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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2018-37
The winner this Translation of the week is Please be bold and help to translation this article! Mimicry in plants is where a plant organism evolves to resemble another organism physically or chemically. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 00:45, 10 September 2018 (UTC) |
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Wikidata weekly summary #329
- Events
- Wikidata-related presentations at Workshop on Open Citations, 3-5 September, Bologna: Remixing the graph/ Scholia as of September 2018/ A guided tour through citation networks around public health emergencies
- The Wikidata Birthday will take place in more than 20 places around the world. What about yours?
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Many faces of Wikibase: Rhizome's archive of born-digital art and digital preservation, Wikimedia Blog
- Wikidata Sparql Query Log Analysis (Part 1, Part 2)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Structured Data on Commons: There is now a page with a collection of Wikidata properties that may be needed for Wikimedia Commons. Please improve this page and provide feedback!
- Structured Data on Commons: Take a look at the new mockups of structured licensing and copyright statements on file pages, and leave your comments.
- Manuscript explorer powered by Wikidata
- Wikimedia Sverige receives funding for Finding GLAMs and Libraries Data project
- Wikimedia Deutschland has several open positions around the Wikidata development team including a program manager position
- Stanford has a job opening for a Wikidata-focused Wikimedian in Residence
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: Cooperative Patent Classification code, Thomson Reuters Business Classification, narrative role, stage crew member, has program committee member, OSI Model layer location, cryptocurrency, elongation at break
- External identifiers: Arnet Miner author ID, CoinMarketCap cryptocurrency ID, CPAN project, cpcrulez ID, DBUnico MIBACT ID, Cranach Digital Archive artwork ID, DSV person ID, EU Research Participant ID, Moviepilot.de film ID, Ski Jumping Hill Archive ID, The Gymternet gymnast ID, WorldofVolley player ID, Skijumping.pl jumper ID, Cineuropa film ID, NooSFere series ID, Dobry słownik ID, IGDB game ID, IGDB platform ID, IGDB person ID, Twitch channel ID, AustLII ID, Academia.edu topic ID, VOR/DME identifier for airport beacons, SNOMED CT identifier, Alternativa Teatral person ID, Alternativa Teatral work ID, Alternativa Teatral place ID, MusicBrainz release ID, IANA service name, OlympicChannel athlete ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: title in TeX, Admission rate, is retracted by, intelligence quotient, subject stated as, predicate stated as, Vocabolario Treccani ID, Bank properties, forms, has contraction, Study fees
- External identifiers: GameID, ww2.org ID, Country or city ID on Hilton, ArhivX LOD, National Trust for Historic Preservation ID, Television Academy Foundation show ID, LHW ID, Relais et Châteaux ID, World Travel Awards ID, Mathematical Reviews journal ID, Preferred Hotels and Resorts ID, AnimeClick anime ID, AnimeClick character ID, AnimeClick manga ID, AnimeClick novel ID, Code aéroport interne de l'espace russophone, iTunes podcast ID, AnimeClick person ID
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Wikidata:WikiProject Retractions
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Improve qualifier suggestions using constraint definition (phab:T201288)
- Merge Lexemes via the API (phab:T198104)
- Show lemmas and representations in constraint reports (phab:T195315)
- Make Form ID link targets less redundant (phab:)
- Polishing html for Lexemes (phab:T196226, phab:T199081)
- Merging Senses (phab:T201605)
- Checking glosses (phab:T202427, phab:T198203)
- Accepting lowercase Sense IDs as values in statements (phab:T203334)
- Use hyphenation for long sense gloss (phab:T203241)
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.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikipedia translation of the week: 2018-38
The winner this Translation of the week is Please be bold and help to translation this article! Zhang Shichuan was a Chinese entrepreneur, film director, and film producer, who is considered a founding father of Chinese cinema. He and Zheng Zhengqiu made the first Chinese feature film, The Difficult Couple, in 1913, and cofounded the Mingxing (Star) Film Company in 1922, which became the largest film production company in China under Zhang's leadership. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 00:50, 17 September 2018 (UTC) |
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Wikidata weekly summary #330
- Events
- Continuing through September and early October: Andy Mabbett is touring Australia for a series of open-science and GLAM Wiki-focused talks, workshops, and meetups.
- New events added for the sixth birthday of Wikidata: Berlin, Oslo, Tehran, Beijing
- Press, articles, blog posts
- An increasing number of reports from This Month in GLAM Wikidata related stories. To follow, subscribe here. Though most country reports include Wikidata activities, highlights from this month include:
- Brazilian Wikimedians develop tools for mass contributions: Mbabel and Import-500px
- A report about the Wikidata workshop held at the International Federation of Library Associations Conference in Kuala Lampur
- A report discussing increasing interest for mapping the Portugeuse National Library data with Wikidata
- More information on the recently funded WMSE Projects
- And, of course, the Wikidata Report highlights
- Crotos: a project on visual artworks powered by Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata Query Service recipe: qualifiers and the Greek alphabet
- An increasing number of reports from This Month in GLAM Wikidata related stories. To follow, subscribe here. Though most country reports include Wikidata activities, highlights from this month include:
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Linking knowledge organization systems via Wikidata Presentation at DCMI conference in Porto, by Jneubert
- Senses for lexicographical data will be deployed on October 18th
- The final release of OpenRefine 3.0 is out.
- Collection Explorer, a Wikidata-driven tool bringing together collection data from the Ashmolean Museum, the Bodleian Library, and the Pitt Rivers Museum.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: state of conservation, state of use, admission rate, is retracted by, ISO 15919 transliteration, majority opinion by, seed, demonstrates form, usage example, political coalition, Status in the Red List of Threatened Species in the Czech Republic, item inherits value from
- External identifiers: BGCI garden ID, International Mathematical Olympiad participant ID, Film Indonesia ID, ArhivX LOD, Belvedere object ID, National Trust for Historic Preservation ID, Television Academy Foundation show ID, Playbill production ID, LHW hotel ID, World Travel Awards ID, Relais & Châteaux ID, Nintendo GameID, Académie de Marseille member ID, NPR podcast ID, iTunes podcast ID, Gynopedia place ID, Vocabolario Treccani ID, AnimeClick anime ID, AnimeClick novel ID, AnimeClick character ID, AnimeClick person ID, AnimeClick manga ID, Ex-USSR internal airport code
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Cook Partisan Voting Index, ONS Community codes, Implies (necessary condition), Index herbariorum code, limiting oxygen index, Model item for, Model item, Taxonomic Literature 2 number, Place of devotion, Stadtteilnummer, restriction of, blazon, ENI number, parties, term of venery, root, unicode range, Ġabra lexeme ID, Ultimate Guitar artist ID, inflection class
- External identifiers: ResearchGate publication ID, Indonesian Basic Data of Primary and Secondary Education ID, AnimeClick drama ID, MobyGames platform ID, Adelphi author ID, UOL Eleições ID, Tourisme et Handicap ID, Qualité Tourisme ID, Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Belgium ID, Northern Ireland Assembly ID, SJPXVII ID, Microsoft Store app ID, CharacTour character ID, re3data repository ID, IGN film ID, Arkivportalen aktor ID, Arkivportalen arkiv ID, Muziekweb performer ID, SPXVI ID, Spectral Database for Organic Compounds ID, LakeNet ID, Álgu ID, Uralonet ID, Geheugen van de VU person ID, Comic Vine ID, Shazam track ID, IANA Root Zone Database ID, ASCE ID, Dxomark ID, PlayStation Store ID, Oqaasileriffik online dictionary ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Fix a problem with the language of the lemma (phab:T194347)
- Improving the diffs for Lexemes (phab:T185481)
- Exclude es-formal and hu-formal from monolingual text codes (phab:T203311, thanks to MarcoAurelio)
- Implement the contemporary constraint (phab:T141859, thanks to Abiàn)
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.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikidata weekly summary #331
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Ayack
- New request for comments: 2018 administrator policy update
- Closed request for comments: Adding short code for cryptocurrencies
- Events
- Past: 19-21 September 2018, New York City: Wikibase workshop at Rhizome
- Upcoming: IRC office hour, on Tuesday September 25th, from 18:00 to 19:00 (UTC+2, Berlin time) on the channel wikimedia-office
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Supporting Community Events: spotlight on ‘Social Media Exchange’ (SMEX) in Lebanon, by MySociety
- Using OpenStack to run a custom Wikibase, by Andra Waagmeester
- Creating linked open data for Victorian shipping registers on the National Library of Wales blog
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The OpenStreetMap wiki enabled Wikibase, to describe OSM tags and keys. Here's what an entry for moveable bridge looks like: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Item:Q104
- TABernacle, a tool to edit Wikidata on a table view, was rewritten by Magnus Manske
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: Index Herbariorum code, model item, perfume note, place of devotion, Taxonomic Literature 2 number, video designer, projection designer, mode of derivation, work hardening strain, tuition fee, foreign transaction fee, trading fee, account charge / subscription fee, borrowing rate, interest rate, JMA Magnitude, official number of town quarter
- External identifiers: Adelphi author ID, AnimeClick drama ID, Lepidoptera of Belgium ID, CharacTour character ID, Enciclovida ID, IGN film ID, LakeNet ID, Mathematical Reviews journal ID, MobyGames platform ID, Northern Ireland Assembly ID, Norwegian war refugees register ID, re3data repository ID, ResearchGate publication ID, SJPXVII ID, SPXVI ID, Qualité Tourisme ID, Muziekweb Performer ID, Tourisme & Handicap ID, Indonesian Basic Data of Primary and Secondary Education ID, Microsoft Store app ID, Arkivportalen agent ID, Archiveportal archive ID, Preferred Hotels & Resorts hotel ID, Bpk-ID, UOL Eleições ID, Uralonet ID, Álgu ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Spotify show ID, derived from sense, creates, Short Title Catalogus Vlaanderen (STCV) ID, acquisition date, Løøv classification, Non-free artwork image URL, Kompositionsfuge, abbrév., subject lexeme
- External identifiers: HKCAN ID, Shazam artist ID, Sprockhoff-Nummer, Wikibase Registry ID, GTB database IDs, Depósito Legal ID, Moviepilot.de series ID, Australia and New Zealand Standard Research Classification 2008, IGN series ID, old-computers.com ID, Kunstenpunt productions, tweet ID, Open Food Facts ingredient ID, bazakolejowa.pl railway line ID, SUCA code, VicFlora ID
- Query examples:
- New bot requests: Import and maintain nominal GDP for countries from the World Bank Data API, Create indiscriminately new items, Missing P31, Importing lexemes from en.Wiktionary in specific languages
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Work on editing Form statements using the API (phab:T194732)
- Show the Lemma(s) or Representation(s) when Lexemes or Forms are mentioned in constraint reports (phab:T195315)
- Add hyphenation for long Lexeme lemmas and representations (phab:T195367)
- Normalize SPARQL queries (phab:T204122, thanks to Abiàn)
- Fix a bug on the Query Service about exported query results being different from the displayed result (phab:T195258)
- Fix a bug on the Query Service about empty map results returning error (phab:T178786)
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.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
The Signpost: 1 October 2018
- From the editor: Is this the new normal?
- News and notes: European copyright law moves forward
- In the media: Knowledge under fire
- Discussion report: Interface Admin policy proposal, part 2
- Arbitration report: A quiet month for Arbcom
- Technology report: Paying attention to your mobile
- Gallery: A pat on the back
- Recent research: How talk page use has changed since 2005; censorship shocks lead to centralization; is vandalism caused by workplace boredom?
- Humour: Signpost Crossword Puzzle
- Essay: Expressing thanks
Wikidata weekly summary #332
- Discussions
- Events
- Past: IRC office hour, September 25th
- Past: Working in a World of (linked, semantic) Open Data. Keynote by User:MartinPoulter at University of Stirling Life in Data Conference, September 28th
- Wikidata and Wikimedia workshop (30 September) and session about data modeling (2 October) at the CIDOC 2018 Conference of the International Council of Museums, Heraklion, Crete
- There were three Wikidata-related presentations at the 10th International Conference on Ecological Informatics that took place on 23-28 September in Jena.
- Upcoming: German-speaking WikiCon, October 3-5 in St Gallen (Switzerland). Several Wikidata-related talks and workshops in the programme.
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Property Path use in Wikidata Queries, by Gregory Todd Williams
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The templates Reasonator and Scholia are available, for linking from en.Wikisource pages to representations of Wikidata items.
- Wikidata considered unable to support hierarchical search in Structured Data for Commons, see also thread.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: ENI number, inflection class, has inflection class, root, creates lexeme type
- External identifiers: ASCE Historical Civil Engineering Landmark ID, Comic Vine ID, DxOMark ID, Geheugen van de VU person ID, HKCAN ID, Oqaasileriffik online dictionary ID, IANA Root Zone Database ID, Shazam track ID, Spotify show ID, Shazam artist ID, Sprockhoff Number, Index of Historic Collectors and Dealers of Cubism ID, ANZSRC FoR ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: applies to citizens of, Plot continued in, monument in the near, Sail emblem, São Paulo: os estrangeiros e a construção da cidade ID, reference template for this work, Wikipedia suggested article name, Personal title, stated in reference as, reference vocabulary, OSM zoom level
- External identifiers: OpenStreetMap wiki ID, Wiki Loves ZEOs ID, Geschützte Objekte in Ostbelgien, ComiXology Creators, War Memorials Online ID, NT Flora ID, Film Indonesia person ID, Sekolah Kita ID, Museu Nacional ID, Annuaire de la magistrature ID
- Query examples:
- People who received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and were also in the NSDAP (Nazi party) (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Fix a bug when the "language of Lemma" box doesn't appear after failed submit of Special:NewLexeme (phab:T194347)
- Fix the order of elements in Lexeme edit diffs (phab:T185481)
- Enable constraint checks for Lexemes and Forms (phab:T195828)
- More work on editing Form Statements using API (phab:T194732)
- More work on a beta feature for suggestions based on constraints (phab:T202712)
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.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Wikipedia translation of the week: 2018-41
The winner this Translation of the week is Please be bold and help to translation this article! Maria Kristina Kiellström (15 June 1744 – 20 January 1798), known as Maja Stina, was a Swedish silk worker and alleged prostitute. She inspired the songwriter and performer Carl Michael Bellman to create a major character in his Fredman's Epistles (songs), the demimonde prostitute or Rococo "nymph" Ulla Winblad. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 01:29, 8 October 2018 (UTC) |
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This Month in Education: September 2018
Volume 4 | Issue 9 | September 2018
This monthly newsletter showcases the Wikipedia Education Program. It focuses on sharing: your ideas, stories, success and challenges. You can see past editions here. You can also volunteer to help publish the newsletter. Join the team! Finally, don't forget to subscribe!
Wikidata weekly summary #333
- Events
- 5-7 October, St.Gallen (Switzerland): WikiCon 2018 of the German-speaking Wikimedia community, with keynote Wikidata as a Semantic Web game changer
- 5-7 October, Grenoble (France): WikiConvention francophone 2018, with keynote:
- 16 October, online: Using Wikibase as a platform for library linked data management and discovery
- 29 October, São Paulo: Wikidata Lab XI: Structuring wikiprojects
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Wikidata: «Das spannendste Projekt, das ich je gesehen habe» (German) in the Swiss newspaper Tagblatt
- SPNHC & TDWG Conference 2018 — blog post on a talk (slides, speaker notes) about using Wikimedia projects and materials from the Biodiversity Heritage Library and other sources to collect information regarding New Zealand's biodiversity
- Wikidata Map October 2018 by Addshore
- Our man in Havana (or, Q56761118) by Andrew Gray
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- wikidata-cli new features:
- wd data --format ttl: dump entities in rdf/ttl
- wd convert: convert batches of external ids to Wikidata ids and vice versa
- Structured Data on Commons: a search prototype is available for testing. There is a page on Commons with information about testing and leaving feedback.
- Profiling Wikidata — a Class-Facet-Attribute Completeness Profiling System for Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: limiting oxygen index, plot continued in, Vicat softening point, Unicode range
- External identifiers: Lyrically artist ID, Moviepilot.de series ID, Spectral Database for Organic Compounds ID, Ultimate Guitar artist ID, Ġabra lexeme ID, Open Food Facts ingredient ID, bazakolejowa.pl railway line ID, IGN series ID, tweet ID, Short Title Catalogue Flanders (STCV), Flanders Arts Institute production ID, old-computers.com ID, Oudnederlands Woordenboek GTB ID, Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek GTB ID, Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek GTB ID, Film Indonesia person ID, Protected objects Ostbelgien ID, North America PlayStation Store ID, VicFlora ID, SUCA code, CMI person ID, São Paulo: os estrangeiros e a construção da cidade ID, ComiXology creator ID, Annuaire de la magistrature ID, NT Flora ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: animacy, distributary, human position in artwork, does not have quality, (de)evolution method, happened to, depicted part, adjective, hyponym, nation-state tradition, requires form, Norwegian Nationaltheatret actor ID, location of sense usage, Medierådet rating, broad synonym, measured to, Type properties, shrinkage, Public presentation, carbon footprint
- External identifiers: Inventory of the Archaeological and Paleontological Heritage of Catalonia, MIAR ID, V.League ID, Japan Professional Basketball League ID, Women's Japan Basketball League, SAGE journal ID, Elsevier journal ID, N° CPPAP, Deezer show ID, LUBW Schutzgebiets-Nr, Disney A to Z ID, RBF athlete ID, Europe PlayStation Store ID, Japan PlayStation Store ID, Encyclopedia Virginia ID, Armiarma ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Fix bugs on editing statements on new Forms using the API (phab:T194732)
- Check constraint violations on statements on Forms and Senses when saving a statement (phab:T195829)
- Fix an issue with Wikibase and deployments (phab:T206161)
- Improve the gloss language error message (phab:T205528)
- Make the ArticlePlaceholder use our API instead of wb_terms (phab:T195752)
- Improve sorting of forms, senses and glosses (phab:T176405, phab:T203002, phab:T203459)
- Work on making Sense statement group Ids unique (phab:T204936)
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.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!