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Wikidata report
Our constraint reports won't constrain you!
By Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing)
We mourn the loss of our friend and fellow Wikimedian Krzysztof Machocki, aka Halibutt, who died on 31 January, aged just 36, after a couple of weeks of illness. Messages of condolence may be left on the Polish Wikipedia (in Polish or English) at pl:Wikipedysta:Halibutt/Księga. Our projects will be poorer for his absence.
GLAM news
- Wikidata was represented at PIDapalooza 2018 with a session on 'PIDs in Wikidata' by Andy Mabbett and the presence of several other contrutors. (Slides on FigShare)
- Call for papers for Celtic Knot conference is open
- Request for comments: Privacy and Living People
- Its time to start organizing an event for Wikidata's 6th birthday in October 2018!
- Painters gives you a list of paintings that don't have a creator statement but "painting by" in the description. You can help to fix them!
- More than 600 properties now have a corresponding catalog in Mix'n'match.
- repology is a new project about software packages, using Wikidata. They have a list of potentially outdated packages on Wikidata that might need updating or fixing.
- Wikidata-driven infoboxes, with multilingual labels, are now available on Wikimedia Commons category pages
Further reading, listening and viewing
- An IRC office hour on the channel #wikimedia-office, was held on January 30th, including a special topic: how to address the growth of Wikidata. You can read the logs.
- WikiJabber podcast with Andy Mabbett
- The WikidataCon 2017 report
- Results of two research projects for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons
- 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
- A short summary of the workshop with historians using Wikibase to collect data about the Illuminati, at Wikidata:FactGrid
- How would the World look like if countries were as large as their Wikidata items are used across the Wikimedia projects?
- 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
- Big City Lights: where are the cities whose items are most used across the Wikimedia projects?
- Getting data from Wikidata into WordPress custom taxonomy
- Mapping Wikidata to Bibframe (representation of books)
- Some of the developers attended the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2018. You can find some notes on the Phabricator board
Tech developments
- Breaking change: wbcheckconstraints status parameter
- Wikidata moved to a dedicated, and better server
- New Wikidata vandalism dashboard for Wikipedia
- Big improvements to the ranking of results in the entity suggester
- Improvements to how we use constraints
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)ians]
- Constraint violations can now be checked on qualifiers and references (phab:T168532)
- Google Code-In 2017 work on the Wikidata Query Service UI:
- add highlight and selection for query result table (phabricator:T183807)
- keyboard accessibility (phabricator:T173213 and subtasks)
- make more areas translatable (phabricator:T171636)
- mobile / responsive menus (phabricator:T154890)
- lazy loading in ImageGrid(phabricator:T166216)
- Redirects on client wikis that are connected to a Wikidata item can have a tracking category, if set up (phab:T185743)
- Improved documentation of the
pagetermsquery module (gerrit:406240). - Improved empty "content was:" in deletion logs for entities (phab:T184025)
- Fixed links to external user pages in recent changes (phab:T183019)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
New GLAM-related properties
We have a new format this month, dividing the new properties in two groups, and would be grateful for your feedback.
General datatypes
- title page number
- produced sound
- animal breed
- is proceedings from
- Commons compatible image available at URL
- is a hydrated form of
- biological phase
- lot number
- has boundary
External identifiers
- Smithsonian American Art Museum ID
- World of Spectrum ID
- Ent'revues ID
- VOGRIPA ID
- Barnes Foundation ID
- Guardiana ID
- CHGIS ID
- Minneapolis Institute of Art artwork ID
- Walters Art Museum ID
- Guide to North American Birds ID
- Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres member ID
- Académie française member ID
- MuBE Virtual ID
- GSMArena phone ID
- Le Maitron person ID
- C-SPAN organization ID
- Sign@l journal ID
- Deutsche Synchronkartei dubbing voice actor ID
- uBio ID
- INRAN Italian Food ID
- Mir@bel journal ID
- IUPAC GoldBook ID
- IBM code page ID
- IBM coded character set ID
- IBM graphic character global ID
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum artwork ID
- Yale Center for British Art artwork ID
- Musée des Augustins artwork ID
- Brooklyn Museum artwork ID
- OpenEdition journal ID
- Uniform Resource Identifier Scheme
- Elhuyar ZTH ID
- Line Music artist ID
- Line Music album ID
- Dictionnaire des auteurs luxembourgeois ID
- National Historic Ships certificate no.
- 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
- MAC Address Block Large ID
- MYmovies actor ID
- MYmovies movie ID
- MYmovies director ID
- Movieplayer characters ID
- Movieplayer film ID
- Movieplayer TV-series ID
- MYmovies name ID
- cinematografo film ID
- CiNii author ID (articles)
You are invited to comment on all open property proposals.
January 2018
- Australia report
- Basque Country report
- Côte d'Ivoire report
- France report
- Germany report
- Indonesia report
- Italy report
- Macedonia report
- Netherlands report
- Norway report
- Serbia report
- Spain report
- Sweden report
- Tunisia report
- UK report
- Ukraine report
- USA report
- Wikidata report
- WMF GLAM report
- Calendar
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