Hey folks :)

Here's your summary of what happened 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 was presented at a Swedish Linked Data Network Meet-up https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lankade-data-natverkstraff-swedish-linked-data-network-meet-up-tickets-15689895901 in Gothenburg. - The most important Wikipedia pages http://www.gizmodo.in/news/The-Most-Important-Wikipedia-Pages-From-the-First-Open-Wiki-Ranking/articleshow/47082229.cms

Other Noteworthy Stuff

- P107 (main type) https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Property:P107&action=edit&redlink=1 is finally orphaned and deleted, 20 months after deprecation. This was the first property used 1000000 times. - The royal baby https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18002970 was quickly updated on Wikidata. (her family tree https://tools.wmflabs.org/family/ancestors.php?q=Q18002970&lang=en) - New tool by Magnus: Find pictures on geography.co.uk, upload them to Commons and add them to Wikidata https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/geograph_candidates.html - All Van Gogh Museum paintings are now on Commons and Wikidata. Go go SumOfAllPaintings peeps! - List of topics with links in at least X Wikipedias https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/static/multi_wp/ - All French Senators matched using MixNMatch https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/?mode=catalog_details&catalog=44 \o/

Did you know?

- Newest properties: represented by https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1875, Netflix Identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1874, maximum number of players https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1873, minimum number of players https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1872, CERL ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1871, Name Assigning Authority Number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1870, Hall of Valor ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1869, ballots cast https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1868, eligible voters https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1867, catholic-hierarchy diocese ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1866, Wikidata example geographic coordinates https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1865, Wikidata example monolingual text https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1864, Wikidata example property https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1863, Wikidata example quantity https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1862, Wikidata example time https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1861, Wikidata example URL https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1860, Wikidata example item value https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1859, Wikidata example string https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1858, Wikidata example media file https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1856, Wikidata property example https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1855

Development

- We rolled out usage tracking on the first two wikis (French Wikisource and Dutch Wikipedia). Users should not notice anything. More wikis will follow in the next weeks. This is the remaining step for enabling arbitrary access on wikis other than Commons. - The students team is working hard to get a first release of the improved constraint reports and checks against 3rd party databases out. - Ricordisamoa fixed the issue with long descriptions being cut off. - We fixed the focus flow in the property selector. - We improved the messages on Special:EntityData to make it more understandable.

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! - Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

Anything to add? Please share! :)

Cheers Lydia