Events/Press/Blogs

• Using Wikidata data, fixing wrong Wikipedia and Wikidata tags, by Mateusz Konieczny
• One Knowledge Graph to Rule Them All? Analyzing the Differences Between DBpedia, YAGO, Wikidata & co
• Modeling the Domain of Digital Preservation in Wikidata
• Wikidata as a linking hub for knowledge organization systems? Integrating an authority mapping into Wikidata and learning lessons for KOS mappings (Paper and presentation), by Joachim Neubert, NKOS Workshop 2017 at TPDL
• Knowledge exploration in public linked data ontologies

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The ArticlePlaceholder has been enabled on Bengali Wikipedia (example)
• There is a new page with information around Wikidata:Wikidata in Wikimedia projects. You can help expand and improve it.
• New Wikidata Game to help you evaluate merge candidates based on projectmerge.
• A reading tip from Spinster (not mentioning Wikidata, but interesting general background knowledge): Indigenous peoples and responsible data: an introductory reading list from responsibledata.io
• Where's Wally (aka Waldo)? Right here on Wikidata, of course!
• Wikidata passed 8 average statements per item
• Statement 300.000.000 was created
• 20 million edits were done in September 2017

Did you know?

• Newest properties: TSE number, defined daily dose, Vincoli in Rete ID, The Black Book ID, Tagesschau election ID, LfD-HB object ID, cultural heritage monument in Serbia ID, Bavarian monument authority ID
• Query examples: What exists in the "... as a service" genre? (source)

Development

• Added a css class to values that link to redirects so they can more easily be identified by editors who want that for maintenance work (phabricator:T70567) Thanks Matej!
• Continued work on persistent editing of forms as part of the work to support lexicographical data (phabricator:T173742,phabricator:T173744)
• Finishing touches on adding full URIs for external identifiers to our RDF export so we're good citizens of the semantic web (phabricator:T121274)
• Added a new mw.wikibase.getAllStatements Lua function in addition to the existing getBestStatements, that returns all statements regardless of their rank (phabricator:T176124)
• Looking into an issue where unwanted email notifications are being sent (phabricator:T174794)
• Released version 2.1.1 of the base DataValues component

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!

Anything to add? Please share! :)