Hey folks :)

Here is your summary of what's been happening around Wikidata over the past week. Discussions

- Open request for adminship: Jarekt https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Jarekt - New request for comments: Changes to P2737 and P2738 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Changes_to_P2737_and_P2738, Privacy and Living People https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Privacy_and_Living_People

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

- Upcoming: IRC office hour on January 30th - you can share ideas for topics to discuss https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Next_IRC_office_hour_on_January_30th - Call for papers for WikiIndaba is open https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiIndaba_conference_2018/Submissions - Scholarship applications for Wikimania are open https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships - Registration is open for the Wikimedia hackathon https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2018 - Paper submission deadline for Wiki Workshop http://wikiworkshop.org/2018/ (part of The Web Conference) is closing later this month - *The Tom Longboat Awards as Wikidata https://librarian.aedileworks.com/2017/12/19/the-tom-longboat-awards-as-wikidata/* - Mita Williams - *Using the Semantic Web to Improve Knowledge of Translations http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/dc-2017/paper/view/496/609* - Karen Smith-Yoshimura (OCLC) - *There is no deadline so every second is one: on anxiety, perfectionism, and Wikimedia projects https://commonists.wordpress.com/2018/01/03/there-is-no-deadline-so-every-second-is-one-on-anxiety-perfectionism-and-wikimedia-projects/* by Léna - *Up2date software versions for Wikidata https://www.schoenitzer.de/blog/2018/Up2date%20softwareversions%20for%20Wikidata.html by Michi https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:MichaelSchoenitzer*

Other Noteworthy Stuff

- Wikidata will be in *read-only mode* on January 9th from 06:00 to 06:30 UTC https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Wikidata_in_read-only_for_30min_on_January_9th - The WikidataCon 2017 report https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference/WMDE/WikidataCon/Report has been published - Results of two research projects for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data have just been published: - Supporting Commons contributions by GLAM institutions https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Supporting_Commons_contribution_by_GLAM_institutions: an overview of how cultural institutions contribute to Wikimedia Commons, and which issues they encounter there - Baseline Metrics for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Baseline_Metrics_for_Structured_Data_on_Wikimedia_Commons: an overview of measurable behaviors on Wikimedia Commons, against which the effectiveness of structured data can be measured in the future - You can start organizing an event for Wikidata's 6th birthday https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Sixth_Birthday in October 2018 - A short summary of the workshop with historians using Wikibase to collect data about the Illuminati has been published at Wikidata:FactGrid https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:FactGrid - How would the World look like if countries were as large as their Wikidata items are used across the Wikimedia projects? https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikidata_Concepts_Monitor/WDCM_Journal#§_WDCM_Journal,_4._January_2018._The_Twisted_Geography_of_Wikidata - New catalogs in Mix'n'match - for example Rolling Stone artist https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/#/catalog/836] - New tool: Hub https://tools.wmflabs.org/hub/

Did you know?

- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: MuBE Virtual ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4721, Basketball-Reference.com WNBA coach ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4720, Basketball-Reference.com NBA coach ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4718, Académie française member ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4717, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres member ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4716, Guide to North American Birds ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4715, title page number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4714, Walters Art Museum ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4713, Minneapolis Institute of Art artwork ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4712, CHGIS ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4711, Guardiana ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4710, Barnes Foundation ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4709, VOGRIPA ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4708, Rugby Canada ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4707, Ent'revues ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4706, World of Spectrum ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4705, Smithsonian American Art Museum ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4704 - Query examples: - Events starting in 2017 and ending in 2018, shortest duration first https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20events%20starting%20in%202017%20and%20ending%20in%202018%2C%20shortest%20duration%20first%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fstart%20%3Fend%20%3FdurationInDays%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ1656682%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP580%2Fpsv%3AP580%20%5B%20wikibase%3AtimeValue%20%3Fstart%3B%20wikibase%3AtimePrecision%20%3FstartPrecision%20%5D%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP582%2Fpsv%3AP582%20%5B%20wikibase%3AtimeValue%20%3Fend%3B%20wikibase%3AtimePrecision%20%3FendPrecision%20%5D.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%222017-01-01%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%20%3C%3D%20%3Fstart%20%26%26%20%3Fstart%20%3C%20%222018-01-01%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%29%0A%20%20FILTER%28%222018-01-01%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%20%3C%3D%20%3Fend%20%26%26%20%3Fend%20%3C%20%222019-01-01%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%29%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3FstartPrecision%20%3E%3D%2010%20%26%26%20%3FendPrecision%20%3E%3D%2010%29%20%23%20precision%2010%20%3D%20month%0A%20%20BIND%28%3Fend%20-%20%3Fstart%20AS%20%3FdurationInDays%29%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%2Cfr%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20ASC%28%3FdurationInDays%29 (source https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/947539555187675136) - Newest database reports: days of 2018 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Calendar_Dates/lists/days/2018

Development

- Tweaked the ranking of the results in the entity suggester - Finished persistently storing edits of statements on forms ( phabricator:T163724 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163724) - Cleaned up some of the hard-coded demo data on the demo system for lexicographical data http://wikidata-lexeme.wmflabs.org - Working on diff support for Forms on Lexemes (phabricator:T182424 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182424) - Prevented checking of constraints on "Wikidata property example" statements (phabricator:T183267 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183267) - Added link to the property's talk page to the constraint violation dialog to guide people there to discuss the constraint if necessary ( phabricator:T164351 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164351)

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

- 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 - Suggested and open tasks https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contribute/Suggested_and_open_tasks ! - 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 the interface and documentation pages, in your own language! - Help merge identical items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge across Wikimedia projects. - Help write the next summary! https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next

Anything to add? Please share! :)

Cheers Lydia