Hey folks :) Here's what's been happening around Wikidata over the past week. Enjoy and have a good weekend.
Discussions - New request for comments: Improve bot policy for data import and data modification <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Improve_bot_policy_for_data_import_and_data_modification> Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Upcoming: Ubuntu Party, Paris <http://ubuntu-paris.org/programme/#ateliers> - Upcoming: Wikidata editathon, National Library of Wales <https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Expert_outreach/Wikipedian_in_Residence_at_the_National_Library_of_Wales/WikiData_Editathon> - More mixin’, more matches <http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=373> - Impact of Wikimania Mexico 2015 on Wikidata <http://addshore.com/2015/11/impact-of-wikimania-mexico-2015-on-wikidata/> - Myanmar coordinates on Wikidata by Lockal & Widar <http://addshore.com/2015/11/myanmar-coordinates-on-wikidata-by-lockal-widar/> - Tasty translations for the Taste of Stockholm food festival <https://opensource.com/life/15/11/tasty-translations-the-open-source-way> - Bachelor thesis about generating quiz questions from Wikidata <ftp://ftp.tik.ee.ethz.ch/pub/students/2015-FS/BA-2015-13.pdf> Other Noteworthy Stuff - Mix'n'match <https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/>: new catalogs were added - Whitepaper for GLAM institutions wanting to work with Wikdiata <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Flemish_art_collections,_Wikidata_and_Linked_Open_Data/Whitepaper> - 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. <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jura1/statements_by_property> - You can now use SPARQL instead of WDQ for all Listeria bot-generated lists, on all wikis. See en:Template:Wikidata list <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikidata_list> - Alpha release of Wikipedia Gender Inequality Index <http://wigi.wmflabs.org/> (using data from Wikidata) - Query examples: all xkcd comics <https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20xsd%3A%20%20%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2001%2FXMLSchema%23%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fepisode%20%3FepisodeLabel%20%3Fnumber%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fepisode%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ838795%20.%0A%20%20%3Fepisode%20wdt%3AP361%20wd%3AQ13915%20.%0A%20%20%3Fepisode%20wdt%3AP433%20%3Fnumber%20.%0A%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20xsd%3Ainteger%28%3Fnumber%29>, English demonyms for countries <https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20%3Fcountry%20%3Fname%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fcountry%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ6256%20.%0A%20%20%3Fcountry%20wdt%3AP1549%20%3Fname%20.%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28%20lang%28%3Fname%29%3D%27en%27%29%0A%7D%0A> Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: Cycling Archives ID (team) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2331>, Cycling Archives ID (race) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2330>, antagonist muscle <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2329>, ProCyclingStats ID (team) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2328>, ProCyclingStats ID (race) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2327>, GNS Unique Feature Identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2326>, mean anomaly <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2325>, quantity buried <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2324>, Swedish Olympic Committee athlete ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2323>, article ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2322>, general classification <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2321>, aftershocks <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2320>, elector <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2319>, debut participant <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2318>, call sign <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2317>, constraint status <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2316>, comment <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2315>, min quantity <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2313>, max quantity <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2312>, max date <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2311>, min date <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2310>, relation <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2309>, class <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2308>, namespace <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2307>, property <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2306>, item <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2305>, group by <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2304>, exception to constraint <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2303>, property constraint <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2302>, minimal lethal dose <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2300> 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 You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>. Monthly Tasks - Hack on one of these <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/R8GRzX1eH0tb/#R>. - Help develop the next summary here! <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next> - Contribute to a Showcase item <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items> - Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats> or proofread pages in your own language! - Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above. Anything to add? Please share! :) Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 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.
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