Fourth birthday: thank you!

Thanks to everyone who celebrated the birthday by organizing or attending to an event, letting a message on Wikidata or on the social networks, writing a story or creating a present!

Here's the list of the birthday presents from the community and development team:

• d:Template:User Wikidata birthday 2016 (Pigsonthewing)
• A new version of the map showing all the Wikidata items with geolocalisation (Addshore)
• Wikidata's 4th birthday logo (Incabell)
• A new release of the Wikipedia and Wikidata Tools for Google Spreadsheets add-on has made working with Wikidata a lot easier for Google Sheets users. (Tomayac)
• A guide to SPARQL and the Wikidata Query Service (TweetsFactsAndQueries)
• Four new types of charts for the Query Service: line chart, bar chart, scatter chart and area chart! Read more and try examples in the documentation (Jonas)
• {{#statements:…}}, a new parser function is currently in development with better features: try it here! (Thiemo, Wikidata dev team and volunteers)
• Search field added in Scholia, a tool to create scholarship profiles (fnielsen)
• Technical documentation about Wikibase for PHP and JS scripts (Ladsgroup and Jonas)
• new feature for the graph view in the Query Service: it can now browse the properties of items. see in the video (Jonas)
• graph builder tool for the query service to create and export graphs (demo video) (Jonas, [[d:user:Smalyshev (WMF)|Smalyshev)
• d:Module:PropertyPath and d:Template:Show Path Items (TomT0m)
• Everything is connected, a knowledge game based on Wikidata and Commons (list of levels) (Denny)

Discussions

• New request for comments: Editing descriptions from Wikipedia Android app

Events/Press/Blogs

• Histropedia: “The power of data visualisation combined with free knowledge” on WMF's blog
• Presenting the Wikidata Human Gender Indicators by Max Klein
• How the world’s first Wikidata Visiting Scholar created linked open data for five thousand works of art on WMF's blog

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Music in Canada at 150 Wikipedia Project, a multifaceted campaign to increase the amount and quality of content about Canadian music in Wikipedia and Wikidata
• 400,000,000th edit was made.
• The average amount of statements per item became higher than five and is still growing.
• Wikidata entities usage on Wikimedia projects

Did you know?

• Newest properties: DRÚSOP ID, code, encoding, BALaT image ID, DocCheck Flexikon De ID, DocCheck Flexikon En ID, biography at the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Cellosaurus ID, World Spider Catalog ID, Squash Info ID, MSC ID, Yahoo! Japan Talent Database ID, Bandcamp artist ID, French National Assembly Lobbyist ID, BanQ author ID, statistical leader, Sandbox-Monolingual text II
• Query examples:
  • Continents on Wikidata (All eleven of them) (source)
  • Sluices on the river "Vilaine" in Brittany (source)
  • Countries with most cities named after saints (source)
  • Disney characters who share name with their actors (source)
  • 204 items that cite themselves (source)
  • Statements with two references where one source cites the other (source)

Development

• Stable interface policy update
• More work on federation in order to be able to use Wikidata's items and properties to describe media files on Wikimedia Commons in the future (phabricator:T149580)
• Worked on first version of Lexeme entity type (phabricator:T148139)
• Worked more on linking values in Lua and the property parser function instead of just returning the label (phabricator:T142940) You can test it here: https://de.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Statements
• Improved map layer colors in the query service (phabricator:T148022)
• Improved size of map markers in the query service (phabricator:T148496)
• Upcoming: quantity changes
• Worked more on automated sitelinks for Wiktionary (phabricator:T987) Test system is coming in the next days.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Monthly Tasks

• Hack on one of these.
• Help develop the next summary here!
• Contribute to a Showcase item
• Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention