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Wikidata weekly summary #293
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Past: Wikidata team and volunteers were at 34C3. Check the videos, the tweets, a new design made by Bleeptrack for a cake. Videos of Wikidata-related workshops will be published soon.
- Upcoming: Cultural heritage Wikidata workshop in Prague, 13th January 2018
- Using Scholia as Open Notebook Science tool to support literature searching
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New tool that allow users to fill labels and descriptions to Wikidata items en masse
- Change on the editing interface: save becomes publish. Please help translating in your language and update documentation
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Minneapolis Institute of Art ID, CHGIS ID, Guardiana ID, Barnes Foundation ID, VOGRIPA ID, Rugby Canada ID, Ent'revues ID, World of Spectrum ID, Smithsonian American Art Museum ID, HATVP ID, Google Arts & Culture partner ID, Google Arts & Culture asset ID, Cairn journal ID, Canal-U channel ID, Conseil de Presse Luxembourg journalist ID, Historic Place Names of Wales ID, CIQUAL2017 ID, GEMS Code, Arquivo Arq ID, Argentine deputy ID, American Art Collaborative object ID
- Query examples:
- Landlocked countries bordering coastal countries (source)
- Most common years of birth in Wikidata (source)
- Map of lighthouses around the world (source)
- Bubble chart showing countries with the highest number of children out of school in 2013 (source)
- Playwright dead in 1947 (whose works are now in Public Domain) (source)
- Development
- Fixed a problem with references in history of items (phab:T182767) Thanks to Matěj Suchánek who helped providing a workaround
- Make statements on forms persistent for lexicographical data (phab:T163724)
- Fix a bug that removed the collapse button (phab:T175492)
- Remove cache constraint check results on purge (phab:T182107)
- Add sitelinks to hif.wiktionary (phab:T180785)
- Read constraint check results from cache and check freshness (phab:T182106)
- Re-label the "Save" links to "Publish" (phab:T161367)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikidata weekly summary #294
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Jarekt
- New request for comments: Changes to P2737 and P2738, Privacy and Living People
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: IRC office hour on January 30th - you can share ideas for topics to discuss
- Call for papers for WikiIndaba is open
- Scholarship applications for Wikimania are open
- Registration is open for the Wikimedia hackathon
- Paper submission deadline for Wiki Workshop (part of The Web Conference) is closing later this month
- The Tom Longboat Awards as Wikidata - Mita Williams
- Using the Semantic Web to Improve Knowledge of Translations - Karen Smith-Yoshimura (OCLC)
- There is no deadline so every second is one: on anxiety, perfectionism, and Wikimedia projects by Léna
- Up2date software versions for Wikidata by Michi
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata will be in read-only mode on January 9th from 06:00 to 06:30 UTC
- The WikidataCon 2017 report has been published
- Results of two research projects for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons have just been published:
- Supporting Commons contributions by GLAM institutions: an overview of how cultural institutions contribute to Wikimedia Commons, and which issues they encounter there
- Baseline Metrics for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons: an overview of measurable behaviors on Wikimedia Commons, against which the effectiveness of structured data can be measured in the future
- You can start organizing an event for Wikidata's 6th birthday in October 2018
- A short summary of the workshop with historians using Wikibase to collect data about the Illuminati has been published at Wikidata:FactGrid
- How would the World look like if countries were as large as their Wikidata items are used across the Wikimedia projects?
- New catalogs in Mix'n'match - for example Rolling Stone artist]
- New tool: Hub
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: MuBE Virtual ID, Basketball-Reference.com WNBA coach ID, Basketball-Reference.com NBA coach ID, Académie française member ID, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres member ID, Guide to North American Birds ID, title page number, Walters Art Museum ID, Minneapolis Institute of Art artwork ID, CHGIS ID, Guardiana ID, Barnes Foundation ID, VOGRIPA ID, Rugby Canada ID, Ent'revues ID, World of Spectrum ID, Smithsonian American Art Museum ID
- Query examples:
- Newest database reports: days of 2018
- Development
- Tweaked the ranking of the results in the entity suggester
- Finished persistently storing edits of statements on forms (phabricator:T163724)
- Cleaned up some of the hard-coded demo data on the demo system for lexicographical data
- Working on diff support for Forms on Lexemes (phabricator:T182424)
- Prevented checking of constraints on "Wikidata property example" statements (phabricator:T183267)
- Added link to the property's talk page to the constraint violation dialog to guide people there to discuss the constraint if necessary (phabricator:T164351)
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikidata weekly summary #295
- Discussions
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- GraFa, a new faceted browser for Wikidata is looking for feedback.
- Analysis: How much are items about scientific articles, genes and chemical entities used on the Wikimedia projects?
- New catalogs in Mix'n'match - for example Nobel Prize People Nomination (More than 600 properties now have a corresponding catalog in Mix'n'match.)
- Next round of Projects Grants is open for applications until the end of January (see also this blog post)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: National Historic Ships certificate no., Dictionnaire des auteurs luxembourgeois ID, Line Music album ID, Line Music artist ID, Elhuyar ZTH ID, is proceedings from, Basketball-Reference.com NBDL player ID, animal breed, Uniform Resource Identifier Scheme, OpenEdition journal ID, Brooklyn Museum artwork ID, Musée des Augustins artwork ID, Yale Center for British Art artwork ID, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum artwork ID, IBM graphic character global identifier, IBM coded character set ID, IBM code page identifier, produced sound, IUPAC GoldBook ID, The Baseball Cube player ID, Mir@bel journal ID, INRAN Italian Food ID, uBio ID, Deutsche Synchronkartei dubbing voice actor ID, Sign@l journal ID, C-SPAN organization ID, Le Maitron person ID, GSMArena phone ID, Érudit journal ID
- Query examples:
- Gallery of photography techniques
- Street names that exist several times in Berlin (source)
- Average length of movie by genre and year (source)
- Inventions by Republicans (source)
- Celebrities born in January of a leap year (source)
- Countries with no rivers (source)
- Female aviation pioneers born before 1900 (source)
- People who died on K2 (source)
- Showcase items: 15 January 2018
- Development
- Wikidata moved to a new and bigger server.
- Added support for a constraint scope in the constraint check gadget (phabricator:T183542)
- Now ignoring deprecated constraints in the constraint check gadget (phabricator:T180874)
- Added new Lua function getAllStatements (phabricator:T166056 - thanks Eran!)
- Worked on diff support and edit summaries for edits on Forms (phabricator:T182424)
- Worked on persistent editing of the grammatical features of a Form (phabricator:T173742)
- Google Code-In 2017 work on the Wikidata Query Service UI:
- add highlight and selection for query result table, by Anpans (phabricator:T183807)
- keyboard accessibility, by eflyjason (phabricator:T173213 and subtasks)
- make more areas translatable, by Albert221 (phabricator:T171636)
- mobile / responsive menus, by eflyjason (phabricator:T154890)
- lazy loading in ImageGrid, by Sydney (phabricator:T166216)
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
The Signpost: 16 January 2018
- News and notes: Communication is key
- In the media: The Paris Review, British Crown and British Media
- Featured content: History, gaming and multifarious topics
- Interview: Interview with Ser Amantio di Nicolao, the top contributor to English Wikipedia by edit count
- Technology report: Dedicated Wikidata database servers
- Arbitration report: Mister Wiki is first arbitration committee decision of 2018
- Traffic report: The best and worst of 2017
Wikidata weekly summary #296
- Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: Mahir256 (as successful)
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Getting data from Wikidata into WordPress custom taxonomy
- PIDapalooza - Girona, 23-24 January,with a session on PIDs in Wikidata by Andy Mabbett
- The EuropeanaTech Call for Proposals is open till February 7. Themes are Data, Discovery, Delivery. The conference will take place in Rotterdam, NL, May 15-16, 2018.
- Call for papers for Celtic Knot conference is open
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Nominations for the Steward elections are open
- Grant proposal for GlobalFactSync
- repology is a nice new project about software packages with the help of Wikidata. They have a list of potentially outdated packages on Wikidata that might need updating or fixing.
- Painters gives you a list of paintings that don't have a creator statement but "painting by" in the description
- Big City Lights: where are the cities whose items are most used across the Wikimedia projects?
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: Commons compatible image available at URL, is a hydrated form of, biological phase, lot number, MAC Address Block Large ID, has boundary
- External identifiers: SRCBB coach ID, Manus Online ID, Ecocrop ID, Harvard botanical journal ID, UK railway station code, V Live channel ID, Songwriters Hall of Fame ID, MONA ID, Luminous-Lint ID, LTI Korea Library ID, Images d'Art artwork ID, Common Database on Designated Areas ID, crates.io ID, Arcade artwork ID, Australian honours ID, cinematografo company ID, cinematografo name ID, GameRankings game ID, compArt institution ID, compArt person ID, MobyGames company ID, USA Rugby player ID, MYmovies actor ID, MYmovies movie ID, MYmovies director ID, Movieplayer characters ID, Movieplayer film ID, Movieplayer TV-series ID, MYmovies name ID
- Query examples:
- Map of nuclear tests (source)
- Languages with more than one writing system (source)
- Subclasses of malware (source)
- Male actors who starred in a trilogy of movies when they were in their 20s and then no fewer than 40 years later played the same character again(source - see whole thread for more)
- Bands from the UK whose member's average age is at least 70 (source)
- Disney movie narrative locations (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Worked on persistent editing of grammatical features of a lexeme’s form (phab:T173742)
- Made diffs for statements, grammatical features and representations of a form work (phab:T182424)
- Turned off access to lexicographical data from the clients for now (phab:T178904)
- Started logging warning on pages that use too many items (phab:T184319)
- Added support for relation instance or subclass of in the constraint checks (phab:T169858)
- Now also checking single value and multi value constraints on qualifiers and references (phab:T175566)
- Now also checking difference within range constraints on qualifiers and references (phab:T175565)
- Fixed a bug with duplicate items in “distinct values” violation message in the constraint checks gadget (phab:T184705)
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikidata weekly summary #297
- Discussions
- Closed request for comments: Defining account creators
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: IRC office hour on the channel #wikimedia-office, January 30th, at 18:00 (UTC+1). Special topic: how to address the growth of Wikidata
- Upcoming: Wikidata hackathon in London, February 3rd
- Past: PIDapalooza 2018 - Slides on FigShare
- Mapping Wikidata to Bibframe (representation of books)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Breaking change: wbcheckconstraints status parameter
- Wikidata-driven infoboxes, with multilingual labels, are now available on Wikimedia Commons category pages
- Wikidata vandalism dashboard for Wikipedians
- Grant proposals looking for review: WikidataJS, GlobalFactSync
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: cinematografo film ID, CiNii author ID (articles)
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Newest gadgets: Mix'n'Match gadget: loads all Mix’m’match entries about an item, shows descriptions, lets you drag’n’drop entries as references
- Newest properties:
- Newest database reports: tennis federations, Davis Cup and Fed Cup teams
- Showcase items:
- Development
- Constraint violations can now be checked on qualifiers and references (phab:T168532)
- Implemented usage tracking deduplication to reduce database load (phab:T178079). This should not have any effect on what users see on recent changes and watchlists.
- Redirects on client wikis that are connected to a Wikidata item can have a tracking category, if set up (phab:T185743). Thanks, Matěj!
- Improved documentation of the
pageterms
query module (gerrit:406240). Thanks, Niedzielski! - Improved empty "content was:" in deletion logs for entities (phab:T184025)
- Fixed links to external user pages in recent changes (phab:T183019)
- Fixed user names beginning with a star sometimes being rendered as a list (phab:T182800)
- Fixed constraint check results possibly showing up in the wrong language (phab:T185688)
- Fixed ArticlePlaceholders possibly not showing up in search results (gerrit:406168)
- Some of the developers attended to the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2018. You can find some notes on the Phabricator board
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
The Signpost: 5 February 2018
- Featured content: Wars, sieges, disasters and everything black possible
- Traffic report: TV, death, sports, and doodles
- Special report: Cochrane–Wikipedia Initiative
- Arbitration report: New cases requested for inter-editor hostility and other collaboration issues
- In the media: Solving crime; editing out violence allegations
- Humour: You really are in Wonderland
Wikidata weekly summary #298
- Discussions
- AICAT grants proposal
- ScienceSource grants renewal
- Open request for adminship: Kostas20142
- Events/Press/Blogs
- From the life of Wikidata: with the Wikidata Concepts Monitor we can now begin to discover how our communities use knowledge across the Wikimedia projects, by Goran S. Milovanović
- See also: WDCM Journal, several examples of the use of Wikidata on the Wikimedia projects
- What GLAM can teach us about multimedia metadata on Wikimedia Commons, by Jonathan Morgan and Sandra Fauconnier
- Wikidata and the German handball player nicknames by k-nut
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- We are saddened to report that Polish Wikimedian Krzysztof Machocki (who was also active on Wikidata) died on 31 January 2018, aged 36, after a couple of weeks of illness. Our condolences to his family and friends.
- Notes of the IRC office hour of January 30th
- The call for submissions for Wikimania (Cape Town, July 2018) is now open. Deadline is March 18th. Ideas of submissions related to Wikidata can be discussed here
- Based on community discussions, the ArticlePlaceholder will soon be deployed on Urdu and Estonian Wikipedias.
- Statistics
- January 2018 brought us 9,770,248 edits, 445,027 new items were created.
- The number of users that edited Wikidata per day grew in 2017 from 2439 to 2672 users, 9,6% more compared to 2016. The number of edits by them grew with 18% to 190k edits per day. We also get edited by 542 IP adresses per day, 50% more than in 2016.
- In 2017, Wikidata got edited by 46 various bots per day, executing 334k edits per day (63% more than in 2016). The most active bot in 2017 was Emijrpbot, who added 18 million edits to Wikidata.
- 284 million statements now contain references, compared to 67 million at the start of 2017. The average number of statements per item grew from 5 to almost 9. 73 million qualifiers are now used to provide more details for statements, 13 million in early 2017.
- New tool based on Wikidata: Random TV episodes
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: uses data storage type, commanded by, dam
- External identifiers: Who's Who UK ID, Basketball-Reference.com euro player ID
- Query examples:
- Items that have or will have been gone for as long as they were there this month (source)
- Members of the current UK Parliament who have ancestors in Wikidata who are identified as possibly mythical (source)
- Older siblings who died less than a month before their younger sibling entered an office (source)
- List of tram lines in Vienna (source)
- Adjacent districts in Vienna that have no tram line connecting them (source)
- Places of birth, death and burial of the artists hosted in the Sweden’s museum of art and design (source)
- Newest gadgets and scripts: a script for semi-automated import of information from Commons categories is waiting for feedback
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Diffs now show the entity ID in the page title (phab:T181077)
- Improved handling of translations in the Query Service UI (gerrit:406301, gerrit:406996), thanks to Li Song
- Continued working on diffs for forms on Lexemes (eg. phab:T186317)
- Added summaries for edits on representations or grammatical features of a form (phab:T184702)
- Worked on showing links to Lexemes and statements (phab:T185332)
- Rolling out fine grain usage tracking on more wikis, so only relevant changes are shown in the watchlist and recent changes (phab:T185032)
- Improved scalability of fine grain usage tracking (phab:T185693)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikidata weekly summary #299
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Monthly Wikidata workshop in Paris, February 16th
- Upcoming: Wikimedia Community User Group Brasil promotes the 4th Wikdata Lab: How to add a lot of data, 22th February 2018
- Upcoming: #datatónCervantes, Wikidata workshop in Madrid, February 24th
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Lausanne, February 24th
- Discovering Types for Entity Disambiguation, on OpenAI blog
- The File (Dis)connect, by Magnus Manske
- WDCM Journal: What is Love (Q316)? Accessing Wikidata P279 and P31 paths from WDCM by Goran Milovanović
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- IRC office hour for Structured Data on Commons on Tuesday, 13 February from 18:00-19:00 UTC. More information available on Meta.
- mySociety is looking for a vacancy for a WikiData-experienced Community Manager for their Democratic Commons project
- The next Weekly Summary (February 19th) will be the 300th edition of the newsletter! To help making it special, you can share your favorite Wikidata tool, so the other readers discover nice tools
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: identifiers.org prefix, season starts, make-up artist, sets environment variable, reads environment variable, Technical Element Score, deductions (in figure skating), Program Component Score
- External identifiers: Basketball-Reference.com referee ID, Basketball-Reference.com NBL player ID, member of the Assembly of Madrid ID, BTO Birds of Britain ID, Rugby Australia ID, EUAP ID, LoC and MARC vocabularies ID, BVPB authority ID, Amtrak station code, Compagnon de la Libération ID, Gaming-History identifier, Fauna Europaea New ID, Royal Academy new identifier, BWSA ID, Statistical Service of Cyprus Geocode, PARES ID, Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture control number, Lemon 64 ID, Panoptikum identifier, Swedish portrait archive, TORA ID, Cour des comptes magistrate ID, La Poste personality ID, American National Biography ID, org-id.guide ID, Swimrankings meet ID, JORFsearch person ID, Swiss Enterprise Identification Number, Landslagsdatabasen ID, Bandysidan player ID, World Sailing regatta ID, Sailboatdata ID, Deutsche Synchronkartei series ID
- Query examples:
- Timeline of the Soviet Space Program (source)
- Countries with the most sister cities with French towns (source)
- JO2018: all 108 French competitors at the 2018 Winter Olympics by year of birth (source)
- Languages used by poeple in Austria, other than German (source)
- Biologists with Twitter accounts (source)
- Feed readers by license and operating system (source)
- List of female UK MPs who were descended from UK MPs (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Make grammatical forms persistent (phab:T173742)
- Improve the edit summary of Forms (phab:T184702)
- Handle adding and/or removing forms in lexeme diffs (phab:T186317)
- Improve formatting of the Lexemes(phab:T185332)
- Enable Lua fine grained usage tracking on more wikis (phab:T186645)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikidata weekly summary #300
- Welcome to the 300th Weekly Summary!
The weekly newsletter was started by Lydia at the very beginning of the Wikidata project, even before the first deployment, to keep the community informed about the developments, the new projects and tools. More than five years later, the newsletter is still there, its content powered by the community, and sent every week all along the years. I wanted to say a warm "thank you!" to each person who helped filling the Weekly Summary <3
Over the past years, as you know, Wikidata has grown a lot. More data, more tools, more editors and reusers, more exciting projects led by the community. The Weekly Summary has evolved with us, and the 300th edition seems a good moment to ask you all your suggestions about the newsletter, how it could continue evolving, and how you would like to improve it.
On that purpose, you can find a feedback page to express all your ideas about the Weekly Summary. We're very interested to know more about your reading habits, the parts you're more or less interested in, the new topics you would like to share with the community. Thanks in advance for filling it.
I stay available anytime to discuss with you, feel free to contact me if you have any question or concern! Cheers, Léa
- A selection of cool tools on Wikidata
Here are a few tools that are recommended by some Wikidata community members. External websites, gadgets or scripts, they are very useful for Wikidata editors or users!
- The Wikidata Query Service is an infinite source of amazing data and one of the best ways to explore and use Wikidata. (TweetsFactsAndQueries)
- QuickStatements is a powerful tool that can edit or add Wikidata item en masse, via a text editor or importing a spreadsheet. (Éder Porto via Facebook)
- Mix'n'match (manual), which helps us to interlink Wikidata with the rest of the web and the world :-) (Spinster, Siobhan via Twitter)
- WikiShootMe! allows you to see Wikidata items plotted out on a map and shows you whether they have images or not. (Ham II)
- Yair Rand's WikidataInfo script adds the QID of the equivalent Wikidata item to the page being viewed (on sister projects), along with its Wikidata label and description. (Andy Mabbett)
- Recoin measures the degree of completeness of relevant properties of a Wikidata item and suggests any relevant statements that can be added to the item. (Rachmat04)
- Template:Wikidata list ("Listeria") Self-updating lists on wiki pages, to drive projects and show results. Over 14,000 now live. (Jheald)
- DuplicateReferences gadget adds a link to copy references and add them to other statements on the same item. (PKM)
- checkConstraints gadget adds notifications on the interface to easily notice the violation of constraints and help people fixing them (Léa)
- Resolve authors lists scientific articles with the property author name string (P2093) and groups them on the basis of co-authors and topic, which helps to distinguish people referred to by identical name strings. (Daniel Mietchen)
- The Wiki Loves Monuments map is powered by Wikidata. You can look for a city and find the monuments around. (Stefano Sabatini via Facebook)
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Wikidata Lab: How to add a lot of data, São Paulo, February 22th
- Upcoming: #datatónCervantes, Wikidata workshop in Madrid, February 24th
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Lausanne, February 24th
- Upcoming: Wikidata seminar, Oxford e-Research Centre, February 28th
- Ongoing: Fourth Annual month wide d:Wikidata:Events/Nepal#Datathon_2018
- Past: Wikidata doathon, 14-15 February 2018, Göttingen
- A Reconciliation Recipe for Wikidata by Martin Poulter
- Some ways Wikidata can improve search and discovery by Martin Poulter
- From Wikidata to Scholia: creating structured linked data to generate scholarly profiles
- Querying Wikidata about Vienna tram lines, by Stefan Daschek
- Using wikidata for linked data WordPress indexes, by Phil Barker
- Using Wikidata to build an authority list of Holocaust-era ghettos
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- There are now over 100,000 ORCID iDs in Wikidata.
- The usage history graph that is being linked to on property talk pages now shows usage since the end of August 2016. This used to be 50 days. Thanks Lockal!
- Feedback needed: ontology for structured data on Commons
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: has command line option, Wolfram Language entity code, total fertility rate, development of anatomical structure, research intervention, permitted food additive, maximum food additive use level
- External identifiers: TheTVDB.com ID, Irish Women Rugby Football Union ID, CATO ID, Directory of Czech publishers ID, ASHRAE refrigerant number, Bulbapedia article, Lemon Amiga identifier, CPC-Power identifier, Libraries.org ID, International Numbering System number, JECFA database ID, JMPR database ID, Uppslagsverket Finland ID, Phasmida Species File ID
- Query examples:
- Women with an Erdős number
- Classes that are subclass of both physical object and abstract object (thread)
- Countries sharing land borders only with larger countries (source)
- Alive actors and actresses without an image, ordered by number of films they appear in (source)
- Beast species in the Harry Potter universe (source)
- Places that have been indicated as the topic of scientific articles indexed in Wikidata (source)
- Scientists whose cause of death was "death by burning" (source)
- Women who have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (source)
- Wikidata:WikiProject ShEx
- Newest database reports: winter sport disciplines, people and equipment
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Fixed incomplete "Label:", "Description:" and "Statement:" entity usage messages in various places (phab:T178090). Thanks, Matěj!
- Improved violation messages for ranges involving the current date (e. g. “should not be in the future”).
- Continued work on caching constraint check results.
- Enabled Lua fine-grained usage tracking for better performance on several more wikis: hywiki, frwiki, svwiki, itwiki, zhwiki, bewiki, nlwiki, glwiki, and Wikimedia Commons (phab:T187265 phab:T186714)
- Representation and grammatical features of the form can be changed using the UI (WikibaseLexeme) (phab:T173743, phab:T160525)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
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The Signpost: 20 February 2018
- News and notes: The future is Swedish with a lack of administrators
- Recent research: Political diverse editors write better articles; Reddit and Stack Overflow benefit from Wikipedia but don't give back
- Arbitration report: Arbitration committee prepares to examine two new cases
- Traffic report: Addicted to sports and pain
- Featured content: Entertainment, sports and history
- Technology report: Paragraph-based edit conflict screen; broken thanks