[Wikidata] weekly summary #161

Hey folks :) Here's what has been happening around Wikidata over the past week for you: Discussions - RfC on usage of Wikidata on German-language Wikipedia <https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/Nutzung_von_Daten_aus_Wikidata_im_ANR> Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Past: Pigsonthewing and aude were at State of the Map US to talk about Wikidata/OpenStreetMap cooperation and more - Past: Lucie and Marius gave an intro to Wikidata at Gulaschprogrammiernacht in Karlsruhe (slides <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_Workshop_-_GPN_2015.pdf>) - Upcoming: Office hour on IRC on 19th <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-June/006376.html> Other Noteworthy Stuff - The English-language Wikipedia has decided to deprecate Persondata <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28proposals%29/Archive_122#RfC:_Should_Persondata_template_be_deprecated_and_methodically_removed_from_articles.3F> in favour of Wikidata. - New tool by Magnus to make it easier to add references <http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=310> - The results are in for the Wikimedia Foundation's board election <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/05/board-election-results/>. One name should sound familiar to you ;-) - Addshore created new maps of the geocoordinates on Wikidata <https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/606086887820955649>. More coming. - Sylvain made an overview of the overlap in topics that the biggest Wikipedias have <https://gist.github.com/Ash-Crow/ae1a3ae8318994afe45d>. - Wikidata has passed German Wikipedia in number of items with images (743850 dewp articles vs. 804885 items) - now only second to English-language Wikipedia. - Catalan Wikipedia is moving Taxon IDs to Wikidata. - Zolo did a comparison <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Zolo/Wikipedia_content> of English/French/German/Chinese and Cebuano Wikipedias in terms of main types of articles. Biographies were compared by period, nationality and occupation. - Connectivity <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/Connectivity> statistics were updated. Did you know? - Newest properties: DMS V <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1930>, Clinvar Accession Number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1929>, Vaccine Ontology ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1928>, VIOLIN ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1925>, vaccine for <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1924>, participating team <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1923>, first line <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1922>, URI pattern for RDF resource <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1921>, Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1920>, Ministry of Education of Chile school ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1919> - Newest gadgets: Mark as patrolled <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-Mark_as_patrolled> by User:Petr Matas <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Petr_Matas> Development - Italian Wikipedia and all remaining Wikisource projects now have arbitrary access. The rollout will continue. The schedule for the next projects is at d:Wikidata:Arbitrary access <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Arbitrary_access>. - The Content Translation tool now automatically connects translated articles to Wikidata. (Thanks Content Translation developers!) Previously translated but unconnected articles have been connected by a bot. (Thanks Amir!) - Code review of the extensions written by a team of students to improve the constraint reports and make it possible to automatically check our data against other databases. A first version will go live soon pending further codereview and fixes. - Two new methods have been added to the lua library provided by Wikibase: wikibase.resolvePropertyId <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase_Client/Lua#mw.wikibase.resolvePropertyId> and wikibase.entity:getBestStatements <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase_Client/Lua#mw.wikibase.entity:getBestStatements> . - Further work on making unserializable values editable in the UI (This can happen for example if a property is deleted.) - Made the Wikidata JSON dumps available on Labs in the standard dumps location there (/public/dumps). - Worked on automatically creating a redirect when merging items via the API. - Rewrote the script that generates a map image based on geocoordinates in Wikidata. (Result see above.) - Released Wikibase DataModel 3.0 You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>. Monthly Tasks - Hack on one of these <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/R8GRzX1eH0tb/#R>. - Help fix these items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:The_Game/Flagged_items> which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game. - Help develop the next summary here! <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next> - Contribute to a Showcase item <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items> - Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats> or proofread pages in your own language! - Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above. Anything to add? Please share! :) Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.