Hey folks :)
Here is the summary of what's been happening around Wikidata over the past week - a busy one for sure. Enjoy!
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Past: Wikidata edit-a-thon https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Meeting_2015/Programme/Wikidata_edit-a-thon at Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2015 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Meeting_2015 in Estonia - Upcoming: Office hour on IRC https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-September/007052.html, 23 September - Upcoming: Mobilizing Open Cultural Data https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fi:Wikipedia:Wikiprojekti_Avoin_kulttuuridata_hy%C3%B6tyk%C3%A4ytt%C3%B6%C3%B6n/en, Helsinki, 2 October - Upcoming: Wikidata tutorial at SWAT4LS http://www.swat4ls.org/workshops/cambridge2015/programme/tutorials/, December - Un-deleting 500,000 Wikidata items http://addshore.com/2015/09/un-deleting-500000-wikidata-items/ - Wikimania 2015 report by Multichill https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gebruiker:Multichill/Wikimania_2015 - DSS Wikidata Editathon http://blog.wikimedia.es/2015/09/dss-wikidata-editathon.html - A simple way to write Wikidata bots http://sulab.org/2015/09/a-simple-way-to-write-wikidata-bots/
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Please vote for Wikidata to win the people's choice award of Land der Ideen http://hauptvoting.welt.de/mainvoting/list (voting instructions https://twitter.com/benestar_wm/status/641541505216327681) - We passed 70M statements. https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/stats.php - Stalagmites and stalactites https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#About_stalagmite_.28Q181312.29_and_stalactite_.28Q177197.29 visualizes items without statements, items with statements, and deleted/redirected items by batches of 100,000 QIDs - Mix n Match is now available for mobile https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/mobile_game.html, has an improved automatic matching algorithm, got speed improvements and new catalogs were added like the National Gallery of Victoria, World Heritage Sites and CulturaItalia - The annual Wikipedia editing competition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wikipedia:WikiProject_Computational_Biology/ISCB_competition_announcement_2015 organized by the International Society for Computational Biology https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4288281 will include a Wikidata component this year for the first time. - Matched birth and death days https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Data_cleaning/matched_birth_and_death_days seeks to investigate all pairs of humans (in various subsets) that appear to have the same birth dates and death dates. De-duplication underway! - You can now use the new special page Special:PagesWithBadges to see which articles on that project have a badge like "featured article". - New tool by Magnus to suggest links to Wikidata items while you type https://tools.wmflabs.org/magnustools/autolinker_demo.html - Meta, MediaWiki, Wikispecies and Wikibooks will get (more) access to Wikidata soon https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-September/007106.html - Wikidata now has an official SPARQL endpoint so you can query the data - announcement https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-September/007042.html - examples https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/Indexing/SPARQL_Query_Examples - How US Presidents Died According to Wikidata http://ramiro.org/notebook/us-presidents-causes-of-death/ - Wikidata now supports units - announcement https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-September/007108.html - properties with units already created https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListProperties/quantity&limit=50&offset=103 - Properties with units waiting for creation https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Pending/2 - example https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q185372&type=revision&diff=250834149&oldid=238024129 - Prototype database to store all Wikipedia references http://librarybase.wmflabs.org/wiki/Librarybase:Home - Duplicity can show you how many (and which) articles on a Wikipedia are not connected to an item on Wikidata (example for frwp https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/duplicity.php?mode=stats&wiki=frwiki ) - Magnus wrote a user script to let you edit Listeria-powered lists on Wikipedia directly http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=348 - Musicpedia http://musikipedia.org/ has been released in beta and is using data from Wikidata - New tool by Magnus to create a Commons creator page from a Wikidata item https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/creator_from_wikidata.php
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: length https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2043, elevation above sea level https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2044, orbital inclination https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2045, area https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2046, duration https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2047, height https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2048, width https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2049, wingspan https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2050, M x sin i https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2051, speed https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2052, watershed area https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2053, density https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2054, electrical conductivity https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2055, heat capacity https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2056, HMDB ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2057, depositor https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2058, luminosity https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2060, aspect ratio https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2061, HSDB ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2062, LIPID MAPS ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2063, KNApSAcK ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2064, NIAID ChemDB ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2065, Fusion enthalpy https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2066, mass https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2067
Development
- Release of the query service and unit support (see above) - Made quantities not show URIs when editing a value but instead show the label - Worked on new datatype for identifiers to be able to split them from the other statements in the user interface, link them without the need for the authority control gadget and be able to link them in JSON/RDF - Worked more on making the edit summaries in the watchlist on Wikipedia and co more meaningful
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