Hey folks :)
Here's what's been happening around Wikidata over the past week. Enjoy!
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Past: WikiCon USA (slides http://filbertkm.com/wikicon2015.pdf) - Ongoing: World Health Summit (slides http://www.slideshare.net/lydiapintscher/wikidata-giving-more-people-more-access-to-more-knowledge ) - Upcoming: ODI Summit http://summit.theodi.org/programme with a session on the gene-related efforts on Wikidata - Don't forget to sign up https://www.eventbrite.de/e/wikidatas-3-geburtstag-wikidatas-3rd-birthday-registration-18899772729 if you are coming to Wikidata's third birthday party https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Third_Birthday/Party.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Discussion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Football#Obtaining_data_from_Wikidata.3F_General_opinions has started on English WikiProject Football https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Football about using Wikidata for player squad templates (example https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorlage:Navigationsleiste_Kader_von_Montreal_Impact) and player club history (example https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambroise_Oyongo). Needs more input on best practices and commitment to update data. - A command line client https://github.com/nichtich/wdq#readme to the SPARQL query service has been released - Query example: popularity of the given name Adolf http://demo.seco.tkk.fi/visu/#/?sparqlEndpoint=https:%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fbigdata%2Fnamespace%2Fwdq%2Fsparql&query=PREFIX%20wikibase:%20%3Chttp:%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wd:%20%3Chttp:%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%20%0APREFIX%20wdt:%20%3Chttp:%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20rdfs:%20%3Chttp:%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2F01%2Frdf-schema%23%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20%3Fyear%20%28COUNT%20%28DISTINCT%20%3Fa%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Fa%20wdt:P735%20wd:Q18145837%20.%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%3Fa%20wdt:P569%20%3Fdate%20.%20%0A%20%20%20BIND%28year%28%3Fdate%29%20AS%20%3Fyear%29%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fyear%20ORDER%20BY%20%3Fyear&outputType=gchart&chartConfig=%7B%22containerId%22:%22chart%22,%22options%22:%7B%22hAxis%22:%7B%22useFormatFromData%22:false,%22viewWindow%22:%7B%22max%22:2000,%22min%22:1775%7D,%22minValue%22:1775,%22maxValue%22:2000,%22viewWindowMode%22:%22explicit%22,%22logScale%22:false,%22formatOptions%22:%7B%22source%22:%22inline%22,%22prefix%22:%22%22%7D,%22format%22:%220.%23%23%22,%22gridlines%22:%7B%22count%22:%228%22%7D,%22minorGridlines%22:%7B%22count%22:%224%22%7D%7D,%22title%22:%22%22,%22useFirstColumnAsDomain%22:true,%22vAxes%22:%5B%7B%22useFormatFromData%22:true,%22viewWindow%22:%7B%22max%22:null,%22min%22:null%7D,%22minValue%22:null,%22maxValue%22:null,%22logScale%22:false%7D,%7B%22useFormatFromData%22:true,%22viewWindow%22:%7B%22max%22:null,%22min%22:null%7D,%22minValue%22:null,%22maxValue%22:null,%22logScale%22:false%7D%5D,%22isStacked%22:false,%22animation%22:%7B%22duration%22:500%7D,%22booleanRole%22:%22certainty%22,%22legend%22:%22right%22,%22width%22:600,%22height%22:371,%22domainAxis%22:%7B%22direction%22:1%7D,%22series%22:%7B%220%22:%7B%22color%22:%22%23ff0000%22%7D%7D%7D,%22state%22:%7B%7D,%22view%22:%7B%7D,%22isDefaultVisualization%22:false,%22chartType%22:%22ColumnChart%22%7D - MoMa artists have been added to Mix'n'match https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/?mode=catalog_details&catalog=101 - Books without authors on Wikidata are now down to 12.5K from 25K since drive began. You can help get it down even further. https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/?action=noauthor - Number of articles that are not connected to a Wikidata item on Catalan Wikipedia has been brought down significantly. https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/duplicity.php?mode=stats&wiki=cawiki How about yours? - This Month in GLAM has Wikidata coverage https://glamwiki.wordpress.com/2015/10/11/this-month-in-glam-september-2015/ - Interested in British politics? WikiProject British Politicians has some stats to show where you can help out https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_British_Politicians#Property_statistics
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: median lethal dose https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2240, first aid measures https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2239, official symbol https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2238, units used for this property https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2237, external subproperty https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2236, external superproperty https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2235, volume for quantity https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2234, semi-major axis https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2233, cash https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2232, explosive velocity https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2231, torque https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2230, Max TDP https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2229, maximum thrust https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2228, metallicity https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2227, market capitalization https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2226, discharge https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2225, spectral line https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2224, decay width https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2223, gyromagnetic ratio https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2222, flux https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2221, household wealth https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2220, real gross domestic product growth rate https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2219, net worth https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2218, cruise speed https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2217, radial velocity https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2216, proper motion https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2215, parallax https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2214, longitude of ascending node https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2213, angular distance https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2212, position angle https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2211, relative to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2210, SourceForge project https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2209, average shot length https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2208, Spotify track ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2207, Discogs release ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2206, Spotify album ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2205, minimum explosive concentration https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2204, upper flammable limit https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2203, lower flammable limit https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2202, dipole moment https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2201, electric charge https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2200, autoignition temperature https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2199, (average) gradient https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2198, production volume https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2197, students count https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2196, Soccerbase manager id https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2195, PSS-Archi architect id https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2194, Soccerbase player id https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2193, endangeredlanguages.com ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2192, NILF author id https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2191, C-SPAN identifier of a person https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2190, BiblioNet publisher identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2189, BiblioNet author identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2188, BiblioNet publication identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2187, Wiki Loves Monuments ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2186, DLI https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2185, history of topic https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2184, ISO 9:1995 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2183, Finnish Ministers database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2182, Finnish MP ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2181, Kansallisbiografia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2180, ACM Classification Code (2012) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2179, solvent https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2178, solubility https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2177, drug used for treatment https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2176, medical condition treated https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2175
Development
- You'll now get redirected to the mobile view automatically on mobile devices (example http://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1) - Made it possible to use more entities on a page via Lua without running into Lua's memory limit - Added the Article Placeholder extension’s results to the search result page (this is one of a few remaining blockers before we can put it on a testsystem for you to try out and give feedback) - Added option to create a new article from Article Placeholder - More work on the new datatype for properties - More work on making meaningful edit summaries on the client. Found a few remaining bugs during testing. - More work on a birthday present :D
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