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Wikidata weekly summary #208
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- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: OpenTechSummit
slides for SPARQL intro at OpenTechSummit - Past: CSVConf
- Past: Subscribe7 (slides)
- Past: OpenTechSummit
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Our Main Page now has a section for popular items to show you what is trending on Wikidata based on several people editing an item over the last few days
- More constraint templates now generate SPARQL links
- Europeana Art History Challenge is still going on until the end of the month
- Freebase has been shut down
- Wikiversity now has access to the data on Wikidata as well
- The 24,000,000th item was created: Q24000000
- The ArticlePlaceholder will go live on the first Wikipedias on Wednesday (Esperanto, Haitian Creole, Neapolitan Wikipedia)
- Quora: Why isn't Wikimedia Commons using structured data via Wikidata?
- Newest trend on Twitter: annotating books with Wikidata statements ;-)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: flower color, Megogo ID, via, Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature ID, Belgian Football ID, by-product of, by-product, cardinality of this set, Yandex.Music album ID, Sherdog ID, appears in the heritage monument list, HowLongToBeat identifier, ESR station code, P-number, mouthpiece, MathWorld identifier, PGA Tour ID, LPGA Tour ID, Australasian Pollen and Spore Atlas Code, wavelength, molar volume, vibration, goratings ID, International Sailing Federation ID, Wikidata time precision, fleet or registration number, FIVB beach volleyball player ID, Beach Volleyball Database ID, BVMC person ID
- Query examples: most frequent occupations without a label in a given language, map of places of birth of economists (source), map of all the paintings for which we know a location with the count per location (source), scientists who have worked together but whose Erdős numbers don’t reflect that (source), members of the French National Assembly born out of France (source), mathematical proofs (source), items that depict most things (source)
- Development
- Finished remaining blockers for deploying the ArticlePlaceholder on the first Wikipedias
- More work on initial Commons prototype
- Further work on textual representation of SPARQL queries to allow you to read/edit more of an existing query without having to touch SPARQL
- Show label instead of URI for globes in coordinate diffs - thanks Ricordisamoa! (phabricator:T110193)
- Improve recent changes entries formatting on Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T52893)
- No longer showing a restore link for inaccessible revdel'ed entity revisions - thanks Matěj! (phabricator:T55496)
- Investigated and worked around issues with the suggestions for new statements - needs more work (phabricator:T132839)
- 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 #196
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- Events/Blogs/Press
- Ongoing: Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Perth, Australia and Indonesia by Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing). Also social meetups.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Ambrosiani created a map of museums in Sweden, colored after what information is available on Wikidata (source code)
- Dormant string properties wake-up effort in progress
- We have a new page to discuss and coordinate data partnerships and imports
- WikiProject Medicine has a new page related to information about Zika
- Magnus hacked up a Knowledge Engine, to discover information cross-project
- WDFIST is the first of Magnus' tool to let you convert WDQ to SPARQL with one click
- Autolist now supports SPARQL
- Mix'n'match has new catalogs: WomenWriters and UNESCO Global Geopark Network
- A new datatype for mathematical expressions is now available
- Wikidata Toolkit 0.6.0 has been released
- Hay created a new property browser
- Analysis of how lifespans change over time, using Wikidata data for people with enwp article
- Did you know?
- Development
- Work on first prototype for Commons support - specifically by making it possible to have more entity types than just Item and Property (phabricator:T125822)
- UI performance work (loading time of entities, things should be faster when editing statements) (phabricator:T125391, phabricator:T125503)
- Work on properly linking identifiers
- Removed a bunch of language codes from monolingual text (phabricator:T125063)
- Work on RDF export of mathematical expression datatype (phabricator:T126349)
- Fixed a bug where the uniqueness of label+description wasn't checked properly (phabricator:T121395)
- Moved the repository for WikidataBuildResources from Github to gerrit (phabricator:T111173)
- Made search work properly on mobile (phabricator:T85368)
- Released Wikibase DataModel 5.0 (phabricator:T125636)
- 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.
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Wikidata weekly summary #209
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- Discussions
- A few proposals for missing properties for Wikivoyage listings have been made
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Panama Papers and Wikidata made quite a splash online
- EveryPolitician: I use Wikidata for multilingual names
- Random item: Q14829494
- Lots of papers relevant to Wikidata or about Wikidata haven been published at ICWSM
- Wikidata through the Eyes of DBpedia
- Wikidata Map May 2016 (Belarus & Uganda)
- Geospatial search for Wikidata Query Service
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- We made a huge step for small Wikipedias and small languages online by rolling out the ArticlePlaceholder on the first 4 Wikipedias
- Geospatial search is now up and running on the query service. You can now search for items within a geographic area.
- The Wikidata Graph Builder has a refreshed interface with even more controls
- Sitelinks for the new Jumiekan Patwa Wikipidia (in Jamaican Patois) are being added
- Mapbox's Geocoder now uses Wikidata
- PetScan now has query examples
- d:Wikidata:Wikidata for authority control collects examples of usage of Wikidata for authority control
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: professional name (Japan), month number, highest income threshold, lowest income threshold, individual tax rate, ARKive ID, Joint Electronics Type Designation Automated System designation, totem, Online World of Wrestling ID, Internet Wrestling Database ID, corporate officer
- Query examples: longest rivers (source), map of places mentioned in travel stories with text in French accessible online (source), things located where the equator meets the prime meridian (source), people who acted with Brad Pitt (source), Italian mountains higher than 4000mt (source), who died by burning (source), age at date of death for musicians (source), universities of main programming language authors (source), hashtags (source), Pokemon! (source)
- Showcase items: Iron Man 2 (Q205028)
- Development
- Deployed the ArticlePlaceholder on the first 4 Wikipedias and worked on issues that were found
- Incident report of issues with the query service
- Worked on language fallback in the main header (screenshot, phabricator:T98014)
- More work on Commons prototype
- Worked on timeline as another visualization for the query service (phabricator:T135222)
- Fixed missing message for translation for Wikibase repo - thanks Matěj! (phabricator:T124766)
- We are now generating translatable automatic comments for undo and restore operations - thanks Matěj! (phabricator:T41134)
- Fixed issue with autocompletion on the query service (phabricator:T133317)
- 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 #210
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- Discussions
- Discussions about missing properties for Wikivoyage listings are progressing as enhancements are suggested
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: produced by, Wi-Fi, Google+, wheelchair accessibility, RAN ID, incidence, Benezit ID, place of marriage, age of onset, NSC number, gait
- Query examples: given names with most variations (source with links to graphs), papers about Wikidata (source), memes (source), cathedrals in Paris (source), highest mountains in the universe (source), Law & Order episodes (source), things/people with most children (source)
- Development
- Performance improvements in query service map display.
- Fixed a focus issue in the suggester (phabricator:T135008)
- Further groundwork on Commons support
- Fixed first issues that popped up after ArticlePlaceholder deployment based on feedback
- Investigated and prepared fix for issue where files on Commons couldn't be deleted (phabricator:T135485)
- Finished work on language fallback in main part of header (phabricator:T98014)
- 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.
Sebastian Liste personal page
Hi, I've added more independent and reliable sources that write about Liste and interview him, in order to prove notability. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.113.2.204 (talk) 10:04, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #211
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- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: WikiCite (including links to documentation etherpads)
- Past: Gulaschprogrammiernacht (video)
- Ben Whishaw, Broadway, La Rada et WWikidata
- Meet TED’s Wikipedians-in-Residence
- Orte, die mit 'ow' oder 'itz' enden
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Library of the National Congress of Argentina ID, Minitel, SureChEMBL ID, type of unit for this property, property usage tracking category, PubChem BioAssay ID (AID), time in space, tourist office, miRBase mature miRNA ID, miRBase pre-miRNA ID, record or record progression, has role, Molenecho's ID, Hollandsche Molen ID, Band number, OpenCritic ID, Nederlandse Molendatabase ID, Catalogus Professorum Academiae Rheno-Traiectinae ID, Leidse Hoogleraren ID, cites, X-SAMPA Code, KLOV ID, WWE.com superstar ID, EU Surface Water Body Code, VAT-rate, disease burden, electrical plug type, emergency phone number, payment types accepted, iTunes artist ID
- Query examples: Fictional universes with most fictional planets (source), main subject of West Wing episodes (source), places with free wifi (source), citation network of paper about Zika (source), taxons and what they are named after (source), billionaires (source), animals that were executed (source), chemical elements and their isotopes by number of neutrons (min/max) (source), popes with children (source), birthplaces of astronauts (source)
- Development
- Worked on fix for issue with language fallback in main part of header (phabricator:T135714)
- More work on support for Commons - main focus right now is on making it possible to actually store a new entity without jumping through hoops
- Fixing a bug in Internet Explorer with prevents editing (phabricator:T136543)
- Worked on more blockers for next deployment of the ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T135624)
- 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.
2016 Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Search Community Survey
The Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation has appointed a committee to lead the search for the foundation’s next Executive Director. One of our first tasks is to write the job description of the executive director position, and we are asking for input from the Wikimedia community. Please take a few minutes and complete this survey to help us better understand community and staff expectations for the Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director.
- Survey, (hosted by Qualtrics)
Thank you, The Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Search Steering Committee via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:50, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #212
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- Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming: OpenData.ch
- Upcoming: HackHPI
- Upcoming: ELAG
- Documentation of the outcomes of WikiCite
- Wikidata showing chemical properties with references
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- SQID now also shows references for statements and received a whole bunch of other nice features
- wikidata-cli now has a wdsparql command to work with SPARQL from the command line
- It seems we already have almost 0.4% of the current population of Finland on Wikidata.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: exact match, reserve number (Canada), Shakeosphere person ID, mains voltage, HKMDb film ID, relegated, promoted, NIOSHTIC-2 ID
- Query examples: body of water with the most watercourses ending in it (source), French communes with names ending in ac (source), birthplaces of Europeana280 artists (source), popular eye colors (source)
- Development
- Fixed the bug where the language selector in Special:NewItem doesn't recognize certain languages (phabricator:T115792)
- Fixed issues that prevented editing in Internet Explorer (phabricator:T136543)
- Added new visualization to the query service to visualize graphs like family trees. It is now deployed yet but will come soon.
- Worked on new visualization for the query service to visualize results with data on different dimensions
- Improved build and deploy process for the query service. The site should load faster now.
- Improved the formatting of dates and more in the query service.
- More fixes to get ArticlePlaceholder ready for the second round of wikis
- Worked on a fix for the issue where sometimes an old label is shown in the main header of an item (phabricator:T135714)
- 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.
18:12:46, 31 May 2016 review of submission by 162.245.21.61
Hi, looking for some specifics on why this article was rejected. Could you please point out in what ways this article fails to conform with Wikipedia's guidelines on "Neutral point of view?" [1]
There are no opinions expressed as facts in this article. There are no "seriously contested assertions" stated as facts. The article employs "nonjudgmental language" and it is written in a tone that "neither sympathizes with nor disparages its subject."
The article includes references to "a range of independent, reliable, published sources" including Tech Crunch, Forbes, The Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, CNBC, and Fortune. [2]
This is a legitimate article about a commercial entity, written from a neutral point of view. Wikipedia editors are instructed that "a differentiation should be made between spam articles and legitimate articles about commercial entities." [3]
There appears to be a double standard being applied to this post. Wikipedia editors routinely approve similar articles, including posts about companies that are in the same line of business -- CommonBond[4], SoFi[5], and Earnest [6] 162.245.21.61 (talk) 18:12, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
- There is no double standard, but the volunteer editors who review articles for creation may interpret the policies and guidelines differently. CommonBond and SoFI didn't go though AfC and SoFi and Earnest (company) have both been tagged with an advert template. That other articles have issues is irrelevant. Regarding your reference to WP:ADMASK, please note that the article has not been nominated for speedy deletion as it ought have been if the content was blatantly promotional. As for the tone of the article, "Credible's online lending marketplace allows borrowers to submit one secure form that they can complete in 2 minutes in order to receive competitive loan offers from multiple, vetted lenders." fopr example, is what one would expect in a public relations piece, not an encyclopedia. Mduvekot (talk) 21:28, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
Jänicke
Thank you for reviewing page Jänicke Greetings--Buchbibliothek (talk) 20:47, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #213
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- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming: Wikimania - find all the Wikidata things happening here
- Upcoming: Repo-Fringe 2016
- Past: HackHPI
- Past: ELAG (slides)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Passionate about Wikidata and a great communicator? We are looking to hire a community communications person.
- Gujarati, Latvian and Nynorsk Wikipedia now have the ArticlePlaceholder as well.
- Catalan and Polish Wikipedia will show Wikidata descriptions on the mobile website starting soon. More Wikipedias will follow. (phabricator:T135429)
- Into football/soccer? WikiProject Association football/Euro 2016 could use your help.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: RateBeer brewery ID, Beer Advocate brewery ID, Molendatabase verdwenen molens ID, fax number, minimum age, Swedish county letter, Eldoblaje Movie ID, publication interval, maximum sustained winds, day of week, Skype, UMLS CUI, FamilySearch ID
- Query examples: Eiffel Tower in art (source), popular surnames among humans (source), popular surnames among fictional characters (source), average lifespan by occupation (source), German breweries (source), years with 3 popes (source), people who died by burning - on a timeline (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Lighthouses, Roller Coasters
- Development
- Worked on creating mediainfo entities on demand when a file is viewed that doesn't have an associated mediainfo entity yet. This is needed for structured data support for Commons.
- Worked on making it possible to embed query results in other websites. You can get a preview at https://jonaskress.github.io
- Added timeline as a possible visualization for the query service.
- Investigated issues with downloading query result sets in Safari.
- Got ArticlePlaceholder ready for the second round of Wikipedias.
- Fixed bug where map wasn't enabled as a possible visualization for queries with cooridnates.
- You can soon specify the color of the bubbles in a bubble chart visualization. (phabricator:T137061)
- Fixed a bug with terms sometimes not showing up, language fallback not working correctly in Lua modules and connection to master database
- Fixed a bug with URL encoding in the query service.
- 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.
Album Artists
I noticed that the page for Album Artists has been deleted. I was going to add these 3 articles as references https://www.mirit.com/fraser-scott-supports-london-children-album-artists/ and http://coldplaying.com/forum/index.php?threads/interview-with-fraser-scott-of-album-artists.103344/ and http://www.radio.cz/en/section/one-on-one/inspiration-worked-both-ways-says-artist-mila-fuerstova-of-close-collaboration-with-coldplay--1 Just wondering that if I had have done, would they have made the entry notable enough as I see that was why it was taken down? I hate seeing entries deleted! Architect6 (talk) 13:28, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
- @Architect6: Wikipedia requires independent, reliable sources. I hope you'll see that mirit.com is not a reliable source, and that coldplaying.com is not an independent source. radio.cz may be a reliable source for news, but this is an interview, which can only be used to support a statement that someone said something, not that what they said is a fact. Mduvekot (talk) 13:54, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
- I see, tks. Coldplaying.com says it "brings you the latest Coldplay news, multimedia, ticket/travel information and live concert updates. We are an established community, formed in 2000 and in 15 years, over 100,000 registered members have been a part of it". Does that qualify as independent? Architect6 (talk) 22:25, 21 April 2016 (UTC)
- @Architect6: I don't think that coldplaying.com is an independent, reliable source for information about coldplay. Mduvekot (talk) 00:08, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
- What's the Wikipedia definition of "independent" then? Architect6 (talk) 02:12, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
- @Architect6: You may find this essay on independent sources helpful. Mduvekot (talk) 11:55, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
- Thank you for that. I'd like to ask you a question about references if I may. Since one is only permitted to add "facts" to a WP entry that are backed up by references to reputable independent sources, that means where an article contains incorrect information, it is immaterial since it's in print - so one could state it as fact and include it in a WP entry and it would be "true" as far as WP is concerned. Right? We all know that in many cases, newspapers purposely falsify details in stories to make them more "sensational" to increase readership and so drive up adverting revenue. So, to base the "truth" on what's printed in newspapers seems a highly unreliable way of going about it! What if no future article is ever published that gives the actual truth about the previously published incorrect information? It will just be wrong forever? Architect6 (talk) 16:58, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
- Please see Wikipedia:Verifiability, not truthMduvekot (talk) 17:16, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
- Thank you. I was just looking through the History of Fraser Kee Scott's WP article. To me, it looks like an edit war waged by Laval who appears to have something against Fraser's religion (which is, surely, irrelevant to the article) and is consequently putting undue emphasis on this, rather than on the factual content of the article. Any comments? Do you agree?
- I have no interest in becoming involved. If you want to address edit warring please see Wikipedia:Edit_warring#Handling_of_edit-warring_behaviors Mduvekot (talk) 15:23, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
- Thank you. I was just looking through the History of Fraser Kee Scott's WP article. To me, it looks like an edit war waged by Laval who appears to have something against Fraser's religion (which is, surely, irrelevant to the article) and is consequently putting undue emphasis on this, rather than on the factual content of the article. Any comments? Do you agree?
- Please see Wikipedia:Verifiability, not truthMduvekot (talk) 17:16, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
- What's the Wikipedia definition of "independent" then? Architect6 (talk) 02:12, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
- @Architect6: I don't think that coldplaying.com is an independent, reliable source for information about coldplay. Mduvekot (talk) 00:08, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
- I see, tks. Coldplaying.com says it "brings you the latest Coldplay news, multimedia, ticket/travel information and live concert updates. We are an established community, formed in 2000 and in 15 years, over 100,000 registered members have been a part of it". Does that qualify as independent? Architect6 (talk) 22:25, 21 April 2016 (UTC)
Architect6 (talk) 13:25, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
- Mduvekot Are you still around? No reply to my question of 6 June. Anyway, does this article provide the notability that Album Artists need to allow them to create an entry in Wikipedia? http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/1427370/coldplay-sells-album-art-for-charity-14-million-raised-so-far Architect6 (talk) 02:32, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
- As you know, we arrive at such decisions by consensus. I have no more say in this than anyone else. As I see it, the blouin article gives Album Artists a mention, but it is not significant coverage as required by WP:GNG. As far as I'm concerned the consensus is that the organization is not notable and I would appreciate if you did not single me out to ask if a particular reference can be used to recreate the article. If you want a review of the deletion, see WP:DRV. Mduvekot (talk) 15:23, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
- ^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view
- ^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Credible#References
- ^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Spam#Advertisements_masquerading_as_articles
- ^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CommonBond
- ^ ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoFi
- ^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earnest_(company).