Wikidata:Status updates/2016 10 15

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-10-15.

Events/Press/Blogs

• Upcoming: Connected Data London meetup with Navino Evans
• Upcoming: Andy Mabbett & Liam Wyatt speaking about GLAM-Wiki (including Wikidata) at Muzeum Cyfrowe in Warsaw, 19 October.
• Upcoming: Andy Mabbett speaking about Wikidata & running a GLAM-Wiki workshop at SFK 16 ("Software Freedom Kosova Conference") in Pristina, 21-23 October.
• Past: CCBWIKI

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• World Spider Catalog has been added to Mix'n'match
• Mix’n’match can now limit auto-matches to instances of a specific item and its subclasses
• Sitelinks for the new Livvi-Karelian Wikipedia (olowiki) can be added
• There is now a "userbox" for Wikidatans wishing to mark Wikidata's fourth birthday on their user pages
• myMuseum was created at the hack4heritage hackathon and won a prize

Did you know?

• Newest properties: DRÚSOP ID, code, encoding, BALaT image ID, DocCheck Flexikon De ID, DocCheck Flexikon En ID, biography at the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Cellosaurus ID, World Spider Catalog ID, Squash Info ID, MSC ID, Yahoo! Japan Talent Database ID, Bandcamp artist ID, French National Assembly Lobbyist ID, BanQ author ID, statistical leader, Sandbox-Monolingual text II
• Query examples:
  • first Nobel Prize winner who was born after Alfred Nobel’s death (source)
  • streets in Paris named after doctors (source)
  • international land tripoints (source)
  • national flags depicting stars or constellations (source)
  • national flags with inscriptions (source)
  • people who died the furthest away from where they were born (source)
  • closest pairs of capitals (of UN member states, <500km) (source)
  • people who received military decorations from two different countries (source)
  • volcanoes and earthquakes (source)
  • height/width ratios of paintings (source)
  • birthplaces of Members of the European Parliament (source)
  • birthplaces of US Senators (source)
• New template: d:Template:Poland properties. Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar template for your country or region.

Development

• Worked further on automatic linking of pages between Wiktionary language editions
• Worked further on making it possible to use Wikidata's items and properties to describe files on Commons
• Reviewed error messages and made them easier to understand
• Added tooltips in some places in the UI to make them more understandable (e.g. ranks, special values)
• Made the loading animation clearer in embedded query results (phabricator:T148042)
• Making it possible to paste the full URL of an image on Commons into image properties (phabricator:T147917)
• Worked on a small birthday present
• Fixed run button not being reenabled after some queries (phabricator:T147114)
• More work on better parser function and Lua functions that return formatted values (phabricator:T142940)
• Undoing the last edit to an item will now show a undo summary, not a restore one (phabricator:T147631) Thanks Matěj!
• Lule Sami and Pite Sami are now supported languages in Wikidata (phabricator:T146707)
• Brainstormed about how to make it easier to write queries without knowing SPARQL
• Fixed a bug with spaces in language codes in queries (phabricator:T147729)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Monthly Tasks

• Hack on one of these.
• Help develop the next summary here!
• Contribute to a Showcase item
• Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Anything to add? Please share! :)