[Wikidata-l] weekly summary 46
Heya folks :) Here's your weekly summary of everything fancy happening around Wikidata. It's was quite a week! The wiki version is at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2013_02_22 = Development = * Deployed new features and bugfixes including diffs for statements and the ability to enter items and properties by their ID: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#New_features_and_bugfixes_rolled_out * Updated demo system (http://wikidata-test-repo.wikimedia.de/wiki/Testwiki:Main_Page) * Database maintainance (Wikidata was in read-only mode for a bit) * Implemented first version of a string data type * Worked on better error reporting from the API * Ported Lua function mw.wikibase.getEntity to Wikibase extension * Worked on making the search box suggest items and properties while typing * Improved the behaviour of the entity selector (thingy that lets you select items and entities) * Improved debugging experience in JavaScript when dealing with prototypical inheritance * Worked on cleanup of local entity store * Generalized generation of localizable edit summaries See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Current_sprint for what we’re working on next. You can follow our commits at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase)+OR+(status:merged+project:mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase),n,z and view the subset awaiting review at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase,n,z You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1list_id=151540resolution=---emailtype1=exactemailassigned_to1=1query_format=advancedemail1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org = Discussions/Press = * Wikidata development will continue in 2013: http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/02/20/the-future-of-wikidata/ * Wikidata Phase 2 in Full Swing: http://semanticweb.com/wikidata-phase-2-in-full-swing_b35445 * RFC about the Wikidata API: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2013-February/001763.html * Lots of discussions about certain properties and how they should be used. Current state is at http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:List_of_properties and new ones are being discussed at http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal * RCF about amending the global bot policy for Wikidata: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Bot_policy * Proposed changes to Wikidata’s notability guidelines: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Proposed_guideline_change:_Notability_rules = Events = see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events * office hour including a report on the current status of Wikidata (log is at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2013-02-16) * upcoming: Wikipedia Day NYC = Other Noteworthy Stuff = * Deployment of phase 1 (language links) on all remaining Wikipedias and a small update on Wikidata are planned for March 6 * Great page for editors to learn about what phase 1 means for them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikidata * Cool tool visualizing family relations based on data in Wikidata: http://toolserver.org/~magnus/ts2/geneawiki/?q=Q1339 * “Restricting the World” (first in a series about some design decisions behind Wikidata): http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/02/22/restricting-the-world/ * List of most used properties: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Popular_properties * OmegaWiki is using Wikidata to get links to Wikipedia articles: http://omegawiki.blogspot.de/2013/02/using-wikidata-to-display-links-to.html * Nyan Nyan Wikidata Nyan Nyan http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-Cat.gif * We’ve hit http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q500 * Had a look at http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools lately? = Open Tasks for You = * Hack on one of https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20keywords_type=allwordsemailcc1=1resolution=---emailtype1=exactemailassigned_to1=1query_format=advancedemail1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.orglist_id=162515 * Help translate http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Deployment_Questions * Help bring the content of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikidata to your Wikipedia Anything to add? Please share! :) Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. ___ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
Re: [Wikidata-l] weekly summary 46
I want to add it's now possible to import another wiki's articles via
pywikipediabot:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/pywikipedia/11103
More info and examples:
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot/Dexbot
The code is very simple:
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import wikipedia
site=wikipedia.getSite('fa',fam='wikipedia')
listofarticles=[uعماد خراسانی,uکوری جهاز]
for name in listofarticles:
page=wikipedia.Page(site,name)
data=wikipedia.DataPage(page)
try:
items=data.get()
except wikipedia.NoPage:
print The item doesn't exist. Creating...
data.createitem(Bot: Importing article from Persian wikipedia)
else:
print It has been created already. Skipping...
On 2/22/13, Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de wrote:
Heya folks :)
Here's your weekly summary of everything fancy happening around
Wikidata. It's was quite a week!
The wiki version is at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2013_02_22
= Development =
* Deployed new features and bugfixes including diffs for statements
and the ability to enter items and properties by their ID:
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#New_features_and_bugfixes_rolled_out
* Updated demo system
(http://wikidata-test-repo.wikimedia.de/wiki/Testwiki:Main_Page)
* Database maintainance (Wikidata was in read-only mode for a bit)
* Implemented first version of a string data type
* Worked on better error reporting from the API
* Ported Lua function mw.wikibase.getEntity to Wikibase extension
* Worked on making the search box suggest items and properties while typing
* Improved the behaviour of the entity selector (thingy that lets you
select items and entities)
* Improved debugging experience in JavaScript when dealing with
prototypical inheritance
* Worked on cleanup of local entity store
* Generalized generation of localizable edit summaries
See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Current_sprint
for what we’re working on next.
You can follow our commits at
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase)+OR+(status:merged+project:mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase),n,z
and view the subset awaiting review at
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase,n,z
You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata at
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1list_id=151540resolution=---emailtype1=exactemailassigned_to1=1query_format=advancedemail1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org
= Discussions/Press =
* Wikidata development will continue in 2013:
http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/02/20/the-future-of-wikidata/
* Wikidata Phase 2 in Full Swing:
http://semanticweb.com/wikidata-phase-2-in-full-swing_b35445
* RFC about the Wikidata API:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2013-February/001763.html
* Lots of discussions about certain properties and how they should be
used. Current state is at
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:List_of_properties and new ones
are being discussed at
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal
* RCF about amending the global bot policy for Wikidata:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Bot_policy
* Proposed changes to Wikidata’s notability guidelines:
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Proposed_guideline_change:_Notability_rules
= Events =
see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events
* office hour including a report on the current status of Wikidata
(log is at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2013-02-16)
* upcoming: Wikipedia Day NYC
= Other Noteworthy Stuff =
* Deployment of phase 1 (language links) on all remaining Wikipedias
and a small update on Wikidata are planned for March 6
* Great page for editors to learn about what phase 1 means for them:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikidata
* Cool tool visualizing family relations based on data in Wikidata:
http://toolserver.org/~magnus/ts2/geneawiki/?q=Q1339
* “Restricting the World” (first in a series about some design
decisions behind Wikidata):
http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/02/22/restricting-the-world/
* List of most used properties:
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Popular_properties
* OmegaWiki is using Wikidata to get links to Wikipedia articles:
http://omegawiki.blogspot.de/2013/02/using-wikidata-to-display-links-to.html
* Nyan Nyan Wikidata Nyan Nyan
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-Cat.gif
* We’ve hit http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q500
* Had a look at http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools lately?
= Open Tasks for You =
* Hack on one of
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20keywords_type=allwordsemailcc1=1resolution=---emailtype1=exactemailassigned_to1=1query_format=advancedemail1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.orglist_id=162515
*
