Hey folks :)

Here's your short summary of 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

- How many female scientists are there on Wikipedia? This time with SPARQL! http://ashtree.eu/wordpress/mais-combien-y-a-t-il-de-femmes-scientifiques-sur-wikipedia-this-time-with-sparql/ (French) - Wikidata Enpoint SPARQL and the paintings of Goya Wikidata's SPARQL endpoint and the paintings of Goya http://zone47.com/dozo/wikidata-enpoint-sparql-et-les-peintures-de-goya (French) - Upcoming: 3rd Birthday \o/ (Please don't forget to register https://www.eventbrite.de/e/wikidatas-3-geburtstag-wikidatas-3rd-birthday-registration-18899772729 if you're coming to the party.) - More wrapups of Wikiconference USA including slides: [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-October/007355.html, [2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-October/007358.html

Other Noteworthy Stuff

- Magnus overhauled the Wikidata Game! http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=362 Sweeeeeet! Now includes one where you can match an author and a publication https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/distributed/#game=9. And it has stats https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/distributed/#mode=stats. - Mix'n'match got skyscrapers to match up https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/?mode=catalog_details&catalog=106 for you. - Sitelinks and P569 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jura1/sitelinks_and_P569 compares various Wikipedias by the proportion of items with date of birth ( Property:P569 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P569) - Catalan Wikipedia match up all of their articles to items on Wikidata https://twitter.com/AmicalWikimedia/status/655022833140154368. Congrats!

Did you know?

- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: periapsis https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2244, apoapsis https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2243, Florentine musea catalogue ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2242, reason for deprecation https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2241

Development

- Worked on adding auto-completion for item and property prefixes to the SPARQL query editor (so you can search by label when entering a query) - Wrote maintenance script for changing some properties from datatype string to upcoming datatype identifier - More work on birthday present - More work on the article placeholder to get it ready for a first demo - Prepared patch for also publishing JSON dumps with bzip2 compression - Further improved edit summaries we show on Wikipedia etc - Prepared for giving Wikispecies, Meta and Mediawiki access to the sitelinks on Wikidata on 20. of October

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