*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.*
Wikidata's birthday is coming! https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fourth_Birthday
Wikidata celebrates its 4th anniversary on October 29th. Around this date, a lot of events will happen online and offline.
*Birthday events*
Editors all around the world organize meetups to celebrate the birthday. You can join one of them https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fourth_Birthday/Events or create an event in your own town!
- San Francisco (USA) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fourth_Birthday/Events/Meetup_in_SF,_W,_October_26th, October 26th - Torino (Italy) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fourth_Birthday/Events#Wikidata_Birthday_in_Turin.2C_October_26th, October 26th - Tokyo (Japan) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fourth_Birthday/Events#Wikidata_bento_in_Tokyo.2C_October_28th, October 28th - Paris (France) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fourth_Birthday/Events#Meetup_in_Paris.2C_October_29th, October 29th - Utrecht (NL) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fourth_Birthday/Events#Wiki.28data.29Zaterdag_in_Utrecht.2C_October_29th, October 29th - Berlin (Germany) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fourth_Birthday/Events/Berlin, November 4th - Rennes (France) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fourth_Birthday/Events#Rennes.2C_November_5th, November 5th
*Online*
A lot of surprises, stories and presents will be shared between October 29th and November 4th. Check the project chat https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat or the mailing-list https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata every day to see what happens!
You can also participate by posting a story (more info here https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fourth_Birthday/Stories), a tweet with #WikidataBirthday, let a message or a present on the birthday page https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fourth_Birthday.
If you're participating to Wikidata's birthday, you can add this template https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:User_Wikidata_birthday_2016 to your user page. Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Wikidata workshops in Paris : every month, Wikimédia France and editors organize a workshop about Wikidata and related tools. Check out the schedule https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Paris - Upcoming: Ladies that FOSS https://www.wikimedia.de/wiki/LadiesthatFOSS October 29th in Berlin, organized by Lucie and Julia from the Wikidata team
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- WikiCite 2016 report https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiCite_2016_report.pdf
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: Third-party formatter URL https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3303, Open Media Database film ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3302, broadcast by https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3301, musical conductor https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3300, Student register of the University of Helsinki 1640–1852 ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3299, Belgian Senate person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3298, Flemish Parliament person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3297, DRÚSOP ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3296 - Query examples: - places of birth of living US senators https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0Aselect%20%2a%20%7B%20%3Fs%20wdt%3AP39%20wd%3AQ13217683%20%3B%20wdt%3AP19%2Fwdt%3AP625%20%3Fl%20.%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fs%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fd%7D%20FILTER%20%28%21BOUND%28%3Fd%29%29%20%7D (compare with last week's https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/2016_10_15#Did_you_know.3F ) - Wikidata map of filming locations https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Map%20of%20filming%20locations%2C%20%0A%23%20by%20Jura1%2C%202016-10-24%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%0A%09%3Ffilm%20%3Ftitle%20%3FfilmLabel%20%3FfilmDescription%20%0A%09%3Ffilminglocation%20%3FfilminglocationLabel%20%3Fcoor%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%09%3Ffilm%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ11424%20.%0A%20%20%09%3Ffilm%20wdt%3AP915%20%3Ffilminglocation%20.%0A%20%20%09%3Ffilminglocation%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoor%20.%0A%20%20%09OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Ffilm%20wdt%3AP1476%20%3Ftitle%20%7D%20.%0A%20%20%09FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Ffilm%20wdt%3AP915%20%3Fl%20.%20%3Fl%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fl%20%7D%0A%09SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en,en%22%20%7D%0A%7D (source https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Filming_Locations#Map ) - Streets in Paris named after a physician https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Voies%20de%20Paris%20nomm%C3%A9es%20d%27apr%C3%A8s%20un%20m%C3%A9decin.%0A%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fvoie%20%3FvoieLabel%20%3Fphoto%20%3Fcoord%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fvoie%20%28wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%29%20wd%3AQ83620.%0A%20%20%3Fvoie%20wdt%3AP131%20%3Farrdt.%0A%20%20%3Farrdt%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ702842.%0A%20%20%3Farrdt%20wdt%3AP131%20wd%3AQ90.%0A%20%20%3Fvoie%20wdt%3AP138%20%3Fodonyme.%0A%20%20%3Fodonyme%20%28wdt%3AP106%2Fwdt%3AP279*%29%20wd%3AQ39631.%0A%20%20%3Fvoie%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoord.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fodonyme%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fphoto.%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22fr%22.%20%7D%0A%7D (source https://twitter.com/Coyau/status/788050878704017408) - Moons of trans-Neptunian objects https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fsat%20%3FsatLabel%20%3Fplanet%20%3FplanetLabel%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fsat%20wdt%3AP397%20%3Fplanet%20.%0A%20%20%3Fplanet%20wdt%3AP196%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ6592%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FplanetLabel%20%3FsatLabel (source https://twitter.com/PoulpyWP/status/789067885687795712) - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects: Chess https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Chess
Development
- Fixed a rounding error in the geo coordinate formatter (see GitHub https://github.com/DataValues/Geo/pull/78). Thanks, 0x686578! - Improvements to technical error messages, e.g. "illegal value" when editing a Commons media statement (phabricator:T141880 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T141880). - Continued working on a new parser function to get rich, formatted statements. - Continued working on making entity usage information visible to users.
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