Pembicaraan Pengguna:SamanthaPuckettIndo/Arsip Wikidata weekly summary/2014
Komentar terbaru: 10 tahun yang lalu oleh Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) pada topik Wikidata weekly summary #121
Arsip Wikidata weekly summary
Wikidata weekly summary #91
suntingHere's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata reached 100000000 edits
- d:User:Dexbot is the first bot to reach 10000000 edits
- Wikisource is due to receive Wikidata Phase 1 on January the 14th
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: none
- Newest task forces: MediaWiki task force
- Showcase items: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Q309988)
- Fun Fact: According to Wikidata, this is the year of 2004 (Q2014)
DevelopmentWord from John- To give this section some life, since the development team had their holidays last week meaning nothing really got done (let them have one week off at least), I'll say a few words. 2014 is a new year and thus a new start, over the last year Wikidata celebrated its first birthday which brought reflection over what Wikidata had accomplish. Therefore I want to use the start of 2014 to reflect what Wikidata can do. For my personal over view see this page. For the summary, while it is meant to be a weekly simple update, I feel this can be used a lot more effective to put across not only what happened on Wikidata but things about Wikidata on other wikis, I am hoping to start a section over this within the next few weeks. If you have any suggestions for the summary, feel free to drop me a message at meta or Wikidata. Thanks.
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the Public holiday (P832) propery
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #92
suntingHere's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikisource is deployed to testwikidata
- A group of students is working on suggestions to make it easier to add missing information. They published a status report and a rough first demo.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: track gauge, pathogen transmission process, CVR, ERA Journal ID
- Newest task forces: Manga and Anime task force
- Showcase items: Douglas Adams
- Fun Fact: Does not exist (Q404)
- Wikidata's presence: The Dutch Wikipedia have a category for coordinating coordinates on Wikidata (Categorie:Wikipedia:Coördinaten niet op Wikidata)
- Development
- Adrian Lang joins the team
- Cirrus Search is now the default search on Wikidata and should improve d:Special:Search's handlich of special characters for example
- Made the “in other languages” box also show up for people who have not configured a babel box (bugzilla:49079)
- No longer showing a table of content when it has less than 3 items in it to prevent it from showing up on property pages (bugzilla:58422)
- More performance improvement work
- Finishing touches on quantities datatype user interface
- Display qualifiers in non-Java Script user interface
- Prevented import of wikitext into the main namespace (bugzilla:47070)
- Split the DataValues component into more clearly defined libraries and switched Wikibase over to use these
- Switched Wikibase to use Wikibase DataModel 0.6
- Changed development and installation workflows to make use of the dependency manager Composer (more details)
- Made tests run with less warnings (especially in Firefox)
- Started replacing wikibase.fetchedEntities with a proper entity store
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the Public holiday (P832) propery
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
Wikidata weekly summary #93
suntingHere's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events
- upcoming: FOSDEM
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikisource now gets its language links via Wikidata
- Reasonator gets extended functionality
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: PlantList-ID, Danemark Job Code (DISCO-08), Instruction Set, Thailand central administrative unit code, student of, archive URL
- Showcase items: ethanol
- Fun Fact: A Space Odyssey (Q2001)
- Development
- Enabled language links for Wikisource
- Move more part of an item page from JS to HTML to improve performance and non-JS interface
- Database performance improvements
- Work on forward compatibility for new entity types
- Introducing the EntityStore service to improve modularity
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
Wikidata weekly summary #94
suntingHere's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Next Wikidata IRC office hour on Monday, February 3rd
- FOSDEM
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Wikidata Development Plan for 2014+ has been published
- Wikidata stats now also includes statistics for ranks
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: ICTV virus ID, rector, fictional analog of, writable file format, readable file format, place made
- Showcase items: Cactaceae
- Development
- Daniel and Katie took part in the MediaWiki Architecture Summit in San Francisco
- Bugzilla:60027 Add language to label and description field to make it less likely that people enter a label or description in a wrong language
- Bugzilla:58394 Avoid throwing out of bounds error when adding new claims
- Bugzilla:50570 API now reveals qualifier hashes
- Bugzilla:57213 API now reveals data type ids
- Bugzilla:57754 Die if wbeditentity tries to clear from an old revision id
- Bugzilla:55795 Add API option to show snaks in a list rather than grouped by property
- Refactor of ChangeOp remove functionality
- Continued to move parsing and validating of values from the frontend into the backend to improve performance and make the non-JS user interface more useful
- Finished the Wikidata build script (We use it to pull together code from various git repositories into a single one for deployment)
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #95
suntingHere's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikidata is at FOSDEM in Brussels, Februrary 1st-2nd
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Quantities released on Wikidata!
- Wikisource phase 2 coming Februrary 25th.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: attendance, refractive index, electronegativity, proportion, sandbox-quantity, number of pages, number of platforms , flattening, floors above ground, number of cylinders, masts, number of speakers, g-factor, orbital eccentricity, gross tonnage, total produced, redshift, Mohs' hardness, ELO rating, atomic number, LibraryThing work identifier, EUL control number, capacity, population, Human Development Index, from narrative, launch contractor, valvetrain configuration, KOATUU identifier
- Development
- Deployed quantities to Wikidata! :)
- Made patch to make wbmergeitems more reliable Bugzilla::55960
- Wikidata edit permissions now included in wikimedia OAuth edit groups
- Moved Diff repo to Github
- Work put into make the frontend use backend formatters through the api
- Refactoring of the ValueView extension
- MergeItems special page merged as an experimental feature
- Our easy RDF fork is now included using composer
- Fixed wbmergeitems issues
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #96
suntingHere's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- See the office hours logs at meta
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- See the FOSDEM slides
- Thiemo joins the Wikidata development team
- Development
- More work on badges by Bene*
- Lots of Lua improvements by hoo (separate announcement with details soon)
- Created backend Time parsers (yet another necessary step towards doing more in the backend instead of in Java Script in the frontend)
- Automatic builds created, tested and deployed to beta labs every day!
- Investigate Elastic Search as possible backend for queries
- Made Wikibase Query work with our new component structure
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #97
suntingHere's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Reasonator
- By hovering over a wikilink you will see the first paragraph.
- The "personal settings" allow you to import your Babel info from Wikidata. This can be used to restrict the random items you will get.
- The first iteration of "on the fly" text generation for English. It works for "humans" and, is completely based on the available Wikidata information.
- You can now add labels in your language from within Reasonator. Technically oAuth is used. It now takes just one click to add a label in your language.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: IAAF ID, Lagrangian point
- Showcase items: Vesta (Q3030)
- Development
- Wrote performance tests so we can track performance improvements better
- Did a code review of all gadgets that are enabled by default in Wikidata. Found and fixed a performance bottleneck.
- Work on making the interface more responsive, e. g. live preview when editing labels and updating the watchlist star when saving.
- Started refactoring and fixing issues with automatically created summaries that are, for example, created by bots via API calls.
- Fixed an issue with OAuth on Wikidata because of permissions
- Started code review of the code the student team is working on for suggestions
- Discussed updates to the data model document to be able to update it to the actual implementation
- Did a technical debt analysis and design review of Wikibase.git, with initial focus on WikibaseLib
- Got (backend) EntityStore on the way, so we can test API modules without touching the database
- Further work on TimeParsers move to the backend
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #98
suntingHere's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikisource will receive access to the data in Wikidata on February 25th. Planning is taking place at d:Wikidata:Wikisource.
- 1 week left to give initial input for the user interface redesign
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: impact factor, Municipality code (Denmark), USB ID, Home world, Cardinality of the group, Internet media type, Bluebook abbreviation, Z39.5 abbreviation, ISO 4 abbreviation, CODEN, landing site, US Congress Bio identifier, Scopus Source ID, Scopus Affiliation ID, Scopus EID, Scopus Author ID, IPTC Media Topic, topic's main portal, Regensburg Classification, Library of Congress Classification, neutron number
- Fun Fact: Wikidata has reached 30 million statements
- Development
- Refactored the suggestions drop-downs when entering properties for better performance
- Fixed a misdirected arrow in left-to-right languages (bugzilla:61308)
- Worked on an Apache redirect issue (bugzilla:54273)
- Found and started fixing an issue that asked users for additional languages they don't want according to their Babel box (bugzilla:61446)
- Table-of-contents link to the statements section of an item was broken
- Kept poking TimeParsers
- Made WikibaseDatabase feature complete for use with WikibaseQueryEngine
- Work on caching javascript config variables in parser cache
- Investigate using ElasticSearch as term index backend to take some load of the most-used database table
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the MedlinePlus ID (P604) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help develop the next summary here!
Wikidata weekly summary #99
suntingHere's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Discussion about defining lists
- Open RfAs: לערי ריינהארט, Pamputt
- Closed RfAs: Epìdosis (Successful)
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: unemployment rate, manner of death, file extension, received signal, prevalence, connecting service, first performance, Universal Decimal Classification, Chinese Library Classification, Dharma Drum Buddhist College place ID, Dharma Drum Buddhist College person ID, MEP directory identifier, Rodovid ID, handle, Gewässerkennzahl, LIBRIS editions, numeric value, visitors per year, Geokod, approximation algorithm, transmitted signal
- Showcase item: Why not improve Kleinmachnow (Q104192) to showcase standard?
- Wikidata's presence: vici.org are using Wikidata identifiers in their data storage
- Development
- Made loading items a lot faster
- Enabled access to the data on Wikidata for Wikisource
- Fixed the diff view sometimes showing the wrong revision
- Attended ConFoo and learned all of the things
- Released Wikibase DataModel Serialization 0.1
- Continue work on caching javascript config variables in parser cache
- Started to make Wikidata even faster by removing StaticExpert and BifidExpert
- Started reviewing interface animations. You should be able to disable them all by setting $.fx.off = true; in your Special:MyPage/common.js.
- Fixed Wikidata looking a bit odd when enabling the Typography refresh Beta feature.
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the MedlinePlus ID (P604) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #100
suntingHere's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikiquote will get language links via Wikidata on April 8th. Coordination is happening at d:Wikidata:Wikiquote
- Did you know?
- Development
- Added more details to the diffs of time and geocoordinate values (will show which globe the coordinate is on and so on now as well)
- More work on badges by Bene* - most work left is now in the GUI part of it
- Removed unneeded and unused permissions/rights
- Fixed a bug concerning spaces in quantities (bugzilla:61911)
- Started work on taking ranks into account for queries, the property parser function and Lua. (By default only preferred values should be used if available. If not available then it should use values with rank normal.)
- test2.wiki-indonesia.club and test.wiki-indonesia.club now use test.wikidata.org as their data repository, instead of wikidata.org
- Started work on WikibaseInternalSerialization component
- Released Wikibase DataModel 0.7 - https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModel/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES.md
- Added indexes to Wikibase QueryEngine
- Improved SQLite support in Wikibase Database
- Started moving virtual machine instances of various test systems to the new Wikimedia Datacenter
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the sport (P641) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #101
suntingHere's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Media Hack Days, Berlin March 22nd-23rd
- Ateliers Wikidata, Bordeaux, France March 22nd-23rd
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: NLC authorities, Atlas ID, fuel system, supercharger, ID (General Administration of Press and Publication), ISMN, NUKAT authorities
- Development
- Changed the {{property}} parser function and Lua’s mw.wikibase.entity.formatPropertyValues to only return the statements ranked as preferred or if none are available the ones ranked as normal (This will probably go live on April 25th.)
- Worked on improving page load time further by reducing the number of reloads during page loading
- Made diffs for time and geocoordinates more complete and prettier
- Continued research for user interface redesign
- Tpt worked on optionally showing links to other sister projects in the client’s sidebar (bugzilla:54374)
- Wrote a fix for Wikidata changes not showing up in the client’s watchlist (bugzilla:62149)
- Updated a major chunk of our inline code documentation
- Continued discussing technical details about how coordinates should be stored in Wikibase
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the Léonore ID (P640) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #102
suntingHere's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Cambridge revisited II documents how you can query Wikidata and put the results on a map.
- Cambridge revisited V shows that maps have popups with texts generated on Wikidata statements and labels.
- The architecture of the Wikimedia storage of the meta data of media files discusses that integration of Commons is a subset of what we can achieve when we consider the whole of media files.
- Spaghetti Open Data, Bologna. March 28th - 30th
- GLAM Treffen, Bremen. March 29th - 30th
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Riksdagen person-id
- Development
- Continued making the UI faster
- Fixed Wikidata changes not showing up in the watchlist on the client (Wikipedia, etc.) (bugzilla:62149)
- Decided to turn off the inoperable wikidata.org language subdomains for now to reduce confusion
- Created initial version of Wikibase Internal Serialization component
- wbEntity and wbUsedEntities JavaScript variables are now cached in the parser cache
- Ongoing refactoring to get rid of the previously used numeric ID numbers in favor of prefixed IDs
- Made wbsearchentities aware of previously unquoted percent characters
- Put some time into fixing longstanding oddities that made the developers cry from time to time
- Worked on reducing internal usage of EntityContent, in preparation for redirect support
- Worked on performance issues with JSON dump generation (hopefully we can start generating dumps soon)
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the original language (P364) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #103
suntingHere's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Wikiquote notability
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Summary: The summaries will now be sent out on Saturday as opposed to Friday.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: astronomical filter, National Archives specific records type ID, National Archives topical subject ID, National Archives geographic ID, National Archives organization ID, National Archives person ID, compressor type, Internet Broadway Database person ID, Internet Broadway Database show ID, Internet Broadway Database production ID, Internet Broadway Database venue ID, English Heritage list number, apparent magnitude
- Newest task forces: Heraldry task force
- Development
- Reduced page load time significantly once again. Page load time was cut to roughly 2/3. For now we’re happy with the resulting page load times. We’ll start concentrating on other areas of the user interface now.
- Fixed faulty selection handling when adding a property using the keyboard (bugzilla:62868)
- Worked on fixing issues with handling of spaces in quantities (bugzilla:62567)
- Fixed miscount of Wikidata changes on the client watchlist (bugzilla:45812)
- Wrote new browser tests for special pages using the Cucumber and Selenium frameworks
- Improved error formatting, localisation and handling. We will work on error message wording next to make them more understandable.
- Worked on the code which propagates page moves from the clients into Wikidata as a preparation for allowing page deletions to appear on Wikidata
- Made the Wikibase extension work with the new “Compact language links” Beta feature and a bit more independent from the UniversalLanguageSelector in general
- The student team working on the entity suggester has finished the first version of it. The code is being reviewed now and is hopefully ready for deployment soon. Once it is deployed it will show you what new properties you could add to an item.
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the original language (P364) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #104
suntingHere's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata Toolkit 0.1.0 released!
- Wikidata development has been going on for two years!
- Wikiquote gets Phase I on Tuesdays (April 8th)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: JSTOR journal code, Openpolis ID, Philippine Standard Geographic Code ID
- Development
- Property of an existing claim can no longer be changed through API with wbeditentity (bugzilla:62425)
- UI for simple query SpecialPage (bugzilla:55593)
- minor fixes in the UI
- UI for claims on property pages
- worked on review of property suggester (review)
- still looking for a working student/intern
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the original language (P364) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #105
suntingHere's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Announcing ToolScript. With ToolScript can be used to get the output of all Magnus' tools
- Feline mayors of the world or why Wikidata is awesome
- A Rijksmuseum representative indicated what kind of information she hopes Wikidata will deliver
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikiquote now gets its sitelinks via Wikidata. Welcome, Wikiquote! Access to the other data will follow.
- Do you want automatic sidebar links to other Wikimedia projects powered by Wikidata? Here you go: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-April/003690.html Thanks Tpt!
- Use Wikidata for internationalization on any website! How awesome is this? Very!
- Vote for some Wikidata talks for Wikimania
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: KulturNav-id, compression ratio, patent number, OmegaWiki Defined Meaning, phone number, International Standard Recording Code, Theatricalia play ID, Swiss Football Association Club Number, Danish Bibliometric Research Indicator level, ISFDB publisher ID, Swedish Football Association ID, Box Office Mojo film ID, Parsons code, ISFDB series ID, ISFDB publication ID, ISFDB author ID, Linguist list code, NARA online catalogue
- Development
- Still looking for an awesome intern. Do you know someone who'd fit?
- Bene* continued working hard on making “badges” (the “featured” and “good article” stars) in Wikidata a reality
- Finishing touches for Statements on properties
- Worked on better error messages when parsing failed
- Updated the translations to use much easier to manage JSON files for each language
- Made a list of hard to understand messages that should be reworded
- Implemented a usable interface for Special:SimpleQuery
- Closed a backdoor that let you change the property of a snak via the API, sorry guys
- Continuous refactoring and improving of the code base that defines what Wikidata and the Wikibase extensions are
- Kept Wikidata up to date with the typography update
- Started to redesign the Wikibase page on mediawiki.org
- Investigated if standard spam prevention features of MediaWiki work as they should on Wikidata (Result: mostly yes but some fixes/tweaks are needed.)
- Released version 1.0 of the Diff extension.
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the movement (P135) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #106
suntingHere's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- List of items without images but possibly free images available
- Any interested in another Wikidata office hour? (Say yes)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Danish Bibliometric Research Indicator (BFI) SNO/CNO, earliest written record
- Development
- Lots of small little cleanups.
- Sprintbreak as most people are taking a few days off.
- Happy Q21196! Say Hi to the Q108636 ;-)
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #107
suntingHere's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Lydia will give an update on Wikidata at the WMF Metrics and Activities meeting
- Indian Parliamentarians' Label-a-thon is taking place to add labels for all members of the Lok Sabha.
- In May, edit-a-thons hounouring Adrianne Wadewitz are taking place to add more gender related information to Wikidata.
- Wikidata office hour on May 19th at 17:00 UTC.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Time and geocoordinates have been reworked and need some testing at test.wikidata.org. Found issues? Let Lydia know.
- Did you know?
- Development
- Worked on making it possible to use languages not supported by MediaWiki in Wikidata
- We now also display statements with "no value" or "unknown value" on the client (when using the parser function or Lua)
- Created another maintenance script to fix data integrity issues
- Finishing touches on the first version of the new entity suggester
- Simple queries are starting to work (If you want to see a demo attend the WMF Metrics and Activities meeting)
- Worked more on making error messages localizable
- Released Wikibase DataModel 0.7.4
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #108
suntingHere's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Lydia gave a first demo of simple queries and other cool stuff at the WMF Metrics and Activities Meeting
- ongoing this weekend: Youth Science Hack Day where a team is working on a Wikidata powered quiz app
- upcoming: Data Science Day
- upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Zurich
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Development
- Got simple queries in shape for a first demo at the WMF Metrics and Activities Meeting
- Cleaned up constraints checks and input validation
- Worked on requirements for the user interface redesign
- Started work on monolingual text datatype
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #109
suntingHere's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- There will be a German handbook on Wikidata and authority control. Feedback and proofreading is very welcome until next week at https://hshdb.github.io/normdaten-in-wikidata/2014-05-06.html
- Development
- Attending the MediaWiki hackathon in Zurich
- Work on finalizing the JSON dumps
- More work on simple queries to get them ready for performance and security review and a first release
- Legoktm created an API module to retrieve the current dispatch stats status
- Fixed an issue with iferror when using the property parser function (bugzilla:55347)
- Show correct data in the in other languages box for older revisions (bugzilla:63309)
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #110
suntingHere's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Closed RfCs: Clarifying the requirement for property creation, Quality is measurable, One vs. sereveral sitelink-item correspondence, Property documentation redux and DBpedia import process
- Open RfA: Dexbot (adminbot)
- Events/Blogs/Press
- wrap-up blog post of the MediaWiki hackathon in Zurich
- upcoming: SMWCon
- upcoming: IRC office hour on Moday
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Data access for Wikiquote will be enabled on June 10th. Coordination and questions should go to d:Wikidata:Wikiquote.
- Superclasses maps shows coordinates for a class of items on a map. Classes are coming from Wikidata.
- The EditItem suggester was released. You give it a property and it will return a list of items likely missing that property.
- The new duplicate item finder lists items that should potentially be merged.
- Did you know?
- Development
- We're looking for a PHP developer to join the dev team and work on Wikidata. Apply!
- Looking for a cool university project with impact? We have some of them around Wikidata - not just for computer science students. Get in touch with Lydia.
- Had a lot to think about and recap from the Zürich Hackathon, e.g. things regarding search, suggestions as well as the user interface redesign
- Started doing mockups of the new user interface (Nothing to show yet, sorry!)
- Setup an autogenerating code documentation instance on labs at wbdoc.wmflabs.org. Hint: Submitting patches that make the inline code documentation even better is a good starting point to get involved in coding
- Continued working on the wikiba.se site and FAQ
- Worked on new datatype monolingual text (basically a string with an associated language)
- Reworked a hell lot of “change operations” code that’s responsible for each and every edit as well as validating user input and API requests, for example denying empty descriptions and finding and blocking unnecessary duplications
- Checked all the new Beta features that the teams in San Francisco are developing and made sure they work with Wikidata
- Our efforts to make Wikidata faster broke some gadgets so we helped fixing them. Sorry for the breakage!
- Dug into odd display bugs with the MonoBook skin and attempted to fix them (bugzilla:64741)
- More testing on simple queries
- Tpt worked on making inter-project links in the sidebar a beta-feature
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #110
suntingHere's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikidata office hour log
- Wikiconference USA in New York on May 30th and June 1st
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Editors may now include their ORCID identifiers (and others, such as VIAF) on their user pages, using the Authority control template. You can register for an ORCID at http://orcid.org
- Play the Wikidata Game
- Development
- jQuery 1.9 compatibility fixes
- More fixes for gadgets (authority control, preview gadget)
- Improve formatting and handling of snak formatting errors
- Continued working on monolingual text data type
- Continued making messages easier to understand
- Removed a bunch of unused code, interfaces and methods
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #111
suntingHere's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open RfAs: FakirNL, Josve05a
- Wikidata:Tours
- RfC: Open datasets (Meta)
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The seventeenth million item is made then delete as a dupe. So seventeenth million plus 2 anyone?
- Development
- More work on mockups for new user interface design. Hope to have something publishable soon.
- More work on monolingual text datatype
- Fixed lots of small bugs when editing statements like bugzilla:65398
- Made progress on globe precision issues (bugzilla:65535 and bugzilla:64887)
- Cleaned up installation instructions
- Tagged version 1.0 of Wikibase Internal Serialisation and Wikibase Datamodel Serialisation
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #112
suntingHere's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- User:Thepwnco is working on some Wikidata:Tours during for a FOSS project
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Italian Chamber of Deputies ID, eye color, number of injured, EPSG ID
- Development
- Did a lot of cleanup in Wikibase.git
- thePHPcc thinghy
- Released DataValues Time 0.6
- Add time support to QueryEngine
- Release Wikibase DataModel 0.8
- Worked on the way deleted items are formatted (= shown on other items)
- Released ValueView 0.6, which includes refactoring of the entity suggester code, bug fixes.
- Fix issue with entering strings (newline character sometimes got added and then cause api error)
- Fix bug 64658 (date adjustment dialogue doesn't show up on Firefox with Monobook skin)
- Fix bug 64887 (issue with display of globecoordinate when precision does not match predefined precisions)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which has been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #113
suntingHere's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Wikidata participation in Wiki Loves Pride
- Discussion: Delete as a new user group
- RfC: Refining "part of"
- Open RfAs: Calak, Andre Engels
- Closed RfAs: Taketa (successful) Jiangui67 (successful) 555 (successful)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The preview gadget has been rewritten and now comes with a completely new user interface. You can enable it here.
- Wikiquote received access to the data on Wikidata (aka phase 2) on Tuesday.
- Try out the new Wikidata Property Browser.
- The Merge gadget has been updated. It is now faster and only one edit per merge is performed.
- Did you know?
- Development
- Continued with the implementation of redirects. There are a lot of corner cases to work out...
- Created new data value handlers for quantities and geo coordinates, bringing queries closer
- Moved browser tests to a new repository at https://github.com/wmde/WikidataBrowserTests to make the main Wikibase repo smaller and cleaner
- Fixed a bunch of issues with the monobook skin
- Made some more jQuery 1.9 compatibility fixes
- More cleanup for the coming switch to WikibaseDataModel 1.0.
- Icinga Dispatch Lag monitoring scripts, including IRC notifier bot, have been tested and are ready for Ops implementation. This should give us quicker notifications in case the notifications to Wikipedia and co about changes on Wikidata are slow again.
- Enabled data access for Wikiquote
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which has been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #114
suntingHere's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Idea collection: data quality and trust
- Open RfAs: PMG, Dr Zimbu, 콩가루
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Several Wikipedias now have a template (d:Q17195970) for articles which have a related property in Wikidata.
- User:Thepwnco is working on a documentation overhaul and updating Help pages for a FOSS project - leave feedback on suggested changes here
- First concept designs of Wikidata's possible new interface
- GenderCounter uses Wikidata to provide an accurate service with distinguishing male and female names
- ca.wikipedia found a nice way to use Wikidata. They're comparing their living people to Wikidata to see if any of them have a date of death there. They're then put into a category for review: ca:Categoria:Persones vives a revisar
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: BBC Your Paintings, successor, predecessor, ITTF ID, points/goal scored by, TLS, Anime News Network ID, Monte Carlo Particle Number, Number of points/goals conceded, points for, matches/games drawn/tied, matches lost/games lost, matches won/games won
- New task forces: LGBT task force
- Development
- Created a script that provides the schema creation SQL for Wikibase Query
- Releases Wikibase Internal Serialization 1.1
- Made WikibaseDataModelJavascript a separate component at https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModelJavascript.
- Continued working on full redirect support for items. It touches a surprising big chunk of the code base.
- Continued working on the QueryEngine code base and it’s data type support.
- Fixed and updated the most recent implementation of the property and item selector widget, e.g. a MonoBook specific bug.
- Pushed along reviews and deployment of the entity suggester code that will make suggestions for new properties to be added to items. Our hope is to have it through performance review for the next deployment.
- Pushed along reviews of the “in other projects” sidebar: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/Beta_Features/Other_projects_sidebar
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which has been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Note from John
- Hey everyone, it's rare these small sections come along but there is a bit of interesting news to get across which one line under 'noteworthy stuff' won't be the best for. For the next 6 summaries, they will be translatable at Wikidata. This is an interesting idea which was first proposed on the delivery page and on Wikidata-l by Base. This is purely a trial and if you all want the summaries to remain translatable, please participate! You can view the first translated summary (hopefully) here! Also sorry for this one being late :)
Wikidata weekly summary #115
suntingHere's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikidata intro and QA, June 29th in Paris
- Open Hack Day, 5th and 6th of July, London
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: contains settlement, coincident with, bridgehunter.com ID, uglybridges.com ID, China railway TMIS station code, MTR station code, capital of, NSK identifier, daily ridership, binding of software library, ASI Monument ID, ihsi identifier, Iranian National Heritage registration number, LNB identifier, BBC Your Paintings, replaced by, replaced, ITTF ID, points/goal scored by, TLS, Anime News Network ID
- Development
- Redirects are moving slow because they touch so much of our and the core code base, but they are coming closer!
- Final touches on the monolingual data type and UI
- Fixed some smaller but nasty bugs in the UI like not being able to change only the rank
- Finally improved the most confusing error messages and hints you get to read when using the Wikibase client or repo
- The Wikibase DataModel JavaScript component (which moved to it’s own repository) reached version 0.2.0
- Continued working on the QueryEngine component (the foundation for queries)
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which has been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #116
suntingHere's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Open Hack Day, 5th and 6th of July, London
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata got 10 times easier to use with the entity suggester
- Lydia needs your help with some selfies (already uploaded ones are at c:Category:Wikidata selfies)
- Wikidata the Game has a new game: occupation
- As part of the Outreach Program for Women d:User:User:Thepwnco is continuing improving all help pages to help new users understand Wikidata better. At the same time w:User:Discoveranjali is helping with social media outreach and creating presentations workshops about Wikidata.
- Did you know?
- Development
- Upcoming API change (wblinktitle)
- Deployed entity suggester.
- More work on redirects. They are taking shape. Done with much of the groundwork. We've seen the first one! :D
- Continued work on user interface redesign mockups
- Monolingual text datatype is also taking shape but needs more user interface love to make it intuitive.
- Investigated making Wikidata.org its own client so you can for example get access to better Lua functions for access to an item's label on a discussion page. Outcome: Should be possible but needs some more work.
- Fixed bugs
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which has been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #117
suntingHere's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Two new GuidedTours (aka interactive tutorials) have been released—we now have one on editing items and one on editing statements! Both tours are available from the Wikidata:Tours portal and feedback can be left on the talk page at Wikidata_talk:Tours. The work was a combined effort of User:Bene* and Outreach Program for Women intern User:Thepwnco.
- We passed another milestone \o/ 10 million items now have an "instance of" or "subclass of" statement making it easy to tell what the item is about.
- Last week to add some selfies. We need more!
- Items with no image around you? Here you go! (change the number in the URL and click toggle markers) Thanks Magnus!
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: GUI toolkit or framework, SFDb ID, non-native language spoken, nominated for, number of seats in legislature, Cycling Archives Cyclist ID, licensed to broadcast to, MusicBrainz series ID, script directionality, World Glacier Inventory ID, original combination, Foundational Model of Anatomy ID, bug report page, FCC Facility ID, convicted of
- Development
- Bene* worked with the dev team this week. He pushed forward support for storing badges (eg featured article) on Wikidata and implemented the first two guided tours.
- CTRL+ click and middle click on a search result in the entity selector now opens the result in a new tab.
- Further progress on redirects
- Fixed a number of annoyances with the entity selector
- Continued work on mockups for new user interface
- Investigated what issues come up if we make wikidata.org its own client. Things look good so we will probably enable it soonish. This will mean you can link Wikidata pages in items and access the data in them on other pages on Wikidata.
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which has been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #118
suntingHere's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Development
- Finished setting up JSON dumps. If everything goes well, a first dump will be available on Monday evening
- Worked on badges UI integration and made initial progress at making them editable
- Did a lot of JavaScript refactoring in order to put Api related code into an own component
- Made it possible to access data from Wikidata items on Wikidata itself using Lua (not yet enabled)
- Fixed a bug that allowed creation of items with the same label+description of another item
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #119
suntingHere's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The first draft for the Main page redesign is ready for review (a summary of proposed changes can be found at Project Chat)
- User:Thepwnco is working on updating Wikidata documentation for all sister projects, starting with Wikidata:Wikisource
- Drop by the Wikidata Lounge, a new initiative to promote friendliness and civility started by d:User:Micru
- Wikinews will get sitelink support on August 19th
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: b-side, executive producer, OpenPlaques identifier, pet, Lost Art-ID, journey origin
- Development
- Published the first JSON dumps
- Finishing touches on badges support
- Finishing touches on redirects
- Finishing touches on the "in other projects" beta feature that displays links to sister projects in the sidebar of Wikipedia for example
- Tested and fixed issues with allowing sitelinks to Wikidata pages and accessing item data via Lua on Wikidata itself
- Final tests before we can start switching to the new serialization format
- The code for simple queries is being reviewed by the Foundation. This is hopefully the last step before we can deploy this too.
- Worked on improving the code of the {{#property}} parser function in preparation of allowing arbitrary data access and allowing linked output.
- Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #120
suntingHere's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open RfAs: Gabbe
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata's new Main page is almost ready to go live, but is still in need of a visually-appealing banner! Got an idea for an eye-catching design that represents what Wikidata's all about? Submit proposals before August 11 at d:Wikidata:Portal Redesign/Banner
- Wikidata's tours are now translatable. You may help translating at d:Wikidata:Tours/Items and d:Wikidata:Tours/Statements.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: published in
- Showcase items: Kleinmachnow
- Development
- Created CLI script to import entities into the QueryEngine store (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Querycli.jpg)
- More work on redirects (should be good to deploy on August 19th)
- More work on the monolingual datatype
- Started work on rewriting the sitelinks part of the user interface (that’s the first coding steps of getting us a new user interface design)
- Final touches on badges (should be good to deploy on August 19th)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
Wikidata weekly summary #121
suntingHere's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikimania \o/ It was amazing and Wikidata all over the place. Wikidata's true potential is starting to show.
- Guided tours and Wikidata: How to explain a complex project and encourage new editors
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Editing Wikidata directly from Wikipedia
- Histropedia now uses Wikidata to build timelines
- Slides and videos of first Wikidata talks at Wikimania online: 1 2 3 (more slides and videos will follow))
- First prototype screenshot of asking questions to Wikipedia mobile readers (similar to Wikidata the Game)
- Userboxes
- Did you know?
- Development
- Attended Wikimania and Socrates
- Worked on rewriting the sitelinks part of the user interface to make it ready for the new user interface design
- Discussed Wikidata, structured data on Commons and a ton of other things with many people at Wikimania
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item