*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
- Wikidata workshop in Paris https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Paris, Friday, April 21st, about external tools - "Wikidata pour la science" https://www.meetup.com/SemanticCampParis/events/238404211 training day in Paris, April 24th - Heritage in Flanders and Crowd-Sourced Projects http://www.osm.be/2017/04/01/en-project-heritage-crowd-sourced.html - featuring Wikidata, Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap - The ACS Spring disclosures of 2017 #1 http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.nl/2017/04/the-acs-spring-disclosures-of-2017-1.html - about news drug compounds entering Wikidata
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- *Attention:* Editing will be disabled during parts of April 19 and May 3, to allow a server switch https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/Server_switch_2017 - Wikidata description editing in the Wikipedia Android app https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Wikidata_description_editing_in_the_Wikipedia_Android_app to be deployed on several Wikipedias - More federated endpoints have been added https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#SPARQL_federation_-_more_of_the_same (DBpedia, INSEE, UK Office for National Statistics...) - All UNESCO sites in Wikishootme https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikishootme/#lat=11.328998809313038&lng=-14.4140625&zoom=3&layers=wikidata_image,wikidata_no_image&sparql_filter=%3Fq%20wdt%3AP757%20%5B%5D&worldwide=1 - You can now cheat Stadt Fluss Land game http://stadt-land-wikidata.netlify.com/?#/the with a query https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0A%23TEMPLATE%3D%7B%20%22template%22%3A%20%22%3Ftype%20in%20language%20%3Flang%20starting%20with%20%3Fletter%20%22%2C%20%22variables%22%3A%20%7B%20%22%3Ftype%22%3A%20%7B%7D%2C%20%22%3Flang%22%3A%20%7B%20%22query%22%3A%20%22SELECT%20%3Fid%20WHERE%20%7B%20%3Fid%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ34770.%20%7D%22%7D%20%2C%20%22%3Fletter%22%3A%20%7B%20%22query%22%3A%20%22SELECT%20%3Fid%20WHERE%20%7B%20%3Fid%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ9788.%20%7D%22%20%7D%20%20%7D%20%7D%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fcoord%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20BIND%28wd%3AQ4022%20AS%20%3Ftype%29%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20%28wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%29%20%3Ftype.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FitemLabel.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoord.%0A%20%20BIND%28wd%3AQ9968%20AS%20%3Fletter%29%0A%20%20%3Fletter%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FletterLabel.%0A%20%20BIND%28wd%3AQ188%20AS%20%3Flang%29%0A%20%20%3Flang%20wdt%3AP218%20%3FlangISO.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%28LANG%28%3FitemLabel%29%29%20%3D%20%3FlangISO%29%0A%20%20FILTER%28%28LANG%28%3FletterLabel%29%29%20%3D%20%3FlangISO%29%0A%20%20FILTER%28STRSTARTS%28%3FitemLabel%2C%20%3FletterLabel%29%29%0A%7D%0ALIMIT%20100 ;) - To be deployed on Monday, April 24th: new datatype for geoshapes https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2017/04#Significant_change:_new_data_type_for_geoshapes and Cognate on Wiktionaries https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Lea_Lacroix_%28WMDE%29/Cognate_announcement
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: type of reference https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3865, suicide rate https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3864, Italian Navy Lighthouses and Beacons ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3863, MyDramaList name ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3862, iTunes app ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3861, Wormbase Gene ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3860, Environment Ontology ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3859, route diagram https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3858, cinenacional.com person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3857, Quebec municipalities geographical code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3856, LombardiaBeniCulturali artwork ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3855, Soundtrack Collector ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3854, Rat Genome Database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3853, FlyBase Gene ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3852, cinenacional.com movie ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3851, LombardiaBeniCulturali toponym ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3850, LombardiaBeniCulturali institution ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3849, Irish Rugby Football Union ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3848, Open Library subject ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3847, DBC author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3846 - Query examples: - The 500 most important paintings, according to Wikidata sitelinks https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0ASELECT%20%3Fq%20%28min%28%3Fimage%29%20AS%20%3Fimg%29%20%28GROUP_CONCAT%28DISTINCT%28%3FqLabel%29%3B%20separator%3D%22%2C%20%22%29%20AS%20%3Flabel%29%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fsitelink%29%20as%20%3Flinkcount%29%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fq%20%28wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%29%20wd%3AQ3305213%20.%0A%20%20%3Fsitelink%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fq%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fq%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%09%09bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%09%09%3Fq%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FqLabel%20.%0A%20%20%7D%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fq%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Flinkcount%29%0ALIMIT%20500 (source https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/852104782001184768) - The most important works in German by Wiki* articles https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fq%20%3FqLabel%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fsitelink%29%20as%20%3Flinkcount%29%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fq%20%28wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%29%20wd%3AQ7725634%20.%20%23%20Literary%20work%0A%20%20%3Fq%20wdt%3AP364%20wd%3AQ188%20.%20%23%20Q188%3DGerman%20Language%0A%20%20%3Fsitelink%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fq%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22de%22%20%7D%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fq%20%3FqLabel%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Flinkcount%29%0ALIMIT%20500 (source https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/851742760902283265) - Cities in France starting with the letter W https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemL%20%3Fcoords%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ484170%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoords%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FitemL%20filter%20%28lang%28%3FitemL%29%20%3D%20%22fr%22%29%20.%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28STRSTARTS%28%3FitemL%2C%20%22W%22%29%29%0A%7D (source https://twitter.com/PoulpyWP/status/851748921420468224) - Newest external tools: Wikinity https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikinity/?utm_content=buffer619a0&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer displays a map of items near any given place - Newest database reports: list of anthology films https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Movies/lists/anthology_films
Development
- More work on support for Forms and Lexemes (phab:T160052 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160052) - Adding monolingual language code UMU (phab:T160531 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160531) - Fixing a bug about Commons gallery and category (phab:T161826 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161826) - Improving header image gadget (phab:T160530 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160530) - Provide a special page to list all available badges (phab:T114473 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114473) - Show supported data formats in Special:EntityData (phab:T162870 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T162870) - Track the number of identifier properties on an item (phab:T114617 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114617)
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 - 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