Events/Press/Blogs

• Upcoming: IRC office hour, November 14th, 19:00 (UTC+2) in the channel #wikimedia-office
• Review of the WikidataCon by Sean McBirnie (Histropedia)
• Blogpost on workflow co-documentation with community members during the WikidataCon, by Jan Dittrich
• Completeness and the Age of Abundance of free tools, in Basque language, by Theklan
• Report about the first WikidataCon in Hungarian language, by Texaner
• Report of the WikidataCon 2017 in German, by MB-one
• Visualising Wikidata on Interactive Timelines using HistropediaJS by Sean McBirnie
• Wikidata: A growing community behind open data by John Samuel
• Report about the 2017 WikidataCon in Polish, by Yarl
• Report about WikidataCon 2017 for WMAM community in Armenian, by Kareyac
• WikidataCon - my résumé by Ahoerstemeier

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikidata training material and sample SPARQL queries by Geertivp
• A new version of Unicode CLDR was released, including data about languages from Wikidata
• research article where Wikidata is used to unify metabolite identifiers: WikiPathways: a multifaceted pathway database bridging metabolomics to other omics research (Q42896569)

Did you know?

• Newest properties: vertical depth, describes a project that uses, National Monuments of Namibia Site Reference, CycleBase cyclist ID, California Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Formal Public Identifier, IAFD male performer ID, IWRP athlete ID, Wimbledon player ID, Snooker.org ID, albedo, family relationship degree, World Snooker athlete ID, Microsoft Store artist ID, NACE code, Xenopus Anatomical Ontology ID
• Query examples:
  • Timeline of the works of Robert Louis Stevenson (source)
  • Canals within 800 kilometres of Glasgow (source)
  • File systems by developer, date, and OS (source)
  • Map of metro stations of Bilbao (source)
  • Highest point of each department of France (source)
• Newest database reports: properties count by datatype, Mayflower voyage participants, film archives

Development

• Fixed a series of smaller regressions after switching to Cirrus based search backend (phabricator:T179045, phabricator:T179061, phabricator:T179130)
• Latitudes, longitudes, as well as coordinate precisions have accidentally been exported to RDF as xsd:decimal, and are going to be exported as xsd:double soon (phabricator:T179228)
• Continue on refactoring PropertySuggester-python for better maintainability and performance (phab:T179664)
• Make AffectedPagesFinder take DESCRIPTION_USAGE into account (phab:T176417)
• Add wikibase-snakview-indicators area where gadgets and user scripts can safely add indicators instead of directly appending to the value (phab:T95403, d:WD:PC#Gadget / userscript editor feedback wanted)
• Accessing mw.config.get( 'wbEntity' ) will trigger a deprecation warning, gadgets and user script should use the wikibase.entityPage.entityLoaded hook instead (phabricator:T169771)
• Work on caching constraint check results (phab:T179849) and indicating that they are cached (phab:T179844)
• Work on JSON-LD support in the Purtle library used for exports (gerrit:379669)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Monthly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
• Suggested and open tasks!
• Contribute to a Showcase item.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!