[Wikidata] weekly summary #171

Hey folks :) Here's what's been happening around Wikidata over the past week: Discussions - Reinforcement of data analysis before any modification of the DB <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Bots#Reinforcement_of_data_analysis_before_any_modification_of_the_DB> Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - cooperation between free content projects <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Polyglot/diary/35587> - A case is made <http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2015/08/wikidata-quality-probability-and-set.html> to concentrate our quality efforts on the differences between Wikidata and other sources - Ongoing: Several team members are attending the Chaos Communication Camp <https://events.ccc.de/camp/2015/wiki/Main_Page>. - Upcoming: SmartDataConference <http://smartdata2015.dataversity.net/sessionPop.cfm?confid=91&proposalid=8067> - A Comparative Survey of DBpedia, Freebase, OpenCyc, Wikidata, and YAGO <http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/system/files/swj1141.pdf> Other Noteworthy Stuff - Wikidata needs your vote! <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-August/006856.html> It only takes a minute. - WikiProject Sum of all Paintings <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_sum_of_all_paintings> reached the milestone of 100.000 paintings. Congrats! - Arbitrary access <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Arbitrary_access> is now available on another ~250 Wikipedias]. - See d:Wikidata talk:Arbitrary access#Use cases: testing modules and templates <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Arbitrary_access#Use_cases:_testing_modules_and_templates> for two general use cases for arbitrary access on Wikipedia's regression testing of Wikidata-related modules and templates and testing infoboxes with Wikidata content. - List of articles on English Wikipedia without a Wikidata item <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/duplicity.php?wiki=enwiki&mode=list> (also works for other projects) - You have a bunch of names etc. and want to find Wikidata items with those labels/aliases? Try relabel! <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/relabel.php> - SourcererBot is adding lots of references to existing statements on several thousand items. - Mix-n-Match <https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/> has new catalogs including the National Library of Australia. - Deaths at Wikipedia <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Deaths_at_Wikipedia> are a series of reports comparing items at Wikidata with death-by-year-categories of Wikipedia. For the years since 2000, only about 15% of items at Wikidata lack d:Property:P570 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P570> (date of death). - 93% of items about people have a gender set now. - Want to make both Wikidata and Inventaire <http://inventaire.io> better? You can help by finding those books' authors. <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/?action=noauthor> Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: Find A Grave cemetery ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2025>, German cattle breed ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2024>, Erdős number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2021>, worldfootball.net ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2020>, AllMovie artist ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2019> - Newest tools <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Tools/External_tools>: Suggestor <http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=338> Development - Rolled out arbitrary access <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Arbitrary_access> to about 250 Wikipedias including German, French and Japanese. More to come in a few days. - Worked more on quantities. Looks like we'll have it on a demo system for you to try a first version within the next two weeks. - Bene* is joining us for a month as an intern. Welcome! - References are now hidden while loading the page, speeding up page load time - First commit to the ArticlePlaceholder <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ArticlePlaceholder> extension - Expensive parser functions now count each entity only once - Released a new version of the DataModelServices component and started using it <http://www.bn2vs.com/blog/2015/08/11/wikibase-datamodel-services/> - Started working on phasing out the wb_entity_per_page table. It will be kept around and updated for some time to allow tool owners to migrate. - The Wikibase code base now fullfills all of MediaWiki’s PHPCS coding standards - Added property IDs to Special:ListProperties - Did a lot of bug triage on Phabricator 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 -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.