*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Discussions
- Development input: Client editing prototype
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Client_editing_prototype>
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>/
Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Past: Pre-hackathon
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2017/Prehackathon_Prague>
of the Wikimedia Hackathon, May 12th-14th in Prague (see a video of the
Wikidata and SPARQL training
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBEZpejN844>)
- Upcoming: Wikimedia Hackathon 2017
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2017>, May 19th-21st
in Vienna. On site or remotely, you can join the Wikidata documentation
sprint
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2017/Wikidata_documentation_sprint>
- Upcoming: WikiCite <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2017>,
May 23rd-25th in Vienna
- Next Wikidata meetup in Berlin: June 7th in WikiBÄR
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Berlin>
- You can still register for the Wikidata/election data hackathon
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/de:Wikipedia:Wikidata-Wahldaten-Workshop>
in Ulm, Germany (June 23-25)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Discuss the movement strategy on Wikidata
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Strategy_2017>. The Cycle 2
started on May, 11.
- WikidataCon: join the program committee and other teams!
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#WikidataCon:_join_the_program_committee_and_other_teams.21>
- TwoColConflict is now enabled on Wikidata
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2017-May/010708.html>
- OSMgadget <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Bjohas/OSMgadget> is a
tool to help Wikipedia editors find objects in OpenStreetMap, and tag them
with their Wikidata IDs
- The OSM ↔ Wikidata matcher <https://osm.wikidata.link/> tool
- Two language properties will be merged
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Merge_of_language_properties>
but the discussion still needs to go on
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Properties_for_deletion#P364>
- Tabular data files datatype is now enabled
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2017/05#Significant_change:_new_data_type_for_tabular_data_files>
- The constraint table has been updated
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Constraint_table_updated>
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: NLL player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3955>, Italian Senate ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3954>, ALPG golfer ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3953>, Stereo Ve Mono artist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3952>, BioRxiv ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3951>, narrower external class
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3950>,
Juwra.com ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3949>, MLL player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3948>, Directorio Grierson ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3946>, RANM member ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3945>, Old Bailey Proceedings ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3944>, Tumblr ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3943>,
Bmx-results.com rider ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3942>, Israel Antiquities
Authority ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3941>, OlimpBase
Chess Olympiad player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3940>, ESTC
citation number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3939>, named by
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3938>, Reactome pathway ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3937>, NFF person profile ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3936>, Chamber of Deputies of
Italy ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3935>, face value
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3934>, Cinema ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3933>, Digital Valencian
Library author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3932>, copyright
owner <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3931>,
Rallye-info.com
driver or co-driver ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3930>, V&A
item ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3929>, MotoGP racer ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3928>,
eWRC-results.com athlete
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3927>, USATF athlete ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3926>, Track and Field
Statistics male athlete ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3925>,
Track and Field Statistics female athlete ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3924>, Diamond League athlete ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3923>
- Query examples:
- Paintings in the Louvre Museum, with heights and widths
<https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fheight%20%3Fwidth%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP195%20wd%3AQ3044768%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP2048%20%3Fheight%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP2049%20%3Fwidth%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22fr%22%20.%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20%3Fratio%20%20>
(source <https://twitter.com/PoulpyWP/status/863355114932842496>)
- Chart of USA cities founded per year
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ABarChart%0ASELECT%28SAMPLE%28%3Fyear%29%20AS%20%3Fyear%29%20%28COUNT%28%3Fitem%29%20AS%20%3FcitesFounded%29%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ515%20.%20%23%20instance%20of%20city%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP17%20wd%3AQ30%20.%20%23%20in%20U.S.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP571%20%3Finception%20.%20%23%20inception%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND%28str%28YEAR%28%3Finception%29%29%20AS%20%3Fyear%29%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fyear>
(source <https://twitter.com/connorstack/status/863557112487493632>)
- Country flags including a symbol of sun
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0ASELECT%20%3FcountryLabel%20%3Fimage%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ186516%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP180%2a%20wd%3AQ525%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP1001%20%3Fcountry%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20%3FcountryLabel>
(source <https://twitter.com/PoulpyWP/status/863140921612828672>)
- Birthplace of Spanish Queen Consorts
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23Place%20of%20birth%20of%20spanish%20queen%20consorts%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%0A%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fkoord%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%09%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%20.%0A%20%20%09%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP39%20wd%3AQ6104617%20.%0A%20%20%09%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP19%20%3Fjaiolekua%20.%0A%20%20%09%3Fjaiolekua%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fkoord.%0A%09SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%7D>
(source <https://twitter.com/theklaneh/status/864087564604628992>)
Development
- More work on Special:NewLexeme page (Phab:T164582
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164582>)
- Correctly compare time values on constraints (Phab:T164279
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164279>)
- Check wording of messages/constraint check results (Phab:T164354
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164354>)
- Creating grammatical features for Forms (Phab:T160525
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160525>)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>.
Monthly Tasks
- Help adding missing statements to properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Properties/Adding_missing_statements>
- 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.