Events

• Past: Wikidata IRC office hour, May 29th
• Past: slides of "Wikidata in GLAM, how and why" by Jason Evans during EuropeanaTech conference
• Figsharefest: "(Personal) use-cases for Figshare in a Wikidata narrative", June 4th, Brussels (slides)

Press, articles, blog posts

• Using the Hive Mind: WikiData Integration and Artist Pages on the blog of the National Galleries of Scotland
• Tools for Wikipedians: Keeping track of what’s going on on Wikidata from Wikipedia by Jens Ohlig (also available in German)
• Wikidata and Scholia as a hub linking chemical knowledge poster presented at 11th International Conference on Chemical Structures (PDF)
• A complete video walkthrough to learn how to use OpenRefine: how to match, clean up and import data into Wikidata
• Lexicographical data: number of existing lemmas per language

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• You can now search for values of a statement in Special:Search (P31, external-ids and strings)
• You can now use global preferences on most wikis. This means you can set preferences for all wikis at the same time. Before this you had to change them on each individual wiki.
• Country geoshape data have been added to Commons and linked to the corresponding Wikidata items. These geoshapes can be used to visualise query results e.g. World map showing population of each country.
• Concordances: mappings between Wikidata and other knowledge organization systems

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: chromosome count, prime factor, pronunciation variety, compound of
  • External identifiers: ISO 3950 code, National Gallery of Armenia work ID, GONIAT author ID, Armenian National Academy of Sciences ID, Armenian Parliamentary ID, GONIAT paper ID, GONIAT place ID, GONIAT taxon ID, Spyur ID, Armenian Cinema ID, BMRB ID, ICSC ID, Tree of Life Web Project ID, NWSL player ID, Information Center for Israeli Art artwork ID, OlimpBase Women's Chess Olympiad player ID, Argentine biography deputy ID, B.R.A.H.M.S. ID, Carnegie Hall event ID, Carnegie Hall work ID, Chromosome numbers of the Flora of Germany database ID, D&B Hoovers company profile, Filmow ID, SpectraBase Compound ID, Cité de la Musique-Philharmonie de Paris work ID, Artists in Canada record number, RollDaBeats artist ID, Songfacts song ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: grammatical category, IAB code, title number, chữ Nôm, noun, gender inflection, winter view, of, alternative form, lexical category, spelling variant, hyphenation
  • External identifiers: myschool ID, IPTC subject code, Canal-U person ID, FilmTv.it movie ID, FilmTv.it TV series ID, FilmTv.it person ID, Corago ID, Les Enfoirés participant ID, Les Enfoirés song ID, iTunes App Store developer ID, NDOP taxon ID, BirdLife International ID, Relationship Science person ID, Czech Geomorphological Unit Code, Swedish Gravestone ID, OED Online ID, Dordrechts Museum, Finnish national bibliography corporate name ID, SJP Online ID, Contemporary Music Portal ID, Web umenia work ID, Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales Work ID, Cdmc ID, Monarch Disease Ontology ID, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art ID, Saint Louis Art Museum ID, Strava ID of a professional sport person, StadiumDB identifier, Songfacts artist ID, World Stadium Database identifier, Douban Movie Celebrity ID, Firmenbuchnummer
• Properties waiting to be used, created >3 months:
  • Program Component Score (P4826), deductions (in figure skating) (P4825), Swimrankings meet ID (P4827), Sailboatdata ID (P4833), World Sailing regatta ID (P4832), Landslagsdatabasen ID (P4830), Irish Rugby Football Union women's player ID (P4836), Wolfram Language entity code (P4839), Directory of Czech publishers ID (P4840), development of anatomical structure (P4843)
• Query examples:
  • List of Danish female athletes (source)
  • Battles within 100km of Edinburgh (source)
  • Grammatical features graph (source)
  • 10 items having the biggest number of sitelinks (source)
  • Writers and their signatures (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: Eurovision

• Newest database reports: verb categories

Development

• The API respond for maxlag will in the future also include the dispach lag (phab:T194950)
• Add Elastic and CirrusSearch in the Wikibase Docker image (phab:T192813)
• Add OAuth extension to wikibase bundle container (phab:TT192364)
• Work on showing constraints in the QueryService (phab:T194762)
• Make the PropertySuggester use CirrusSearch (phab:T195490)
• Add integer constraint in the constraint checks (phab:T167989)
• Add “citation needed” constraint type (phab:T195052)
• Make Special:EntityData should handle form IDs (phab:T192149)
• Fix encoding problems for labels displayed in Lexemes (phab:T195359)
• Improve the text in the grammatical feature field (phab:T193604)
• Work on showing Lemma on Special:AllPages and other pages (phab:T195382)
• Work on better handling use of statements linking to Lexemes on client (phab:T195615)
• Fix a bug that breaks Lexeme when language or lexical category items don't have a label (phab:)

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