*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
- Upcoming: Wikimania https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania is coming! Check out all the things related to Wikidata https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikimania_2017 - Upcoming: Wikidata hackathon during Repository Fringe 2017 http://rfringe17.blogs.edina.ac.uk/programme/, in Edinburgh, August 4th - Data Partnerships with Wikidata: beaTunes https://blog.wikimedia.de/2017/07/25/data-partnerships-with-wikidata-beatunes/ (version in German https://blog.wikimedia.de/2017/07/25/datenpartnerschaften-mit-wikidata-beatunes/ ) - Wikidata visualizes SMILES strings with John Mayfield's CDK Depict http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.nl/2017/07/wikidata-visualizes-smiles-strings-with.html - Freedom versus Standardization: Structured Data Generation in a Peer Production Community https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#July_2017
WikidataCon https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017
- Today is the very last day to submit projects in the program https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017/Program! (deadline: July 31th) - You can also subscribe to the existing submissions https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017/Program/Submissions to show your interest and support your favorites
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- wbsearchentities with ElasticSearch test https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#wbsearchentities_with_ElasticSearch_test - Quantities with units are now supported https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/D723 in the new QuickStatements https://tools.wmflabs.org/quickstatements. - Property talk pages now include queries for items with the property and most sitelinks, statements or identifiers. - We now have Q34000000 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34000000 - Wikidata Constraint Violations https://angryloki.github.io/wikidata-constraint-violations/ tool visualizes changes in constraint violations for last few weeks. Some of constraints produce millions of violations (marked as red).
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: maximum age https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4135, WIGOS station ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4136 - Query examples: - Which White House chief of staff had the shortest tenure? https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Which%20White%20House%20chief%20of%20staff%20had%20the%20shortest%20tenure%3F%0A%23%20%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fstart%20%3Fend%20%3Fdays%0AWHERE%20%0A%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20Human%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP39%20wd%3AQ786242%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20position%20held%3A%20White%20House%20chief%20of%20staff%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP39%20%3Fpositionstatement%20.%20%23%20grab%20statement%0A%20%20%3Fpositionstatement%20ps%3AP39%20%3Fposition%20%3B%20%20%23%20grab%20position%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP580%20%3Fstart%20.%20%20%20%20%23%20grab%20start%20date%0A%20%20%3Fposition%20wdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ786242%20.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20re-filter%20for%20White%20House%20chief%20of%20staff%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fpositionstatement%20pq%3AP582%20%3Fend%20%7D%20%23%20grab%20optional%20end%20date%0A%20%20bind%28floor%28%3Fend%20-%20%3Fstart%29%20as%20%3Fdays%29%20%20%20%20%23%20calculate%20number%20of%20days%20served%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20%3Fdays (source https://twitter.com/wikimediadc/status/891131373293113349) - Total number of sister city statements per country https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20total%20number%20of%20sister%20cities%20per%20country%0ASELECT%20%3Fcountry%20%3FcountryLabel%20%3FcityCount%20WITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fcountry%20%28COUNT%28%3FsisterCity%29%20AS%20%3FcityCount%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fcity%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fcountry%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP190%20%3FsisterCity.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fcountry%0A%7D%20AS%20%25results%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25results.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3FcityCount%29 (source https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/889883321546805248) - Pictures of tube stations in London https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0ASELECT%20%3Fstation%20%3FstationLabel%20%3Fpicture%20%28SAMPLE%28%3FpictureCategory%29%20AS%20%3FpictureCategory%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20hint%3AQuery%20hint%3Aoptimizer%20%22None%22.%0A%0A%20%20%23%20get%20metro%20stations%20in%20germany%0A%20%20%3Fstation%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ928830%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP17%20wd%3AQ145%20.%0A%0A%20%20%23%20and%20pictures%20of%20them%0A%20%20%3Fstation%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fpicture%20.%0A%0A%20%20%23%20build%20commons%20urls%0A%20%20BIND%28STRAFTER%28str%28%3Fpicture%29%2C%20%22Special%3AFilePath%2F%22%29%20AS%20%3Ffilename%29%0A%20%20BIND%28wikibase%3AdecodeUri%28CONCAT%28%22File%3A%22%2C%20%3Ffilename%29%29%20AS%20%3Ffile%29%0A%0A%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22de%2C%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fstation%20%3FstationLabel%20%3Fpicture%0ALIMIT%20100 (source https://twitter.com/betatim/status/889857451658444805) - Works created with the software Maya https://query.wikidata.org/#%0ASELECT%20%3Fwork%20%3FworkLabel%20%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fwork%20wdt%3AP2283%20wd%3AQ272597.%0A%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D (source https://twitter.com/WikiDigi/status/890961633165684737) - Do I cite works from Nobel Prize winners? https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fcited%20%3FcitedLabel%20%3FcitedAuthor%20%3FcitedAuthorLabel%20%3Faward%20%3FawardLabel%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fwork%20wdt%3AP50%20wd%3AQ20895241%20%3B%20%23%20replace%20by%20the%20item%20of%20another%20author%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP2860%20%3Fcited%20.%0A%20%20%3Fcited%20wdt%3AP50%20%3FcitedAuthor%20.%0A%20%20%3FcitedAuthor%20wdt%3AP166%20%3Faward%20.%0A%20%20%3Faward%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ7191%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D (source https://twitter.com/egonwillighagen/status/890151632469708801) - ...or do Nobel prize winners cite me? https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fcited%20%3FcitedLabel%20%3FcitedAuthor%20%3FcitedAuthorLabel%20%3Faward%20%3FawardLabel%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fwork%20wdt%3AP50%20wd%3AQ20895241%20.%20%23%20replace%20by%20the%20item%20of%20another%20author%0A%20%20%3Fcited%20wdt%3AP2860%20%20%3Fwork%20.%0A%20%20%3Fcited%20wdt%3AP50%20%3FcitedAuthor%20.%0A%20%20%3FcitedAuthor%20wdt%3AP166%20%3Faward%20.%0A%20%20%3Faward%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ7191%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D (source https://twitter.com/egonwillighagen/status/890151906957553669) - Timeline of Humanitarian personality of the year https://query.wikidata.org/#%0A%23Humanitarian%20personality%20of%20the%20year%20by%20year%0A%23defaultView%3ATimeline%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fwhen%20%28YEAR%28%3Fwhen%29%20as%20%3Fdate%29%20%3Fpic%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP166%20%3FawardStat%20.%20%23%20%E2%80%A6%20with%20an%20awarded%28P166%29%20statement%0A%20%20%3FawardStat%20ps%3AP166%20wd%3AQ33232596%20.%20%0A%20%20%3FawardStat%20pq%3AP585%20%3Fwhen%20.%20%0A%20%0ASERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%20%7D%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fpic%20%7D%0A%7D (source https://twitter.com/K_rho/status/889480611215405057) - New feature/gadget requests: Gadget for changing property https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Gadget_for_changing_property.3F
Development
- Added Special:NewItem to Special:SpecialPages https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:SpecialPages (phab:T169456 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169456) Thanks to Matěj Suchánek - Making possible to check constraints on qualifiers and references ( phab:T168532 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168532) - Working on showing non-mandatory and mandatory constraints differently (phab:T164254 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164254) - Improving Special:PagesWithProp https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:PagesWithProp for Wikidata use cases (phab:T66950 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T66950) - Doing last polishing on the Lexeme entity type and cleaning up the demo data for the demo at Wikimania - Improving the dispatching of changes to Wikipedia and co to cope with the increased demand that lead to delays https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:DispatchStats in Wikidata changes showing up in Wikipedia watchlist and recent changes
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 - 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