*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.*
Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Obaid Raza https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator#Obaid_Raza
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events/ Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Wikidata, a rapidly growing global hub, turns five https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/10/30/wikidata-fifth-birthday/ on WMF's blog by Andrew Lih and Robert Fernandez - Locating IMDB IDs of movies in the Internet Archive using Wikidata http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Locating_IMDB_IDs_of_movies_in_the_Internet_Archive_using_Wikidata.html, by Petter Reinholdtsen - Mix-n-Match: Large Catalogs http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=478, by Magnus Manske
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- If you want to review what happened during the WikidataCon, here is the list https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017/Documentation/Proceedings of all the sessions, with slides, notes and videos, when available - Release of wikidata-edit v2.0.0: brings qualifiers and references support, and a few breaking changes. See changelogs https://github.com/maxlath/wikidata-edit/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#200---2017-11-01 - Release of wikidata-cli v5.0.0: brings qualifiers and references support, multi-entity summary|label|description|description requests, a new `edit-item` command, and a few breaking changes. See changelogs https://github.com/maxlath/wikidata-cli/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#500---2017-11-03
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: Barbarian R.C. id https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4494, Barbarian F.C. id https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4493, Isidore ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4491, Team GB athlete ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4490, HOC athlete ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4489, COAM architect ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4488, Camera Decision ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4487, Google Play developer ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4486, INDUCKS miniseries ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4485, INDUCKS issue ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4484, INDUCKS story ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4483, INDUCKS publisher ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4482, INDUCKS creator ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4481, INDUCKS publication ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4480, INDUCKS character ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4479, Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Accused witch ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4478, Humble Store ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4477, Australian Baseball League player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4476, European Fencing Confederation athlete ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4475, IBHOF boxer ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4474, Melon artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4473, Czech Jockey Club horse ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4472, Rush Parliamentary Archive ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4471, British Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4470, IGHOF athlete ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4469, Mountain Bike Hall of Fame inductee ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4468, Twitch game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4467, Unified Astronomy Thesaurus ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4466, Ecole des chartes thesis abstract ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4465, Rugby League Project player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4464, Canadian Ski Hall of Fame inductee ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4463, Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame inductee ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4462, World Golf Hall of Fame player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4461, Kaitai Struct format gallery ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4460, Diccionario biográfico español ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4459, Dutch Cemetery in Chinsurah ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4458, Discography of American Historical Recordings ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4457, Internet Off-Broadway Database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4456, Coinage of the Roman Republic Online ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4455, Argentine Chamber of Deputies ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4454, Argentine Senate member ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4453, Thibaudeau classification https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4452, Scoresway handball person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4451, HAL author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4450, Shirat Nashim person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4449, cash back https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4448, Minimum Spend Bonus https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4447, reward program https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4446, grace period https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4445, reward https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4444, Card Network https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4443, mean age https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4442, hydraulic head https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4441 - Query examples: - endemic moths of New Zealand with images in Wikidata https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0A%23%20images%20of%20endemic%20species%20Lepidoptera%20of%20New%20Zealand%0ASELECT%20%3Fspecies%20%3FspeciesLabel%20%3Fimage%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fspecies%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ16521%3B%20%23%20taxon%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP171%2a%20wd%3AQ28319%3B%20%23%20in%20the%20Lepidoptera%20order%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20wdt%3AP105%2Fwdt%3AP361%2a%20wd%3AQ7432%3B%20%23%20species%20or%20subdivision%20thereof%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP183%2Fwdt%3AP17%20wd%3AQ664%3B%20%23%20endemic%20to%20New%20Zealand%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage.%20%23%20with%20image%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D (source https://twitter.com/SiobhanLeachman/status/926489944960278528) - Images of people commemorated by plaques in Jena, Germany https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fsubject%20%3FsubjectLabel%20%3Fimage%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Ftafel%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ721747%3B%20%20%23%20instances%20of%20commemorative%20plaques%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP131%20wd%3AQ3150%20%3B%20%20%23%20located%20in%20the%20administrative%20territorial%20entity%20of%20the%20city%20of%20Jena%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP547%20%3Fsubject%20.%20%20%20%23%20subject%20of%20the%20commemoration%0A%20%20%3Fsubject%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%20%20%20%23%20image%20of%20the%20subject%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cde%2Cen%22.%20%7D%20%23%20labels%20%0A%7D%0A%23defaultView%3AImageGrid (source https://twitter.com/EvoMRI/status/927352639381176320) - Paintings located in Le Louvre without pictures on Wikidata, with the location in the museum https://query.wikidata.org/#select%20DISTINCT%20%3Furlatlas%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FlieuLabel%20%3Fdateconsult%0Awhere%20%7B%0A%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP195%2Fwdt%3AP361%2a%20wd%3AQ3044768.%20%0A%20%3Fitem%20%28wdt%3AP276%7Cwdt%3AP361%29%2F%28wdt%3AP276%2a%7Cwdt%3AP361%2a%29%20wd%3AQ1075988.%0A%20MINUS%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP276%20wd%3AQ1075988.%7D%0A%20MINUS%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP276%20wd%3AQ40091273.%7D%0A%20MINUS%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP276%20wd%3AQ19675.%20%7D%0A%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP276%20%3Flieu.%0A%20OPTIONAL%7B%0A%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP276%20%3Fdeclarationloc.%0A%20%3Fdeclarationloc%20prov%3AwasDerivedFrom%20%3Fref.%0A%20%3Fref%20pr%3AP854%20%3FURLref.%0A%20FILTER%20regex%28str%28%3FURLref%29%2C%20%22cartelfr.louvre%22%29%0A%20%3Fref%20pr%3AP813%20%3Fdateconsult%20.%0A%20%7D%0A%20MINUS%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimg.%7D%0A%20OPTIONAL%7B%0A%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1212%20%3FIDatlas%20.%0A%20wd%3AP1212%20wdt%3AP1630%20%3Fformatterurl%20.%0A%20BIND%28IRI%28REPLACE%28%3FIDatlas%2C%20%27%5E%28.%2B%29%24%27%2C%20%3Fformatterurl%29%29%20AS%20%3Furlatlas%29%0A%20%7D%0A%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7Bbd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22fr%22%7D%0A%7DORDER%20BY%20%3FLieuLabel%0A (source https://twitter.com/Pyb75/status/926092834234564609) - Persons who will have their work in public domain in 2018 in Denmark, with their occupations https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fperson%20%3FpersonLabel%20%3Fbesk%C3%A6ftigelse%20%3Fsitelink%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fperson%20%3Fsitelink%20%28GROUP_CONCAT%28%3Foccupation_label%3B%20separator%3D%22%2C%20%22%29%20AS%20%3Fbesk%C3%A6ftigelse%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdate_of_death%20.%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28YEAR%28%3Fdate_of_death%29%20AS%20%3Fyear%29%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28%3Fyear%20%3D%201947%29%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fsitelink%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fperson%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fsitelink%20schema%3AinLanguage%20%22da%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP106%20%3Foccupation%20.%20%3Foccupation%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Foccupation_label%20.%20FILTER%20%28LANG%28%3Foccupation_label%29%20%3D%20%27da%27%29%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fperson%20%3Fsitelink%0A%7D%20AS%20%25results%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25results%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22da%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FpersonLabel%0A (source https://twitter.com/fnielsen/status/925771972155461632) - Political parties by ideology in a tree view https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ATree%0ASELECT%20%3Fideology%20%3FideologyLabel%20%3FimageI%20%3Fpolitical_ideology%20%3Fpolitical_ideologyLabel%20%3Fpolitical_party%20%3Fpolitical_partyLabel%20%3Fimage%20%3Fpolitical_alignment%20%3Fpolitical_alignmentLabel%20%3Fcountry%20%3FcountryLabel%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cde%2Cen%2Ces%2Cfr%2Cit%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fpolitical_party%20%28wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%29%20wd%3AQ7278.%0A%20%20%3Fpolitical_party%20wdt%3AP1142%20%3Fpolitical_ideology.%0A%20%20%3Fpolitical_ideology%20wdt%3AP279%20%3Fideology.%0A%20%20%3Fideology%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ14934048.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fpolitical_party%20wdt%3AP1387%20%3Fpolitical_alignment.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fpolitical_party%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fideology%20wdt%3AP18%20%3FimageI.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fpolitical_party%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fcountry.%20%7D%0A%7D (source https://twitter.com/Jokrates/status/925044431727808514) - Organic acids with pictures https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0ASELECT%20%3Fcompound%20%3FcompoundLabel%20%3Fimage%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fcompound%20wdt%3AP279%2B%7Cwdt%3AP31%2B%20wd%3AQ421948%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP18%7Cwdt%3AP117%20%3Fimage%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D (source https://twitter.com/egonwillighagen/status/924640942182817795) - Levels of education in France, from kindergarten to high school, with their US equivalents https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Flevel%20%3FlevelLabel%20%3FpartOfLabel%20%3Fsame%20%3FsameLabel%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Flevel%20p%3AP31%20%5B%20rdf%3Atype%20wikibase%3ABestRank%20%3B%20ps%3AP31%20wd%3AQ42606026%20%3B%20pq%3AP1545%20%3Forder%20%5D%20.%20%23%20niveau%20de%20scolarit%C3%A9%0A%20%20%3Flevel%20wdt%3AP17%20wd%3AQ142%20.%20%23%20France%0A%20%20%3Flevel%20wdt%3AP361%20%3FpartOf%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Flevel%20wdt%3AP460%20%3Fsame%20.%20%3Fsame%20wdt%3AP17%20wd%3AQ30%20.%20%7D%20.%20%23%20%C3%A9quivalent%20USA%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22fr%2Cen%22%20.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20xsd%3Ainteger%28%3Forder%29 (source https://twitter.com/querybook/status/926513984538374144) - Horses drawn on hills in the UK https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FplaceLabel%20%3Fcoords%20%3Fimage%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ42661374%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoords%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP131%20%3Fplace%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%22en%22%20.%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20%3FitemLabel (source https://twitter.com/PoulpyWP/status/926904585645682689) - Frequency of “retrieved” dates in Wikidata references https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ABarChart%0ASELECT%20%3Fretrieved%20%3Fcount%20WITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fretrieved%20%28COUNT%28%3Freference%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Freference%20pr%3AP813%20%3Fretrieved.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fretrieved%0A%7D%20AS%20%25results%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25results.%0A%20%20wd%3AQ2013%20wdt%3AP571%20%3FwikidataInception.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3Fretrieved%20%3E%3D%20%3FwikidataInception%20%26%26%20%3Fretrieved%20%3C%3D%20NOW%28%29%29%0A%7D (source https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/927310737827082241) - Newest database reports: completeness of family relation properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Parenthood/reports/completeness
Development
- query service UI improvements (Ided10bb8c8 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/386356/, I3c6ec22a15 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/387800/, Ieb6e561563 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/387102/, I9a526fc8b4 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/386880/, Ib4ea273ab1 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/387842/ - proposed https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Gadget_.2F_userscript_editor_feedback_wanted changes to HTML around statements – feedback welcome! - Finished diff support for lexeme phab:T178757 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178757 - Refactoring PropertySuggester-python for better maintainability and performance (phab:T179664 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179664) - JavaScript libraries used by Wikibase have been integrated as submodules into Wikibase's git repository (phab:T177087 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177087) - Git repository of the Wikibase JavaScript API has been moved. Check your settings! (phab:T178226 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178226)
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 - 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. - The Cebuano and Swedish wikis have a lot of bot-created content which is unconnected to other wiki articles. A good way to tackle that problem is by checking constraint violations https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Constraint_violations/P1566#.22Unique_value.22_violations for property GeoNames ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1566. - Help write the next summary! https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next