*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>/
Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Wikidata workshop in Paris
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Paris>, Friday, April
21st, about external tools
- "Wikidata pour la science"
<https://www.meetup.com/SemanticCampParis/events/238404211> training day
in Paris, April 24th
- Heritage in Flanders and Crowd-Sourced Projects
<http://www.osm.be/2017/04/01/en-project-heritage-crowd-sourced.html> -
featuring Wikidata, Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap
- The ACS Spring disclosures of 2017 #1
<http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.nl/2017/04/the-acs-spring-disclosures-of-2017-1.html>
- about news drug compounds entering Wikidata
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- *Attention:* Editing will be disabled during parts of April 19 and May
3, to allow a server switch
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/Server_switch_2017>
- Wikidata description editing in the Wikipedia Android app
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Wikidata_description_editing_in_the_Wikipedia_Android_app>
to be deployed on several Wikipedias
- More federated endpoints have been added
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#SPARQL_federation_-_more_of_the_same>
(DBpedia, INSEE, UK Office for National Statistics...)
- All UNESCO sites in Wikishootme
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikishootme/#lat=11.328998809313038&lng=-14.4140625&zoom=3&layers=wikidata_image,wikidata_no_image&sparql_filter=%3Fq%20wdt%3AP757%20%5B%5D&worldwide=1>
- You can now cheat Stadt Fluss Land game
<http://stadt-land-wikidata.netlify.com/?#/the> with a query
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0A%23TEMPLATE%3D%7B%20%22template%22%3A%20%22%3Ftype%20in%20language%20%3Flang%20starting%20with%20%3Fletter%20%22%2C%20%22variables%22%3A%20%7B%20%22%3Ftype%22%3A%20%7B%7D%2C%20%22%3Flang%22%3A%20%7B%20%22query%22%3A%20%22SELECT%20%3Fid%20WHERE%20%7B%20%3Fid%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ34770.%20%7D%22%7D%20%2C%20%22%3Fletter%22%3A%20%7B%20%22query%22%3A%20%22SELECT%20%3Fid%20WHERE%20%7B%20%3Fid%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ9788.%20%7D%22%20%7D%20%20%7D%20%7D%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fcoord%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20BIND%28wd%3AQ4022%20AS%20%3Ftype%29%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20%28wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%29%20%3Ftype.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FitemLabel.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoord.%0A%20%20BIND%28wd%3AQ9968%20AS%20%3Fletter%29%0A%20%20%3Fletter%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FletterLabel.%0A%20%20BIND%28wd%3AQ188%20AS%20%3Flang%29%0A%20%20%3Flang%20wdt%3AP218%20%3FlangISO.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%28LANG%28%3FitemLabel%29%29%20%3D%20%3FlangISO%29%0A%20%20FILTER%28%28LANG%28%3FletterLabel%29%29%20%3D%20%3FlangISO%29%0A%20%20FILTER%28STRSTARTS%28%3FitemLabel%2C%20%3FletterLabel%29%29%0A%7D%0ALIMIT%20100>
;)
- To be deployed on Monday, April 24th: new datatype for geoshapes
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2017/04#Significant_change:_new_data_type_for_geoshapes>
and Cognate on Wiktionaries
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Lea_Lacroix_%28WMDE%29/Cognate_announcement>
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: type of reference
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3865>, suicide rate
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3864>, Italian Navy Lighthouses
and Beacons ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3863>, MyDramaList
name ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3862>, iTunes app ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3861>, Wormbase Gene ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3860>, Environment Ontology ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3859>, route diagram
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3858>,
cinenacional.com person
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3857>, Quebec municipalities
geographical code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3856>,
LombardiaBeniCulturali
artwork ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3855>, Soundtrack
Collector ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3854>, Rat Genome
Database ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3853>, FlyBase Gene
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3852>,
cinenacional.com
movie ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3851>,
LombardiaBeniCulturali
toponym ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3850>,
LombardiaBeniCulturali
institution ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3849>, Irish
Rugby Football Union ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3848>, Open
Library subject ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3847>, DBC
author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3846>
- Query examples:
- The 500 most important paintings, according to Wikidata sitelinks
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0ASELECT%20%3Fq%20%28min%28%3Fimage%29%20AS%20%3Fimg%29%20%28GROUP_CONCAT%28DISTINCT%28%3FqLabel%29%3B%20separator%3D%22%2C%20%22%29%20AS%20%3Flabel%29%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fsitelink%29%20as%20%3Flinkcount%29%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fq%20%28wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%29%20wd%3AQ3305213%20.%0A%20%20%3Fsitelink%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fq%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fq%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%09%09bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%09%09%3Fq%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FqLabel%20.%0A%20%20%7D%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fq%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Flinkcount%29%0ALIMIT%20500>
(source <https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/852104782001184768>)
- The most important works in German by Wiki* articles
<https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fq%20%3FqLabel%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fsitelink%29%20as%20%3Flinkcount%29%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fq%20%28wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%29%20wd%3AQ7725634%20.%20%23%20Literary%20work%0A%20%20%3Fq%20wdt%3AP364%20wd%3AQ188%20.%20%23%20Q188%3DGerman%20Language%0A%20%20%3Fsitelink%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fq%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22de%22%20%7D%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fq%20%3FqLabel%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Flinkcount%29%0ALIMIT%20500>
(source <https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/851742760902283265>)
- Cities in France starting with the letter W
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemL%20%3Fcoords%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ484170%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoords%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FitemL%20filter%20%28lang%28%3FitemL%29%20%3D%20%22fr%22%29%20.%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28STRSTARTS%28%3FitemL%2C%20%22W%22%29%29%0A%7D>
(source <https://twitter.com/PoulpyWP/status/851748921420468224>)
- Newest external tools: Wikinity
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikinity/?utm_content=buffer619a0&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer>
displays a map of items near any given place
- Newest database reports: list of anthology films
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Movies/lists/anthology_films>
Development
- More work on support for Forms and Lexemes (phab:T160052
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160052>)
- Adding monolingual language code UMU (phab:T160531
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160531>)
- Fixing a bug about Commons gallery and category (phab:T161826
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161826>)
- Improving header image gadget (phab:T160530
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160530>)
- Provide a special page to list all available badges (phab:T114473
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114473>)
- Show supported data formats in Special:EntityData (phab:T162870
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T162870>)
- Track the number of identifier properties on an item (phab:T114617
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114617>)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>.
Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed
above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview>
- proposals
needing attention
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Attention_needed>
- Suggested and open tasks
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contribute/Suggested_and_open_tasks>
!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Showcase_items>
.
- Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats>
or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge> across
Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next>
--
Léa Lacroix
Project Manager Community Communication 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 27/029/42207.