:06, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks :) --Steinsplitter (talk) 14:27, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
OTRS
Hi MichaelMaggs. I found three emails (I merged one) which were explicitly send to you: ticket:2015010710017814 & ticket:2015011210009028. Could you take care of these please? :) The person speaks apparantly Dutch, so if you need help with that, just poke me. Thanks in advance. Regards, Trijnsteltalk 17:04, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
- I will take a look. Thanks for letting me know. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 08:49, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
- Hi Trijnstel, I've left a note for you on ticket:2015010710017814. Could you help in Dutch, please? --MichaelMaggs (talk) 14:30, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
Done. Trijnsteltalk 16:05, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
- Trijnstel, thanks for your note. In view of this and the user's comments directed at me on OTRS I have withdrawn from this matter. Please feel free to pick it up if you like! --MichaelMaggs (talk) 14:34, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
- Hi Trijnstel, I've left a note for you on ticket:2015010710017814. Could you help in Dutch, please? --MichaelMaggs (talk) 14:30, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi Michael,
re Commons:Undeletion_requests/Archive/2015-01#File:1989_Joe_102.jpg: I've been in contact with Charlie Samuels through e-mail. When I contacted him via the e-mail address given on his web page, he confirmed that this was his own account. He has forwarded our e-mail exchange to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org (and CC'ed me, that's how I know). In private, he wrote to me that he planned to upload many more images. Furthermore he confirmed that the account en:User:Charliesamuelswiki was also his; if needed, I can forward that last part of the e-mail conversation to OTRS, too. I've taken the liberty of undeleting all his uploads (see Special:ListFiles/Charliesamuels) and have tagged them again as {{OTRS pending}}. Could you please take care of this OTRS ticket soon? It took some 10 days for him to reply to my original e-mail, but when I answered then, he got back to me within a day. Would be a shame to lose a professional photographer just because of the usual OTRS delay...
Thanks, Lupo 21:42, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
- Good news.
Done --MichaelMaggs (talk) 12:34, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
- Thank you. What's the procedure for his future uploads? Shall he add {{PermissionOTRS|id=2015011410021064}} to all his future uploads of his own photos? Do we tag his user page with that tag and state that the account has been verified as being Charlie Samuels? And what, if anything, do we do with en:User:Charliesamuelswiki and his uploads? (One of which is apparently an own work uploaded as "fair use"... but the other one is tagged for transfer to the Commons.) Lupo 13:05, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
- {{PermissionOTRS}} can't be added by non OTRS people. I think a simple mentioning like this on his user page is enough. Jee 15:12, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
- All right; so I've done that at least. What about the en-WP account? Lupo 15:48, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
- I think you can do the same. It will be nice if the user mention his EN account in Commons and vice versa. Jee 15:58, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
- All right, I'll tell him to do so. And if he doesn't, I'll forward the rest of our e-mail conversation (where he states that that is also his account) under the same ticket number to OTRS. Lupo 16:09, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
- I think you can do the same. It will be nice if the user mention his EN account in Commons and vice versa. Jee 15:58, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
- All right; so I've done that at least. What about the en-WP account? Lupo 15:48, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
- {{PermissionOTRS}} can't be added by non OTRS people. I think a simple mentioning like this on his user page is enough. Jee 15:12, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
- Thank you. What's the procedure for his future uploads? Shall he add {{PermissionOTRS|id=2015011410021064}} to all his future uploads of his own photos? Do we tag his user page with that tag and state that the account has been verified as being Charlie Samuels? And what, if anything, do we do with en:User:Charliesamuelswiki and his uploads? (One of which is apparently an own work uploaded as "fair use"... but the other one is tagged for transfer to the Commons.) Lupo 13:05, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
- Could you please add {{PermissionOTRS|id=2015011410021064}} also to File:Earl Manigault.jpg? Lupo 05:59, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #141
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- Development
- Fixed diffs not showing old ranks, qualifiers and references on the left side (phabricator:T87096)
- Worked on several date and time related issues, like incorrect padding of the year to 11 instead of 16 digits (phabricator:T87764)
- Further work on header section redesign (phabricator:T75654)
- Started redesign of statements section (phabricator:T87316)
- Introduced a hint showing the language when a language fallback is used on an item or property (phabricator:T85105)
- Working on splitting a Wikibase View component out of the Wikibase Repo code base
- Currently testing how PHPCS and PHPMD can help raising Wikibase’ code quality
- Released Wikibase DataModelSerialization 1.3 with language fallback support
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
WLM
See Commons:Village pump#WLM 2014 winners announced - did anyone notice, or care?.
You might guess I'm a bit underwhelmed by the results, both at national and international level. It is an awful lot of work which I see partly undermined at the final jury stage, but also limited by the quality of material we attract. To attract great contributors, we need to publish amazing winning images on the photography forums and magazines, along with the call for entries. But some of our "winning" material isn't sufficiently good, technically, to publish, never mind outstanding enough to inspire. I'm not sure of my position for 2015. Seems that FP is good at selecting great images and the Photo Contest is achieving some success at recruiting new users. -- Colin (talk) 13:27, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
- Hi Colin. I'll email you about this as soon as I have a moment. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 04:00, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
Who shot William Fox Talbot?
You stated here that you're the author of the photograph ... so how can it be that it's pd? You're still alive ;) Cheers --Sargoth (talk) 17:03, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Well spotted! Now fixed. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 17:15, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks! Have a nice evening --Sargoth (talk) 17:48, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #144
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- Discussions
- Open RfAs: BlackBeast
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming: Eurpeana Tech
- Andrew Su gave a talk about crowd sourcing and citizen science for biology including Wikidata (slides)
- Going to Wikimania? Apply for a scholarship.
- Internet Archive, Wikidata and Open Education
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikibooks will get access to language links via Wikidata on February 24th. Coordination is happening at d:Wikidata:Wikibooks.
- Roughly 17000 of the candidate articles that Google identified as potentially being about the same topic but lacking a language link have been merged. About 17500 are remaining and waiting for you to go through them via https://tools.wmflabs.org/yichengtry/
- Mix'n'Match got a face lift
- Magnus says every day new images are added to over 1000 items \o/
- RStats client for Wikidata
- Reasonator now also supports biography texts in French
- Did you know?
- Development
- Did more work on Capiunto to get it into a state where it can be deployed to Wikimedia sites.
- Mourned Titan (phabricator:T88550) as its developers were bought up. Began evaluation for which graph database to use instead for a Wikidata query service (mw:Wikibase/Indexing)
- Further work on header section redesign
- Tweaks to the sitelink section
- Worked on making monolingual text datatype accept more languages
- Finished showing the language when a language fallback is used
- Started looking into fixing the existing Guided Tours after Guided Tours extension API changes
- Worked on implementing Lua convenience functions for rendering arbitrary Snaks. This is useful for displaying references or qualifiers. (phabricator:T76213)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
Thanks for sorting out one of the images I uploaded. I don't know what to do about this one. George Chakravarthi is the subject and photographer of the image, so what do you need?Emerald (talk) 12:24, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
- Nothing you need to do. Mr Chakravarthi has just this minute confirmed by email, and I have updated the file with the approved ticket tag.--MichaelMaggs (talk) 12:28, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
This image is of a photograph, but you have moved it from a photograph category to a painting one, why? It definitely isn't a painting. Thanks for sorting out the other image!Emerald (talk) 12:31, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
- OK, I see now. I have changed it back. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 12:44, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
- Great, thanks. All done now. Have a great day.Emerald (talk) 12:45, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
Thank you for robbing us of plenty of content that has not been proven false. Copyright is not a concern because the images were DWs of our Commons files of the seal and COA of Pennsylvania, you should have only deleted those proven not to be true. Fry1989 eh? 15:57, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
- I am sorry you disagree, but "not proven false" is not a criterion for hosting content here. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 17:19, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
- I don't believe you are sorry one bit, I believe you are being overly broad in your reasoning to delete. Considering copyright is not of concern for these files, and only 2 out of over 50 images have been proven untrue, there was no valid reason to delete them all. And I find it ironic for you to state that you don't wish to "impugn the good faith of the uploader" when that is exactly what you have done by deleting all of them based on only 2 images that are false. They should be evaluated individually. Fry1989 eh? 19:07, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #145
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- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Spiffy new project building on top of Wikidata: inventaire.io. Check out this example entry!
- You will now see when a language fallback for a label is used on an item or property. The language name will be shown next to it.
- Automatic descriptions for Wikidata items by Magnus
- The templates for adding badges (good article, featured article, etc) to articles on Wikipedia in the sidebar are getting removed from articles rapidly in favor of getting that information from Wikidata \o/ German Wikipedia even deleted those templates already. English Wikipedia seems to be getting close.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Journalisted ID, Biography at the Bundestag of Germany, Metacritic ID
- Newest WikiProjects: Identical Twins
- Development
- <3
- We are hiring! Passionate about Wikidata and know your way around Java Script and co? Apply!
- We'll spend the next week working with Nik and Stas from WMF to move queries forward in Berlin
- Worked on implementing a Lua interface for arbitrary Snak rendering. This can be used to render eg. qualifiers or references in Wikipedia infoboxes.
- Did groundwork for Lua convenience functions that render data in the user’s interface language, rather than the content language (for multilingual wikis, like Commons or Wikidata only)
- Did further work on making the Lua interface code nicer and share code with the parser functions
- Removed input method selector in the sitelink input as it was hiding the actual input and not very useful there
- Fixed some issues in diff views showing new data instead of old data
- Created a few scripts to make it easier for 3rd parties to install Wikibase
- Fixed icinga notification that tests if dispatch lag gets high
- Investigated several issues regarding storage of time values and started fixing them
- Fixed editing of qualifiers
- Fixed most browser tests after introduction of new header design
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
RfCU
Hi MichaelMaggs. I see he didn't inform you, but Odder reverted your closure. Odder, will you never learn to contact people first... Trijnsteltalk 18:40, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
- I just saw. Thanks for letting me know! --MichaelMaggs (talk) 18:44, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
- BTW, Mentifisto already assigned the rights to INeverCry. Trijnsteltalk 18:41, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
- No need to do anything unless there is a complete turnaround in the next few hours. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 18:44, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
Laurelle Mehus
This was originally 11 DRs, one for each image. I combined them for our convenience in making comments -- I thought I had captured all of the original comments, but I might have missed yours -- sorry. . Jim . . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 19:29, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
- No problem. I was a little confused, but didn't think it was worth following though what had happened. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 19:31, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi, The link you edited [1] goes to a dead tool. Regards, Yann (talk) 20:59, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
- Works for me, though there is someimes a delay after hitting the submit button. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 22:37, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #146
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- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- As announced Wikibooks is getting access to Wikidata for their sitelinks on 24th. Coordination at d:Wikidata:Wikibooks
- ViziData
- Update on data quality project
- Update on structured data for Commons
- Using mw.wikibase.getEntity in a Lua module? Please read this.
- Number of visual artworks items by property (type, genre, creator...) on Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: operty:P1721|pinyin transliteration]], posthumous name, temple name, courtesy name, SANDRE ID, brand
- Showcase items:Montblanc
- Development
- Still looking for an awesome frontend developer to join the team
- Met with Nik and Stas from WMF in Berlin for a week to move query functionality forward. Made good progress on evaluating backends and languages
- Worked on RDF mapping/export
- Introduced mw.wikibase.renderSnak(s) for rendering arbitrary Snaks in Lua. This can be used for rendering for example qualifiers or references.
- Made it so that links in the “other projects” sidebar are alphabetically ordered
- Made the diff views for dates easier to read
- Continued work on the planned Wikibase View component
- Continued work on header redesign
- Worked on a new special page that lets you set label, description and aliases in one page
- Fixed all browsertests to use new header section and adjusted them to use phantomjs
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- d:Wikidata:Glossary could use some serious simplification to make it easier to understand. Can you help?
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
Wikidata weekly summary #147
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- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Platypus - a speaking interface for Wikidata
- Past: Wikidata for Research meetup
- Past: GLAMhack (two of the results: The Endless Story and a family tree)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata reached 200,000,000 edits
- Welcome Wikibooks! Wikibooks now gets its language links via Wikidata as well.
- Vote for your favorite Wikimania submissions. Here are the Wikidata related ones.
- New release of the Wikidata Toolkit with lots of good stuff.
- There are now over 30,000 objects in OpenStreetMap tagged with a Wikidata ID. Can you add more?
- Want to see where we want infoboxes to go with Wikidata? Check out the infobox fromage on French Wikipedia. Have a look at the wiki text here.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Naturbase ID, Fach, AllMusic song ID, AllMusic album ID, AllMusic artist ID, Flora of North America ID, Florentine musea Inventario 1890 ID, beats per minute
- Newest WikiProjects: Cheese, Filming Locations
- Showcase items: None this week. Yours next week?
- You can listen to Wikidata (setting at the bottom)
- Development
- Chaged a number of Lua modules (from deprecated function mw.wikibase.getEntity to mw.wikibase.getEntityObject)
- Updated the json documentation
- Always link to Wikidata on client pages that don’t have any langlinks. This affects users without JavaScript and logged out users, logged in users will still see the link item dialog. gerrit:168632
- Fixes for the Wikibase qunit Jenkins job
- Made Vagrant git-update also properly update Wikibase and dependencies
- Fix for phabricator:T88254 (malformatted Wikidata entries appearing in Watchlist RSS feed in clients)
- Final touches on new header design
- Investigated how we can provide language fallback also in suggestions when search or adding new statements
- More work on allowing additional languages in monolingual text datatype
- Added missing backend piece for quantities with units. Now the remaining piece is the user interface.
- Enabled Wikibase Client on Wikibooks
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
Request to post of one of your photographs on Facebook
Dear Mr. Maggs,
I am interested in posting this picture of yours on my Facebook account, giving proper attribution. May I do this?
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Galanthus_nivalis_%28snowdrop%29_flower_FS17.jpg
Yours respectfully,
Salva†ore
SOLI DEO GLORIA
- Yes, that's absolutely fine. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 09:59, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #148
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- Discussions
- Open RfA: Haplology
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Help flesh out landing pages for partners
- Update on the Wikidata query service progress
- The automatic description API can now generate infoboxes (currently, "person" and "artwork" on en.wp)
- Wikidata Skim gives you very simple query functionality
- Meet Kian, the first neural network to serve Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Information Center for Israeli Art artist identifier, Comedien.ch identifier, oath of office date, Steam ID
- Showcase items:Symphony No. 7
- Development
- Fixed edit buttons sometimes not showing up because of caching
- Added mailto to the allowed protocols in the URL data type
- Worked on updating the data model documentation
- Worked on client wiki subscription/notification mechanism
- Improved handling of scientific notation for quantity values
- Reworked a lot of code related to time parsing and formatting, e.g. proper support for language independent parsing of YYYY-MM-DD ordered dates
- Continued working on the new Special:SetLabelDescriptionAliases
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
Wikidata weekly summary #149
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- Discussions
- Successful RfA: Haplology
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Simple Wikidata graph generator
- Please help test the next step for header redesign
- Provide input about how to improve Wikidata watchlist integration on Wikipedia and other sister projects
- Items without statements - help by adding "instance of" to some of them
- Picture of current geocoordinate coverage on Wikidata
- Query generator spreadsheet
- Image search now allows the addition of the "grave image" property
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Flemish organization for Immovable Heritage ID, National Pipe Organ Register identifier, Hornbostel-Sachs classification, Watson & Dallwitz family ID, Aviation Safety Network Wikibase Occurrence, Aviation Safety Network accident description ID, category related to list, list related to category, scale, BBC Your Paintings collection identifier, name day, Parlement & Politiek ID, NCI Thesaurus ID, Flora of China, ZooBank nomenclatural act, VASCAN ID, Agassiz et al checklist number, Bradley and Fletcher checklist number, GTAA concept identifier, category for films shot at this location, CiNii book identifer, Merck Index monograph
- Development
- Got next step for header redesign and other goodies ready for testing (see above)
- Created gadget for displaying padlock indicators on protected items and properties
- Preliminary support for statements in the RDF export
- Fixed "page watched" icon not being updated after an edit that should trigger it
- Released Wikibase DataModel 2.6
- Wikidata builds are now prepared automatically each day
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
Globally locked users may not create pages on this wiki
Of course they can't but you were the one who was blanking the page. I am going to restore it. -- Rillke(q?) 23:56, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
AN/V report
MichaelMaggs (talk · contributions · Move log · block log · uploads · Abuse filter log) , cf. Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:State Emergency Service of Ukraine (MChS) Mil Mi-8MTV picking up water near Nezhin.jpg, please close this account. –Be..anyone (talk) 01:47, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #150
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- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Editathon at MACBA
- Past: Wikidata intro session for Wikipedians at Lokal K in Cologne
- Upcoming: Wikidata editing at Wikimedia Germany in Berlin
- Upcoming: Office hour on 31st of March (Topics include Freebase migration, dev update, admin inactivity criteria)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Freebase is going read-only at the end of the month and we expect an influx of new people. There is now an FAQ to answer their most common questions.
- We now have (improved) landing pages for partners at d:Wikidata:Data donation and d:Wikidata:Data access. Could use some help with making them easier to read and more visual.
- Lots of improvements around MixNMatch. It has a new catalog overview page. ~340K IDs have been matched so far with it and it now has an FAQ for institutions wanting to get their identifiers linked in Wikidata
- There is a fancy new tool to help with patrolling edits on Wikidata
- First screenshot of the primary sources tool that'll help with migrating data from Freebase and enriching it with references has been leaked ;-): 1 and 2
- DBpedia converts Wikidata data to the DBpedia ontology
- Another 3rd-party SPARQL endpoint has been set up for testing
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: art-name, posthumous name, temple name, courtesy name, school of, possible creator, forgery after, manner of, circle of, follower of, workshop of, attributed to, USDA plant identifier, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System identifier, LMI code, denkXweb identifier, place name sign
- Newest WikiProjects: Municipalities of Germany
- Newest gadgets: Image search supports the new "place name sign" property
- Development
- Fixed property suggestions on empty items
- Updated database for property suggestions with newest correlations so you should get better suggestions
- Updated various documentation
- Continued working on RDF export (among other things a requirement for query functionality)
- Polishing in the user interface
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
Copyright question
Hi Michael,
I stumbled across a deletion request for an image of a public artistic performance taken in Australia and my feeling via a fairly rudimentary legal argument is that it should not be deleted (if nothing else than the fact that it would be a shame and possibly a precedent for many other images of public performance art to be at risk of deletion), but I don't have complete certainty about my position as I suspect there could be a number of competing legal positions at play. I appreciate that it's not your particular area of expertise but perhaps you could help to clarify the situation? Thanks, David. Diliff (talk) 11:11, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) Diliff, I didn't see an entry for performers' rights at Commons:Copyright rules by subject matter or Commons:Non-copyright restrictions. It may be wise to make a post at COM:VPC to get a more professional opinion if you've further concerns. Jee 11:24, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks Jee, more opinions and ideas are always welcome. You're probably right that it's a good idea to post at COM:VPC but sometimes this simply opens a can of worms and we end up with too many opinions that aren't necessarily legally accurate. I'd rather start with someone I know and trust the legal opinion of first and then escalate it elsewhere if necessary. ;-) Also, Michael, I know this isn't necessarily your area of expertise either, but I recently noticed that our official guideline on consent requirements for the UK are overly vague on whether one can "take a picture", "publish a picture" and "commercially use a published picture" without consent - each one is listed as "it depends on circumstance". As I mentioned on the talk page there, this may be technically correct but is misleading IMO because it seems to imply that there's no inclination one way or the other, whereas the truth is that in the vast majority of cases, there are no good reasons why you would not be able to take or publish a picture if the person is in public without an expectation of privacy. As Fae mentioned on the talk page, consensus would be required to change the guideline but I'm loathe to bring it up on the Village Pump as I think it would inevitably devolve to opinions on what people believe should be the case, rather than a legal opinion on what actually is the case. What do you think is the best way to get a strong legal opinion that doesn't play it too safe and end up being unnecessarily vague? :-) Diliff (talk) 12:45, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
- OK; I respect your decision. May be Clindberg can comment here or in that DR without attracting all the VPC crowd. :) Jee 13:09, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks Jee, more opinions and ideas are always welcome. You're probably right that it's a good idea to post at COM:VPC but sometimes this simply opens a can of worms and we end up with too many opinions that aren't necessarily legally accurate. I'd rather start with someone I know and trust the legal opinion of first and then escalate it elsewhere if necessary. ;-) Also, Michael, I know this isn't necessarily your area of expertise either, but I recently noticed that our official guideline on consent requirements for the UK are overly vague on whether one can "take a picture", "publish a picture" and "commercially use a published picture" without consent - each one is listed as "it depends on circumstance". As I mentioned on the talk page there, this may be technically correct but is misleading IMO because it seems to imply that there's no inclination one way or the other, whereas the truth is that in the vast majority of cases, there are no good reasons why you would not be able to take or publish a picture if the person is in public without an expectation of privacy. As Fae mentioned on the talk page, consensus would be required to change the guideline but I'm loathe to bring it up on the Village Pump as I think it would inevitably devolve to opinions on what people believe should be the case, rather than a legal opinion on what actually is the case. What do you think is the best way to get a strong legal opinion that doesn't play it too safe and end up being unnecessarily vague? :-) Diliff (talk) 12:45, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
I've seen the question here, thanks, and will respond shortly on the DR page. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 14:09, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks for your comments there Michael. Less urgently, but do you have any comments about the guidelines for consent requirements that I mentioned above? Do you think the best course of action to get the guidelines amended to be more prescriptive is to post a proposal or RfC on the village pump page? Diliff (talk) 16:30, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
- I really don't understand how Commons:Country specific consent requirements became an official guideline, as it makes little sense. If I recall correctly, Commons:Photographs of identifiable people was in a reasonable state a few years ago, then people started adding country-specific entries to it, without a lot of legal analysis, and importantly without clarity as to whether the entries were supposed to represent community requirements for hosting on Commons (guideline) or the requirements for local re-use (help). The country-specific table then got spun off into a separate page while keeping the 'official guideline' heading. I think the whole page needs to be re-written from scratch, once its purpose has been clarified. I'd suggest having one person lead, with some specific recommendations, rather than a free-for all on the VP. That is something I would be happy to work on, but maybe not just at the moment; I'll add it to my list of things to do. By the way, you are quite right on the UK entry. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 17:15, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #151
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- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The next steps for the header redesign and bugfixes are live
- New tool by Magnus that lets you add reference URLs with a single click
- An update from Freebase (which is going read-only on Tuesday!)
- The tours are working again thanks to Bene* and Lucie
- Effort to define a biomedical relationship ontology for Wikidata
- Eventzoom.net - displaying history from Wikidata on maps
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: ABoK number, Word Health Organisation International Nonproprietary Name, Danish National Filmography ID, Masaryk University person ID, EMLO person identifier, Commemorative plaque image, Wikimedia database name, Maltese Islands National Inventory of Cultural Property identifier, ISO 639-5, International Standard Industrial Classification code, Smithsonian American Art Museum: person/institution thesaurus id, bureau du patrimoine de Seine-Saint-Denis ID, format as a regular expression, category of associated people, category of people buried here, BioStor author identifier, chief operating officer, DVN identifier
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Newest gadgets: Image search can find photos for the new "commemorative plaque image" property
- New task forces: Dictionary of National Biography (DNB)
- There is a SpecialPage to easily get to the Wikidata item for a given Wikipedia article and another one to get to the Wikipedia article for a given Wikidata ID.
- Development
- Deployed new code to Wikidata \o/ (and fixed a few issues that popped up)
- Made good progress on RDF export (needed for example for queries)
- Did more performance groundwork for arbitrary access
- Students working on improved constraint reports and checking against 3rd party databases are making good progress
- Looked into improving suggestions
- Worked on making dispatching changes from Wikidata to Wikipedia and co more robust
- Removed backwards compatibility from
mw.wikibase.getEntity()
, to be deployed April 7 and 8. See also here. - Improved support for right-to-left languages, e.g. in the sitelinks view
- Created a unit test framework for special pages
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add multi-lingual labels for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #152
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- Discussions
- Closed RfC: Reforming administrator inactivity criteria
- Events/Blogs/Press
- WikiArabia takes place in Monastir, Tunisia, 3-5 April
- The GLAM-WIKI 2015 conference in The Hague (10-12 April) features several presentations and tutorials about Wikidata for/with cultural institutions.
- The Library world will use Wikidata to link its information to any and all Wikipedias. No longer English only, but every Wikipedia will be exposed in this way.
- Freebase, SEO and Wikidata
- Office hour on IRC covering overall status/development, Freebase and admin inactivity criteria RfC. You can read the log.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Magnus wrote a short tour of Wikidata's tool ecosystem.
- A first version of the Primary Sources Tool has been released. It'll help with migrating Freebase data and more.
- Italian Wikipedia's quality festival is focusing on interwiki links and Wikidata this month. Help them out?
- Lots of new databases have been added to Mix n Match.
- Screenshots of the current state of new constraint reports and checks against 3rd party databases have been posted.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: choreographer, senat.fr ID, Great Aragonese Encyclopedia ID
- Development
- Wikidata development started 3 years ago. <3 to everyone who is a part of it.
- Went through all the feedback we got for improving watchlist integration on Wikipedia and co and posted our assesment
- Put the infrastructure for creating Turtle-Beta dumps in place. All new Wikidata dumps will be in https://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikidatawiki/entities/ from Monday on (the old * directory will be kept around and receive new json dumps for backwards compatibility).
- Reduced size of entities pages by removing no longer needed data (to make the UI faster).
- Fixed bug that sometimes caused dates and other types of values to be cut short when quickly saving. (phabricator:T92831)
- Fixed issues with setting focus after clicking edit.
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
Ban appeal reference
I mentioned you as a reference for this year's ban appeal. I sent you a copy of my appeal to them via Email (please check your inbox). ArbCom might ask you about your thoughts on allowing me return and ask you to recommend restrictions and such. I recommended you since you're a part of Wikimedia UK and since you helped moderate some of the discussions that I was involved in. --Michaeldsuarez (talk) 20:28, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #153
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- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Build a RSS image feed based on a query
- Periodic table based on Wikidata data by Ricordisamoa
- ~8000 biographical items with dates in the description, but no birth/death date statements
- Magnus says ~8% (~1.4M) of all Wikidata items do not have any site links to Wikipedia etc.; knowledge that exists exclusively on Wikidata
- Bene* wrote a user script that adds a filter bar above the statement section and lets you filter it
- Magnus wrote a quick user script to move identifiers into the right sidebar to show how a statement section without identifiers would look like. This came up as part of a longer discussion on the mailinglist about moving identifier statements into their own section. Progress is being tracked at phabricator:T95287.
- Samsung releases Freebase-Wikidata mappings in CC0: 4.4M pairs generated from Wikipedia links and custom code
- Thanks to Bene* hovercards now also work for items and properties
- New tool by Magnus for Wikidata item labels
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: short name, list of episodes, named as
- New task forces: Star Wars, Open Access
- Development
- We are going to change the way value suggestions are ranked when entering a new statement. This will help with "male" and "female" not showing up among the top suggestions. Previously we ranked by number of sitelinks. We will change this to the maximum of sitelinks and labels. So if an item has labels in many languages but no sitelinks like "male" and "female" it will still show up high in the suggestions. (phabricator:T94404)
- Discussed how to move forward with identifiers. Outcome: They should get their own datatype. (phabricator:T95287)
- Implemented arbitrary access for the {{#property:…}} parser function. This can be invoked on the wikis that have arbitrary access enabled by using {{#property:P123|from=Q42}}. So far this is only Wikidata itself.
- Did further performance work on the client (Wikipedia and co) in preparation for arbitrary access
- Improved the performance of wbgetentities significantly when loading a large number of entities
- Wrote more browser tests for different datavalues
- Further work on RDF mapping and dumps
- Fixed in other language box showing old data (phabricator:T90893)
- Fixed language fallback on Special:Recent changes and Special:Contributions
- Added language fallback for the tooltip on badge icons
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
Wikidata weekly summary #154
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- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Tool by Magnus to find wrong nationalities on Wikidata
- Where am I? (figuring out your location based on geocoordinates in Wikidata)
- Map of French national parks
- Histropedia published 5 query generator spreadsheets
- Wikimedia's monthly GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) newsletter now includes a Wikidata report. The draft for the first edition, covering April, may be edited and your contributions will be welcome.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Baseball-Reference.com minor league player ID, Baseball-Reference.com major league player ID, road number, BAnQ ID, DSH object ID, Open Food Facts food category slug, Open Food Facts food additive slug, genealogics.org personID, Kaiserhof ID, addressee, National Portrait Gallery (London) person identifier, RSL book's identifier, name in kana
- Development
- Made label, description and aliases special pages easier to use
- Bene* created a new Special:ListProperties special page to list properties by data type
- Expanded our set of automated browser tests
- Made language fallbacks work in more situations and more consistently. In particular, the entity selector now uses language fallback. This should benefit especially people who want to use Wikidata in a variant such as en-gb.
- Continued work on the planned DataModel 3.0 release
- Continued discussing and documenting future calendar model support
- Continued work on our RDF generator
- Continued work on usage tracking for labels on multilingual sites
- Addshore worked on various issues regarding redirects
- Addshore worked on a special page to turn an item into a redirect
- Work on showing entity labels in edit summaries on history pages
- Implemented change dispatching based on the new usage tracking mechanism
- Fixed issue with page deletions on some Wikipedias not being reported to Wikidata
- More work on straightening out date formatting and parsing
- Fixed handling of scientific notation for quantity values
- Term box: fixed bug causing stale info to be show, and another bug causing babel languages to be ignored sometimes.
- Implemented access to other arbitrary items via the #property parser function
- Bene* implemented check to make sure two properties can not have the same alias only differing in capitalization
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.
meet up
You've got mail -- Colin (talk) 20:27, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #155
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- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The question that started Wikidata has finally been answered! Thank you Markus! ;-)
- Wikimedia Sverige adapted two brochures about Wikidata, one for GLAMs and one for researchers.
- Bene* has been working on making Wikidata work nicely on mobile. You can check the current status on a demo system.
- Amir could use your help with automatic transliteration of human names
- Commons-WD: a tool to edit Wikidata based on a Commons category
- Various improvements to the Primary Sources Tool including:
- Edits made with it will now say so in the edit summary
- It now uses the URL blacklist to not suggest low-quality references
- Caching issues were fixed
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Kiev street code, blood type, Perry Index, input set, SSR Name ID, SSR WrittenForm ID, INPN Code, Nasjonalbiblioteket photographer ID, distribution map, anti-virus alias, HathiTrust id, common name, Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online identifier, Swedish district code, investigated by, US Federal Election Commission identifier, PSS-archi ID, Gaoloumi ID, draft pick number, GrassBase ID, electorate, owner of, Roud Folk Song Index, IPI Code, ISWC
- There are a number of user boxes you can add to your user page to indicate interests and which wiki projects you belong to.
- Development
- On Tuesday, we are deploying usage tracking (no arbitrary access yet) to Dutch Wikipedia and French Wikisource, and subscription tracking on Wikidata. There should be no noticeable changes for users. These are necessary steps towards enabling arbitrary access in clients.
- Worked on making language fallback work in the suggester (when adding a new statement or searching for an item)
- More work on RDF output and the query service
- Added Special:RedirectEntity for redirecting items
- Investigated and working to fix JS bug on items with “invalid” values (phabricator:92975)
- Did work towards having entity ids in revision histories and in diffs linked with their label (like on watchlists or in the recentchanges)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #156
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- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikidata was presented at a Swedish Linked Data Network Meet-up in Gothenburg.
- The most important Wikipedia pages
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- P107 (main type) is finally orphaned and deleted, 20 months after deprecation. This was the first property used 1000000 times.
- The royal baby was quickly updated on Wikidata. (her family tree)
- New tool by Magnus: Find pictures on geography.co.uk, upload them to Commons and add them to Wikidata
- All Van Gogh Museum paintings are now on Commons and Wikidata. Go go SumOfAllPaintings peeps!
- List of topics with links in at least X Wikipedias
- All French Senators matched using MixNMatch \o/
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: represented by, Netflix Identifier, maximum number of players, minimum number of players, CERL ID, Name Assigning Authority Number, Hall of Valor ID, ballots cast, eligible voters, catholic-hierarchy diocese ID, Wikidata example geographic coordinates, Wikidata example monolingual text, Wikidata example property, Wikidata example quantity, Wikidata example time, Wikidata example URL, Wikidata example item value, Wikidata example string, Wikidata example media file, Wikidata property example
- Development
- We rolled out usage tracking on the first two wikis (French Wikisource and Dutch Wikipedia). Users should not notice anything. More wikis will follow in the next weeks. This is the remaining step for enabling arbitrary access on wikis other than Commons.
- The students team is working hard to get a first release of the improved constraint reports and checks against 3rd party databases out.
- Ricordisamoa fixed the issue with long descriptions being cut off.
- We fixed the focus flow in the property selector.
- We improved the messages on Special:EntityData to make it more understandable.
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #157
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- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Mbch331
- New request for comments: Notability policy overhaul
- Closed requests for comments: Conflict of Interest (no consensus), Speedy vs Regular deletion (stale)
- Events/Blogs/Press
- A study has been published about how Wikidata can help significantly improve the quality of medical content on Wikipedia. This is why we do Wikidata! \o/
- MusicBrainz is migrating to Wikidata for Wikipedia links
- Past: Open Data for Academics - some media available on Wikimedia Commons.
- Upcoming: OuiShare Labs Camp in Paris
- Upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Lyon
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Wikidata Visualization Challenge has started. You can enter your submission until June 1 (23:59 CEST).
- Denny has published a proposed breakdown of tasks for Wiktionary support incl mockups. Please read and comment.
- The Wikidata Menu Challenge has started and goes on to May 27. Add labels, images and pronunciation audio to a list of around 290 items to help show off the power of Wikidata at a food festival.
- Dynamic lists on Wikipedia based on Wikidata data
- The Frick Collection and the Brooklyn Museum both have their paintings on Wikidata now.
- The most distant known galaxy EGS-zs8-1 (Q19860435) has been discovered and added to Wikidata.
- Reasonator has been restyled, to work better on mobile devices. It also has an enhanced display on first names (exsample: Paul)
- Woah! Volcanos! (Help match the Smithonian's volcano identifiers with Wikidata) ;-)
- Did you know?
- Development
- Access to data from arbitrary items is coming to the first wikis on Monday \o/ It'll be Dutch Wikipedia and French Wikisource.
- Sneak peek at the current state of development for showing constraint violations on statements
- Hovercards also show the target's label and ID now. (Try them by turning them on in the beta features section of your preferences.)
- Continued working on RDF export
- More work on making it possible to add a reference right away when adding a statement (and allowing the full statement incl references to be edited at the same time)
- Did more work to make usage tracking possible on multilingual wikis (namely Commons)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #158
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- Discussions
- Successful request for adminship: Mbch331
- Closed request for comments: Opting out of Global sysops 2
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Using Wikidata to Improve the Medical Content on Wikipedia
- Past: Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) spoke about authority control in Wikidata (and sister projects) at the World Digital Library's Arab Peninsula Regional Group Symposium, organised in conjunction with the Qatar National Library, in Doha on 13 May. His slides, with an Arabic translation, will be online soon.
- Past: Wikidata editing workshop at the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin
- Past: Wikidata workshop for archivists of Catalan City of Justice
- Upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Lyon
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Elections for the board of the Wikimedia Foundation are ongoing. Wikidata should be well represented among the voters. Go and vote!
- Wikidata won another award by Land der Ideen! \o/ Thank you everyone who is making Wikidata awesome!
- Dutch Wikipedia and French Wikisource now have the arbitrary access feature. Persian Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and Hebrew Wikipedia are following today. Italian Wikipedia and all remaining Wikisource projects are following on June 1st.
- New manual for adding inventory numbers to paintings on Wikidata
- English Wikipedia is running a bot to add authority control templates to many articles that are filled completely from Wikidata. Italian Wikipedia is doing so as well.
- Wikidata won an Open Data award last year. Nominations for this year are open now. Who should win this year?
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources entry, vice-county
- Development
- Prepared for deployment of arbitrary access on more wikis
- Graph extension will be enabled on Wikidata later today
- Improvements to calendar handling
- More work on RDF export for query service
- Continued work on usage tracking and arbitrary access for multilingual wikis
- Addshore investigated and started fixing abuse filter issues
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #159
MichaelMaggs (talk)
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- Events/Blogs/Press
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- State of the Map US (OpenStreetMap's conference) in New York on 6-8 June
- Wikimedia Hackathon 2015 in Lyon from 23-25 May. Some of the activities and outcomes:
- Wikidata descriptions can be soon be edited in the Wikipedia iOS app.
- A early preview of the official SPARQL endpoint for Wikidata has been created to query Wikidata. Remember that it is not stable and still beta. A short introduction to SPARQL can be found in Lucie's slides.
- If you are not familiar with SPARQL yet, a tool has been created by Tpt and Bene* to generate SPARQL queries from natural language questions.
- To do SPARQL queries from the command line, a command line tool was crafted by Marius.
- The special page to query for badges is within reach.
- A feedback session on the architecture of Wikibase was held.
- We got a cool presentation by Maxime about inventaire.io.
- We figured out the next steps to make Wikidata more mobile friendly.
- Pilot on the Hungarian Wikipedia to show diagrams based on Wikidata in their articles on Spanish villages
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New command line tool for mapping SKOS to Wikidata (video)
- The Wikidata Visualization Challenge is ending soon. Please submit your entries. The Wikidata Menu Challenge is also ending soon.
- The number of videos about Wikidata is growing and there is now a category on Wikimedia Commons for these.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: lowest note, highest note, source website, Fauna Europaea ID, Danish urban area code, OpenPlaques plaque identifier, signatory, BNC identifier, different from
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Elections
- Development
- Got early preview of the primary SPARQL endpoint for Wikidata live
- The Graph extension is now live on Wikidata
- Arbitrary access is rolled out on fawiki, hewiki and enwikivoyage now
- Busy with the hackathon (see above)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #160
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- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Final hours to make your vote count in the WMF board election
- Now we have Q20000000 and P1900
- Wikidata stats have been updated
- Over 100 timeline of famous painters by Histropedia
- WD-FIST can now take a manual item list and limit its search to JPEGs
- Traveling this summer? Find items needing pictures around you with WikiShootMe
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: altered regulation leads to, posttranslational modification association with, gene substitution association with, gene inversion association with, gene insertion association with, gene duplication association with, deletion association with, increased expression in, decreased expression in, side effect, Commonwealth War Graves Commission person identifier, Australian Dictionary of Biography identifier, office held by head of state, FundRef registry name, Volcanic explosivity index, Spotify artist ID, BALaT person/organisation id, EAGLE id, Librivox author ID
- Development
- Recovering from hackathon
- Prepared rollout of usage tracking and arbitrary access to more wikis
- Testing of the query service
- Fixed styling issues with entity selector
- Worked more on Capiunto to make it easier to create good infoboxes
- Worked on making broken values editable to fix them (this for example happens when a property is deleted but some values are left over)
- Made entity id an optional parameter in mw.wikibase.label and mw.wikibase.description lua methods. (default to use connected item)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.
Why isn't this fully protected, unlike other closed RfB requests? --Stefan4 (talk) 21:53, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
- None of the recent closures were protected, but they are now. Thanks for noting. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 02:02, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
Bureaucrat
Thank you for your positive vote at Commons:Bureaucrats/Requests/Jameslwoodward. I will do my best to live up the trust you have put in me. . Jim . . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 20:37, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #161
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- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Pigsonthewing and aude were at State of the Map US to talk about Wikidata/OpenStreetMap cooperation and more
- Past: Lucie and Marius gave an intro to Wikidata at Gulaschprogrammiernacht in Karlsruhe (slides)
- Upcoming: Office hour on IRC on 19th
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The English-language Wikipedia has decided to deprecate Persondata in favour of Wikidata.
- New tool by Magnus to make it easier to add references
- The results are in for the Wikimedia Foundation's board election. One name should sound familiar to you ;-)
- Addshore created new maps of the geocoordinates on Wikidata. More coming.
- Sylvain made an overview of the overlap in topics that the biggest Wikipedias have.
- Wikidata has passed German Wikipedia in number of items with images (743850 dewp articles vs. 804885 items) - now only second to English-language Wikipedia.
- Catalan Wikipedia is moving Taxon IDs to Wikidata.
- Zolo did a comparison of English/French/German/Chinese and Cebuano Wikipedias in terms of main types of articles. Biographies were compared by period, nationality and occupation.
- Connectivity statistics were updated.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: DMS V, Clinvar Accession Number, Vaccine Ontology ID, VIOLIN ID, vaccine for, participating team, first line, URI pattern for RDF resource, Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground identifier, Ministry of Education of Chile school ID
- Newest gadgets: Mark as patrolled by User:Petr Matas
- Development
- Italian Wikipedia and all remaining Wikisource projects now have arbitrary access. The rollout will continue. The schedule for the next projects is at d:Wikidata:Arbitrary access.
- The Content Translation tool now automatically connects translated articles to Wikidata. (Thanks Content Translation developers!) Previously translated but unconnected articles have been connected by a bot. (Thanks Amir!)
- Code review of the extensions written by a team of students to improve the constraint reports and make it possible to automatically check our data against other databases. A first version will go live soon pending further codereview and fixes.
- Two new methods have been added to the lua library provided by Wikibase:
wikibase.resolvePropertyId
andwikibase.entity:getBestStatements
. - Further work on making unserializable values editable in the UI (This can happen for example if a property is deleted.)
- Made the Wikidata JSON dumps available on Labs in the standard dumps location there (/public/dumps).
- Worked on automatically creating a redirect when merging items via the API.
- Rewrote the script that generates a map image based on geocoordinates in Wikidata. (Result see above.)
- Released Wikibase DataModel 3.0
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #162
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- Discussions
- Should we have a Wikidata User Group?
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Thanks to everyone who participated in the Wikidata:Menu Challenge which made Wikidata shine at A Taste of Stockholm. The live results are still up at https://wikimedia-sverige.github.io/tastydata .
- Upcoming: Donostia-San Sebastián Wikidata Editathon
- Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata in Paris
- News about Wikidata FIST
- Review of the big interwiki link migration
- Timeline of Christopher Lee films
- Wikidata map - 19 months on
- A challenge was raised to calculate the degrees of separation to Kevin Bacon. Already one routine has been produced, the next step is to use live data so that we can work on reducing the number of intermediary steps.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- ViziData has been improved significantly
- Wikidata Visualization Challenge winners announced: first prize to ViziData.
- New paper: Peer-production system or collaborative ontology development effort: what is Wikidata?
- Jura1 posted some data around property usage on items about people
- Tpt is interning at Google now to free up more content from Freebase for us. He's adding more data to the Primary Sources Tool.
- Did you know?
- Development
- Deployed arbitrary access on all Wikivoyage and Wikiquote projects and announced the next ones. See d:Wikidata:Arbitrary access for more.
- More fine tuning on entity usage tracking (relevant for arbitrary access)
- Fixed bug that sometimes allowed multiple properties to have the same label in a given language (phabricator:T102148)
- More work on automatically creating redirects when merging items
- More code review of the Wikidata Quality extensions (improved constraint reports and checks against 3rd party databases). Starting to look good for a first deployment.
- The sitelinks heading hierarchy changed and includes a “Site links” heading now that is only shown on mobile. This is a DOM change needed to make Wikidata work better on mobile.
- Started working on having PHPCS coverage for the major Wikibase.git code base to find small code issues more easily
- Prepared Wikibase.git for the DataModel 3.0 switch
- Released Wikibase DataModel Serialization 1.4
- Released Wikibase Internal Serialization 1.4
- New releases of several DataValue components, including DataValues Number 0.5, DataValues JavaScript 0.7 and ValueView 0.14.5
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.
hello! I have sent you an email. could you tell me if you can help us? --アンタナナ 18:08, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
- Yes I could probably help. Let me know what you need. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 06:00, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #163
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- Discussions
- German language Wikipedia closed its RfC on usage of Wikidata data. As a result Wikidata data can be used on the project as long as it happens through a template and it has a non-Wikimedia reference.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Office hour on IRC. We talked about cool things that happened around Wikidata over the past 3 months got an update on upcoming developments and Freebase and more. You can read the log.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- en:South Pole Telescope is a nice example of an infobox completely filled from Wikidata.
- Q20150617 was created on 2015-06-17
- More data from Freebase have been added the Primary Sources Tool. There is also a page to help the mapping of Freebase properties.
- Nice new manual for MixnMatch
- The new nature.com/ontologies links to external ontologies and datasets; among them Wikidata.
- National Gallery of Art and the J. Paul Getty Museum now have entries for all their paintings on Wikidata thanks to wiki project Sum of all Paintings
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: takeoff and landing capability, Discogs label ID, Discogs master ID, Discogs artist ID, Encyclopaedia Metallum band id, investor, second surname in Spanish name, CulturaItalia ID, BerlPap identifier, Mapillary id, National Library of Ireland authority
- Newest WikiProjects: Cross Items Interwikis
- Development
- Made a small API breaking change to wbeditentity and wbgetclaims modules. Details can be seen in the commit message of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/217885/
- Worked more on unit support
- Fixed an issue where you'd sometimes select the wrong value when entering a statement unintentionally (phabricator:T98471)
- Switched the whole code base to make use of DataModel 3.0
- The concept of “claims” no longer exists in Wikibase, as all places in the software work with statements. We are making this more and more explicit in the code.
- The autoloading mechanism of the extension changed, see phabricator:T100813
- More work on getting the Wikibase Quality extensions ready for deployment. They'll improve constraint checking and provide checks against 3rd party databases.
- Special:UnconnectedPages had to be reworked (thanks Amir!) because of huge performance issues. Because of this it loses some functionality (being able to specify where the list starts and limiting the list to pages that have local interwiki links). We're working on bringing functionality back without the performance penalty.
- Bene* created a SPARQL abstraction layer for PHP called Asparagus: https://github.com/Benestar/asparagus
- Enabled arbitrary access on arwiki, cawiki, eswiki, huwiki, kowiki, rowiki, ukwiki, viwiki, and usage tracking on dewiki, ruwiki, cswiki and all s3 wikis. (ruwiki and cswiki get arbitrary access on June 23)
- Finishing work on improved handling “invalid” values and statements with deleted properties.
- Small breaking DOM change: Wikibase no longer adds its own h1 tag but uses MediaWiki's default .firstHeading element. (phabricator:T93534)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.
Quoting copyright text on Commons
Michael, could you look at the issue raised at User talk:Revent/Archive 1#Ignorant threats and continued on my talk page User talk:Colin#Fair use content on Wikimedia Commons. There are two issues I see. Firstly that our licensing and fair use policy applies to our media files only. Other rules, mostly undocumented on Commons, apply to our talk page, forum and guideline text. Secondly that we are permitted to quote copyright text on such talk/forum pages, and my understanding is that this is "fair use". User:Revent seems to think that since fair use is not allowed on Commons, the posting of even small amounts of copyright text here is a blockable offence, and has threatened Jee. -- Colin (talk)
- And note that all descriptions and tags in Flickr pages are copyrighted; only the media is free licensed. Jee 09:27, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
- If true, that has consequences for our bots that scrape the text and insert it into our file pages. Such copy/paste could not, imo, be regarded as fair use. That's probably a separate issue from the dispute by Revent, but I would be interested also in what Michael understands about that too. If true, it would severely limit our ability to make use of Flickr images on an automated basis (each uploader would have to reword the description text much like a Wikipedia author has to reword their sources). And what about descriptions in EXIF data? -- Colin (talk) 09:41, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
- In Flickr, we can post a photo, screenshot or artwork/illustration and the license is limited to it. Any one can add tags (like identification tags) without giving a license that means "copyrighted to that person". There is no provision to specify a license for description provided by the uploader. Most pages contain third party copyrighted texts (like in my Flickr pages) that the uploader can no way release the license. Jee 09:49, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
- Interesting, and troubling. I agree that the description on Flickr could certainly contain text from a third party that can't be re-licensed. Many people quote Wikipedia on their descriptions, which is ironic. I wasn't aware people apart from the author could add a tag (ignoring the autotag thing for now). I'd like to get this Revent/fair-use thing out of the way first. Then it may be a good idea to open up a Village Pump / Copyright discussion on this issue. It has serious consequences for out bot users in particular, but also anyone uploading an image from Flickr. And it applies to other sites too, where the image is CC but the description text may be added by another person. -- Colin (talk) 09:59, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
- The tagging can be enabled or disabled in user preferences. It can be limited to friends, contacts or even allow anyone to tag. I usually allow anyone as I need to get the IDs of unidentified organisms. Jee 10:04, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
- Interesting, and troubling. I agree that the description on Flickr could certainly contain text from a third party that can't be re-licensed. Many people quote Wikipedia on their descriptions, which is ironic. I wasn't aware people apart from the author could add a tag (ignoring the autotag thing for now). I'd like to get this Revent/fair-use thing out of the way first. Then it may be a good idea to open up a Village Pump / Copyright discussion on this issue. It has serious consequences for out bot users in particular, but also anyone uploading an image from Flickr. And it applies to other sites too, where the image is CC but the description text may be added by another person. -- Colin (talk) 09:59, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
- In Flickr, we can post a photo, screenshot or artwork/illustration and the license is limited to it. Any one can add tags (like identification tags) without giving a license that means "copyrighted to that person". There is no provision to specify a license for description provided by the uploader. Most pages contain third party copyrighted texts (like in my Flickr pages) that the uploader can no way release the license. Jee 09:49, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
- If true, that has consequences for our bots that scrape the text and insert it into our file pages. Such copy/paste could not, imo, be regarded as fair use. That's probably a separate issue from the dispute by Revent, but I would be interested also in what Michael understands about that too. If true, it would severely limit our ability to make use of Flickr images on an automated basis (each uploader would have to reword the description text much like a Wikipedia author has to reword their sources). And what about descriptions in EXIF data? -- Colin (talk) 09:41, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #164
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Wikidata-logo-en.svg/150px-Wikidata-logo-en.svg.png)
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Ateliers Wikidata
- Upcoming: Wikimania. There will be several talks and workshops related to Wikidata. Say hi at the "Ask Us Anything" session for Wikidata if you're there.
- Reductionism
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Which geographic areas do different Wikipedias cover? How does it compare to Wikidata? Markus has a beautiful answer
- Wikiproject Molecular Biology and AskPlatypus are shortlisted for the OpenData Award \o/ This is the award Wikidata won last year.
- Paper on vandalism on Wikidata. Lydia is in touch with them to figure out how to best use the insights for us.
- Reasonator got some updates: it is now using external ID formatter URLs, has monolingual string support and better social network links
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: number of children, MovieMeter movie identifier, MovieMeter director ID, Foursquare venue ID, BoxRec ID, Biblioteca Nacional de Chile catalogue number, sortkey, properties for this type, patron, Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, Google Scholar ID, Dutch Senate person ID, Trismegistos ID, Wikisource index page
- Newest External tools: Wikidata Compare
- Showcase items: none. Yours next week?
- Development
- Jonas joined the team and Adam is back \o/
- Deployed arbitrary access to ruwiki and cswiki
- Machine readable versions (in various formats) of Wikibase entities will be advertised in their page heads as alternate link. (phabricator:T96298)
- Fixed property label on item pages not scrolling anymore (phabricator:T94588)
- More work on getting the Wikibase Quality extensions ready for release. The part doing constraint violation checks should go to test.wikidata.org next week. The part doing checks against 3rd party databases will still take a bit longer but is also shaping up nicely.
- Made it possible to create items even when another user is mass-creating items (phabricator:T103796)
- Bene* worked more on making Wikidata work nicely on mobile
- Fixed weird issue with cursor jumping around in sitelink input field (phabricator:T103489)
- Fixed an issue where it was not possible to edit a statement after you removed its only reference (phabricator:T103603)
- Lydia will be traveling for much of July. Expect her to be a bit less responsive during that time.
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #165
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Wikidata-logo-en.svg/150px-Wikidata-logo-en.svg.png)
- Discussions
- Discussion about Atheism and the religion property.
- Discussion about the Verifiability of data as a policy.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming: Wikimania. There will be several talks and workshops related to Wikidata. Say hi at the "Ask Us Anything" session for Wikidata if you're there.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A new database report lists people categorized as dead in Wikipedia, but lacking Property:P570 (date of death). It's updated several times during the day. There are about 20 to 30 new entries each day. There is currently some backlog from the Arabic, Marathi, and Thai Wikipedias. Items updated first in Wikidata wont appear in the report. They are listed directly in Wikidata's recent deaths report.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: RSL editions, Open Hub ID, number of children, MovieMeter movie identifier, MovieMeter director ID
- Development
- Adam wrote a blog post on the improvement of the data after one year and GeneaWiki
- After the next deployment, Special:ItemDisambiguation will match aliases and be case insensitive.
- Improved details of matches in the entity suggester (wbsearchentities api module)
- Deployed the WikibaseQuality and WikibaseQualityConstraints extensions to test.wikidata.org
- Fixed the layout of long qualifier names
- JSON dumps are now automatically copied to labs
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #166
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Wikidata-logo-en.svg/150px-Wikidata-logo-en.svg.png)
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Slides on Primary Sources Tool and Wikidata introduction (in Spanish) for the Donostia-San Sebastián Wikidata Editathon
- Presentation about Wikidata at the Axel Springer Hack Day 2015
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikiresearch looked into the coverage of the moon by geotags in Wikidata
- Wikiresearch published a visualization of the relationship between nationality and occupation based on Wikidata's data
- Which zoo has polar bears? Wikidata attempts to answer the question here. Work in progress.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: MCN code, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Anime News Network anime ID, Anime News Network manga ID, Anime News Network company ID, Anime News Network person ID, FSK film rating, PolSys ID, Righteous Among The Nations ID, USDA NDB number, lesarchivesduspectacle ID, INEGI locality identifier
- Development
- The Wikidata Quality extension (constraint reports per item) was deployed. You can now use d:Special:ConstraintReport to see the result for different items. This is for example the constraint report for the item cat (Q142).
- 8 million additional statements from Freebase were made available through the Primary sources tool
- Moving towards having a single edit button to edit references along with the value they belong to.
- Bene continued working on phasing out the deprecated Entity superclass and making more entity types possible.
- More work on phasing out a deprecated serializer implementation we still use in certain places.
- Further work on the new RDF export.
- PHPCS is now used on each change in Wikibase to ensure the code fulfils certain code quality standards.
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #167
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Wikidata-logo-en.svg/150px-Wikidata-logo-en.svg.png)
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Nikki
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Right now: Wikimania
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Magnus made some new tools:
- list of scientists on Wikidata born after 1950 with no image, grouped by employer. Check your university!
- list of scientists on Wikidata born after 1950 with no ORCID iD, grouped by employer. Ditto!
- an InfoBitt replacement
- a tool you can use to match up Wikipedia articles without an item to either an existing item or a create a new one if none exists
- plus Mix'N'Match got new datasets you can help match up with Wikidata
- P2000 was created.
- Some presentations at Wikimania related to Wikidata have detailed slides online:
- WikiProject Sum of All Paintings
- Templates are dead! Long live templates!, technical presentation on the function and future of template syntax
- Future of structured documents: VisualEditor, Citations and Wikidata, oh my!
- Magnus made some new tools:
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: CPDL ID, UNESCO language status, UCI code, Facebook Places ID, parliament.uk bio link, medical specialty, AllMusic composition ID, TeX string, Plazi ID, LPSN URL, species kept, Encyclopaedia Metallum artist ID, Delarge ID
- New task forces: Linguistics
- Development
- Attending Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City right now, meeting awesome people that already use or want to know everything about Wikidata.
- After the next deployment, redirects will be automatically created when merging items.
- Special:UnconnectedPages can now be queried via the query API, thanks to Ladsgroup.
- Migrating away from an older serializer to the DataModel Serialization component.
- Worked on a new time parser that can parse formats like M/D/Y, Y M D and so on.
- Fixed a bug where a value could not be edited when save failed.
- Made the snak type, badge and rank selectors position themselves after resizing the browser window and introduced a possibility to collapse the sitelinks sections.
- Worked on a change in editing to be able to edit a statement and it’s references in one step.
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #168
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Wikidata-logo-en.svg/150px-Wikidata-logo-en.svg.png)
- Discussions
- Successful request for adminship: Nikki
- Open request for oversightership: Sjoerddebruin
- Closed request for comments: Administrative divisions and populated places, Given names and surnames
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikidata, coming soon to a menu near you!
- Past: Wikimania
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Upload of 4.2M new statements from Freebase in the Primary Sources tool.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: NALT id, Instagram username, Twitter username, Revised Romanisation, CPDL ID, UNESCO language status, UCI code, Facebook Places ID
- Development
- Continued migrating away from an older serializer to the DataModel Serialization component.
- Released Wikibase DataModel Serialization 1.7.0
- Depreacting the parameter ungroupedlist in the api modules GetClaims and GetEntities
- Tweaking the sitelink input
- Changing the display of item selector results
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #163
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Wikidata-logo-en.svg/150px-Wikidata-logo-en.svg.png)
- Discussions
- German language Wikipedia closed its RfC on usage of Wikidata data. As a result Wikidata data can be used on the project as long as it happens through a template and it has a non-Wikimedia reference.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Office hour on IRC. We talked about cool things that happened around Wikidata over the past 3 months got an update on upcoming developments and Freebase and more. You can read the log.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- en:South Pole Telescope is a nice example of an infobox completely filled from Wikidata.
- Q20150617 was created on 2015-06-17
- More data from Freebase have been added the Primary Sources Tool. There is also a page to help the mapping of Freebase properties.
- Nice new manual for MixnMatch
- The new nature.com/ontologies links to external ontologies and datasets; among them Wikidata.
- National Gallery of Art and the J. Paul Getty Museum now have entries for all their paintings on Wikidata thanks to wiki project Sum of all Paintings
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: takeoff and landing capability, Discogs label ID, Discogs master ID, Discogs artist ID, Encyclopaedia Metallum band id, investor, second surname in Spanish name, CulturaItalia ID, BerlPap identifier, Mapillary id, National Library of Ireland authority
- Newest WikiProjects: Cross Items Interwikis
- Development
- Made a small API breaking change to wbeditentity and wbgetclaims modules. Details can be seen in the commit message of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/217885/
- Worked more on unit support
- Fixed an issue where you'd sometimes select the wrong value when entering a statement unintentionally (phabricator:T98471)
- Switched the whole code base to make use of DataModel 3.0
- The concept of “claims” no longer exists in Wikibase, as all places in the software work with statements. We are making this more and more explicit in the code.
- The autoloading mechanism of the extension changed, see phabricator:T100813
- More work on getting the Wikibase Quality extensions ready for deployment. They'll improve constraint checking and provide checks against 3rd party databases.
- Special:UnconnectedPages had to be reworked (thanks Amir!) because of huge performance issues. Because of this it loses some functionality (being able to specify where the list starts and limiting the list to pages that have local interwiki links). We're working on bringing functionality back without the performance penalty.
- Bene* created a SPARQL abstraction layer for PHP called Asparagus: https://github.com/Benestar/asparagus
- Enabled arbitrary access on arwiki, cawiki, eswiki, huwiki, kowiki, rowiki, ukwiki, viwiki, and usage tracking on dewiki, ruwiki, cswiki and all s3 wikis. (ruwiki and cswiki get arbitrary access on June 23)
- Finishing work on improved handling “invalid” values and statements with deleted properties.
- Small breaking DOM change: Wikibase no longer adds its own h1 tag but uses MediaWiki's default .firstHeading element. (phabricator:T93534)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.
Quoting copyright text on Commons
Michael, could you look at the issue raised at User talk:Revent/Archive 1#Ignorant threats and continued on my talk page User talk:Colin#Fair use content on Wikimedia Commons. There are two issues I see. Firstly that our licensing and fair use policy applies to our media files only. Other rules, mostly undocumented on Commons, apply to our talk page, forum and guideline text. Secondly that we are permitted to quote copyright text on such talk/forum pages, and my understanding is that this is "fair use". User:Revent seems to think that since fair use is not allowed on Commons, the posting of even small amounts of copyright text here is a blockable offence, and has threatened Jee. -- Colin (talk)
- And note that all descriptions and tags in Flickr pages are copyrighted; only the media is free licensed. Jee 09:27, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
- If true, that has consequences for our bots that scrape the text and insert it into our file pages. Such copy/paste could not, imo, be regarded as fair use. That's probably a separate issue from the dispute by Revent, but I would be interested also in what Michael understands about that too. If true, it would severely limit our ability to make use of Flickr images on an automated basis (each uploader would have to reword the description text much like a Wikipedia author has to reword their sources). And what about descriptions in EXIF data? -- Colin (talk) 09:41, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
- In Flickr, we can post a photo, screenshot or artwork/illustration and the license is limited to it. Any one can add tags (like identification tags) without giving a license that means "copyrighted to that person". There is no provision to specify a license for description provided by the uploader. Most pages contain third party copyrighted texts (like in my Flickr pages) that the uploader can no way release the license. Jee 09:49, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
- Interesting, and troubling. I agree that the description on Flickr could certainly contain text from a third party that can't be re-licensed. Many people quote Wikipedia on their descriptions, which is ironic. I wasn't aware people apart from the author could add a tag (ignoring the autotag thing for now). I'd like to get this Revent/fair-use thing out of the way first. Then it may be a good idea to open up a Village Pump / Copyright discussion on this issue. It has serious consequences for out bot users in particular, but also anyone uploading an image from Flickr. And it applies to other sites too, where the image is CC but the description text may be added by another person. -- Colin (talk) 09:59, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
- The tagging can be enabled or disabled in user preferences. It can be limited to friends, contacts or even allow anyone to tag. I usually allow anyone as I need to get the IDs of unidentified organisms. Jee 10:04, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
- Interesting, and troubling. I agree that the description on Flickr could certainly contain text from a third party that can't be re-licensed. Many people quote Wikipedia on their descriptions, which is ironic. I wasn't aware people apart from the author could add a tag (ignoring the autotag thing for now). I'd like to get this Revent/fair-use thing out of the way first. Then it may be a good idea to open up a Village Pump / Copyright discussion on this issue. It has serious consequences for out bot users in particular, but also anyone uploading an image from Flickr. And it applies to other sites too, where the image is CC but the description text may be added by another person. -- Colin (talk) 09:59, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
- In Flickr, we can post a photo, screenshot or artwork/illustration and the license is limited to it. Any one can add tags (like identification tags) without giving a license that means "copyrighted to that person". There is no provision to specify a license for description provided by the uploader. Most pages contain third party copyrighted texts (like in my Flickr pages) that the uploader can no way release the license. Jee 09:49, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
- If true, that has consequences for our bots that scrape the text and insert it into our file pages. Such copy/paste could not, imo, be regarded as fair use. That's probably a separate issue from the dispute by Revent, but I would be interested also in what Michael understands about that too. If true, it would severely limit our ability to make use of Flickr images on an automated basis (each uploader would have to reword the description text much like a Wikipedia author has to reword their sources). And what about descriptions in EXIF data? -- Colin (talk) 09:41, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #164
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Wikidata-logo-en.svg/150px-Wikidata-logo-en.svg.png)
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Ateliers Wikidata
- Upcoming: Wikimania. There will be several talks and workshops related to Wikidata. Say hi at the "Ask Us Anything" session for Wikidata if you're there.
- Reductionism
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Which geographic areas do different Wikipedias cover? How does it compare to Wikidata? Markus has a beautiful answer
- Wikiproject Molecular Biology and AskPlatypus are shortlisted for the OpenData Award \o/ This is the award Wikidata won last year.
- Paper on vandalism on Wikidata. Lydia is in touch with them to figure out how to best use the insights for us.
- Reasonator got some updates: it is now using external ID formatter URLs, has monolingual string support and better social network links
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: number of children, MovieMeter movie identifier, MovieMeter director ID, Foursquare venue ID, BoxRec ID, Biblioteca Nacional de Chile catalogue number, sortkey, properties for this type, patron, Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, Google Scholar ID, Dutch Senate person ID, Trismegistos ID, Wikisource index page
- Newest External tools: Wikidata Compare
- Showcase items: none. Yours next week?
- Development
- Jonas joined the team and Adam is back \o/
- Deployed arbitrary access to ruwiki and cswiki
- Machine readable versions (in various formats) of Wikibase entities will be advertised in their page heads as alternate link. (phabricator:T96298)
- Fixed property label on item pages not scrolling anymore (phabricator:T94588)
- More work on getting the Wikibase Quality extensions ready for release. The part doing constraint violation checks should go to test.wikidata.org next week. The part doing checks against 3rd party databases will still take a bit longer but is also shaping up nicely.
- Made it possible to create items even when another user is mass-creating items (phabricator:T103796)
- Bene* worked more on making Wikidata work nicely on mobile
- Fixed weird issue with cursor jumping around in sitelink input field (phabricator:T103489)
- Fixed an issue where it was not possible to edit a statement after you removed its only reference (phabricator:T103603)
- Lydia will be traveling for much of July. Expect her to be a bit less responsive during that time.
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #165
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Wikidata-logo-en.svg/150px-Wikidata-logo-en.svg.png)
- Discussions
- Discussion about Atheism and the religion property.
- Discussion about the Verifiability of data as a policy.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming: Wikimania. There will be several talks and workshops related to Wikidata. Say hi at the "Ask Us Anything" session for Wikidata if you're there.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A new database report lists people categorized as dead in Wikipedia, but lacking Property:P570 (date of death). It's updated several times during the day. There are about 20 to 30 new entries each day. There is currently some backlog from the Arabic, Marathi, and Thai Wikipedias. Items updated first in Wikidata wont appear in the report. They are listed directly in Wikidata's recent deaths report.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: RSL editions, Open Hub ID, number of children, MovieMeter movie identifier, MovieMeter director ID
- Development
- Adam wrote a blog post on the improvement of the data after one year and GeneaWiki
- After the next deployment, Special:ItemDisambiguation will match aliases and be case insensitive.
- Improved details of matches in the entity suggester (wbsearchentities api module)
- Deployed the WikibaseQuality and WikibaseQualityConstraints extensions to test.wikidata.org
- Fixed the layout of long qualifier names
- JSON dumps are now automatically copied to labs
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #166
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Wikidata-logo-en.svg/150px-Wikidata-logo-en.svg.png)
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Slides on Primary Sources Tool and Wikidata introduction (in Spanish) for the Donostia-San Sebastián Wikidata Editathon
- Presentation about Wikidata at the Axel Springer Hack Day 2015
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikiresearch looked into the coverage of the moon by geotags in Wikidata
- Wikiresearch published a visualization of the relationship between nationality and occupation based on Wikidata's data
- Which zoo has polar bears? Wikidata attempts to answer the question here. Work in progress.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: MCN code, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Anime News Network anime ID, Anime News Network manga ID, Anime News Network company ID, Anime News Network person ID, FSK film rating, PolSys ID, Righteous Among The Nations ID, USDA NDB number, lesarchivesduspectacle ID, INEGI locality identifier
- Development
- The Wikidata Quality extension (constraint reports per item) was deployed. You can now use d:Special:ConstraintReport to see the result for different items. This is for example the constraint report for the item cat (Q142).
- 8 million additional statements from Freebase were made available through the Primary sources tool
- Moving towards having a single edit button to edit references along with the value they belong to.
- Bene continued working on phasing out the deprecated Entity superclass and making more entity types possible.
- More work on phasing out a deprecated serializer implementation we still use in certain places.
- Further work on the new RDF export.
- PHPCS is now used on each change in Wikibase to ensure the code fulfils certain code quality standards.
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #167
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Wikidata-logo-en.svg/150px-Wikidata-logo-en.svg.png)
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Nikki
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Right now: Wikimania
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Magnus made some new tools:
- list of scientists on Wikidata born after 1950 with no image, grouped by employer. Check your university!
- list of scientists on Wikidata born after 1950 with no ORCID iD, grouped by employer. Ditto!
- an InfoBitt replacement
- a tool you can use to match up Wikipedia articles without an item to either an existing item or a create a new one if none exists
- plus Mix'N'Match got new datasets you can help match up with Wikidata
- P2000 was created.
- Some presentations at Wikimania related to Wikidata have detailed slides online:
- WikiProject Sum of All Paintings
- Templates are dead! Long live templates!, technical presentation on the function and future of template syntax
- Future of structured documents: VisualEditor, Citations and Wikidata, oh my!
- Magnus made some new tools:
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: CPDL ID, UNESCO language status, UCI code, Facebook Places ID, parliament.uk bio link, medical specialty, AllMusic composition ID, TeX string, Plazi ID, LPSN URL, species kept, Encyclopaedia Metallum artist ID, Delarge ID
- New task forces: Linguistics
- Development
- Attending Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City right now, meeting awesome people that already use or want to know everything about Wikidata.
- After the next deployment, redirects will be automatically created when merging items.
- Special:UnconnectedPages can now be queried via the query API, thanks to Ladsgroup.
- Migrating away from an older serializer to the DataModel Serialization component.
- Worked on a new time parser that can parse formats like M/D/Y, Y M D and so on.
- Fixed a bug where a value could not be edited when save failed.
- Made the snak type, badge and rank selectors position themselves after resizing the browser window and introduced a possibility to collapse the sitelinks sections.
- Worked on a change in editing to be able to edit a statement and it’s references in one step.
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #168
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Wikidata-logo-en.svg/150px-Wikidata-logo-en.svg.png)
- Discussions
- Successful request for adminship: Nikki
- Open request for oversightership: Sjoerddebruin
- Closed request for comments: Administrative divisions and populated places, Given names and surnames
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikidata, coming soon to a menu near you!
- Past: Wikimania
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Upload of 4.2M new statements from Freebase in the Primary Sources tool.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: NALT id, Instagram username, Twitter username, Revised Romanisation, CPDL ID, UNESCO language status, UCI code, Facebook Places ID
- Development
- Continued migrating away from an older serializer to the DataModel Serialization component.
- Released Wikibase DataModel Serialization 1.7.0
- Depreacting the parameter ungroupedlist in the api modules GetClaims and GetEntities
- Tweaking the sitelink input
- Changing the display of item selector results
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Wikidata weekly summary #169
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- Discussions
- Open requests for Oversight: Sjoerddebruin
- Enable Flow on Wikidata?
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Early version of a reconcile API for Wikidata by Magnus
- PagePile: a new tool by Magnus
- Mix-n-Match got a number of new catalogs and now shows a thin red line in front of a catalog that does not yet have a property on Wikidata
- 1.700 biographical items without gender, but with image. Go go go!
- Interested in art movements? Check out this
- Did you know?
- Development
- Minor fixes to property edit mode
- Some fixes for the cucumber test errors
- Released Wikibase DataModel 4.0
- Released Wikibase DataModel Services 1.0
- Continued work to migrate away from old serializers in Wikibase Lib to those in WikibaseDataModelSerialization.
- Working on scripts for importing entities from another Wikibase instance (e.g. Wikidata), so that development instances can have some sample data.
- Fixed the counting of references
- Changed style of the Entitytermsview inputs
- Entity Selector displays alias in brackets behind label
- Monthly Tasks
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Rename
Dear Michael,
Could you tell me what would be the best way to rename some files? Under tips is mentioned: {{rename|the_new_name|numeric_reason_for_renaming}} How does it work? Kind regards Erik onlysilenceOnlysilence (talk) 21:18, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
- Dear Erik, renaming (sometimes called 'moving') is something that only certain users such as administrators can do. There is a special tag that you can apply to files which acts as a request for an administrator to do the renaming for you. But rather than doing that it would probably be easier for you simply to ask me here, and if there is no objection I'd be happy to do it. Could you let me know which files you'd like renamed and why? All the best, --MichaelMaggs (talk) 21:39, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
Hello Michael, I would like to add the name in the files, as many people don't know who is the author of the work. Ex "A gap of silence" : Erik Pevernagie.jpg; "A paper boat made my dream": Erik Pevernagie.jpg Thank you for help. Erik onlysilenceOnlysilence (talk) 22:47, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
- Hi Erik, I don't think that would be possible, I'm afraid. Although renaming requests by the original uploader are normally allowed, simply adding a name to the title of large numbers of files would most likely be seen by many editors as too self-promotional. There's also the problem that title changes cannot easily be done in bulk (at least by the vast majority of editors), and the task would take a volunteer a lot of time. Your name as author is of course immediately visible to anyone who looks on the Commons page, and that's the standard way that authors are attributed on this site. So I'm sorry I can't help in this case. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 07:51, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
Thank you, Michael. Have a good day. Onlysilence (talk) 13:11, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
Hello Michael, There is something strange with File:Sorry unsufficient funds goodbye.jpg About block and unblock. Could you have a look? Thank youOnlysilence (talk) 15:19, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
- @Onlysilence: Hi Erik, sorry that I've only just noticed your question. I've had a look at the file File:Sorry unsufficient funds goodbye.jpg and at your talk page, but I can't see the problem you've noted. Could you explain in a little more detail please? Where exactly do I need to look? MichaelMaggs (talk) 07:21, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
Use of a public domain-licensed photo of yours in a video published on YouTube
Hello, I want to let you know I used your image of particle tracks of a proton-antiproton interaction at 540 GeV in a video I just published on YouTube. The video is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYR-Ar_AHJ0; it is an interview with my friend Bob Stryk, who holds a Ph.D. in nuclear science from the University of Minnesota. He talks about using the Van de Graaff accelerator at the U while getting his doctorate. Your photo is the title plate for the "Computers and Particle Physics" chapter of the video.
I have a cutline on the title plate itself that says "Photo by Michael Maggs" and further information about it in the credits at the end. I'll also be adding your caption for it, along with credits and a link to the Public Domain license, to my list of images and resources on my personal Website at http://jennymcdermott.com/new/videos.html. I can't cut a link directly from my video plate to your Wikipedia page because YouTube does not allow publishers to link to domains they don't own.
Thank you for allowing your photo to be used; it helps enhance the quality of my work to have it included. I hope you get a chance to watch the video, I think you might enjoy it.
Jennifer McDermott
- Thanks for letting me know. It's good to hear the picture was useful. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 12:38, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
Photos Erik Pevernagie
Dear Michael, I edited Files in Category:Erik Pevernagie - Photos , which have been deleted by Ellin Beltz on September 26
May I ask you to mediate in this matter for undeleting these files, as they are my own and my father's, and I have the sole copyright, as member with SABAM, Belgian Copyright Society. I licensed all under CC BY-SA 3.0. My father, Louis Pevernagie, made 12 photos of me since I was 3 years old until 1969. Other picture were made by myself with help of tripods. Mr Ellin Beltz has deleted them on ground of simple disbelief. Could you please, help me out of this Witch hunt.Erik
History: For each illustration/photo authorship, ownership, date, camera make, have been added in the description. Erik Pevernagie is the sole representative who is in charge of the copyright of the works of Louis Pevernagie according SABAM, official copyright association. Onlysilence (talk) 21:20, 5 September 2015 (UTC) Somehow I cannot really believe in "his automatic exposure Sony camera", as stated in the description of many of that files. --A.Savin 23:17, 5 September 2015 (UTC) The author assures he has good experience in automatic exposures with manageable tripods and often uses MeFOTO RoadTrip Carbon Fiber Travel Tripod Kit or MeFOTO GlobeTrotter Carbon Fiber Travel Tripod Kit. Onlysilence (talk) 14:32, 8 September 2015 (UTC)
Deleted: Some of the photos dated back to age 3. The claims of this whole pile of family snaps being "selfies" is unbelievable and under COM:PRP they were deleted. Ellin Beltz (talk) 16:09, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
Thank you for your help. Erik Onlysilence (talk) 21:22, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
- @Onlysilence: Hello Erik. Yes, I'm happy to look at this and try to help out. I'm away for a few days but should be able to work on it over the weekend or early next week. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 13:47, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
- @Onlysilence: Hello again Erik. I've now had a look at the images that were deleted by Ellin Beltz on 26 September, and I think you must be referring to these: Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Erik Pevernagie - Photos. On the basis of the information she had available to her I think that Ellin was probably right to delete them, as the copyright ownership is not always evident. But I'm confident that we should be able to sort that out for at least some of the pictures, especially those taken personally by your father. We'll need to correspond by email as we did before so that the permissions can be properly recorded on our confidential OTRS system. Once that's done I should be able to recover at least some of the images for you. You won't need to upload them again.
- Before we start, I just wanted to check that it's OK for me to refer to the images by the names you used when you uploaded them. If I referred to, say, "File:Erik Pevernagie with colleagues.jpg", would you know which one I am talking about even though you can't see the actual image online any more? Or will you need to see the actual images in order to know which is which? MichaelMaggs (talk) 12:59, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #179
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- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: WikiCon USA (slides)
- Ongoing: World Health Summit (slides)
- Upcoming: ODI Summit with a session on the gene-related efforts on Wikidata
- Don't forget to sign up if you are coming to Wikidata's third birthday party.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Discussion has started on English WikiProject Football about using Wikidata for player squad templates (example) and player club history (example). Needs more input on best practices and commitment to update data.
- A command line client to the SPARQL query service has been released
- Query example: popularity of the given name Adolf
- MoMa artists have been added to Mix'n'match
- Books without authors on Wikidata are now down to 12.5K from 25K since drive began. You can help get it down even further.
- Number of articles that are not connected to a Wikidata item on Catalan Wikipedia has been brought down significantly. How about yours?
- This Month in GLAM has Wikidata coverage
- Interested in British politics? WikiProject British Politicians has some stats to show where you can help out
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: median lethal dose, first aid measures, official symbol, units used for this property, external subproperty, external superproperty, volume for quantity, semi-major axis, cash, explosive velocity, torque, Max TDP, maximum thrust, metallicity, market capitalization, discharge, spectral line, decay width, gyromagnetic ratio, flux, household wealth, real gross domestic product growth rate, net worth, cruise speed, radial velocity, proper motion, parallax, longitude of ascending node, angular distance, position angle, relative to, SourceForge project, average shot length, Spotify track ID, Discogs release ID, Spotify album ID, minimum explosive concentration, upper flammable limit, lower flammable limit, dipole moment, electric charge, autoignition temperature, (average) gradient, production volume, students count, Soccerbase manager id, PSS-Archi architect id, Soccerbase player id, endangeredlanguages.com ID, NILF author id, C-SPAN identifier of a person, BiblioNet publisher identifier, BiblioNet author identifier, BiblioNet publication identifier, Wiki Loves Monuments ID, DLI, history of topic, ISO 9:1995, Finnish Ministers database ID, Finnish MP ID, Kansallisbiografia ID, ACM Classification Code (2012), solvent, solubility, drug used for treatment, medical condition treated
- Development
- You'll now get redirected to the mobile view automatically on mobile devices (example)
- Made it possible to use more entities on a page via Lua without running into Lua's memory limit
- Added the Article Placeholder extension’s results to the search result page (this is one of a few remaining blockers before we can put it on a testsystem for you to try out and give feedback)
- Added option to create a new article from Article Placeholder
- More work on the new datatype for properties
- More work on making meaningful edit summaries on the client. Found a few remaining bugs during testing.
- More work on a birthday present :D
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Wikidata weekly summary #180
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- Events/Blogs/Press
- How many female scientists are there on Wikipedia? This time with SPARQL! (French)
- Wikidata Enpoint SPARQL and the paintings of Goya Wikidata's SPARQL endpoint and the paintings of Goya (French)
- Upcoming: 3rd Birthday \o/ (Please don't forget to register if you're coming to the party.)
- More wrapups of Wikiconference USA including slides: [2], [3]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Magnus overhauled the Wikidata Game! Sweeeeeet! Now includes one where you can match an author and a publication. And it has stats.
- Mix'n'match got skyscrapers to match up for you.
- Sitelinks and P569 compares various Wikipedias by the proportion of items with date of birth (Property:P569)
- Catalan Wikipedia match up all of their articles to items on Wikidata. Congrats!
- Did you know?
- Development
- Worked on adding auto-completion for item and property prefixes to the SPARQL query editor (so you can search by label when entering a query)
- Wrote maintenance script for changing some properties from datatype string to upcoming datatype identifier
- More work on birthday present
- More work on the article placeholder to get it ready for a first demo
- Prepared patch for also publishing JSON dumps with bzip2 compression
- Further improved edit summaries we show on Wikipedia etc
- Prepared for giving Wikispecies, Meta and Mediawiki access to the sitelinks on Wikidata on 20. of October
- Monthly Tasks
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Homeless man in Tokyo
Hi Michael,
I am the graphic designer at Spokane Regional Health District in Spokane, WA.
I wanted to let you know that I am going to be using your photo in our "Missing the Foundation" Homelessness report.
Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful image. I will put your name as a credit.
Amy — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aschruth (talk • contribs) 18:09, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
- Hi Amy, thanks for letting me know. Glad you found it useful. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 22:18, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #181
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- Discussions
- New request for comments: Derived properties, Are colors instance-of or subclass-of color
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Poof it works - using wikidata to build Wikipedia articles about genes
- Wikidata, SPARQL and huskies (French)
- Wikidata, SPARQL and elected dynasties (French)
- The birth and death of German playwrights
- Distributed stats
- Past: Wikidata training at Wikimedia UK
- Upcoming: Wikidata's 3rd birthday \o/ (on 29th)
- Upcoming: SemWeb.Pro in Paris
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- There's a new Wikidata taxonomy browser
- Meta, MediaWiki and Wikispecies now have access to sitelinks on Wikidata. Welcome to Wikidata, sisters!
- Harvest templates. New tool to copy data from templates to Wikidata.
- Number of articles that are not connected to a Wikidata item on Italian Wikipedia has been brought down significantly. How about yours?
- The Wikidata Game now has a primary sources game and one to match Wikispecies pages to Wikidata items
- The National Gallery of Arts was added to Mix'n'match
- Some more query examples: Dracula movies and their actors, movies with links to videos
- Did you know?
- Development
- ctrl-space now enables autocomplete for labels on http://query.wikidata.org . Should make it easier for you to find the right items and properties.
- Worked on birthday present :)
- From Monday on a bzip2 compressed version of the Wikidata json dumps will be published, along with the gzip compressed version.
- Made it possible to get from the search results page to the article placeholder. This was one of the last holdups for a first demo version.
- Monthly Tasks
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Wikidata weekly summary #182
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- Discussions
- How to add dates with undefined calendar (Julian or Gregorian)? is discussed on Project chat.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikidata turned 3! The party doubled as the award ceremony for the Land der Ideen price.
I love Wikidata because - Page with state of the project editorial, message from the development team and greetings
- Images from the party
- Denny and Erik look back at the beginning of the project - the other recordings are still being cut but you can already see the uncut stream here
- Presents:
- Three presents for Wikidata's third birthday from Amir including artificial intelligence to find vandalism!
- Improved query.wikidata.org by the dev team
- Preview of the Article Placeholder by Lucie (bachelor student of the dev team)
- Special:Nearby by the dev team
- Donation of CC World University & School (WUaS) to CC Wikidata to celebrate its 3rd birthday! by Scott_WUaS
- Your name in Wikidata Morse code from TMg
- Help organize the Wikidata related sessions at Wikimania 2016
- Past: Open Access Week
- Past: DINI Jahrestagung (slides)
- Past: Tehran SFD (video)
- Upcoming: ODI Summit
- Upcoming: SWAT4LS
- Modeling the social network of movie actors of the 1920s and 1930s with Wikidata
- Looking for…science fiction movies on the Linked Data Cloud
- Wikidata turned 3! The party doubled as the award ceremony for the Land der Ideen price.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Italian Wikipedia matched up nearly all of their articles to items on Wikidata. Congrats!
- Bene updated the Tours. Please help translate them here.
- The Distributed Game now has a Kian module suggesting statements to add
- Andrew made maps of missing images on Wikidata: South Africa, India, Australia, world
- Nikki imported dates of birth and death for more than 40,000 persons from Japanese Wikipedia.
- Example query: French people with an article on English Wikipedia but not French Wikipedia
- Example query: paintings without dimension (add some?)
- Example query: people or things born or created on the same day of the year as Wikidata
- We passed 15M items.
- Happy 10th anniversary to Semantic MediaWiki! We wouldn't be where we are today without you.
- All 8,860 fellows of the Royal Society have been matched to Wikidata items
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Wikidata property sample, Emporis building complex ID, Orsay Museum artist ID, Politifact Personality Identifier, Fashion Model Directory ID, mix'n'match catalogue ID, ISOCAT id, draft, beam, ionization energy, ITU-T network identifier, mobile country code, frequency of event
- Newest External tools: Top missing P31 by number of sitelinks list the items with most sitelinks lacking instance of or subclass of
- Development
- Worked on birthday presents (Special:Nearby, article placeholder demo system and improvements to query.wikidata.org)
- Wes, Stas, Dan and James from the WMF came over to talk through current work around Wikidata and plans for the future
- Further poked at editing references at the same time as rest of the statement
- Investigated where we can push next to improve performance
- Monthly Tasks
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Photography in UK
I'd be interested in your opinion at Commons:Deletion requests/File:Mothers and children eating ice cream at Kew Gardens.jpg. Thanks. -- Colin (talk) 22:18, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
Done --MichaelMaggs (talk) 22:32, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
Erik Pevernagie
Hello Michael, As you suggested to settle the problem with the photos by email, I sent you an email on Wiki-media on Oct. 28. I wonder whether you had the opportunity to read it. Thank you.Erik Onlysilence (talk) 23:55, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
- Hello Erik. No, I haven't seen an email. Did you send it to me personally or to the OTRS email address? You may need to re-send I'm afraid. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 03:48, 6 November 2015 (UTC)
I tried to forward following by email:
Dear Michael, Thank you for your kind reply.
All pictures are present on the website: http://www.pevernagie.com/
mentioning : Unless otherwise stated, all images on this website are Copyright Erik Pevernagie and are released under CC BY-SA 3.0
The first 8 have been taken by my father Louis Pevernagie.
I am a member of the Belgian Copyright Association SABAM, all pictures are personal property, published on my website and can be shared. Many thanks, Michael
(Would it possible to use email address <xxxxx> which is more convenient for me)
Erik Pevernagie four (Erik Pevernagie four.jpg)
Erik Pevernagie 3 (Erik Pevernagie Little 3 2.JPG)
Erik Pevernagie 4 (Erik Pevernagie Little 4-1.JPG)
x -Erik Pevernagie Ostend,with mother and sister (Erik Pevernagie Oostende VeraMa Erik 1960.jpg)
x -Erik Pevernagie Isle of Wight 1958 (Erik Pevernagie Isle of Wight 1958.jpg)
x -Erik Pevernagie with colleagues 1961 (Erik Pevernagie with colleagues 1961.jpg)
Erik Pevernagie Brussels 1958 (Erik Pevernagie 1958 Brussels.jpg)
Erik Pevernagie Borgward (Erik Pevernagie with Borgward 1961.jpg)
Erik Pevernagie B (Erik Pevernagie Paris.jpg)
Erik Pevernagie A (Erik Pevernagie.jpg)
Erik Pevernagie Antwerp Museum 2009 (Erik Pevernagie at Antwerp Museum 2009.jpg)
Erik Pevernagie Key West 2008 (Erik Pevernagie Key West Celebration.jpg)
Erik Pevernagie Holiday Inn Expo Paris (Erik Holiday Inn Expo Paris .JPG)
Erik Pevernagie Exhibition Berlin (Erik Pevernagie Exhibition Berlin c.jpg)
Erik Pevernagie and Martine Burniaux (Martine Burniaux.JPG)
Erik Pevernagie Home and workshop in Brussels (Home in Brussels.JPG)
Erik Pevernagie at Punta Cana 2006 (Punta Cana 2006.JPG)
Erik Pevernagie and Emil Kirchner San Francisco (San Francisco - Emil Kirchner1981.JPG)
Erik Pevernagie and Oliviero Toscani (Oliviero Toscani.jpg)
Erik Pevernagie with Gilbert and George (Gilbert and George.jpg)
Onlysilence (talk) 21:19, 6 November 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks Erik. I'll email you in the next couple of days. In the meantime, I've removed your email from the page to prevent you from getting lots of junk mail in your inbox. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 22:34, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #183
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- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Lakokat
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikidata/Wikibase Json Dump Reader
- Wikidata project to tackle language barriers in scientific reserach
- Semantic Cities
- Q167545: Wikidata celebrated its third birthday
- Slides from talk at UCSD on "Open biomedical knowledge using crowdsourcing and citizenscience"
- Past: semwebpro (slides)
- Past: ODI Summit
- Past: MozFest (etherpad)
- Upcoming: WikiConference Seoul
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- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- List of Wikipedia articles without an image where Wikidata has one
- Want to use data from Wikidata to enrich data in your own application? S wrote a good start.
- Commons misconceptions and how to avoid them by School of Data
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: charted in, Danish parish code, venous drainage, lymphatic drainage, CRIStin ID, arterial supply, periapsis date, price, uses, Groeningemuseum work PID, iTunes album ID, Austrian Parliament ID, ambitus, Member of the Hellenic Parliament ID, Magdeburger Biographisches Lexikon, UEFA player code, World Health Organisation International Nonproprietary Name, Heidelberg Academy for Sciences and Humanities member ID, Hederich article
- Ever noticed ranks?
- Development
- Worked on the tests for the ArticlePlaceholder
- Finished the create article button for the ArticlePlaceholder page
- From Monday on a bzip2 compressed version of the beta Wikidata TTL dumps will be published along the gzip one
- Getting close to make it possible to add the main value of a statement and its reference at the same time
- Worked on adding a new section to item and property pages for identifiers
- Did backend work for making identifiers useful in our machine-readable outputs (by actually linking them instead of just giving the identifier string) - more work needed
- Fixed a bug where dates would have English months on non-English wikis (phabricator:T116503)
- Fixed a bug when editing labels on mobile (phabricator:T117184)
- Worked more on making search work on mobile
- Worked on a fix for a visual glitch in the table of content on mobile (the box is bigger than its content)
- Monthly Tasks
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Wikidata weekly summary #184
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- Discussions
- Successful request for adminship: Lakokat
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming: Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland
- Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Callisto - a tool that shows places depicted in artworks
- Qwery.me - an experiment for a simplified query service with SPARQL
- Whitepaper exploring Wikidata for cultural institutions
- Example query: real numbers with their approximate value
- Pre-print: Centralizing content and distributing labor: a community model for curating the very long tail of microbial genomes
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: constraint, minimal lethal dose, PPP GDP per capita, NSDAP membership number (1925–1945), employment by economic sector, money supply, net profit, current account balance, genetic association, consumption rate
- Newest WikiProjects: Education
- Newest Database reports: Items without claims by site
- Find Wikidata-only infoboxes in the Czech Wikipedia
- Development
- Added language fallback to Special:ConstraintReport
- Fixed a bug that prevented undoing edits via the api (phabricator:T101694)
- Worked more on moving identifiers into their own section and linking them in the machine-readable export formats
- Worked on making search suggestions work on mobile
- Experimented with using icons instead of text for some of the actions in an item
- Made a lot of progress on a good default layout for the ArticlePlaceholder
- Nearly finished simultaneous editing of value and reference
- Improved browser tests and fixed issues with them
- Monthly Tasks
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Wikidata weekly summary #185
Wikidata weekly summary #114
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- Discussions
- New request for comments: Improve bot policy for data import and data modification
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming: Ubuntu Party, Paris
- Upcoming: Wikidata editathon, National Library of Wales
- More mixin’, more matches
- Impact of Wikimania Mexico 2015 on Wikidata
- Myanmar coordinates on Wikidata by Lockal & Widar
- Tasty translations for the Taste of Stockholm food festival
- Bachelor thesis about generating quiz questions from Wikidata
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Mix'n'match: new catalogs were added
- Whitepaper for GLAM institutions wanting to work with Wikdiata
- MediaWiki, Meta, Wikispecies and Wikinews will get access to the data on Wikidata on Dec. 2nd. (So far they only have access to sitelinks.)
- What kind of information does Wikidata have? Jura made an overview for the types of statements we have.
- You can now use SPARQL instead of WDQ for all Listeria bot-generated lists, on all wikis. See en:Template:Wikidata list
- Alpha release of Wikipedia Gender Inequality Index (using data from Wikidata)
- Query examples: all xkcd comics, English demonyms for countries
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Cycling Archives ID (team), Cycling Archives ID (race), antagonist muscle, ProCyclingStats ID (team), ProCyclingStats ID (race), GNS Unique Feature Identifier, mean anomaly, quantity buried, Swedish Olympic Committee athlete ID, article ID, general classification, aftershocks, elector, debut participant, call sign, constraint status, comment, min quantity, max quantity, max date, min date, relation, class, namespace, property, item, group by, exception to constraint, property constraint, minimal lethal dose
- Development
- Rolled out simultaneous editing of main part of the statement and reference
- Did a clean-up of the statements section (removing some lines etc) and added icons for the actions on statements
- Worked more on moving identifiers into their own section in item pages and having them linked properly in the exports
- Work on improving ranking of search results on Wikidata
- Decreased size of html of item pages
- Adapted our code to some minor changes in the watchlist code in core
- More work on making the search on mobile work
- Made preparations for constraint definitions through statements on properties
- Fixing size of table of content on mobile
- Prevented merging of items which link to each other
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #186
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- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Koavf
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Wikipedia and Wikidata editathon (EditatónAlicia) in Mexico
- Past: Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland
- Past: Wikidata Editathon at the National Library of Wales
- Past: Ubuntu Conference, Paris
- Is Wikidata the new Rosetta Stone?
- WordLift 3.0: A brief semantic story – part 1
- Workshop i Wikidata
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Your help is needed with the most important constraint violations.
- New daily report on Mix'n'match
- Daily updated list of people who's birthday is today
- French Wikisource is using images from Wikidata for their author page headers and more now (example)
- New catalogs have been added to Mix'n'match
- A new author language game has been added to the Wikidata distributed game.
- Mix’n’match now creates a new, pre-filled Wikidata item when no matching one can be found (by humans!), where possible
- Workflow sketch for the OA Signalling project
- example of a Listeria list created from a SPARQL query
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Australian Stratigraphic Units Database ID, Roman agnomen, Roman cognomen, production code, NMHH film rating, time to altitude, online service, intended public, Roman nomen gentilicium, Roman praenomen, Classification of Instructional Programs code, UNESCO endangered language ID, has list, statistical unit, applies to taxon, number of graves, Speedskatingbase.eu ID, Stuttgart Database of Scientific Illustrators ID, period, YSO ID, Elonet movie ID, AGORHA event identifier, AGORHA work ID, playing range image, AGORHA person/institution ID, indigenous to, CESAR person ID, BoardGameGeek ID, Musopen composer ID, SFDb-identifier of group, SFDb-identifier of soundtrack, SFDb-identifier of company, SFDb movie ID, Norwegian organization number, Dictionary of Art Historians
- Development
- Worked on (and for now finished) a new, prettier layout for the ArticlePlaceholder-generated pages
- Made improvements to page size by removing a lot of unneeded comments in the HTML
- Worked more on putting identifiers into their own section and linking them properly without a gadget
- Looked into making it possible to edit more languages without the labellister gadget
- Worked on improving the ranking of search results on Special:Search
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #187
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- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Semantic Web Application and Tools 4 Life Science
- Ongoing: Wikidata for Beginners session at DISH 2015, Rotterdam, 8 December 2015
- Upcoming: Wikidata pour la science
- Upcoming: Workshop on "Wikidata as a platform for biocuration" at Biocuration 2016
- Slides for talk "Building the sum of all human citations"
- Op-ed in Signpost (Lydia is working on a piece to address some of the points)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Closing in towards 1 million links between Commons categories and Wikidata article-type items -- 8,000 more by next week?
- Help labeling edits to improve the vandalism detection on Wikidata
- Open Science Prize is looking for cool ideas for Open Data and health. How about something awesome with Wikidata?
- The Individual Engagement Grant for StrepHit has been accepted
- Are you between 13 and 17? Join us for Google Code-in and do some Wikidata tasks with Wikimedia
- We want your feedback on how to improve the process of showcasing Wikidata's best content
- I dreamed of a perfect database - Wikidata? ;-)
- Histropedia timeline of National Library of Wales
- Wikinews, Wikispecies and MediaWiki now have access to the data on Wikidata. Do awesome things with it, sisters! Meta will follow on 15th.
- Map of narrative locations in Denmark
- Experimental REST API for Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: deprecated in version, issued by, MediaWiki hooks used, superpartner of, has superpartner, natural abundance, Genius artist ID, ODIS ID, FAO risk status, conversion to SI base unit, Soccerway player ID, Sandbox-Property
- Newest Database reports: WikiProject Movies/new films
- Showcase items: Bertus Aafjes
- Development
- Polished the patch that adds icons to the item pages (for actions like edit, remove etc) and makes them cleaner. This will go live later today.
- Worked more on a separate section for identifiers
- Started working on the sorting of statements on the ArticlePlaceholder pages
- Made it possible to use unknown language, no linguistic content and more as languages for the monolingual text datatype
- Experimented more with improvements to the ranking on Special:Search
- Worked on showing more languages in the in other languages box than the ones defined in your babel boxes
- Small improvements to recent changes/watchlist integration on Wikipedia and co
- Worked on making it possible to create a redirect over a deleted item
- Worked on PHP7 support
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #188
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- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikidata: knowledge from different points of view (Signpost op-ed on knowledge diversity and our thinking on data quality)
- The Wikimedia Foundation Scholarships Program is now accepting applications for Wikimania 2016 (deadline: 09 January 2016 23:59 UTC)
- Wikidata: A platform for data integration and dissemination for the life sciences and beyond received the prize for best paper at SWAT4LS. Congrats!
- Past: 50 hours of Wikidata and Wikipedia editing at Museo Soumaya
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Over 16.000 people have contributed to Wikidata over the last month.
- Wikidata Analyst, a tool to help comprehensively analyze the quality of Wikidata (announcement)
- Overview of the current state of Sum of all Paintings and how you can help by Multichill
- query.wikidata.org now more prominently shows example queries in case you missed them before, lets you filter and gives you a preview for them. Additionally you can click a little magnifying glass next to an item ID in a query result and explore it further.
- WikiJourney now has a first release on the Play Store
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: JMDb film identifier, British Council artist ID, MLSSoccer.com ID, YouTube channel ID, image of function, MGI gene symbol, NCBI Locus tag, teaching method, OKPO ID, Ballotpedia ID, organisation directed from the office, office held by head of the organisation, Elonet actor ID, diameter, French diocesan architects ID, statement describes, CTHS person ID, Chemins de mémoire ID, Academic Tree ID, French Sculpture Census ID, deprecated in version, issued by
- Query example: Which "Lincoln" was "Lincoln" named for?, places by elevation span, people who died in 1945 (for upcoming 2016 public domain day)
- Newest Database reports: List of films without article in Wikipedia of the same language
- Development
- Working on sorting of statement groups for the ArticlePlaceholder extension
- Further work on a separate section for identifiers
- Worked on properly linking identifiers in the exports
- Removed a number of lines and boxes in the statement section to make it less busy
- Made it possible to create a redirect over a deleted item without having to undelete it first
- Further work on improving ranking on Special:Search
- Making it possible to show and edit more languages for labels/descriptions/aliases than the ones defined in your babel boxes
- Getting ready for the holidays :)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #189
Wikidata weekly summary #186
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- Discussions
- Successful request for adminship: Eurodyne
- Events/Blogs/Press
- World Health Summit yearbook for 2015
- You can apply for a scholarship to attend Wikimania 2016 (deadline: January 9th)
- Talk submissions for Wikimania 2016 are open. We'd love to see many Wikidata-related submissions. If you need help with your submission contact Lydia.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Google has launched the Knowledge Graph Search API, replacing the deprecated Freebase API
- Meta now has access to the data on Wikidata as well
- Want to get an overview of the classes and properties on Wikidata? The Miga class and property browser was updated.
- WikiBrowser - semantically browse Wikipedia with the help of Wikidata
- WikiFamou.us lets you compare topics by popularity across languages with the help of Wikidata
- Chronas is a history project linking Wikipedia and Wikidata with a chronological and cartographical view
- Visiting some place for the holidays? Check out the items nearby.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Fashion Model Directory magazine ID, Fashion Model Directory designer ID, Artsy gene, WikiPathways ID, NII Article ID, set in period, short-term exposure limit, maximum peak exposure limit, ceiling exposure limit, time-weighted average exposure limit, Total assets, total expenditure, Six Degrees of Francis Bacon ID
- Query example: works created by females who died in 1945
- Development
- <3 Thanks for being awesome. Enjoy the holidays :)
- We will take the "in other projects"-sidebar out of beta features in January (phabricator:T103102)
- Making ranking information like label and statement counts available to the CirrusSearch index in order to improve ranking in search results (phabricator:T110648)
- Continued work on the identifier data type for identifiers like VIAF and ISBN so we can easily put them into a separate section in the items and properly link them in the exports (phabricator:T95682, phabricator:T121274)
- Continued work on making external identifiers clickable links without the help of the authority control gadget (phabricator:T95684)
- Fixed a mistake in the set reference API documentation (gerrit:259171)
- More work on cleaning up the statement section (phabricator:T121390)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Wikidata weekly summary #190
Wikidata weekly summary #186
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- Events/Blogs/Press
- Ongoing: 32C3
- Upcoming: Wikimedia Developer Summit
- Upcoming: StrepHit IEG project kick-off seminar
- Upcoming: Office hour on IRC
- Upcoming: FOSDEM (Lucie will give a talk about the ArticlePlaceholder extension)
- Registration and scholarship applications for the Wikimedia Hackathon in Israel are open
- Don't forget your talk submissions for Wikimania 2016. Lydia can help if needed.
- Getting CAS registry numbers out of WikiData
- The quality of SMILES strings in Wikidata
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Development
- Some small bugfixes and tweaks.
- Enjoying the holidays and editing on Wikidata. Hope you are too :)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.