Here's your summary of what happened around Wikidata over the past week.

Events/Press/Blogs

• Upcoming: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out)
  • We will have two exciting keynotes. The first keynote speaker is Fabian M. Suchanek, professor at Télécom Paris Tech University, working on the knowledge base YAGO. The second keynote speaker is Michael Kreil, datajournalist working on the project Data Sciences and Stories.
  • Please volunteer for some tasks at the conference if you are attending.
• Upcoming: Wikidata workshop at XLDB, October 12th, Clermont-Ferrand, France
• Rebuild the map of famous artwork with Wikidata by Poulpy (in French)
• Research libraries and Wikimedia: A shared commitment to diversity, open knowledge, and community participation

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• There is now a good start for documentation for QuickStatements. Feel free to help improve it!
• New Mix’n’match mode to show just the entries with multiple matches (example)

Did you know?

• Newest properties: Lega Pallavolo Serie A player ID, KNAU ID, PfaF id, YouTube Playlist ID, Wheelchair ITF player ID, VBL player ID, MIL-STD-2525 Symbol Identification Code, stellar rotational velocity, readership, PROSPERO ID, PM20 folder ID, possessed by spirit, panorama view, official app, LFH player ID, UK National Fruit Collection ID, Riigikogu ID, Nominis saint ID, Theses.fr person ID, Nominis given name ID, LUMIERE director ID, LUMIERE film ID, LNV player ID, International Standard Text Code, hydrological order number, FCI rider ID, Daum movie ID, Cinémathèque québécoise work identifier, Japanese Database of National important cultural properties, Tunisian geographic code, New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission ID, DPLA subject ID, rating, Daum TV series ID, half maximal effective concentration, half maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50), Landtag of Liechtenstein ID, Bavarian geotope ID, Reddit user name, LinkedIn company ID, THW Kiel player ID, Footoféminin.fr player ID, FFVoile sailor ID, NPB player ID, Lega Pallavolo Serie A Femminile player ID, Gallica ID, National Museums of Japan e-museum ID, Spanish "Boletín Oficial del Estado" ID, Banglapedia (English version) ID, Banglapedia (Bengali version) ID, number of constituencies, All-Russian Mathematical Portal ID
• Query examples:
  • Women who won the Nobel Prize in Physics (source)
  • For each award, percentage of women who received it (source)
  • Intelligent personal assistants described in Wikidata (source)
  • Units of measurement named after German people (source)
  • Buildings constructed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: Delhi Metro
• Newest database reports: television series by camera setup

Development

• Breaking change: "wb_entity_per_page" table will not be updated and replicated on ToolLabs anymore
• A mw.wikibase.getLabelByLang Lua function will be added (phabricator:T173262)
• The mw.wikibase.sitelink Lua function will accept a second parameter with the global identifier of a wiki (e.g. "enwiki") to link to (phabricator:T142903)
• Had to temporarily turn off showing Wikidata's changes on Commons and Russian Wikipedia because of database issues. We're working on turning it back on.
• Continued work on persistently storing edits to Forms on Lexemes
• Finishing work on checking constraints on qualifiers and references with the constraint checks gadget
• Fixed a bug where notification emails for Wikidata changes were sent when they shouldn't have been (phabricator:T174794)
• Full URIs for external identifiers will soon be in the RDF export (phabricator:T121274)

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!

Anything to add? Please share! :)

Cheers

Lydia

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Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager for Wikidata

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