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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
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Newest properties : Québec cultural heritage directory people identifier , grammatical option indicates , Statistics Indonesia language code , Statistics Indonesia ethnicity code , village code of Indonesia , has phoneme , INSEE departement code , INSEE region code , Australian Wetlands Database Directory of Important Wetlands Reference Code , distance from Earth , J. Paul Getty Museum object id , BabelNet id , Baltisches Biographisches Lexikon digital ID , studied by , studies , admissible rule in , UCSC Genome Browser assembly ID , measures , National-Football-Teams.com player ID , number of out of school children , Twitter hashtag , uncertainty corresponds to , Saros cycle of eclipse , contact times of eclipse , repealed by , amended by , ECHA InfoCard ID , global-warming potential
Query example: French heads of government by length of service , Metro stations in Paris
Development
Lucie and Charlie handed in their Bachelor theses on the Article Placeholder and Editing Wikidata from Wikipedia. Work on both topics will continue. We'll publish both theses soon. A big congrats to both of them!
More work on the first prototype for Commons support (phabricator:T125822 )
Continued working on improving language support for monolingual text and labels/descriptions/aliases (phabricator:T125066 )
Conversion of properties from string to external identifier datatype is ongoing
Experimenting with putting query results on a map in query.wikidata.org (earthquakes , ski resorts )
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Newest properties : thickness , World Heritage criteria (2005) , Valencian Property of Local Relevance id , BookBrainz creator ID , PlayStation ID , ČSFD person ID , Kinopoisk person ID , Kinopoisk film ID , Hockeydb.com player ID , Eurohockey.com player ID , Geni.com profile ID , block size , serial number , Gram staining , culture , maximum gradient , Latvian Olympic Committee athlete ID
Query examples: Number of museums by U. S. state on map , Film directors ranked by number of sitelinks multiplied by their number of films , all museums in Barcelona with coordinates , women mushers , women scientists , women artists , air accidents , Twitter accounts of biologists , torture devices , public art in Paris , Locations of Pablo Picasso works
Development
We reduced the loading time of items significantly. Enjoy a faster Wikidata :) Faster!!!
Wikidata Query GUI now supports maps. Check it out with one of the example queries above. (Select Map under Display results menu).
Pywikibot now has SPARQL endpoint support .We worked on getting the first pieces of Commons support on a test system. Nothing shiny to see yet but we're making progress.
Converted more identifier to the new identifier datatype. Still some to go but 450 properties have been converted by now.
Updated the data that generates suggestions when adding a new statement
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Newest properties : BBFC rating , German tax authority ID , ISO 9362 SWIFT/BIC code , DNF person ID , PASE ID , MetroLyrics ID , MEK ID , Companies House ID , Site of Special Scientific Interest (England) ID , ISO 15924 numeric code , Hungarian company ID , SHOWA ID , formatterURL for Wikidata ID , World Heritage criteria (2005) , TED talk ID , TED topic ID , TED speaker ID
Query examples: distribution of public art by place
Development
The query service now has Ctrl+enter as a shortcut to run a query
Started working on improving input for geocoordinates and dates (changing the advanced settings)
Worked on database performance improvements for the client (Wikipedia and co) (phabricator:T125838 )
Experimenting with arbitrary access for Wikimedia Commons on http://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org
Converted more identifiers from string datatype to identifier datatype
Worked on improved localization of dates that are very far in the past or future (phabricator:T127820 )
Fixed undo actions going through abuse filter (phabricator:T126861 )
Fixed issues in the query service with Internet Explorer 11
Improved query service display on small screens
Improved autocompletion in the query service
Fixed a bug with an add button for qualifiers being shown when it shouldn't (phabricator:T128317 )
Further work on Wikimedia Commons support (Special Pages, API)
You can now add a default view to a query like here . This then shows the defined view (map, table, image grid) when executing the query.
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Newest properties : next crossing downstream , next crossing upstream , SOATO ID , Google Knowledge Graph identifier , has parts of the class , discontinued date , variability of property value , corresponding template , Datahub page , alcohol by volume , units sold , tier 1 capital ratio (CETI) , consumption rate per capita , target interest rate , topographic prominence , topographic isolation , Scoville grade , EU transparency register ID , FIFA World Ranking , Estyn ID , partnership with , CRICOS Provider Code , interested in , Cycling Quotient url (mens team) , Cycling Quotient identifier (races for men) , source of material , mirTarBase ID , mean lifetime , Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education , FedCup player ID , Davis Cup player ID , Swimrankings.net swimmer ID , Filmportal ID , TV.com ID , RARS rating , Minkultury Film ID , number of parts of a work of art , model , geography , place of detention , Turner Classic Movies film ID , cost of damage
Query examples: Library and Information Science journals , number of statements backed by a reference with a DOI
Development
You see that you can now show labels/descriptions/aliases for all languages that have been added to an item by clicking "more languages"
Preparation for arbitrary access on Commons
Getting ready for the hackathon in Israel
More work on making the extended input for geocoordinates and dates less complicated to understand
Worked on making scrolling of large items less laggy
Made the query service map visualization no longer show coordinates that are not on earth
Fixed a bug where the removal of a sitelink couldn't be done (phabricator:T129450 )
Query service no longer restores previous query as requested
Fixed a bug where adding a statement would leave a stray "add qualifier" link (phabricator:T128317 )
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Events/Blogs/Press slides for SPARQL and Wikidata intro by shonagon- École de Bibliothécaires Documentalistes
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Newest properties : dataset distribution , file format , protocol , URL , CricketArchive player ID , ESPNcricinfo player ID , FIG gymnast identifier , type locality , ISU figure skater identifier , New York Times Semantic Concept: Descriptor , New York Times Semantic Concept: Location , New York Times Semantic Concept: Organization , New York Times Semantic Concept: Person , BARTOC ID , Box Office Mojo person ID , NDL JPNO , Opensecrets Identifier , Basketball-Reference.com NBA player ID , Kijkwijzer rating , Bekker Number , is verso of , is recto of , author of afterword , author of foreword , Russiancinema.ru film ID , relative position within image , rating certificate ID , reply to
Newest WikiProjects : Historical Place
Query examples: phrases , Redewendungen , most commons eponyms
Development
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The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:YouTube . Legobot (talk ) 04:24, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
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Newest properties : typeface/font , disjoint union of , union of , Biographical Directory of Federal Judges id , UNZ journal identifier , UNZ author identifier , Persée journal ID , Persée author ID , Projeto Excelências ID , ISSF ID , Badminton World Federation ID , CageMatch worker ID , United World Wrestling ID , UIPM ID , GOG application ID , Deezer track ID , Deezer album ID , Deezer artist ID , Encyclopaedia Metallum release ID , embed URL , Hungarian-style transcription , lowest-observed-adverse-effect level , no-observed-adverse-effect level , collage image , elected in , sectional view , median lethal concentration , minimal lethal concentration , Cycling Quotient identifier (cyclist, woman) , Cycling Quotient identifier (women races) , Karate Records ID , EIDR identifier , British Film Institute identifier
Query examples: women with most sitelinks and no image born in 1921 or later , what is depicted in artwork , most eponymous mathematicians
Showcase items : Iron Man (film)
Development
Lucie successfully defended her thesis about the ArticlePlaceholder. Congrats!
Worked more on the first version of the user interface for structured data for multimedia files
Worked on simplifying input of queries for people who do not know SPARQL
Improved localizability of the sitelink and reference counters
Allow input and output of localized dates with precision smaller than years (phab:T95532 and phab:T127820 )
More string properties have been converted to external id ones, so that we have over 850 external id properties now
Experimenting with Citoid support for Wikidata to make it easier to add complete references in the way Visual Editor does it
Improved performance of sticky property labels (phab:T103485 )
Released DataValues JavaScript 0.8.1
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
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Development
Query results for the query service are now cached by default for 60 seconds (phabricator:T126730 )
Finishing touches on easier input of geocoordinates and dates (sneak peek )
Finishing touches on easier manipulation of SPARQL queries (sneak peel - should go live later today)
Significantly reduced the write access to the database to make sure we're not frying the poor servers unnecessarily
Getting ArticlePlaceholder ready for first deployment
More work on first prototype for structured data support for Wikimedia Commons
Cleaned up icons for selecting rank and value type
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