Worked more on support for lexicographical data (specifically support for lexicographic category and statements on forms)
Dealt with issues after the deployment of automatic interwiki links for Wiktionary
Worked on constraint violation user script based on your feedback (improving messages to make it more understandable, layout, etc)
Add support for the following new language codes for monolingual text properties: brx, chn, cop, gez, quc, kjh, nr (will become available in a few days)
Netherlands report: The Netherlands and the World: Photo hunt Chinsurah; Photohunt public library Tilburg; Wikipedian in Residence for UNESCO's Memory of the World programme in the Netherlands; Picture books from Koninklijke Bibliotheek
Spain report: Management and dissemination of cultural heritage
Sweden report: GLAM-EduWiki collaboration awarded Pedagogy Award of the year at Swedish museums; Connected Open Heritage
I found the
Kerr incision page while doing New Page Patrol, and I found another article which seems to be about the same topic:
Lower segment Caesarean section, started by
Mikael. I did a rough merge of the content that you had written onto that article. Let me know if it looks OK to you.
Past:
WikiCite, May 23rd-25th in Vienna. Documentation will be available soon, in the meantime you can check
on Twitter and
the video streams to see what happened
You are invited to create and improve LGBT-related content at Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects throughout the month of June as part of the fourth annual Wiki Loves Pride campaign. Feel free to add new and expanded content on the project's Results page. Happy editing! ---
Another Believer(
Talk)14:50, 1 June 2017 (UTC)reply
Hello Netha Hussain! Follow the Wikimedia LGBT user group on Twitter at @wikilgbt for news, photos, and other topics of interest to LGBT Wikipedans and allies. Use #wikiLGBT to share any Wiki Loves Pride stuff that you would like to share (whether this month or any day of the year) or to alert folks to things that the LGBT Wikipedan community should know. RachelWex 21:36, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
For more information about Wiki Loves Pride, → click here ←.
Wikidata weekly summary #263
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
MySociety (
Q10851773) are publishing a "five part series examining how to use Wikidata to answer the question: 'What is the gender breakdown of heads of government across the world?'".
Data donation: following WikiCite, our friends at
DBLP (
Q1224715) have begun to donate data, with >4,800 values in the first batch, including >1,300 DBLP ID (
P2456) plus assorted aliases, and values for VIAF ID (
P214), GND ID (
P227), ORCID iD (
P496), ACM Digital Library author ID (
P864), zbMATH author ID (
P1556), & Google Scholar ID (
P1960).
MySociety (
Q10851773) have now completed publishing a "five part series examining how to use Wikidata to answer the question: 'What is the gender breakdown of heads of government across the world?'". Here is the full set:
Due the necessary time for people to get visas (about 3 months), we changed the deadline for the scholarship applications. You can
apply for a scholarship before July 16th. We will then make sure that the applicants receive a response on July 25th.
The article will be discussed at
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ravindran Chetambath until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.
Rentier (
talk)
16:44, 20 June 2017 (UTC)reply
WikidataCon: We reached 100 registrations, the event is complete for now. More tickets will be released in September. You can still register on the waitlist.
Newest gadgets:
Units converter converts from 20 currencies to a selected currency. Converts metric units (mass, dimensions, area, temperature, speed) to/from United States units. The currency amounts are inflation adjusted if data is available.
Development
Worked more on support for lexicographical data and Wiktionary. The focus was on creating a necessary new datatype to link to Lexemes as well as making Glosses and statements on Glosses editable.
Getting ready to migrate the constraints definitions from templates on the property talk page to statements on the property.
Citation management tool
Zotero can now read data from Wikidata, and can write data from other sources to Wikidata via
QuickStatements. See
Wikidata:Zotero for details.
Macedonia report: New collaboration of GLAM Macedonia user group with the City Library in Skopje
Netherlands report: Workshop children's books, Sharing is Caring Brussels, short WiR period at Utrecht University Library & Preparations medieval image donation
Russia report: WikiProjects of students of Petrozavodsk State University
The scholarship process is now closed. Recipients will be informed around July 25th.
You can still
suggest ideas for the program, or
submit a project until July 31st. The program of the conference is made by the attendees, only what you bring will be in there :)
Thanks a lot for creating the article of
Kamala Sohonie! It is such an important article. Really inspiring. I heard a lecture about her just now and was shocked to know that she had to do uposhan to get an admission in Indian Institute of Science because it was not allowed for women to take admission in it at that time. Thanks a lot once again for creating this article.
Abhijeet Safai (
talk)
04:46, 22 July 2017 (UTC)reply
Ma Commune Wikipédia is a website developed by Wikimedia France to give information about the state of the Wikipedia articles for every French municipality and encourage people to edit the Wikimedia projects. It uses Wikidata to identify the communes.
The wbEntity JavaScript variable will not miss elements any more but contain empty arrays instead (
gerrit:365604). Please check if this affects your scripts, and have a look at
the wikibase.entityPage.entityLoaded hook as a possible replacement.
Wikidata Constraint Violations tool visualizes changes in constraint violations for last few weeks. Some of constraints produce millions of violations (marked as red).
Doing last polishing on the Lexeme entity type and cleaning up the demo data for the demo at Wikimania
Improving the dispatching of changes to Wikipedia and co to cope with the increased demand that lead to
delays in Wikidata changes showing up in Wikipedia watchlist and recent changes
Working on making constraints work on qualifiers and references (
phabricator:T168532)
Working on making it easier to see when input in property or value fields is not recognized/wrong (
phabricator:T170531)
Added new language codes (eya, fuf, ood, pjt, yap, zun) for use in monolingual text values
Fixed an issue with badges not being shown next to interwiki links on Wikipedia and co (
phabricator:T172592)
Worked on showing labels when linking to a redirect (
phabricator:T96553)
Worked on making change dispatching to Wikipedia and co work better so changes made on Wikidata show up there in a reasonable time. There were issues because of significantly increased edit activity on Wikidata.
Thank you for writing to me! Sorry that I did not see this message for a long time. Yes, I would like to contribute as much as I can to the article, but unfortunately, my knowledge in this area is limited. I have not seen No scalpel vasectomy being performed, and all of my edits on this article are based on my theoretical knowledge. --
Netha(talk)19:43, 20 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Wikidata weekly summary #275
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Upcoming:
WikiArabia, in Cairo, Egypt, on 23-25 October. They're looking for a volunteer to give a Wikidata workshop. Please contact them if you're interested!
The Gene Wiki: Using Wikipedia and Wikidata to organize biomedical knowledge August Wikimedia Research Showcase (second half), presented by Andrew Su, about how
GeneWiki is using Wikidata.
Video on YouTube
Citation.js: Endpoint on RunKit shows a demo REST API to convert Wikidata entries into BibTeX, Bib.TXT, citations, and CSL-JSON.
The organization team is still looking for sponsors to support the event and provide even more awesome stuff to the attendees. If your company can support the WikidataCon, please get in touch with
Lydia.
Seeing the enthusiasm of the community for the WikidataCon, we raised our attendees limit from 150 to 200 persons. The last tickets will be released on September 1st. People who registered on the waitlist will be notified when a ticket is available.
The program committee is currently reviewing and organizing the submissions. We will contact the speakers soon, and publish the program in the beginning of September (around 6th).
We're looking for a keynote speaker who could bring an external point of view on ontologies. If you know interesting people,
feel free to help
Looking into not showing language fallback hints for dialects to make the UI less cluttered for them and make it less necessary to enter labels and descriptions for them (
phabricator:T174318)
Wrapping up our experiments with the new front-end technologies
Open Library, the biggest resource of freely-licensed books, now links to Wikidata (through Reasonator) and to VIAF (
example here; see "Wikidata" in the right-hand column).
With 200 attendees, the
WikidataCon is now complete. Thanks all for your enthusiasm \o/ If you registered on the waitlist or submitted a talk, check your mailbox for more information.
The WikidataCon program will be released this week, and we will call for volunteers soon
Looked into all the things necessary to make it possible to store forms and senses on Lexeme pages.
Worked more on caching constraints checks results which is needed to enable constraints checks for all logged-in users (
phabricator:T173696)
Making progress on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references (
phabricator:T168532)
Removed language fallback hints for dialects to make the UI less cluttered for them and make it less necessary to enter labels and descriptions for them (
phabricator:T174318)
Fixed an issue that links to an item were not showing the label when it pointed to a redirect (
phabricator:T96553)
Unrecognized input in entity selectors will be highlighted in red (
phabricator:T170531)
Added an additional normalization for page titles when linking pages on Wiktionary via Cognate (
phabricator:T172987)
The API will not only output the hashes for qualifier snaks, but also for main snaks as well as references snaks (
phabricator:T174692). Note that hashes (other than IDs) are not meant to be stable identifiers, and should not be stored for a longer time.
Snak hashes will also appear as part of CSS classes in entity pages (
phabricator:T171725)
The program of the WikidataCon is now
published on-wiki. You will find there a lot of different formats, topics and speakers, during the two days of the conference.
The event is now complete, no more tickets available. The last tickets have been attributed to the first persons who registered on the waitlist. If some more seats get free because another attendee cancels participation, the next person on the waitlist will be informed.