Hey everyone :)

Happy holidays!

Here's your summary of what's been happening around Wikidata over the past week.

Events/Press/Blogs

• Upcoming: 33C3
• Scaling OpenStreetMap with Wikidata knowledge
• Scraping data from Wikipedia using Wikidata
• Using cbimport to import Wikibase data to JSON documents

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Linked data fragment enabled on the Query Service
• Quora topic IDs have been added to Mix'n'match

Did you know?

• Newest properties: Belvedere artist ID, Calflora ID, basic unit of settlement code (Czech/Slovak), Google Play Store ID, Quora topic ID, end period, start period
• Query examples:
  • List of heads of state by Erdős number (source)
  • Airports named after people (source)
  • Graves with no grave pictures of people buried in Norra Begravningsplatsen (source)
  • Graves with grave pictures of people buried in Norra Begravningsplatsen (source)
  • Solidays occurring today (source)
  • Streets in Paris named after current countries (source)
  • Streets in Paris named after battles (source)
  • Wikipedia articles (in any language) of paintings by painter (source)
  • Sovereign state flags with no red, white, or blue (source)
  • Graph of number of compositions over age at first composition (source)

Development

• Worked more on the first entity type (Lexeme) for Wiktionary support
• Worked more on federation in order to allow using Wikidata items and properties to describe images on Commons in the future
• Fixed a bug with getLabelWithLang returning the wrong language (phabricator:T152241)
• Fixed an issue where some coordinate values displayed 60 seconds instead of rounding to 1 minute (phabricator:T153429)
• Adjusted language for simple English sitelinks (phabricator:T152915)

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!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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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