Wikidata:Status updates/2017 06 26

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-06-26.

Cheat sheet about Wikidata Query Service (de)

Events/Press/Blogs

• Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Rennes, June 26th
• Upcoming: Query Service workshop in Berlin, June 28th, 18:00, in WMDE's office
• Upcoming: IRC office hour, June 28th, at 20:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2), on the channel wikimedia-office
• Past: Hackathon about election data in Ulm, June 23-25 (some documentation in German)
• Building communities of knowledge with Wikidata, by Benjamin Good of the 'Gene Wiki' project
• ORCID Mania (in response to this call for a tool to automate the addition of ORCID iDs to Wikidata)
• I use Wikidata for multilingual names, by MySociety's 'EveryPoliticianBot'
• Resource discovery and Wikidata
• Where the streets have known names - Academic paper on OSM & Wikidata
• Extracting scientists from Wikipedia - Academic paper
• ¿Sabes cómo usar la base de datos Wikidata? (es) by the Cervantes virtual library

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• What are your favorite tools using Wikidata?
• Wiktionary sitelinks have been enabled on Wikidata
• New Wikidata Game: Wikidata Guessr guess the locations of random Wikidata items
• OpenRefine 2.7 has been released, including the Wikidata Reconcile service
• Nice graphics about Wikidata and the Query Service (in German) by Bleeptrack
• New data donation by Giphy. Some help needed to match the catalogue
• Some help needed to map the UNESCO Atlas of World Languages in Danger and the Glottolog catalogue

Did you know?

• Newest properties: Irish National Inventory of Architectural Heritage ID, MyAnimeList manga ID, MyAnimeList anime ID, MyAnimeList character ID, MyAnimeList people ID, HFC NPS unit ID, image captured with, Biodiversity Heritage Library creator ID, number of houses, Theatres Trust Database ID, SKIP code, Pizmonet ID, WorldSBK.com racer identifier, Czech Monument Catalogue Number, FFN swimmer ID, Wikia wiki ID
• Query examples:
  • BubbleChart of Metal band by country (source)
  • Viennese composers and their compositions by tonality (source)
  • Most prolific authors of scientific articles on Wikidata, who are still alive, without ORCID (source)
  • Average age of members of the Landtag of Thuringia (source)
• Newest external tools: VizQuery

Development

• Creating a separate section for constraint statements (example)
• Adding client-side hooks for saving and removing statements (phab:T167870)
• More work on constraints checks (phab:T168629)
• Enabling Wikidata edits in the enhanced recent changes and watchlist on clients (phab:T46874)
• Updating constraint check user script and propose to make it a gadget (phab:T167625)
• Creating Special:PageData as a canonical entry point for machine readable page data (phab:T163923)
• Working on editable Glosses on Senses (non-persistent) (phab:T165567)
• Setting up federation on mediainfo test system (phab:T163119)

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
• 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!