*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.*
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events/ Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Past: GLAMwiki meeting in Paris https://twitter.com/Wittylama/status/832898739564077057, February 16-17th - Incoming: Wikidata workshop http://www.la-coop.net/evenement/atelier-decouvrir-wikidata/ in Grenoble (France), March 7th - If Voltaire had used Wikipedia… https://voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2017/02/20/if-voltaire-had-used-wikipedia/ using Wikidata to share knowledge about an author
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- WMF open call for Project Grant proposals (Feb 13-Mar 14) https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2017-February/086439.html - Wikimania: the deadline for applying for scholarships https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships is 20 February 2017 23:59 UTC. Submissions are running until end of March https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/en (see our discussions about Wikidata-related topics https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikimania_2017) - Wikimedia Deutschland is hiring a fullstack developer https://software.wikimedia.de/jobs/fullstack-developer and an engineering manager https://software.wikimedia.de/jobs/engineering-manager to work on Wikidata - Editing Wikidata descriptions from Wikipedia app (beta) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Editing_Wikidata_descriptions_from_Wikipedia_app_.28beta.29
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: USA Gymnastics athlete ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3671, Tennis Archives player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3670, Swimming Australia swimmer ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3669, Sambafoot player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3668, International Weightlifting Federation ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3667, EPCR player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3666, L'Équipe football player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3665, Futsal Planet player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3664, Fotbal DNES player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3663, Football Federation of Ukraine player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3662, Fora De Jogo manager ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3661, FootballFacts.ru player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3660, Estonian Football Association player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3659, DZFoot.com player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3658, Croatian Football Statistics ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3657, Cross-tables.com Scrabble player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3656, BDFutbol player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3655, Chess.com player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3654, ARRS runner ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3653, Kontinental Hockey League player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3652, American Hockey League player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3651, JMK film rating https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3650, IDEAS person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3649, NatureServe conservation status https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3648, NBA player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3647, Basketball Hall of Fame ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3646, All Blacks player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3645, FFR player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3644, significant environmental impact https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3643, ARCHON code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3642, Uniform Type Identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3641, National Drug Code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3640, Key to English Place-Names (KEPN) ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3639, Oorlogsmonument ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3638, European Medicines Agency product number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3637, PDB ligand ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3636, Peakbagger area ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3635, The Met object ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3634, British Museum place ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3633, British Museum thesaurus ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3632, Babelio work ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3631, Babelio author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3630, stated age at event https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3629, British History Online VCH ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3628, Historical Gazetteer of England's Place Names ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3627, Australian Antarctic Gazetteer ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3626, Kirshenbaum https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3625, Common Weakness Enumeration ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3624, BadmintonLink player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3623, rusbandy player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3622, Darts Database player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3621, Bwfbadminton.com player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3620, ski-db.com skier ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3619 - Query examples: - People born at the sea https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20people%20born%20at%20sea%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fperson%20%3FpersonLabel%20%3FplaceLabel%20%3Fdob%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP19%20%3Fplace.%0A%20%7B%20%3Fplace%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ165.%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%20%3Fplace%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ1229765.%20%7D%0A%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fdob.%20%7D%0A%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3Fdob%20%3FplaceLabel (source https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/832620159118385154) - Persons buried in Père-Lachaise cemetery, Paris https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#SELECT%20%3Fid%20%3Flieu%20%28count%28%2a%29%20as%20%3Fnombre%29%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fpid%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fpid%20wdt%3AP119%20%3Fid%20.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fid%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Flieu%20filter%20%28lang%28%3Flieu%29%20%3D%20%22fr%22%29%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%0A%7D%0A%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fid%20%3Flieu%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fnombre%29%20ASC%28%3Flieu%29%0ALIMIT%2050 (source https://twitter.com/Pyb75/status/833575519451041792) - Paintings by women painters in the Louvre https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FcreatorLabel%20%3Fimage%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP195%20wd%3AQ3044768%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP170%20%3Fcreator%20.%0A%20%20%3Fcreator%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581072%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22fr%22%20.%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20%3FcreatorLabel%20%3FitemLabel (source https://twitter.com/PoulpyWP/status/833398201302523904) - People born on Valentine's day, colour coded by country of citizenship http://histropedia.com/showcase/wikidata-viewer.html?query=%23People%20born%20on%20valentine%27s%20day%0ASELECT%20?personItem%20?person%20?personDescription%20?date%20?Country_of_citizenship%20?Occupation%20?Gender%20?image%20?rank%20%28if%28BOUND%28?personDescription%29,%20CONCAT%28?person,%27%20%28%27,?personDescription,%27%29%27%29,%20?person%29%20as%20?title%29%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%7B%0ASELECT%20?personItem%20?date%20?countryItem%20?occupationItem%20?genderItem%0A%28SAMPLE%28?image%29%20as%20?image%29%0A%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20?article%29%20as%20?rank%29%20%0AWHERE%20%7B%09%0A?personItem%20wdt:P569%20?date%20.%0A?personItem%20wdt:P18%20?image%20.%0A?personItem%20wdt:P21%20?genderItem%20.%0A?personItem%20wdt:P106%20?occupationItem%20.%0A?personItem%20wdt:P27%20?countryItem%20.%0AOPTIONAL%20%7B%20?article%20schema:about%20?personItem%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28SUBSTR%28STR%28?article%29,12,19%29%20%3D%20%22wikipedia.org/wiki/%22%29%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%0AFILTER%20%28datatype%28?date%29%20%3D%20xsd:dateTime%20&&%20month%28?date%29%20%3D%202%20&&%20day%28?date%29%20%3D%2014%29%09%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20?personItem%20?date%20?countryItem%20?occupationItem%20?genderItem%0A%7D%0ASERVICE%20wikibase:label%20%7B%0Abd:serviceParam%20wikibase:language%20%27en%27%20.%0A?personItem%20schema:description%20?personDescription%20.%0A?personItem%20rdfs:label%20?person%20.%0A?countryItem%20rdfs:label%20?Country_of_citizenship%20.%0A?occupationItem%20rdfs:label%20?Occupation%20.%0A?genderItem%20rdfs:label%20?Gender%20.%0A%7D%0A%7D%20%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC%28?rank%29&url=personItem&title=title&from=date&imageUrl=image&colourCodeBy=Country_of_citizenship&threshold=1&filterBy=Gender,Occupation&view=timeline (source https://twitter.com/Histropedia/status/831510264495357952) - Newest external tools: wikidata-cli can now edit Wikidata https://github.com/maxlath/wikidata-cli, edit Wikidata from NodeJS https://npmdaily.com/pkg/wikidata-edit
Development
- Making final fixes to initial version of Federation (needed to be able to use Wikidata items and properties to describe media on Commons in the future) - More work on baseline for Lexeme entity type for Wiktionary support - Fixed an error on d:Special:ConstraintReport https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ConstraintReport ( phabricator:T158183 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158183) - Wikidata Query Service got additional servers, the data has been reloaded to fix a number of issues caused by missed updates and an increase of the time-out of 30s is being looked into.
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/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Showcase_items - Help translate https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats or proofread pages in your own language! - Help merge identical items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge across Wikimedia projects. - 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