Hey folks :)

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

Discussions

- New request for comments: Verifiability and living persons https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Verifiability_and_living_persons, RfP voting eligibility https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/RfP_voting_eligibility

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

- Past: Wikimania! The Wikidata-related program parts including slides and notes can be found on the Wikidata Wikimania page https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata#Presentations. - TIB and HsH project approved: The replication of Open-Access images https://www.tib.eu/en/service/news/details/tib-and-hsh-project-approved-the-replication-of-open-access-images-noa/

Other Noteworthy Stuff

- EasyQuery is now a gadget that you can enable in your preferences. It gives you an icon next to each statement value. That gives you a list of other items with the same statement. - Stats https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/stats.php?reverse have been updated and show a significant jump in references. - SQID now shows references (example http://tools.wmflabs.org/sqid/#/view?id=Q42) - INSPIRE HEP has been added to Mix'n'match https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/?mode=catalog_details&catalog=215 - PAWS https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/PAWS is now available. It lets you easily run a Jupyter notebook and much more.

Did you know?

- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: language used https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2936, connector https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2935, Encyclopedia of Triangle Centers identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2931, INSPIRE-HEP author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2930, lighthouse range https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2929, memory capacity https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2928, water as percent of area https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2927, InterPro ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2926, domain of saint or deity https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2925 - Query examples: sandwich ingredients https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fsandwich%20%3Fingredient%20%3FsandwichLabel%20%3FingredientLabel%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%3Fsandwich%20wdt%3AP31%3F%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ28803%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP527%20%3Fingredient.%0A%20%20MINUS%20%7B%20%3Fingredient%20wdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ7802.%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%2C%20%22fr%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20UCASE%28STR%28%3FsandwichLabel%29%29 (source https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/747145937072570369), inventors killed by their own invention https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Finventor%20%3FinventorLabel%20%3Fgadet%20%3FgadgetLabel%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Finventor%20wdt%3AP157%20%3Fgadget%20.%0A%20%20%3Fgadet%20wdt%3AP61%20%3Finventor%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Finventor%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FinventorLabel%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fgadget%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FgadgetLabel%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D (source https://twitter.com/tobias47n9e/status/746330854922817536), objects with most mass https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fobject%20%3FobjectLabel%20%28MAX%28%3Fmass%29%20AS%20%3Fmass%29%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%3Fobject%20p%3AP2067%2Fpsv%3AP2067%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3FbaseMass%3B%0A%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP2370%2Fpsv%3AP2370%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3FunitMass%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AquantityUnit%20wd%3AQ11570%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%0A%20%20%20%20%5D%0A%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20BIND%28%3FbaseMass%20%2a%20%3FunitMass%20AS%20%3Fmass%29.%0A%20%20MINUS%20%7B%20%3Fobject%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ3647172.%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fobject%20%3FobjectLabel%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fmass%29 (source https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/745933733711200256), music genres https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AGraph%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3F_image%20%3F_subclass_of%20%3F_subclass_ofLabel%20%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ188451.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP279%20%3F_subclass_of.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP18%20%3F_image.%20%7D%0A%7D (source https://twitter.com/JonasMKress/status/745677348352180224), number of jurisdictions by driving side https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3FsideLabel%20%28COUNT%28%3Fjurisdiction%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%3Fjurisdiction%20wdt%3AP1622%20%3Fside.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3FsideLabel%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FsideLabel (source https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/745926057627377664)

Development

- The majority of the Wikidata developers team atteded Wikimania https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/ - You can now embed query results from query.wikidata.org in other websites (example https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3F_coordinate_location%20%3F_image%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ4022.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP625%20%3F_coordinate_location.%20%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP18%20%3F_image.%20%0A%7D ) - Linking MediaInfo entities to media files in the "MediaInfo for Commons" prototype (phabricator:T134473 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134473) - Tracking more statistics for the ArticlePlaceholder ( phabricator:T138500 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138500) - Adding support for quantity values with unknown uncertainty ( phabricator:T115269 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115269) - Worked on fix for bug where new entities can be created with wrong language (phabricator:T138725 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138725 )

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! - Help merge identical items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge across Wikimedia projects. - Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Anything to add? Please share! :)

Cheers Lydia