*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Wikidata's birthday is coming!
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fourth_Birthday>
Wikidata celebrates its 4th anniversary on October 29th. Around this date,
a lot of events will happen online and offline.
*Birthday events*
Editors all around the world organize meetups to celebrate the birthday.
You can join one of them
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fourth_Birthday/Events> or create
an event in your own town!
- San Francisco (USA)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fourth_Birthday/Events/Meetup_in_SF,_W,_October_26th>,
October 26th
- Torino (Italy)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fourth_Birthday/Events#Wikidata_Birthday_in_Turin.2C_October_26th>,
October 26th
- Tokyo (Japan)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fourth_Birthday/Events#Wikidata_bento_in_Tokyo.2C_October_28th>,
October 28th
- Paris (France)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fourth_Birthday/Events#Meetup_in_Paris.2C_October_29th>,
October 29th
- Utrecht (NL)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fourth_Birthday/Events#Wiki.28data.29Zaterdag_in_Utrecht.2C_October_29th>,
October 29th
- Berlin (Germany)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fourth_Birthday/Events/Berlin>,
November 4th
- Rennes (France)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fourth_Birthday/Events#Rennes.2C_November_5th>,
November 5th
*Online*
A lot of surprises, stories and presents will be shared between October
29th and November 4th. Check the project chat
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat> or the mailing-list
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata> every day to see
what happens!
You can also participate by posting a story (more info here
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fourth_Birthday/Stories>), a tweet
with #WikidataBirthday, let a message or a present on the birthday page
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fourth_Birthday>.
If you're participating to Wikidata's birthday, you can add this template
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:User_Wikidata_birthday_2016> to
your user page.
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Wikidata workshops in Paris : every month, Wikimédia France and
editors organize a workshop about Wikidata and related tools. Check out
the schedule <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Paris>
- Upcoming: Ladies that FOSS
<https://www.wikimedia.de/wiki/LadiesthatFOSS> October 29th in Berlin,
organized by Lucie and Julia from the Wikidata team
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- WikiCite 2016 report
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiCite_2016_report.pdf>
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: Third-party
formatter URL <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3303>, Open Media
Database film ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3302>, broadcast
by <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3301>, musical conductor
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3300>, Student register of the
University of Helsinki 1640–1852 ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3299>, Belgian Senate person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3298>, Flemish Parliament
person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3297>, DRÚSOP ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3296>
- Query examples:
- places of birth of living US senators
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0Aselect%20%2a%20%7B%20%3Fs%20wdt%3AP39%20wd%3AQ13217683%20%3B%20wdt%3AP19%2Fwdt%3AP625%20%3Fl%20.%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fs%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fd%7D%20FILTER%20%28%21BOUND%28%3Fd%29%29%20%7D>
(compare with last week's
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/2016_10_15#Did_you_know.3F>
)
- Wikidata map of filming locations
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Map%20of%20filming%20locations%2C%20%0A%23%20by%20Jura1%2C%202016-10-24%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%0A%09%3Ffilm%20%3Ftitle%20%3FfilmLabel%20%3FfilmDescription%20%0A%09%3Ffilminglocation%20%3FfilminglocationLabel%20%3Fcoor%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%09%3Ffilm%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ11424%20.%0A%20%20%09%3Ffilm%20wdt%3AP915%20%3Ffilminglocation%20.%0A%20%20%09%3Ffilminglocation%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoor%20.%0A%20%20%09OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Ffilm%20wdt%3AP1476%20%3Ftitle%20%7D%20.%0A%20%20%09FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Ffilm%20wdt%3AP915%20%3Fl%20.%20%3Fl%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fl%20%7D%0A%09SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en,en%22%20%7D%0A%7D>
(source
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Filming_Locations#Map>
)
- Streets in Paris named after a physician
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Voies%20de%20Paris%20nomm%C3%A9es%20d%27apr%C3%A8s%20un%20m%C3%A9decin.%0A%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fvoie%20%3FvoieLabel%20%3Fphoto%20%3Fcoord%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fvoie%20%28wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%29%20wd%3AQ83620.%0A%20%20%3Fvoie%20wdt%3AP131%20%3Farrdt.%0A%20%20%3Farrdt%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ702842.%0A%20%20%3Farrdt%20wdt%3AP131%20wd%3AQ90.%0A%20%20%3Fvoie%20wdt%3AP138%20%3Fodonyme.%0A%20%20%3Fodonyme%20%28wdt%3AP106%2Fwdt%3AP279*%29%20wd%3AQ39631.%0A%20%20%3Fvoie%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoord.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fodonyme%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fphoto.%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22fr%22.%20%7D%0A%7D>
(source <https://twitter.com/Coyau/status/788050878704017408>)
- Moons of trans-Neptunian objects
<https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fsat%20%3FsatLabel%20%3Fplanet%20%3FplanetLabel%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fsat%20wdt%3AP397%20%3Fplanet%20.%0A%20%20%3Fplanet%20wdt%3AP196%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ6592%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FplanetLabel%20%3FsatLabel>
(source <https://twitter.com/PoulpyWP/status/789067885687795712>)
- Newest WikiProjects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>:
Chess <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Chess>
Development
- Fixed a rounding error in the geo coordinate formatter (see GitHub
<https://github.com/DataValues/Geo/pull/78>). Thanks, 0x686578!
- Improvements to technical error messages, e.g. "illegal value" when
editing a Commons media statement (phabricator:T141880
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T141880>).
- Continued working on a new parser function to get rich, formatted
statements.
- Continued working on making entity usage information visible to users.
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/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Showcase_items>
- Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats>
or proofread pages in your own language!
- Help merge identical items
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge> across
Wikimedia projects.
- 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>
--
Léa Lacroix
Community Communication Manager for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
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