Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- WMDE built two tools to help editors get a better understanding of the quality of Wikidata's data in a specific area of interest. Try them out and let us know what you think.
- Collaborative translation of
Cita
is now
available
on translatewiki.net.
Cita
is a Wikidata addon that adds citations metadata support to
Zotero
, using
cites work (P2860)
information from Wikidata, and enabling users to easily contribute missing data.
Cita
is currently under development with a WikiCite grant from the Wikimedia Foundation, and presentation workshops will be held on May 27th (Spanish) and May 31st (English). More info and pre-registration
here
.
- RaiseWikibase
is a tool for speeding up multilingual knowledge graph construction with Wikibase. Among other features, it can be utilized to create a mini Wikibase instance with Wikidata properties in a few minutes.
- SPARQL-Blockly
is a tool to visualise and construct SPARQL queries as visual blocks (
Wikidata example
)
- Wikibase/FAQ
is a living document of a list of frequently asked questions about Wikibase. Community members are welcome to contribute to it.
- RIP
Liz Marley
- Did you know?
- Newest
properties
:
- General datatypes:
ALA-LC romanization for Ukrainian
- External identifiers:
ANPI place numeric ID
,
National Provider Identifier
,
Dicionario Historico-Biografico Brasileiro ID
,
Brapci author ID
,
Wikiroute ID
,
Biographia Benedictina ID
,
Periodical ID in a database of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic
,
National Database of Laws and Regulations ID
,
Russians of Latvia ID
,
Rekhta author ID
,
Washington Rare Plant Field Guide ID
,
DzygaMDB film ID
,
Bioguiden movie theater ID
,
MovieMeter person ID
,
Biblioteca Digital Curt Nimuendaju ID
,
SonyLIV show ID
,
Gyldendals Teaterleksikon ID
,
IAU member ID
,
LIMA media artist ID
,
Singers.com ID
,
HistoryLink essay number
,
inventory number of a work of art in the Art for the City database
,
Cimiterium ID
,
Smithsonian Ark ID
,
Oregon Poetic Voices poet ID
,
Encyclopedia of Korean Culture ID
,
Malaysian school code
,
Trap Danmark ID
,
Finna ID
,
Berliner Bezirkslexikon: Mitte ID
,
Berliner Bezirkslexikon: Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf ID
,
Berliner Bezirkslexikon: Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg ID
,
Catalogue of the General State Archives ID
,
CofE archives ID
- New
property proposals
to review:
- General datatypes:
accessibility statement URL
,
symbol represents
,
main upper course
,
Political Graveyard geography ID
,
diel cycle
,
Taxon holotype location
,
Smithsonian trinomial prefix
,
Digital Atlas of Idaho taxon ID
,
hardware threading standard
- External identifiers:
music austria ID
,
identifiant Localisation - Joconde du Service des musees de France
,
identifiant utilisation - Joconde du Service des musees de France
,
identifiant representation - Joconde du Service des musees de France
,
NC Highway Historical Marker Program ID
,
Forbes (Russia) profile ID
,
Indiana State Historical Marker Program ID
,
Digital DISCI ID
,
The Draft Review ID 2
,
Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte ID
,
Enzyklopadie des europaischen Ostens ID
,
National Historical Museums of Sweden agent ID
,
IUCN Green List ID
,
Gardens of the Roman Empire ID
,
Historic Hawai‘i Foundation ID
,
UNITER Award person ID
,
ID pravnicke osoby vedene Ministerstvem kultury ?R
,
CEV Team-ID
,
Anime Filler List show id
,
CEV Coach-ID
,
memento.wien person ID
,
MyBIS ID
,
Ultime lettere di condannati a morte e di deportati della Resistenza italiana person ID
,
am.hayazg.info ID
,
The Criterion Collection film ID
,
Digital Library of Armenian Literature author ID
,
Kielitoimiston sanakirja ID
,
Gopo Award ID
,
Director Identification Number
,
TheTVDB character ID
,
JECFA number
,
Norges Fotballforbund klubb ID
,
representatives1821.gr ID
,
Parliament of Romania person ID
,
Apple TV movie ID
- Query examples:
- Newest database reports:
Doctor Who
companions
- Development
- wbeditentity now supports editing statements on Senses (
phab:T199896
)
- We added syntax highlighting for viewing Entity Schema pages. There is not syntax highlighting for editing of Entity Schemas yet. (
phab:T238831
)
- Improved the way Lua deals with redirects (
phab:T238831
)
- Worked on making it possible to add a title to the top of a query visualization via a comment in the SPARQL code (
phab:T225883
)
- Discussed how to get persistent storage of constraint violations unstuck as this is a prerequisite to making it easier to analyze and query constraint violations (
phab:T214362
)
- Discussed a high-level plan for how to move forward with checking Wikidata's data against 3rd-party databases
- Finished work on version 1 of the Query Builder. Not it is awaiting security review before we can deploy it.
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
.
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Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of
the Reply Tool
. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped
newer editors
communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.
The key results were:
- Newer editors who had automatic ("default on") access to the Reply tool were
more likely
to post a comment on a talk page.
- The comments that newer editors made with the Reply Tool were also
less likely
to be reverted than the comments that newer editors made with page editing.
These results give the Editing team confidence that the tool is helpful.
Looking ahead
The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months. This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.
The next step is to
resolve a technical challenge
. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the
Wikipedias that participated in the study
. After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.
You can turn on "Discussion tools"
in Beta Features
now. After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time in
Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion
.
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Whatamidoing (WMF)
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14:12, 24 June 2021 (UTC)
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The
New topic tool
helps editors create new ==Sections== on discussion pages. New editors are more successful with this new tool. You can
read the report
. Soon, the Editing team will offer this to all editors at the 20 Wikipedias that participated in the test. You will be able to turn it off at
Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion
.
Whatamidoing (WMF)
18:43, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
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The new [subscribe] button
notifies people when someone replies
to their comments. It helps newcomers get answers to their questions. People reply sooner. You can
read the report
. The Editing team is turning this tool on for everyone. You will be able to turn it off
in your preferences
.
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23:35, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
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This newsletter includes two key updates about the
Editing
team's work:
- The Editing team will finish adding new features to the
Talk pages project
and deploy it.
- They are beginning a new project,
Edit check
.
Talk pages project
The Editing team is nearly finished with this first phase of the
Talk pages project
. Nearly all
new features
are available now in the
Beta Feature for Discussion tools
.
It will show information about how active a discussion is, such as the date of the most recent comment. There will soon be a new "Add topic" button. You will be able to turn them off at
Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion
. Please
tell them what you think
.
An A/B test for
Discussion tools on the mobile site
has finished. Editors were
more successful with Discussion tools
. The Editing team is enabling these features for all editors on the mobile site.
New Project: Edit Check
The Editing team is beginning
a project to help new editors of Wikipedia
. It will help people identify some problems before they click "Publish changes". The first tool will encourage people to add references when they add new content. Please
watch
that page for more information. You can
join a conference call on 3?March?2023
to learn more.
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