Hey folks :)

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

Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage

- Wikidata by country, or: The Wealth of Nation's Data http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=290 - Wikidata the Game - one year in http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=293 - Ongoing: GLAM-Wiki 2015 https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM-WIKI_2015

Other Noteworthy Stuff

- Build a RSS image feed based on a query https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/wdq_image_feed.php - Periodic table based on Wikidata data https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-April/005797.html by Ricordisamoa - ~8000 biographical items with dates in the description, but no birth/death date statements https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/dated.html - Magnus says ~8% (~1.4M) of all Wikidata items do not have any site links to Wikipedia etc.; knowledge that exists exclusively on Wikidata - Bene* wrote a user script that adds a filter bar above the statement section and lets you filter it https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Bene*/statementfilter.js - Magnus wrote a quick user script to move identifiers into the right sidebar to show how a statement section without identifiers would look like https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/ext-props.js. This came up as part of a longer discussion on the mailinglist about moving identifier statements into their own section. Progress is being tracked at phabricator:T95287 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T95287. - Samsung releases Freebase-Wikidata mappings in CC0: 4.4M pairs generated from Wikipedia links and custom code https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-April/005806.html - Thanks to Bene* hovercards now also work for items and properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Popups_extension_now_also_working_on_items_and_properties - New tool by Magnus for Wikidata item labels https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/586885847712190464

Did you know?

- Newest properties: short name https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1813, list of episodes https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1811, named as https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1810 - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProjects: Star Wars https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Star_Wars, Open Access https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Open_Access - Newest gadgets: - Showcase items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items:

Development

- We are going to change the way value suggestions are ranked when entering a new statement. This will help with "male" and "female" not showing up among the top suggestions. Previously we ranked by number of sitelinks. We will change this to the maximum of sitelinks and labels. So if an item has labels in many languages but no sitelinks like "male" and "female" it will still show up high in the suggestions. ( phabricator:T94404 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T94404) - Discussed how to move forward with identifiers. Outcome: They should get their own datatype. (phabricator:T95287 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T95287) - Implemented arbitrary access for the {{#property:…}} parser function. This can be invoked on the wikis that have arbitrary access enabled by using {{#property:P123|from=Q42}}. So far this is only Wikidata itself. - Did further performance work on the client (Wikipedia and co) in preparation for arbitrary access - Improved the performance of wbgetentities significantly when loading a large number of entities - Wrote more browser tests for different datavalues - Further work on RDF mapping and dumps - Fixed in other language box showing old data (phabricator:T90893 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90893) - Fixed language fallback on Special:Recent changes and Special:Contributions - Added language fallback for the tooltip on badge icons

You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R. Monthly Tasks

- Hack on one of these https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/R8GRzX1eH0tb/#R. - Help fix these items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:The_Game/Flagged_items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game. - Help develop the next summary here! https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next - Contribute to a Showcase item https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items - Help translate https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats or proofread pages in your own language!

Anything to add? Please share! :)

Cheers Lydia