Blogs

Past: WikiCon USA (slides)
Ongoing: World Health Summit (slides)
Upcoming: ODI Summit with a session on the gene-related efforts on Wikidata
Don't forget to sign up if you are coming to Wikidata's third birthday party.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Discussion has started on English WikiProject Football about using Wikidata for player squad templates (example) and player club history (example). Needs more input on best practices and commitment to update data.
A command line client to the SPARQL query service has been released
Query example: popularity of the given name Adolf
MoMa artists have been added to Mix'n'match
Books without authors on Wikidata are now down to 12.5K from 25K since drive began. You can help get it down even further.
Number of articles that are not connected to a Wikidata item on Catalan Wikipedia has been brought down significantly. How about yours?
This Month in GLAM has Wikidata coverage
Interested in British politics? WikiProject British Politicians has some stats to show where you can help out

Did you know?

Newest properties: median lethal dose, first aid measures, official symbol, units used for this property, external subproperty, external superproperty, volume for quantity, semi-major axis, cash, explosive velocity, torque, Max TDP, maximum thrust, metallicity, market capitalization, discharge, spectral line, decay width, gyromagnetic ratio, flux, household wealth, real gross domestic product growth rate, net worth, cruise speed, radial velocity, proper motion, parallax, longitude of ascending node, angular distance, position angle, relative to, SourceForge project, average shot length, Spotify track ID, Discogs release ID, Spotify album ID, minimum explosive concentration, upper flammable limit, lower flammable limit, dipole moment, electric charge, autoignition temperature, (average) gradient, production volume, students count, Soccerbase manager id, PSS-Archi architect id, Soccerbase player id, endangeredlanguages.com ID, NILF author id, C-SPAN identifier of a person, BiblioNet publisher identifier, BiblioNet author identifier, BiblioNet publication identifier, Wiki Loves Monuments ID, DLI, history of topic, ISO 9:1995, Finnish Ministers database ID, Finnish MP ID, Kansallisbiografia ID, ACM Classification Code (2012), solvent, solubility, drug used for treatment, medical condition treated

Development

You'll now get redirected to the mobile view automatically on mobile devices (example)
Made it possible to use more entities on a page via Lua without running into Lua's memory limit
Added the Article Placeholder extension’s results to the search result page (this is one of a few remaining blockers before we can put it on a testsystem for you to try out and give feedback)
Added option to create a new article from Article Placeholder
More work on the new datatype for properties
More work on making meaningful edit summaries on the client. Found a few remaining bugs during testing.
More work on a birthday present :D

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Monthly Tasks

Hack on one of these.
Help develop the next summary here!
Contribute to a Showcase item
Help translate 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

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Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager for Wikidata

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