[Wikidata] weekly summary #187

Hey folks :) Here's your summary for what happened around Wikidata over the past week. Sorry for sending it late. I spent some much needed time with friends over a long weekend in Barcelona. Have a great week and keep rocking! Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Past: Semantic Web Application and Tools 4 Life Science <http://www.swat4ls.org/> - notes <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dSgm90SbQBpHqEMa17t5zQL0PB2waIKD3LKTPPknmcY/edit> - example queries <https://bitbucket.org/sulab/wikidatasparqlexamples/src> - a few images <https://twitter.com/bgood/status/673872975024816128> - Ongoing: Wikidata for Beginners session at DISH 2015, Rotterdam <http://www.dish2015.nl/programme/improvisation-session/day-2-lose-control-gain-influence/>, 8 December 2015 - Upcoming: Wikidata pour la science <http://www.meetup.com/SemanticCampParis/events/227054374/?eventId=227054374> - Upcoming: Workshop on "Wikidata as a platform for biocuration" at Biocuration 2016 <http://www.isb-sib.ch/events/biocuration2016/workshops#WS6> - Slides for talk "Building the sum of all human citations" <http://www.slideshare.net/dartar/building-the-sum-of-all-human-citations> - Op-ed in Signpost <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-12-02/Op-ed> (Lydia is working on a piece to address some of the points) Other Noteworthy Stuff - Closing in towards 1 million links between Commons categories and Wikidata article-type items <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Closing_in_towards_1_million_links_between_Commons_categories_and_Wikidata_article-type_items> -- 8,000 more by next week? - Help labeling edits to improve the vandalism detection on Wikidata <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Edit_labels> - Open Science Prize <https://www.openscienceprize.org/> is looking for cool ideas for Open Data and health. How about something awesome with Wikidata? - The Individual Engagement Grant for StrepHit <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/StrepHit:_Wikidata_Statements_Validation_via_References> has been accepted - Are you between 13 and 17? Join us for Google Code-in <https://codein.withgoogle.com> and do some Wikidata tasks with Wikimedia - We want your feedback on how to improve the process of showcasing Wikidata's best content <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-December/007751.html> - I dreamed of a perfect database <https://newrepublic.com/article/124425/dreamed-perfect-database> - Wikidata? ;-) - Histropedia timeline of National Library of Wales <http://histropedia.com/timeline/lhblyhhr091/NLW-Collections> - Wikinews, Wikispecies and MediaWiki now have access to the data on Wikidata. Do awesome things with it, sisters! Meta will follow on 15th. - Map of narrative locations in Denmark <https://fnielsen.github.io/littar/> - Experimental REST API for Wikidata <http://queryr.wmflabs.org/about/> Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: deprecated in version <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2379>, issued by <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2378>, MediaWiki hooks used <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2377>, superpartner of <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2376>, has superpartner <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2375>, natural abundance <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2374>, Genius artist ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2373>, ODIS ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2372>, FAO risk status <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2371>, conversion to SI base unit <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2370>, Soccerway player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2369>, Sandbox-Property <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2368> - Newest Database reports: WikiProject Movies/new films <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Movies/new_films> - Showcase items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items>: Bertus Aafjes <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q353003> Development - Polished the patch that adds icons to the item pages (for actions like edit, remove etc) and makes them cleaner. This will go live later today. - Worked more on a separate section for identifiers - Started working on the sorting of statements on the ArticlePlaceholder pages - Made it possible to use unknown language, no linguistic content and more as languages for the monolingual text datatype - Experimented more with improvements to the ranking on Special:Search - Worked on showing more languages in the in other languages box than the ones defined in your babel boxes - Small improvements to recent changes/watchlist integration on Wikipedia and co - Worked on making it possible to create a redirect over a deleted item - Worked on PHP7 support You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>. Monthly Tasks - Hack on one of these <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/R8GRzX1eH0tb/#R>. - Help develop the next summary here! <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next> - Contribute to a Showcase item <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items> - Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats> or proofread pages in your own language! - Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above. Anything to add? Please share! :) Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.