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