*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.*
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events/ Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Upcoming: Wikimania hackathon https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon and documentation sprint https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170071, August 9-10, Montreal - Upcoming: Wikimania https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania, August 10-13, Montreal. Check out all the things related to Wikidata https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikimania_2017 - Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in French https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Atelier_Wikidata_%C3%A0_Montr%C3%A9al, August 14, Montreal
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- w:en:Category:Articles with infoboxes completely from Wikidata https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Category:Articles_with_infoboxes_completely_from_Wikidata has now more than 1000 articles - Wikidata passed 6 average statements per item https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/wikidata-datamodel-statements?panelId=4&fullscreen&from=1493769600000&to=1501545600000&refresh=30m&orgId=1
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: offset https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4153, File format magic numbers https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4152, game mechanics https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4151, weather history https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4150, conjugate base https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4149, conjugate acid https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4147, Atheneum museum ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4146, Atheneum person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4145, Atheneum artwork ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4144, Finnish List of Lights ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4143, RIWAQ Registry of Historic Buildings in Palestine ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4142, Gatehouse Gazetteer place ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4141, energy storage capacity https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4140, National Assembly of Nigeria ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4139, Treasury of Lives ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4138, muzzle velocity https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4137, WIGOS station ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4136 - Query examples: - Timeline of the programming languages created in the past 10 years https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ATimeline%0ASELECT%20%3Flang%20%3FlangLabel%20%3Ftime%0A%7B%0A%20%20%3Flang%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ9143%20.%0A%20%20%3Flang%20wdt%3AP571%20%3Ftime%20.%0AFILTER%28%28%3Ftime%29%20%3E%20%222007-01-01%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%29%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%7D%0A (source https://twitter.com/WikiDigi/status/893167958272421889) - Countries where no european language has official or national status https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fcountry%20%28group_concat%28distinct%20%3FlanguageL%20%3B%20separator%20%3D%20%22%2C%20%22%29%20as%20%3Flanguages%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ6256%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP37%20%3Flanguage%20.%0A%0A%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP37%20%3Fy%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fp%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ6256%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP37%20%3Fy%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP30%20wd%3AQ46%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Flanguage%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FlanguageL%20filter%20%28lang%28%3FlanguageL%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fcountry%20filter%20%28lang%28%3Fcountry%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%20.%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fcountry%0AORDER%20BY%20%3Fcountry (source https://twitter.com/PoulpyWP/status/892850151177334784) - Gallery of Star Trek characters https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0A%0ASELECT%0A%20%20%3Fperson%0A%20%20%3FpersonLabel%0A%20%20%28GROUP_CONCAT%28DISTINCT%20%3FmyRanklabel%3Bseparator%3D%27%2C%20%27%29%20as%20%3FmyRanklabel%29%0A%20%20%3Fimage%0A%20%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3FlanguageArticle%29%20as%20%3FlanguageArticleCount%29%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP463%20wd%3AQ718644%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP410%20%3Frank%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%3Frank%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FmyRanklabel%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28lang%28%3FmyRanklabel%29%20%3D%20%27en%27%20%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%3FlanguageArticle%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fperson%20%0A%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%7D%20%20%20%20%20%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%0A%20%20%3Fperson%20%3FpersonLabel%20%3FrankLabel%20%3Fimage%0AORDER%20BY%0A%20%20DESC%28%3FlanguageArticleCount%29 (source https://twitter.com/gobfrey/status/893411288990310401) - Timeline of female medieval writers https://query.wikidata.org/#%23Timeline%20of%20early%20female%20writers%0A%23defaultView%3ATimeline%0ASELECT%20%3Fperson%20%3FpersonLabel%20%3Fdate%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fimage%29%20AS%20%3Fimage%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5.%0A%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581072.%0A%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP106%20wd%3AQ36180.%0A%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdate.%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28year%28%3Fdate%29%20%3C%201500%29%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28year%28%3Fdate%29%20%3E%20600%29%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fdate%20%3Fperson%20%3FpersonLabel%20%0ALimit%20100%0A (source https://twitter.com/philbarker/status/893422736894242816) - Newest script: moveClaim.js https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Mat%C4%9Bj_Such%C3%A1nek/moveClaim.js allows moving claims across items. Try it and give feedback to Matěj Suchánek https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Mat%C4%9Bj_Such%C3%A1nek - Newest external tools: d3-sparql https://github.com/zazuko/d3-sparql allows you to query a SPARQL endpoint and get the data in a d3js-useful format
Development
- Released version 2.0.0 of the DataValues base component https://github.com/DataValues/DataValues. - Released the DataValues Interfaces component https://github.com/DataValues/Interfaces in version 0.2.3. - Released the ValueView component https://packagist.org/packages/data-values/value-view in version 0.20.0 - Fixed a problem with suggestions of P279 (phab:T169060 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169060) - Preparing everything for Wikimania and the hackathon
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R. Monthly Tasks
- 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 - Suggested and open tasks https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contribute/Suggested_and_open_tasks ! - 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 the interface and documentation pages, in your own language! - Help merge identical items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge across Wikimedia projects. - Help write the next summary! https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next