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Wikidata weekly summary #467

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
  • Development
    • Omaha-Ponca language is now available for monolingual text properties. (phab:T265296)
    • Added a meaningful error message when trying to use Special:EntityData with a Lexeme subentity like L123-F1 in cases where the Lexeme L123 was redirected to another Lexeme (phab:T257494)
    • Changed the “type” and “value type” constraints to ignore deprecated values (phab:T170401)
    • Working on rendering empty claims in JSON as `claims: {}` instead of `claims: []` (phab:T241422)
    • Investigating some issues with page_props missing on Commons wiki after adding sitelinks to Commons categories (phab:T280627)
    • Removed Google Knowledge Graph Id (P2671) and Wolfram Language entity code (P4839) from the Property Suggestions as they are usually not useful suggestions (phab:T280779)

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Wikidata weekly summary #468

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Ongoing:
      • Data literacy snacks - Talk about "Wikibase knowledge graphs for data management & data science" on 23rd of June. For registration, send e-mail to info@berd-bw.de
    • Upcoming
      • SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, May 18 at 18:00 CEST
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Mahir Morshed will be discussing Lexemes in Wikidata; Agenda, May 18th.
      • May 21-22, 2021 [1] Boston Rock City: Explore Wikidata and Learn About Local Music: Boston Public Library is partnering with Harvard Library for a guided exploration of Wikidata and local music history. Join us for two days of music and Wikidata editing; no prior experience or punk cred necessary! This public event is free to all and will take place via Zoom; please register in advance. The subject of this project is the Arthur Freedman Collection, and audiovisual archive that captures over four decades of Boston rock music performances. We’ll provide: instructions, tools, data sources, visualizations, optional Discord chat, and a soundtrack. If you have questions, please contact Harvard Library staff member Peter Laurence at laurenc@fas.harvard.edu.
      • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #63, May 23
      • OpenStreetMap Taiwan x Wikidata Taiwan Taipei (Q1867) Meetup 2021-06-07 Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).
  • Development
    • Fixed the entity usage dashboards that no longer showed data due to technical issues. It tracks how much data from Wikidata is used on the other Wikimedia projects. (phab:T279762)
    • Configured the Property Suggester to not suggest Google Knowledge Graph ID (P2671) and Wolfram Language entity code (P4839) (phab:T280779)
    • Investigated remaining issue with updating the page_props table on the client wikis, which is confusing some bots making use of that table (phab:T280627)
    • Fixed an issue in the Query Builder where it got confused when adding several conditions with the same Property (phab:T279945)
    • Working on tracking the number of edits per namespace over time (phab:T281356)
    • Working on fixing a bug where old revisions of Items have edit buttons but should not (phab:T281587)
    • Fixing an issue where value suggestions are not showing all values that are defined in the property constraint (phab:T280650)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


Wikidata weekly summary #469

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Designing and planning for the first version of a tool to compare Wikidata's data against other databases and find mismatches that might need fixing
    • Looking into unit conversion for the Commons Query Service (phab:T281468)
    • Improving RDF export performance problems for very large Items (phab:T281272)
    • Fixed entity suggestions not showing all Items defined in that Property's constraint (phab:T280650)
    • Removed edit buttons that had reappeared on old revisions of Items where they shouldn't be (phab:T281587)

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DYK for Mahmal

On 28 May 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Mahmal, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that, on arriving at Mecca with a pilgrim caravan, the mahmal was given an elaborate fabric covering? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Mahmal. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Mahmal), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

—valereee (talk) 12:03, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #470

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Call to participation in interview study to building a recommender system that can help improve the editing experience in Wikidata: Researchers at King's College London develop a personalized recommendation system to suggest Wikidata items for the editors based on their interests and preferences. The researchers are inviting volunteers to interview them about their current ways to choose the items you work on in order to understand the factors that might influence such a decision.
    • dewiki considered, but rejected the introduction of local short descriptions to replace those from Wikidata
    • User:Nikki/LexemeEntitySuggester.js was improved to now
      • automatically suggests the existing senses/forms when using demonstrates sense/form
      • automatically suggests items (based on the lemma matching the label or an alias) when using item for this sense
      • and searches for lemmas exactly matching the input when using synonym, antonym, hyperonym or pertainym
  • Development
    • Italian Wikiversity used Lua on their Recent Changes SpecialPage via overwriting a MediaWiki message. Our code used to not expect that, now it does. (phab:T283240)
    • Updating the panel that tracks Wikidata edits over time in different namespaces to include all namespaces (phab:T281356)
    • Working on adding a new constraints type for Lexemes (phab:T200689)
    • Working on designs for improving Special:NewLexeme
    • Working on designs for the system to find mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases
    • Fixing some malformed globe-coordinate precisions in the database (phab:T283576)

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DYK for Khalili Collection of Islamic Art

On 3 June 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Khalili Collection of Islamic Art includes an exceptionally large 17th-century astrolabe (pictured) commissioned by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Khalili Collection of Islamic Art. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Khalili Collection of Islamic Art), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 3 June 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #471

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • You can now add a title to a query visualisation by adding #title:YourTitle to your SPARQL code (phab:T225883, example query with a title)
    • Added a new constraints type to indicate that a certain Property should only be used on Lexemes of a certain language (phab:T200689)
    • Working on not checking the format constraints via SPARQL to take that load off the SPARQL endpoint and make it technically better (phab:T176312)
    • Working on making the API-Sandbox not suggest edits to real Items (phab:T219215)


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Your GA nomination of Khalili Collection of Aramaic Documents

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Khalili Collection of Aramaic Documents you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of The Most Comfortable Chair -- The Most Comfortable Chair (talk) 07:01, 13 June 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #472

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Wikidata Community/Diversity 2021 Survey has been published. The results are meant to serve as a baseline to see how the community might (not) change in the future.
    • WikidataCon 2021: A sustainable future for Wikidata. Information about "the conference theme, its three-day program structure and a special project on diversity taking place before the conference itself".
    • The call for candidates for 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board elections has begun on June 9. The last date to apply is June 29, 2021.
  • Development
    • Working on no longer using the Query Service to evaluate Constraints Checks regular expressions (this should make our checks faster and allow for further improvements) (phab:T176312)
    • Changing the rate limits for assigning Item IDs further, which should result in even fewer Q-IDs being skipped in the future (phab:T284538)
    • Finalizing the concepts for a tool to help work on mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases/websites/...

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Wikidata weekly summary #473

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Interlanguage links now work for multilingual Wikisource. phab:T275958
    • User:Nikki/LexemeEntitySuggester.js now supports searching for senses for the translation property.
    • The call for candidates for 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board elections has begun on June 9. The last date to apply is June 29, 2021.
    • Since the beginning of the month, phabricator tickets about language codes (and names of languages) were reviewed and triaged to better reflect their content and current status. Some work was done to better identify the steps for such changes, highlight and address bottlenecks and system issues. Patches for a few codes were contributed and are being released. Phabricator "Language codes" workboard provides an overview, phab:T284856 attempts to identify maintenance steps and phab:T284276 determine turn-around times. phab:T284808 should finally close a gap in termbox language handeling. A way to better address some or all aspects of changes of language codes applicable to Wikipedia editions still needs to be found. Don't hesitate to request the addition or update of language names (e.g. the name of Dutch in Danish) or missing language codes, notably for monolingual strings (see Help:Monolingual text languages).

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Khalili Collection of Enamels of the World

I don't know if I have confused the bot by going too quickly for it, but I see you have not had the usual message saying the article has been promoted to GA. Well, it has. I can't think why it took six months to get a review, but once it got there it sailed through. Tim riley talk 10:02, 26 June 2021 (UTC)

@Tim riley: Thanks so much for this great news, and for your attention to detail. I will of course take on board your stylistic points and make adjustments when I next have a proper batch of wiki-editing. All the best, MartinPoulter (talk) 17:33, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
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