This is an archive of past discussions with User:Mike Peel. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page.
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Discussions
Other: Proposal to spin-off non-Earth coordinates from property P625 (coordinates location), currently only 7000 of 8 million values: see Property proposal/planetary coordinates
Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, October 20 at 18:00 CEST
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: hands-on work with Wikidata on creating items for authors of COVID 19 papers and brainstorming for future hands-on work, 20 October. Agenda
Blocked users trying to create new Items no longer make us skip QIDs (phab:T232620)
So far we don't have JSON dumps for Lexemes. We're working on regularly generating them as well now (phab:T264883)
Continuing work on getting the Query Builder to generate the first query. Almost there.
Started the feedback round for the REST API. Please provide your input if you are currently using the action API or plan to develop against Wikidata's API in the future.
@Gonnym: If you edit the sitelinks, a little badge to the right of each of them appears with 'click to assign a badge' as a hover-over. Click on it, and the 'intentional...' option is at the bottom. This was the first time I've seen and used it! Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 12:20, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
Hey mike bro it’s regarding the actress Pia bajpiee.i noticed you edited her dob b4 also,that Shillong times are 1 of the most reputed media news paper of India.they have clearly mentioned 26 years so if you do math it’s than her dob year comes as 93.nobody will provide you her real id so plz don’t be harsh on that page and trust then publications.its October 2020 article.plz don’t edit.thx — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.134.150.201 (talk) 16:43, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
bro it’s a request from south fans of Pia bajpiee,leave that page as it is,I will definitely get back to you if I get any other reference in future.tc — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.134.150.201 (talk) 16:53, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
Bro
Can u plz add these two link to her DOB in bio so nobody get confuse .i am trying but not able to do some how thx.
Past: Providing sustainable data services through Wikibase and Wikidata, SEMIC Conference 2020 - (replay)
Past: Introduction to Wikidata by Frimelle, Software Freedom Kosova 2020 - (replay)
Past: What's new in Wikidata? by Lea Lacroix, Lydia Pintscher and Mattia Capozzi, ItWikiCon 2020 - (replay)
Ongoing: plenty of Wikidata birthday events, online and onsite! Here's an overview of the upcoming events, you can find the links and details in the main calendar.
WikiCite virtual conference on October 26-28, live-streamed on Youtube and Twitter, with sessions across many timezones and languages – English, French, German, Indonesian, and Portuguese.
24-hours online meetup, on October 28-29: an open discussion with plenty of community members facilitating exchange around the topic "what makes you enthusiastic about Wikidata"
Gene Wiki: how to synchronize and curate primary sources with and in Wikidata, online, on October 29th
Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata (in French) - (Parts 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5)
Tool of the week
WikibaseJS-cli allows to edit Wikidata from command line, including creating items from samples ("templates") and do complex transformations of statements
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Server switch: all wikis will be in read-only on Tuesday, October 27th at 14:00 UTC for up to an hour (more information). All services hosted by WMF (e.g. tools hosted on wmcloud.org) are also impacted. Non-essential code deployments will not happen this week.
Got the Query Builder to create the first simple queries. You can follow along the development from now on on the test system.
Preparing regular JSON dumps for Lexemes (phab:T264883)
Analyzed a number of queries to the query service together with the WMF search team to better understand what the queries are doing and what further optimizations we can make to the query service and which queries need different systems to answer them.
Working on creating and tracking implicit usages of Wikidata descriptions so description changes show up in the watchlist on Wikipedia and co (phab:T265897)
Looking into what would be considered a mismatch when comparing WIkidata's data against another database. This is groundwork for potentially automating this in the future to find potential issues in the data to flag to editors.
Working on deploying the new Item quality scoring model for ORES to production so we have improved quality scores
Finished investigating how to handle a restricted list of external Wikibase services. (phab:T265118)
Removed noratelimit on bots for wikidata.org (phab:T258354)
Published Easier Access for Programmers to Wikidata research report
Hi Mike, In your edit to William Owen (architect and surveyor), you say that commons category William Owen (architect and surveyor) does not exist. It does, but does not seem to be linking through properly. How can this be resolved? Tyssil (talk) 22:36, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
Sysops will once again be able to view the deleted history of JS/CSS pages; this was restricted to interface administrators when that group was introduced.
Twinkle's block module now includes the ability to note the specific case when applying a discretionary sanctions block and/or template.
Past: Wikidata & Wikibase office hour, October 27 (notes)
Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Arthur Smith and Daniel Mietchen discussing author items in Wikidata and the Author Disambiguator Tool, 3 November. Agenda
Wikidata Spanish Tutorials Website – a brand new user-friendly (with Dublin Core Metadata!) digital collection of Wikidata slides, tutorials, and manuals in Spanish (Biblioteca Daniel Cosío Villegas, Mexico)
Since you have been removing links to images (Commons Category template) from US Air Force squadrons on the basis that the category belongs on a higher headquarters article, I was wondering what the link is showing that commons category links cannot be in both articles. --Lineagegeek (talk) 22:09, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
@Lineagegeek: In general the commons category link belongs with the matching article, and normally at the bottom of the article. Why is the Commons link thought to be useful for readers in these situations, please? (per Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects.) And why is that only done in a small number of articles? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 08:41, 4 November 2020 (UTC)
The squadrons in question were assigned to the headquarters and some images may be of aircraft assigned to the squadron/headquarters or be of the squadron's emblem. For most of these squadrons (if not all) the number of images specific to the squadron would not likely be sufficient to create a separate commons category for the squadron. --Lineagegeek (talk) 17:20, 4 November 2020 (UTC)
@Lineagegeek: If there's more images than are being displayed in the article, then it's definitely worth creating a Commons category for them. If not, probably the article shouldn't be linking to Commons, if that link belongs with another article. If you want to pick through some specific examples, I'm happy to work through them with you if you want. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 19:01, 4 November 2020 (UTC)
Thanks, but I was under the impression that there was an (unwritten?) rule that a commons category should not be created unless there was an expectation that there would eventually be at least 20 images in it. --Lineagegeek (talk) 19:36, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
@Lineagegeek: I haven't heard of that rule before. I routinely create categories where there are currently less than 20 images, it's not normally a problem. Particularly now that the category can have the infobox in the category, so it displays extra context about the images. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 09:25, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
The discussion will take place at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hilton Mexico City Reforma until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. 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.
Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #24 - YouTube, Facebook, November 14, 19.00 UTC
Tool of the week
Template:Cite Q on Wikipedia makes it easier to use Wikidata items as Wikipedia references.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 12 November 2020 (Add to calendar). Come and share-out anything new or exciting that’s been happening with your Wikibase instance; what have you been doing recently, what is working well, what has been challenging for you - we would like to hear them all!
Continuing work with the WMF search team to automatically categorize WDQS queries to see how they can better be served
Query Builder work is continuing. Next step is making it possible to create a query with an arbitrary Property instead of the currently hard-coded post code.
Feedback round for the REST API is finishing this week and then we will review all the feedback and make changes to the spec accordingly.
Preparing to release 1.35 version of Wikibase docker image (phab:T264538)
Fixed Math extension to not require JS parser which caused issues creating new Statements for mathematical formulae (phab:T266673)
Made sure there is a meaningful edit summary when deleting a Lexeme (phab:T263435)
Sweden report: Librarians learn about Wikidata; More Swedish literature on Wikidata; Online Edit-a-thon Dalarna; Applications to the Swedish Innovation Agency; Kulturhistoria som gymnasiearbete; Librarians and Projekt HBTQI; GLAM Statistical Tool
USA report: American Archive of Public Broadcasting; Smithsonian Women in Finance Edit-a-thon; Black Lunch Table; San Diego/October 2020; WikiWednesday Salon
Blogpost: Introducing Mapping the Scottish Reformation: Clerics, Manuscripts, and Open Data. "Most of the individuals we have found are obviously relatively obscure and have no item entry in Wikidata...As such, we have created around one thousand new items over the last two months, all of which serve as a framework to record the key parameters of a cleric’s career".
Tool of the week
ALEC (A List of Everything Cool) is a tool to explore biodiversity content in Wikidata.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Join the upcoming #1Lib1Ref Wikipedia campaign from January 15th to February 5th 2021 and improve Wikidata items by adding references to statements.
Added "Random lexeme" link under dedicated section for lexicographical data in the Wikidata sidebar (phab:T205525). Thanks to Matěj Suchánek!
Working on language/spelling variant selector bug on Special:NewItem and Special:NewLexeme that makes it difficult to continue creating Items or Lexemes (phab:T266638)
Work on the Query Builder continues. We're focusing on making it possible to query for all Items with a specific Property but any value next.
Went over all the feedback we have received for the REST API specification draft. Overall the feedback is positive and really useful. So we will move ahead after thinking more about the remaining points that were raised.
Working on making changes to descriptions show up in the RecentChanges feed and watchlists on Wikipedia and co as well even if they are not explicitly used (phab:T191831)
Fixed a problem adding statements with Properties of datatype mathematical formula (phab:T266496)
Kicked off our new effort to implement a predictable release cycle and release infrastructure for Wikibase suite by creating a prototype build workflow (phab:T267553) and prototype test workflow (phab:T267554)
