Discussions

• New request for comments: Defining account creators

Events/Press/Blogs

• Past: WikiArabia 2017, Cairo, Egypt, 23-25 October
• Past: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October. You can find the slides, notes and video recordings for most of the sessions
• Past: Wikidata's fifth birthday
• Upcoming: Using Wikidata to create a multi-lingual multi-dialectal dictionary for Arabic dialects in the 14th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2017), Yasmine Hammamet, Tunisia, 30 October-3 November.
• Upcoming : Wikidata and Wiki Loves Monuments editathon in Berlin, 24-26 November (in German). We're looking for trainers to explain the basic use of QuickStatements, Open Refine and Mix'n'Match. If you want to join, please contact MB-one

Wikidata's birthday

The fifth anniversary of Wikidata was celebrated, as every year, with a lot of presents, events and stories. You can find an overview on the birthday page.

• Birthday presents
  • Search index now contains statements with instance of (P31) and subclass of (P279). These can be used to influence search rankings and in the future also for matching.
  • inventaire.io CC0 Wikidata-ready NDJSON and TTL dumps are now accessible at dumps.inventaire.io
  • You can now move claims to new items with moveClaim.js. You can do so by typing "new".
  • Prefix search on Wikidata (wbsearchentities API) now is using ElasticSearch as backend. This should improve search quality and also is more flexible and tunable.
  • Wikidata becomes a proper citizen of the linked open data web
  • graves.wiki – visualization of grave locations stored in Wikidata
  • Wikidata Concepts Monitor (WDCM) - Wikidata semantic topics and usage statistics
  • Happy Birthday to You, Dear Wikidata – recording and improvisation (Lucas Werkmeister)
  • You can now create items from the command-line
  • Crochet your own cute structured data bee to express your appreciation for structured data in the Wikimedia movement! And ask her/him/it to join the Wikimedia Cuteness Association (Q29169245).
  • Wikidata Query Service UI: Geoshapes from Commons are now displayed in the Map view: Constituencies for the election to the German Bundestag 2017, with winning candidate and party
  • Wikidata Query Service UI: The query service now shows you code examples for how to use your query in many programming languages (example query)
  • Dungeon of Knowledge (source), a roguelike game where you explore a dungeon full of bits of Wikidata wisdom
  • Simple WD an experiment of a simple frontend API on top of Wikidata using JSON-LD and schema.org.
  • mapview widget/user script on Wikidata
  • Images fragments for an item depicted on several artworks
  • Histropedia Query Timeline tool - Demo of cool new features launched today for WikidataCon :)
  • Q42 (Q42395533) - the first item about a notable item!
  • SQID now suggests statements that we are missing (example page, log in to see suggestions) -- more on Wikidata:WikiProject_Reasoning soon
  • From labs VM to Wikibase Query Service in 2 minutes (using Docker images and docker-compose)
• Stories and reflections
  • Wishes for the year to come, by Tpt
  • Happy Birthday Wikidata! by the Gene Wiki Team
  • Some random thoughts on the occasion of Wikidata's fifth birthday, by PKM
  • Wishes and a personal story, by Spinster
  • Happy Birthday, Wikidata by RolandUnger from Wikivoyage
  • Happy Birthday, Wikidata by Katherine Maher
  • Two years of Wikidata experience from ArthurPSmith ArthurPSmith
  • Happy Birthday wishes from Wikimedia Deutschland
  • Message from the development team

Did you know?

• Newest properties: Biblioteca Nacional de México ID, MNCARS artist ID, BFI Film and TV ID, FPB rating, The Coptic Library ID, snap package, LesBiographies.com ID, Indian Foundation for Butterflies ID, AKL Online Artist ID, Google Doodle, New York City Parks Monument ID, Pro14 player ID, implementation of, GACS ID, Y-DNA Haplogroup, mtDNA haplogroup, mandates, Portuguese lighthouse ID, U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame athlete ID, Sportbox.ru ID, VNDB ID, Videolectures ID, New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame ID, rfpl.org player ID, Panthéon des sports du Québec ID, Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee ID, New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Ontario Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Quora username, Women's Basketball Hall of Fame ID
• Query examples:
  • Organic acids with images (source)
  • People who are their father's father (source)
  • 2017 German federal election results by district with geoshapes and color depending on the % of votes (source)
  • Cities with most first performances of works (source)
  • Count of women Vs. guys names “John” in the UK parliament (source)
  • Percentage of popes who died in Rome (source)
  • First sites registered at Unesco for each country (source)

Development

• Continued working on persistent storage of edits on Lexeme pages
• Fixed an encoding problem in the SVG download of query results in the query service (phabricator:T178564)
• Fixed a problem with change dispatching changes to Wikipedia and co, that sometimes lead to single wikis falling way behind. (T179060)
• Added full URIs for external identifiers to the RDF export
• You can leave feedback on how improved fulltext search result page should look like

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Monthly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
• Suggested and open tasks!
• Contribute to a Showcase item.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!