*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/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Current: Wikimedia Dev summit https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit in San Francisco (January 9-11th) If you are there, come and meet our developers and volunteers! - Upcoming: WikiIndaba http://2017.wikiindaba.net/index.php?title=Main_Page, January 20-22th, Accra, Ghana - Wikidata used to connect people giving interviews for the oral history project at the computer history museum http://campuspress.yale.edu/knowledgepermaculture/2017/01/03/oral-history-at-the-computer-history-museum/
Other Noteworthy Stuff https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Donating_data_to_Wikidata.webm
- Video: how institutions can donate data to Wikidata, explained in a cartoon https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Donating_data_to_Wikidata.webm - Category:Articles with infoboxes completely from Wikidata https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Articles_with_infoboxes_completely_from_Wikidata on English Wikipedia - Mix'n'match encountered some problems with labels and descriptions, some of them are now fixed, cf post from Magnus http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=436 - Wikidata-powered citation lists with citation.js http://www.rightrelevance.com/search/articles/hero?article=f45a0623de249f99e242214bc9df33ed16ff5ea2 - How to use objects from OpenStreetMap in Wikidata https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Kartographer/OSM - Video: Navigating a cemetery using Spotify and Wikidata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmOm0YRVn2A (by Magnus Sälgö)
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: eBird taxon ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3444, Victorian Heritage Database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3443, Debian package https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3442, FIFA country code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3441, time signature https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3440, angular resolution https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3439, vehicle normally used https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3438, people or cargo transported https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3437, AELG ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3436, VGMDb artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3435, ERIH PLUS ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3434, biological variant of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3433, parent cell line https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3432, Publons Publication ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3431, Social Networks Archival Context ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3430, Electronic Enlightenment ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3429, INCAA film rating https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3428, as.com athlete ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3427, ArbetSam ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3426, Natura 2000 site ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3425, Polish cultural heritage register number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3424 - Query examples: - Birth place of Academy Award winners https://query.wikidata.org/#%23Born%20place%20of%20Academy%20Award%20winners%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3FpersonLabel%20%3Fkoord%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP166%2Fwdt%3AP31%2a%20wd%3AQ19020%20.%0A%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP19%20%3Fjaiolekua.%0A%20%20%3Fjaiolekua%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fkoord.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D - Neujahrskonzert with conductor by country and age https://query.wikidata.org/#%23Neujahrskonzert%20with%20conductor%20by%20country%20and%20age%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FconductorLabel%20%3FcountryLabel%20%3Fage%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%09%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ339152%20%3B%20wdt%3AP585%20%3Fdate%20%3B%20wdt%3AP3300%20%3Fconductor%20.%0A%09%3Fconductor%20wdt%3AP569%20%3FDOB%20%3B%20wdt%3AP27%20%3Fcountry%20.%0A%09BIND%28YEAR%28%3Fdate%29%20-%20YEAR%28%3FDOB%29%20as%20%3Fage%29%20.%0A%09SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22fr%22%20%7D%0A%7D%20order%20by%20%3Fdate (source https://twitter.com/belett/status/815926627356078080) - 9 species named after the President of the USA https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Ftaxon%20%3FtaxonLabel%20%3Fname%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Ftaxon%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ16521%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP138%20wd%3AQ76.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Ftaxon%20wdt%3AP225%20%3Fname.%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D (source https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/817096239850385410) - Newest external tools: R wrapper for WDQS API https://github.com/bearloga/WikidataQueryServiceR (by Mikhail Popov), Wikidata authority file mapping tool https://pypi.python.org/pypi/wdmapper/0.0.5 (by Jakob Voß) - Newest database reports: list of episodes of Desperate Housewives (in English and German) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Movies/lists/episodes_of_Desperate_Housewives
Development
- Log of our last IRC office hour https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2017/wikimedia-office.2017-01-05-18.00.log.html - This week, most of the developers are at the Dev Summit https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit hacking stuff and doing great things! - Continued working on "federation" – support for multiple Wikibase repositories (phab:T76007 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76007) - New dimensions for unit conversion in the query service (phab:T150881 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150881) - Fixed a timing issue that can happen when using the property suggester (phab:T115267 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115267) - Still investigating an issue in which the "save" button stays disabled, as reported in December https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contact_the_development_team/Archive/2016/12#Quantity_datatype - We may remove the sliding animation when using the date, geo, monolingual, and quantity experts (gerrit:330145 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/330145). The preview popup may now cover parts of the page. Please try it at wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org and tell us what you think on our contact page https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contact_the_development_team.
You can see all open tickets 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 develop the next summary here! https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next - 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 pages in your own language! - 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 - Add statements to items without https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/without_claims_by_site - Help with one of the bot requests https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Bot_requests - Help merge identical items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge across Wikimedia projects.