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Planet to Earth: this tool uses data from Wikidata to visualise the links between places on an astronomical body named after a place on planet Earth.
WikiDataScape is a Cytoscape app for interactive browsing of Wikidata.
The property "KML file" was created last week (see list below) and has already a full list of values, sample LUA module and property documentation page available (Property talk:P3096)
Welsh Wikipedia includes Wikidata-based article placeholders, like this one
Wiki Loves Monuments started! You can help by improving the items about heritage buildings or use Wikishootme to find unpictured monuments
English Wikipedia now has a WikiProject Wikidata to coordinate integration with Wikidata. Why not start one for your local Wikipedia? Add it to Q20855878 if you do.
Upcoming: Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) & Liam Wyatt (User:Wittylama) speaking about GLAM-Wiki (including Wikidata) in Warsaw, 19 October. Details tbc.
Upcoming: Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) speaking & running workshop about Wikidata at SFK 16 ("Software Freedom Kosova Conference") in Pristina, 21-23 October.
#SundayQuery on Twitter: every Sunday, you can ask for help or advice about SPARQL queries, how to build or fix it, some SPARQL-ninjas will be there to answer you!
Researcher? You can participate in the WSDM Cup 2017 challenge and improve Wikidata vandalism detection
New templates: {{Denmark properties}}, {{Greece properties}}. Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar template for your country or region.
Development
Lowered relevance threshold for ArticlePlaceholder search results from 3 to 2 sitelinks (T144188)
Added 'otk' as an available language for monolingual text values (T137809)
Working on making it possible to paste partial URLs into the site selector (T144310)
Made progress on showing editors on all Wikimedia projects which articles on their project use data from a given Wikidata item. We will also show in the page information (action=info) which items a given article uses. Also worked on showing which projects use a given item in the page information. (T103091)
Added meta information to the html header of item pages (T88475)
Made progress on making ArticlePlaceholders indexable for search engines (T144590)
I noticed your edit to Template:Infobox telescope. This edit produces strange-looking results. The diameter (of the objective lens or mirror) is normally stated in inches for older optical telescopes (never feet and inches). For older radio telescopes the diameter of the main reflector is stated in feet (not feet and inches; usually the statements are not accurate to the inch so including inches would be false precision). For modern telescopes, both optical and radio, diameters are in meters. The template should not be converting inches to feet and inches, as it currently does for Hale telescope; the only conversions should be between American customary units and meters. The American customary unit for radio telescopes should be feet, and the American customary unit for optical telescopes should be inches. Jc3s5h (talk) 13:38, 18 September 2016 (UTC)
Hi @Jc3s5h: Thanks for the heads-up about the issue. I think I've resolved it with this edit, which checks to see whether feet/inches/square inches are used rather than m/cm/sqm, and flips the conversion to convert to SI if needed. Does that look better to you now? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 16:17, 18 September 2016 (UTC)
It looks better for Hale Telescope. The modern large telescopes, where the diameter is usually designated in meters, all seem to have various notations and/or citations, which (properly) prevent the importation of Wikidata and hence avoid having your code apply to them.
I argue that the customary American diameter of the South Pole Telescope should be give as 394 inches, to permit easier comparison to the diameter of older telescopes with well-known diameters in inches, such as the 200-inch Hale telescope or the 100-inch Hooker telescope. Jc3s5h (talk) 20:30, 18 September 2016 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #227
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions
We're starting working on lexicographical data! Please read the proposal and give us your feedback :)
The Project Grants program is accepting proposals from September 12 to October 11 to fund new tools, research, offline outreach, online organizing and other experiments that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers.
The RevisionSlider is now available as a beta feature, try it to have a visual overview of your diffs.
The Wikidata team attended and participated to a lot of conference these past days (WikiCon, ViewSource, DPpedia, SoCraTes, Write the doc) that's why we don't have many tasks to share with you this week :)
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RfC on importing Wikidata information into Wikipedia observatory infoboxes
TXT Werk is doing automatic entity recognition in text with the help of Wikidata. Previously only German was supported. English is now supported as well.
Proposition for upgrading the default copyright license for Wikimedia projects to CC-by-SA 4.0 (does not affect the structured data part of Wikidata, which uses CC0).
More work on automated sitelinks for Wiktionary (phabricator:T987)
More work on federation for Commons in order to be able to use Wikidata's items and properties there (phabricator:T76007)
Adding entity usage information in action=edit on Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T144921)
Working on making it possible to get formatted values back on the client. With this we will for example link the value to a Wikipedia article where possible. (phabricator:T142940)
