Hey folks :)
Here's your summary of all things Wikidata of the past week.
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Oscars 2016: Movies that got the most attention on Wikipedia https://medium.com/google-cloud/oscars-2016-movies-that-got-the-most-attention-on-wikipedia-151cd56f4fc0#.ugjrgjcne (followup with most famous cats https://twitter.com/felipehoffa/status/705068002522304512) - Statements per item http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.de/2016/03/wikidata-statements-per-item.html
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- COOL-WD has been announced to help assess the completeness of various parts of the knowledge base https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-March/008322.html - You can apply for a grant as part of the Inspire Campaign around the topic of content review and curation https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire - Wikimedia was accepted for Google Summer of Code. If you're a student this can be your chance to work on Wikidata code this summer. https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-March/084921.html - A catalog of Uruguayan authors has been added to Mix'n'match https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/?mode=catalog_details&catalog=175 - Listeria bot now has experimental support for references (example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/listeria_test4) - Self-portraits of women through the ages, powered by Wikidata https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Self-portraits_of_women
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: Québec cultural heritage directory people identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2592, grammatical option indicates https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2591, Statistics Indonesia language code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2590, Statistics Indonesia ethnicity code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2589, village code of Indonesia https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2588, has phoneme https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2587, INSEE departement code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2586, INSEE region code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2585, Australian Wetlands Database Directory of Important Wetlands Reference Code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2584, distance from Earth https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2583, J. Paul Getty Museum object id https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2582, BabelNet id https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2581, Baltisches Biographisches Lexikon digital ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2580, studied by https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2579, studies https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2578, admissible rule in https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2577, UCSC Genome Browser assembly ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2576, measures https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2575, National-Football-Teams.com player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2574, number of out of school children https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2573, Twitter hashtag https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2572, uncertainty corresponds to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2571, Saros cycle of eclipse https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2570, contact times of eclipse https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2569, repealed by https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2568, amended by https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2567, ECHA InfoCard ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2566, global-warming potential https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2565 - Query example: French heads of government by length of service https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%20%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20rdfs%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2F01%2Frdf-schema%23%3E%0APREFIX%20p%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20v%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fstatement%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20pq%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fqualifier%2F%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FpositionLabel%20%3Fas%20%3Fstart%20%3Fend%20%3Fdays%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP39%20%3Fposition_statement%20.%0A%20%20%3Fposition_statement%20v%3AP39%20%3Fposition%20.%0A%20%20%3Fposition%20wdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ15135541%20.%0A%20%20%3Fposition_statement%20pq%3AP580%20%3Fstart%20FILTER%20%28%3Fstart%20%3E%3D%20%221815-01-01T00%3A00%3A00Z%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%29%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fposition_statement%20pq%3AP582%20%3Fx%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fposition_statement%20pq%3AP794%20%3Fast%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fast%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fas%20filter%20%28lang%28%3Fas%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20bind%28if%28bound%28%3Fx%29%2C%20%3Fx%2C%20NOW%28%29%29%20as%20%3Fend%20%29%0A%20%20BIND%28FLOOR%28%3Fend%20-%20%3Fstart%29%20as%20%3Fdays%29%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fdays%29%20%3FitemLabel, Metro stations in Paris https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%20%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20rdfs%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2F01%2Frdf-schema%23%3E%0APREFIX%20p%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20v%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fstatement%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20pq%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fqualifier%2F%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fadjacent%20%3FadjacentL%20%3Fcoords%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ928830%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP81%20wd%3AQ13224%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoords%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP197%20%3Fadjacent_statement%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fadjacent_statement%20v%3AP197%20%3Fadjacent%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fadjacent_statement%20pq%3AP560%20wd%3AQ585752%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fadjacent%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FadjacentL%20filter%20%28lang%28%3FadjacentL%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20%3FitemLabel
Development
- Lucie and Charlie handed in their Bachelor theses on the Article Placeholder and Editing Wikidata from Wikipedia. Work on both topics will continue. We'll publish both theses soon. A big congrats to both of them! - More work on the first prototype for Commons support ( phabricator:T125822 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125822) - Continued working on improving language support for monolingual text and labels/descriptions/aliases (phabricator:T125066 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125066) - Conversion of properties from string to external identifier datatype is ongoing - Experimenting with putting query results on a map in query.wikidata.org (earthquakes https://twitter.com/filbertkm/status/705729435857715200, ski resorts https://twitter.com/filbertkm/status/706102977258512384)
You can see all open tickets 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 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(s), for the new properties listed above.
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers Lydia