Hey everyone :)
Here's your summary of what's been happening around Wikidata over the past week.
Discussions
- Splitting a property to limit formatter URLs to one per property: Authority_control#DE-ISIL https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Authority_control#DE-ISIL
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Past: digikult.se http://digikult.de - Upcoming: IRC office hour https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-March/008454.html - Upcoming: FOSSCOMM http://fosscomm.cs.unipi.gr - A week of looking at women http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=392
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Document with lots of useful links around Wikidata for workshops etc https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lDty0ZwwzJd4MoJr7NX7iWZthP0bSPal3GcZaaW3YiM/edit# - Nice list of species with sounds linked on Wikidata https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/Wikidata_lists/Taxon_items_with_audio
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: typeface/font https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2739, disjoint union of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2738, union of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2737, Biographical Directory of Federal Judges id https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2736, UNZ journal identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2735, UNZ author identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2734, Persée journal ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2733, Persée author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2732, Projeto Excelências ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2731, ISSF ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2730, Badminton World Federation ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2729, CageMatch worker ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2728, United World Wrestling ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2727, UIPM ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2726, GOG application ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2725, Deezer track ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2724, Deezer album ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2723, Deezer artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2722, Encyclopaedia Metallum release ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2721, embed URL https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2720, Hungarian-style transcription https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2719, lowest-observed-adverse-effect level https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2718, no-observed-adverse-effect level https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2717, collage image https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2716, elected in https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2715, sectional view https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2713, median lethal concentration https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2712, minimal lethal concentration https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2710, Cycling Quotient identifier (cyclist, woman) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2709, Cycling Quotient identifier (women races) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2708, Karate Records ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2705, EIDR identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2704, British Film Institute identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2703 - Query examples: women with most sitelinks and no image born in 1921 or later https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fs%20%3Fdesc%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fsitelink%29%20as%20%3Flinkcount%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fs%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%20.%0A%20%20%3Fs%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581072%20.%0A%20%20%3Fs%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fborn%20.%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28%3Fborn%20%3E%20%221920-01-01T00%3A00%3A00Z%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%29%20.%0A%20%20%3Fsitelink%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fs%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fs%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fdummy%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28%20%21bound%28%3Fdummy%29%20%29%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%3Fs%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fdesc%20filter%20%28lang%28%3Fdesc%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%0A%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fs%20%3Fdesc%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Flinkcount%29%20LIMIT%2050, what is depicted in artwork https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fdepicts%20%28SAMPLE%28%3FdL%29%20AS%20%3FdepictsLabel%29%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP180%20%3Fdepicts%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fdepicts%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FdL%20filter%20%28lang%28%3FdL%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%20.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fdepicts%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29%20%3FdepictsLabel, most eponymous mathematicians https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3FeponymLabel%20%3Fcount%20%3FsampleLabel%0A%7B%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Feponym%20%28COUNT%28%3Fitem%29%20as%20%3Fcount%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fitem%29%20AS%20%3Fsample%29%0A%20%20%20%20WHERE%0A%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP138%20%3Feponym.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Feponym%20wdt%3AP106%20wd%3AQ170790.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Feponym%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29 - Showcase items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items: Iron Man (film) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q192724
Development
- Lucie successfully defended her thesis about the ArticlePlaceholder. Congrats! - Worked more on the first version of the user interface for structured data for multimedia files - Worked on simplifying input of queries for people who do not know SPARQL - Improved localizability of the sitelink and reference counters - Allow input and output of localized dates with precision smaller than years (phab:T95532 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T95532 and phab:T127820 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127820) - More string properties have been converted to external id ones, so that we have over 850 external id properties https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListProperties/external-id&limit=1000 now - Experimenting with Citoid support for Wikidata to make it easier to add complete references in the way Visual Editor does it - Improved performance of sticky property labels (phab:T103485 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103485) - Released DataValues JavaScript 0.8.1 https://github.com/wmde/DataValuesJavascript
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