Wikidata:Status updates/2017 04 03

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-04-03.

Events/Press/Blogs

• Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Grenoble (France), April 4th (more info)
• Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, April 5th, 16:00 UTC, on #wikimedia-office^connect
• Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in London (UK), April 8th (more info)
• Bunhill Fields: Wikimedia, gamification and richer media content
• Biocuration 2017
  • Talk: Repurpos.us: A fully open and expandable drug repurposing portal by Sebastian Burgstaller-Muehlbacher, PhD
  • Poster: Best practices for data provenance in Wikidata by Gregory S. Stupp et al.
  • Poster: Using Shape Expressions (ShEx) to model, validate and curate Wikidata by Andra Waagmeester et al.
• Five years ago, the development of Wikidata started

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Attention: Editing will be disabled during parts of April 19 and May 3, to allow a server switch
• New filters for the Recent Changes will be deployed on April 11. (more info)
• Data donation: Songkick have donated a datafile with 155K of their Songkick artist ID (P3478). ~45K are already matched, and the rest are in Mix'n'Match, awaiting your kind attention.
• Query Service: you can now create a template to explain what your query is doing
• new data type for geographical shapes will be enabled on April 24th
• Several CC0 databases are now federated with the Query Service endpoint

Did you know?

• Newest properties: located in present-day administrative territorial entity, Human Phenotype Ontology ID, slope rating, Tab4u artist ID, Tab4u song ID, United States Public Law, Pinterest username, Mendeley person ID, RTC film rating, diaspora, Europeana Fashion Vocabulary ID, object has role, CueTracker player ID, Publons author ID, wears, JSTOR topic ID, Welsh Rugby Union player ID, United States Statutes at Large citation, VTJ-PRT building ID, Ethnologue language status, rules for classification, Bangla Movie Database ID, Flanders Arts Institute venue ID
• Query examples:
  • Map of the megaliths of the World, coloured by type (showing some nice paterns, source)
  • French people without a gender (source)
  • Eldest members of noble families (source)
  • Map of places with population “zero” (0) (source)

External Tools News

• wikidata-cli
  • new command: wd summary
  • improved support for custom Wikibase instances
• wikidata-edit:
  • new function: remove claim
  • improved support for custom Wikibase instances
• wikidata-sdk:
  • new function: simplify.entity
  • major documentation restructuration
• wikidata-filter:
  • new filter criteria: sitelinks. Example of a query that times out on the SPARQL endpoint but that is now possible with wikidata-filter: Get all entities with a Chinese and a French Wikipedia article, keeping only id, labels, and sitelinks matching those languages
• Monumental: brand new app for displaying heritage data

Development

• A warm welcome to our new intern, Lucas Werkmeister! You may now him for his work on queries as WikidataFacts. He will work in the team for the next months.
• Attending to Wikimedia Conference, talking with Wikidata and Wiktionary users
• Improving performance on Special:Entities pages (phab:T161631)
• Tracking the number of identifier properties on an item in page_props (phab:T114617)
• More work on Senses (phab:T161523) and Forms (phab:T160524)
• Improving the autocompletions of Query Service (phab:T150950)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Monthly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
• Suggested and open tasks!
• Contribute to a Showcase item.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!