Hey folks :) I hope you're having a good weekend. Here's your summary of what's been happening over the past week around Wikidata.
Discussions - New request for comments: Derived properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Derived_properties>, Are colors instance-of or subclass-of color <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Are_colors_instance-of_or_subclass-of_color> Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Poof it works - using wikidata to build Wikipedia articles about genes <http://i9606.blogspot.de/2015/10/poof-it-works-using-wikidata-to-build.html> - Wikidata, SPARQL and huskies <http://ashtree.eu/wordpress/wikidata-sparql-et-chiens-de-traineaux/> (French) - Wikidata, SPARQL and elected dynasties <http://ashtree.eu/wordpress/wikidata-sparql-et-dynasties-electives/> (French) - The birth and death of German playwrights <https://dlina.github.io/The-Birth-and-Death-of-German-Playwrights/> - Distributed stats <http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=369> - Past: Wikidata training at Wikimedia UK - Upcoming: Wikidata's 3rd birthday \o/ (on 29th) - Upcoming: SemWeb.Pro <http://www.semweb.pro/semwebpro-2015.html> in Paris Other Noteworthy Stuff - There's a new Wikidata taxonomy browser <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-October/007411.html> - Meta, MediaWiki and Wikispecies now have access to sitelinks on Wikidata. Welcome to Wikidata, sisters! - Harvest templates <https://tools.wmflabs.org/pltools/harvesttemplates>. New tool to copy data from templates to Wikidata. - Number of articles that are not connected to a Wikidata item on Italian Wikipedia has been brought down significantly. <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/duplicity.php?mode=stats&wiki=itwiki> How about yours? - The Wikidata Game <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/distributed/> now has a primary sources game and one to match Wikispecies pages to Wikidata items - The National Gallery of Arts was added to Mix'n'match <https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/?mode=catalog_details&catalog=110> - Some more query examples: Dracula movies and their actors <https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20p%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20v%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fstatement%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20q%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fqualifier%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20rdfs%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2F01%2Frdf-schema%23%3E%0A%0Aselect%20distinct%20%3Fmovie%20%3FmovieLabel%20%3FactorLabel%20%28year%28%3Fdate%29%20as%20%3Fyear%29%0Awhere%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fmovie%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ11424%20.%20%23film%0A%20%20%3Fmovie%20wdt%3AP577%20%3Fdate%20.%0A%20%20%3Fmovie%20p%3AP161%20%3FactorS%20.%20%23avec%20des%20acteurs%0A%20%20%3FactorS%20v%3AP161%20%3Factor%20.%20%20%0A%20%20%3FactorS%20q%3AP453%2Fwdt%3AP144*%20wd%3AQ3266236%20%23r%C3%B4le%20%3A%20Dracula%20ou%20succ%C3%A9dan%C3%A9s%0A%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22fr%2Cen%22%0A%20%20%7D%20%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20%3Fdate>, movies with links to videos <https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20p%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20v%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fstatement%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20q%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fqualifier%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20rdfs%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2F01%2Frdf-schema%23%3E%0A%0Aselect%20distinct%20%3Fmovie%20%3FmovieLabel%20%28year%28%3Fdate%29%20as%20%3Fyear%29%20%3FCommons%20%3FInternetArchive%20%3FYoutube%20%20%3Furl%20%0Awhere%20%7B%0A%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Fmovie%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ11424%20.%20%3Fmovie%20wdt%3AP10%20%3FCommons%20.%7D%20%0A%20%20UNION%20%7B%20%3Fmovie%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ11424%20.%20%3Fmovie%20wdt%3AP724%20%3FInternetArchive%20.%7D%0A%20%20UNION%20%7B%20%3Fmovie%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ11424%20.%20%3Fmovie%20wdt%3AP1651%20%3FYoutube%20.%7D%0A%20%20UNION%20%7B%20%3Fmovie%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ11424%20.%20%3Fmovie%20wdt%3AP963%20%3Furl%20.%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fmovie%20wdt%3AP577%20%3Fdate.%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22fr%2Cen%22%0A%20%20%7D%20%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20%3Fdate%0A> Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: Debrett's People of Today ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2255>, maximum operating altitude <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2254>, DfE URN <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2253>, NGA artist id <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2252>, life expectancy <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2250>, Refseq Genome ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2249>, argument of periapsis <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2248>, periapsis <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2244> Development - ctrl-space now enables autocomplete for labels on http://query.wikidata.org . Should make it easier for you to find the right items and properties. - Worked on birthday present :) - From Monday on a bzip2 compressed version of the Wikidata json dumps will be published, along with the gzip compressed version. - Made it possible to get from the search results page to the article placeholder. This was one of the last holdups for a first demo version. You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>. Monthly Tasks - Hack on one of these <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/R8GRzX1eH0tb/#R>. - Help develop the next summary here! <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next> - Contribute to a Showcase item <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items> - Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats> or proofread pages in your own language! - Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above. Anything to add? Please share! :) Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
_______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
