Wikidata March 2021

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Project Grant application for SDC support in OpenRefine: feedback and endorsements welcome
by Sandra Fauconnier 16 Mar '21

16 Mar '21

Hello everyone, Since 2019, it is possible to add structured data to files on Wikimedia Commons [1] (SDC = Structured Data on Commons). But there are no very advanced and user-friendly tools yet to edit the structured data of very large and very diverse batches of files on Commons. And there is no batch upload tool yet that supports SDC. The OpenRefine [2] community wants to fill this gap: in the upcoming year, we would like to build brand new features in the open source OpenRefine tool, … [View More]

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Weekly Summary #459
by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai 15 Mar '21

15 Mar '21

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions - Open request for adminship: Minorax <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrat…> (RfP scheduled to end after 19 March 2021 11:23 UTC) Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events> - Upcoming: 30 Lexic-o-days <https://linproxy.… [View More]

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New WDQS Streaming Updater now available on pre-production test server for feedback
by Mike Pham 15 Mar '21

15 Mar '21

Hello all, It has been exciting to see the increased adoption and usage of the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) usage in the past year. To support this growing demand, on 15 March 2021 the Search Platform team released a new Streaming Updater to a test server https://query-preview.wikidata.org for feedback before going to production on 15 April 2021 (pending any major blockers discovered during testing). Once in production, WDQS will become less of a bottleneck … [View More]for Wikidata updates, and we’re looking forward to better facilitating Wikidata’s continued growth as a more complete knowledge graph. Your relevant feedback on the following changes is important to us to ensure we continue to best support your needs while scaling up the service in production: 1. New Streaming Updater: [1] - This improvement to the Updater will allow WDQS to better handle the volume of edits to Wikidata, improving data consistency and decreasing update latency: while the existing Updater fluctuates between 5–15 updates/sec (averaging 10 updates/sec), the new Updater will be able handle a throughput of 40–130 updates/sec (88 updates/sec on average). Without these performance improvements, edits to Wikidata were being throttled <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T243701>, approaching the point where they could become impossible. With the new Updater, edits to Wikidata will be on the whole more consistent and have less lag, reducing the WDQS bottleneck to improving Wikidata content. - We don’t anticipate this to adversely affect workflows or usage, but it is a big update, and we would like you to let us know if you find any related bugs or problems so that we can properly address them. 2. Blank node skolemization: [2] - To reliably use the new Streaming Updater to minimize the throttling of edits to Wikidata, skolemization of blank nodes was required, as detailed in the phabricator ticket. For more detail on why this was necessary, you can also refer to another attempt to design a “diff” format for RDF <https://www.w3.org/2001/sw/wiki/TurtlePatch>, where the solution suggested to handle blank nodes is also skolemization. We understand that this solution will unfortunately potentially introduce breaking changes to your usage of WDQS, RDF dumps, and Special:EntityData; however, given the severe risk of the edits to Wikidata becoming impossible, we felt this was the best course of action to take in the timeframe we had. We acknowledge that this approach has its shortcomings, however, and invite you to provide us with feedback on how we can improve future usage of Wikidata and WDQS while maintaining their scalability and reliability. - From a user perspective of this change, (1) queries using isBlank() will need to be rewritten; (2) queries using isIRI/isURI will need to be verified; (3) WDQS results will no longer include blank nodes. If these changes affect your workflows, and/or you need to know how to modify your workflows to account for the blank node skolemization, please let us know what your specific use case is. - For more detail on how to modify your workflows, including examples, please refer to the following page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Query_Service/Blank_Node_Skolemizat… 3. Constraint fetching [3] - Constraints are a Wikibase concept that allows entities to be validated based on definable properties: i.e. all astronauts must be human. Ideally, constraint fetching would be used to ensure data quality for Wikidata edits. The reality is that the current implementation of constraints fetching is not meeting our production quality standards and was generating detrimental noise in our logs. - As a result of the sub-par implementation, and the fact that the new Flink-based Streaming Updater doesn’t support it, current constraint fetching functionality will be disabled with the new Updater release, until we can expose constraint violations in a more production-ready way [4][5][6]. We recognize that even functionality that doesn’t meet our production quality standards is still potentially useful for some, and we would like to hear your feedback if you are adversely affected by this change. We’re looking forward to these new changes improving WDQS, and your relevant feedback on these updates will help us make sure we can continue to support your needs. If you have any questions, issues or suggestions, feel free to reach out to us on the WDQS contact page <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contact_the_development_team/Query_S…> . original announcement on Wikidata Project Chat: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#New_WDQS_Streaming_Upda… [1] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244590 [2] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244341 [3] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274982 [4] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204024 [5] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T201147 [6] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T201150 — Mike Pham (he/him) Sr Product Manager, Search Platform Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> [View Less]

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Reg: How to fetch the sub properties and properties
by vijaya 11 Mar '21

11 Mar '21

Hi, Is there a way to get the child properties/sub-properties of a property? Example: position_held(P39) property has sub-properties like start time and end time so how to get them directly with SPARQL query and also If I have a wiki dump which is around 65 GB so how to parse a huge wiki dump and get the properties and their related sub-properties? I got all the property IDs and property labels by SPARQL query but its inner properties like start time, end time.. so on were missed. … [View More]

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How to get the properties and subproperties of QID
by vijaya 11 Mar '21

11 Mar '21

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Community resources needed for focus languages for lexicographical data and Abstract Wikipedia campaign
by Michal Matúšov 10 Mar '21

10 Mar '21

Hi there. About the new development of the lexicographical data and Abstract Wikipedia [1]: Can you estimate how much involvement (time / effort / energy ...) is supposed from the language community that will be selected for focus? The description says about "particularly active feedback channels" but different lang communities can interpret it differently :) E.g. can you compare it to situation for first languages that have received ContentTranslation? In the Esperanto community we discuss … [View More]

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The Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations
by Leila Zia 10 Mar '21

10 Mar '21

[My apologies for cross-posting. I realized I missed this important list.:)] Hi all, This email contains information about a new award that we're introducing as well as instructions about how you can nominate scholarly research publications for the award. =Purpose of the award= Recognize recent research on or about the Wikimedia projects or recent research that is of importance to the Wikimedia projects. Recognize the researchers behind the research. =Call for Nominations= We invite you to … [View More]submit nominations for the Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the year, which will be handed out at Wiki Workshop 2021 [1]. ==Eligibility criteria== Your nomination must meet the following criteria: * The research must be on, about, using data from, and/or of importance to Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia projects [2]. * The publication must be available in English. * The research must have been published between January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2020. ==Selection criteria== The award committee [3] will assess nominations based on methodological excellence, quality of execution, quality of presentation, reproducibility, ethical considerations, potential impact on the Wikimedia projects or the Wikimedia research. ==Nomination process== If you are interested to nominate a scholarly research publication, please do so no later than 2021-03-22 by uploading it to Easychair via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wmfray2020 . We will ask you to provide the following information in your nomination: * Title of the manuscript * A copy of the manuscript you are nominating * A summary of the research and a clear justification for why the work merits the award (in 350 words or fewer in English). Note that self-nominations and nominations of others' work are both welcome. If you have any questions, please contact wmf-ray-2020(a)easychair.org. Best, Leila Zia, on behalf of the Selection Committee of the Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year [1] https://wikiworkshop.org/2021/ [2] https://wikimediafoundation.org/our-work/wikimedia-projects/ [3] comprised of myself, Benjamin Mako Hill (University of Washington) and Aaron Shaw (Northwestern University) as of now. More people may be added depending on the diversity of the nominations we receive and as expertise are required. -- Leila Zia Head of Research Wikimedia Foundation [View Less]

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30 Lexic-o-days, events and challenges about lexicographical data
by Léa Lacroix 09 Mar '21

09 Mar '21

Hello all, I'm glad to announce that *30 Lexic-o-days <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/30_lexic-o-days_2021>*, a series of events, projects and challenges around *lexicographical data*, will start on *March 15th*. There will be discussions, presentations, but also activities like improving the documentation of Lexemes or editing challenges. The goals of this event is to gather people editing Lexemes to have discussions around the content … [View More]

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Wikidata user diversity survey will be activated on Wednesday 10th March, 2021
by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai 09 Mar '21

09 Mar '21

Hello, As you may recall, the Wikidata development team at Wikimedia Germany requested for a CentralNotice banner <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CentralNotice/Request#Wikidata_Community_Su…> earlier in February to deploy the Wikidata user diversity survey. The request has been approved and the banner will be activated and displayed for 10 days from Wednesday 10th March, 2021 and closed on Saturday 20th March, 2021. Your responses to this survey will … [View More]

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Requesting feedback on new Community Resources Grants Strategy proposal
by Chris "Jethro" Schilling 08 Mar '21

08 Mar '21

Dear friends and Wikimedians, (apologies for cross-posting!) The Community Resources team announced in January the intention and process to review its current grants programs (Annual Plan Grants, Simple Annual Plan Grants, Project Grants and Rapid Grants) to ensure we are aligning with the strategic direction of the Wikimedia movement, with a focus on knowledge equity and building a thriving movement[1][2]. Now that we have finished our needs review, key stakeholders discussions, community … [View More]

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