Hey folks :)
Here is your quick overview of what's been happening around Wikidata over
the past week.
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>/
Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Past: Wikimedia Research Showcase - A Glimpse into Babel: An Analysis
of Multilinguality in Wikidata
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#September_2017>
- Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop about the Austrian election data
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Wikidata_Wahldaten_Workshop_2017>,
September 30th, Vienna
- Upcoming: The next IRC office hour will take place on November 14th,
19:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2) on the channel #wikimedia-office
- Weekend at the Museum (of Brittany)
<https://www.lehir.net/weekend-at-the-museum-of-brittany>
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata's 5th birthday is about 1 month away. Time to think about
birthday presents? ;-)
- Siri shows more information based on Wikidata in iOS 11
<https://twitter.com/sjoerddebruin/status/910487090026221568>
- 2 funding proposals are looking for comments and support: soweego
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Hjfocs/soweego> and
CrossWikiFact
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/DBpedia/CrossWikiFact>
- Quick graph of the relation of the number of labels in a given
language on Wikidata and the number of first language speakers of that
language <https://twitter.com/frimelle/status/910918203953557505>
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: candidate number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4243>, maximal rate of climb
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4242>, refine date
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4241>, regular expression syntax
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4240>, vocalized name
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4239>, webcam page URL
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4238>, Heritage Building in
Finland ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4237>, PatientLikeMe
symptom ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4236>, PatientLikeMe
treatment ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4235>, PatientLikeMe
condition ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4233>, Figshare
author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4232>
- Query examples: standards bodies by number of standards they are
connected to
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ABubbleChart%0ASELECT%20%3Fbody%20%3FbodyLabel%20%20%28COUNT%28%3Fstandard%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%0A%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%0A%20%20%3Fstandard%20wdt%3AP1462%20%3Fbody%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%09%09bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fbody%20%3FbodyLabel%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29%0A>
(source <https://twitter.com/WikiDigi/status/910855968245903360>)
Development
- Rolled out more fine-grained usage tracking on Greek Wikipedia. This
will lead to less irrelevant changes showing up in watchlist and recent
changes on those projects. We're testing this on Greek Wikipedia to see if
the solution we have scales before rolling it out further. (
phabricator:T151717 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151717>)
- Adding an API module to copy a statement from one item to another (
phabricator:T55619 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T55619>)
- Working more on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references
(phabricator:T168532 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168532>)
- Added support for the Creator namespace to the constraints check for
Commons links (phabricator:T176062
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176062>)
- Fixed an error message on Special:GoToLinkedPage (phabricator:T176327
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176327>)
- Finishing touches on including full URIs for external IDs in the RDF
export (phabricator:T121274 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121274>)
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
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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 27/029/42207.