*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.*
Discussions
- New request for comments: Updating References for External Data https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Updating_References_for_External_Data
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events/ Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Registration is open for the Celtic Knot Conference 2017 https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2017 (July 6th, Edinburgh) - Pre-hackathon https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2017/Prehackathon_Prague of the Wikimedia Hackathon, May 12th-14th in Prague - Wikimedia Hackathon 2017 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2017, May 19th-21st in Vienna. On site or remotely, you can join the Wikidata documentation sprint https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2017/Wikidata_documentation_sprint
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- *Vote in the board election https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2017/Board_of_Trustees* (see also Voter guides and rationales https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2017/Board_of_Trustees#Voter_guides_and_rationales - Sitelinks for the new Doteli Wikipedia (dtywiki) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29048035 can be added https://dty.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:UnconnectedPages?namespace=0&uselang=en - You can now track the number of identifier properties for an item https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Track_the_number_of_identifier_properties - We provide weekly a new type of database dumps: nt truthy dumps https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#New:_truthy_dumps - Wikipedia article-draft-generator developed by Pharos for Met Museum project https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2017-May/010695.html - Schema.org proposes to encourage the use of Wikidata as a common entity base for the target of the sameAs relation https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Schema.org
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: light sector https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3922, Wikidata SPARQL query equivalent https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3921, Canadian Coastguard Lighthouse ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3920, contributed to published work https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3919 - Query examples: - All places (with coordinates) that gave its name to something https://query.wikidata.org/#%23All%20places%20%28with%20coordinates%29%20that%20gave%20its%20name%20to%20something%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Fplace%20%3FplaceLabel%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fcoord%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%09%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP138%20%3Fplace%20.%0A%09%3Fplace%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoord%20.%0A%09SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22fr%22%20%7D%0A%7D (source https://twitter.com/belett/status/860864172724281345) - Paintings depicting monkeys https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0ASELECT%20%3Fpainting%20%3FpaintingLabel%20%3FpaintingImage%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%09%3Fpainting%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ3305213%20.%0A%09%3Fpainting%20wdt%3AP180%20wd%3AQ1367%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fpainting%20wdt%3AP18%20%3FpaintingImage%20.%0A%09SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%09%09bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22fi%2C%20en%22.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fpainting%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FpaintingLabel.%0A%09%7D%20%0A%7D%0ALIMIT%20100 (source https://twitter.com/vjuutilainen/status/860386659740856320) - Artworks with presumably depicted persons https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0A%23%20oeuvres%20avec%20personnes%20pr%C3%A9sum%C3%A9es%20repr%C3%A9sent%C3%A9es%0ASELECT%20%3Foeuvre%20%3FoeuvreLabel%20%3Fpersonne_representee_presumeeLabel%20%3Fpersonne_representee_presumee%20%3Fimg%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%09%3Foeuvre%20p%3AP180%20%5B%20ps%3AP180%20%3Fpersonne_representee_presumee%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP1480%20wd%3AQ18122778%20%5D.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fpersonne_representee_presumee%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5.%0A%09%3Foeuvre%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimg.%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20%23BabelRainbow%0A%20%09%09bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22fr%2Cen%2Car%2Cbe%2Cbg%2Cbn%2Cca%2Ccs%2Cda%2Cde%2Cel%2Ces%2Cet%2Cfa%2Cfi%2Che%2Chi%2Chu%2Chy%2Cid%2Cit%2Cja%2Cjv%2Cko%2Cnb%2Cnl%2Ceo%2Cpa%2Cpl%2Cpt%2Cro%2Cru%2Csh%2Csk%2Csr%2Csv%2Csw%2Cte%2Cth%2Ctr%2Cuk%2Cyue%2Cvec%2Cvi%2Czh%22%0A%20%09%7D%20%0A%7D (source https://twitter.com/shona_gon/status/859833793666056192) - Newest database reports: list of oldest lighthouses https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Lighthouses/lists/oldest_lighthouses
Development
- Worked more on support for lexicographical data (specifically support for lexicographic category and statements on forms) - Dealt with issues after the deployment of automatic interwiki links for Wiktionary - Worked on constraint violation user script based on your feedback (improving messages to make it more understandable, layout, etc) - Add support for the following new language codes for monolingual text properties: brx, chn, cop, gez, quc, kjh, nr (will become available in a few days)
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