Hey everyone :)

Here's what's been happening around Wikidata over the past week.

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

- Wikidata makes Wikipedia a database. Let the fun begin http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/25/wikidata_turns_the_world_into_a_database/ - Bringing the world's cultural heritage online https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/02/23/cultural-heritage/ - In search of French towns on Wikidata http://blog.ash.bzh/a-la-recherche-des-communes-francaises-sur-wikidata/

Other Noteworthy Stuff

- Wikiversity is now supported by Wikidata as well. Language links can be maintained on Wikidata now. Access to the data will follow. Welcome, sister! - Wikidata now has cross-wiki notifications as a beta feature. You can enable it in your preferences. Once enabled you will see notifications you received on the other Wikimedia wikis. - A major German newspaper used Wikidata's data for their Oscar coverage http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/kino/academy-awards-die-oscars-von-1929-bis-heute-12820119.html - Amir is making progress on vandalism detection but needs your help. He also set up an IRC feed for unpatrolled edits with a high likelihood of being vandalism. https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-February/008313.html - Property:P1367 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1367 ("BBC Your Paintings artist-ID") has become "Art UK artist identifier". Identifier values were replaced. - The number of claims on each item is to be included in the "page property" database table. For some items where it had been missing, it was recently added. This leads to improved coverage by database reports: without claims by site https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/without_claims_by_site . - Mix'n'match https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match has new catalogs: Artists of the Nationalmuseum in Sweden and Encyclopædia Britannica

Did you know?

- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: Köppen climate classification https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2564, superhuman feature or ability https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2563, married name https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2562, name https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2561, GPU https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2560, Wikidata usage instructions https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2559, autores.uy database id https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2558, stroke https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2557, bore https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2556, fee https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2555, production designer https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2554, in work https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2553, quantitative metrical pattern https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2552, used metre https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2551, recording or performance of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2550, Italian Senate of the Republic ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2549 - Query example: battles https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%20%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20rdfs%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2F01%2Frdf-schema%23%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Flocation%20%3FlocationL%20%3Fcoords%20%3Fpartof%20%3FpartofL%20%3Fpointintime%20%3Fstarttime%20%3Fendtime%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ178561%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP276%20%3Flocation%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Flocation%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FlocationL%20filter%20%28lang%28%3FlocationL%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%20.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Flocation%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoords%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP361%20%3Fpartof%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fpartof%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FpartofL%20filter%20%28lang%28%3FpartofL%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP585%20%3Fpointintime%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP580%20%3Fstarttime%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP582%20%3Fendtime%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20%3FitemLabel%0A

Development

- Wikidata Query Service http://query.wikidata.org has been upgraded to Blazegraph 2.0 - Wikidata Query Service now allows to view images linked from Commons and display image galley if the query result has images. Example: Paintings by Gustav Klimt https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/Indexing/SPARQL_Query_Examples#Paintings_by_Gustav_Klimt - More groundwork for Commons support - Fixed a bug with slashes in URLs for identifiers (phabricator:T128078 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128078) - Fixed a bug in Special:NewItem which prevented submission of the form ( phabricator:T128075 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128075) - More performance work - In diffs for mathematical expressions we're now also showing the TeX source to make it possible to see changes that do not affect the rendering of the formula (phabricator:T125712 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125712) - More work on cleaning up languages for multilingual text values and labels/descriptions/aliases

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/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.

Anything to add? Please share! :)

Cheers Lydia