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

Events/Press/Blogs

• Past: Zugang Gestalten (slides by multichill)
• Past: Coding Da Vinci (slides by Jonas)
• Upcoming: Wikidata Birthday Tokyo, 27 October from 12:00 to 14:00 in Roppongi Hills
• Upcoming: WikiArabia 2017, Cairo, Egypt, 23-25 October
• Upcoming: WikidataCon, Berlin, 28-29 October (sold out)
• Upcoming: Wikidata Birthday Seoul, 29 October from 15:00 to 18:00
• Upcoming: Biographical Data in a Digital World 2017 6-7 November 2017 (in cooperation with Wikimedia Austria)
• COOL-WD: A Completeness Tool for Wikidata (tool website)
• Provenance Information in a Collaborative Knowledge Graph: an Evaluation of Wikidata External References
• Question Answering Benchmarks for Wikidata
• Using Word Embeddings for Search in Linked Data with Ontodia (tool website)
• Unlocking the human potential of Wikidata
• Textes d’Affiches, des films à lire sur Gallica

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• If you have a present or organize an event for the Wikidata's fifth birthday, feel free to add link and pictures here
• New version of the Alexa skill for Wikidata by metaphacts
• Nice short gif tutorial for writing a Wikidata query

Did you know?

• Newest properties: Ontario Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Quora username, Women's Basketball Hall of Fame ID, Baseball Almanac ID, sports.ru player ID, Opera Vivra singer ID, Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame ID, NLBPA ID, MusicBrainz recording ID, caliber, Women's Collegiate Tennis Hall of Fame ID, Museus.br ID, Memória Globo, Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural ID, Canada's Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, International Paralympic Committee athlete ID, Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum athlete ID, BrainInfo ID (hierarchical), NeuroNames ID (plain mode), Anvisa drug ID, BC Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, TheSports.org athlete ID, mapping relation type, Science Museum people ID, Mappy place ID, update method, Virginia Sports Hall of Fame ID, Missouri Sports Hall of Fame ID, DAMIT asteroid ID, Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, LFB player ID, Soccerdonna player ID, Sandrart.net artwork ID, youth wing
• Query examples:
  • Average age of members of the 19th German Bundestag (source)
  • Mountains in CH by height (topographic prominence) (source)
  • Mountains in CH by height (elevation above sea level) (source)
  • Monuments in Berlin for which Berlin cultural heritage ID and geolocation are known in Wikidata (source)
  • Initial characters of names of free software (source)
  • Initial characters of names of nonfree software (source)
  • First World Heritage site per country (source)
• Newest database reports: list of kinship types

Development

• Query Service throttling has been tweaked, to block a type of abusive client
• Adding diff support for Lexeme-related edits
• More work on checking constraints on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532)
• Now caching constraints results to make it ready for rollout for more users
• Continued work on more fine-grained usage tracking so we better know which parts of an item is used on an article on Wikipedia and the other sister projects
• Improved the way Wikidata changes are shown in watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and Co so they are more in-line with the other changes (phabricator:T48329, phabricator:T50684) Thanks Matej!
• Released the Wikibase DataModel component in version 7.2.0 (phabricator:T177486)

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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