Wikidata:Status updates/2015 06 06

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2015-06-06.

Discussions

• RfC on usage of Wikidata on German-language Wikipedia

Events/Press/Blogs

• Past: Pigsonthewing and aude were at State of the Map US to talk about Wikidata/OpenStreetMap cooperation and more
• Past: Lucie and Marius gave an intro to Wikidata at the Gulaschprogrammiernacht in Karlsruhe (slides)
• Upcoming: Office hour on IRC on 19th

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The English-language Wikipedia has decided to deprecate Persondata in favour of Wikidata.
• New tool by Magnus to make it easier to add references
• The results are in for the Wikimedia Foundation's board election. One name should sound familiar to you ;-)
• Addshore created new maps of the geocoordinates on Wikidata. More coming.
• Sylvain made an overview of the overlap in topics that the biggest Wikipedias have.
• Wikidata has passed German Wikipedia in number of items with images (743850 dewp articles vs. 804885 items) - now only second to English-language Wikipedia.
• Catalan Wikipedia is moving Taxon IDs to Wikidata.
• Zolo did a comparison of English/French/German/Chinese and Cebuano Wikipedias in terms of main types of articles. Biographies were compared by period, nationality and occupation.
• Connectivity statistics were updated.

Did you know?

• Newest properties: DMS V, Clinvar Accession Number, Vaccine Ontology ID, VIOLIN ID, vaccine for, participating team, first line, URI pattern for RDF resource, Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground identifier, Ministry of Education of Chile school ID
• Newest gadgets: Mark as patrolled by User:Petr Matas

Development

• Italian Wikipedia and all remaining Wikisource projects now have arbitrary access. The rollout will continue. The schedule for the next projects is at d:Wikidata:Arbitrary access.
• The Content Translation tool now automatically connects translated articles to Wikidata. (Thanks Content Translation developers!) Previously translated but unconnected articles have been connected by a bot. (Thanks Amir!)
• Code review of the extensions written by a team of students to improve the constraint reports and make it possible to automatically check our data against other databases. A first version will go live soon pending further codereview and fixes.
• Two new methods have been added to the lua library provided by Wikibase: wikibase.resolvePropertyId and wikibase.entity:getBestStatements.
• Further work on making unserializable values editable in the UI (This can happen for example if a property is deleted.)
• Made the Wikidata JSON dumps available on Labs in the standard dumps location there (/public/dumps).
• Worked on automatically creating a redirect when merging items via the API.
• Rewrote the script that generates a map image based on geocoordinates in Wikidata. (Result see above.)
• Released Wikibase DataModel 3.0

You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here.

Monthly Tasks

• Hack on one of these.
• Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
• Help develop the next summary here!
• Contribute to a Showcase item
• Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
• Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

Anything to add? Please share! :)