Wikidata:Status updates/2017 08 07

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-08-07.

Events/Press/Blogs

• Upcoming: Wikimania hackathon and documentation sprint, August 9-10, Montreal
• Upcoming: Wikimania, August 10-13, Montreal. Check out all the things related to Wikidata
• Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in French, August 14, Montreal

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• w:en:Category:Articles with infoboxes completely from Wikidata has now more than 1000 articles
• Wikidata passed 6 average statements per item

Did you know?

• Newest properties: offset, File format magic numbers, game mechanics, weather history, conjugate base, conjugate acid, Atheneum museum ID, Atheneum person ID, Atheneum artwork ID, Finnish List of Lights ID, RIWAQ Registry of Historic Buildings in Palestine ID, Gatehouse Gazetteer place ID, energy storage capacity, National Assembly of Nigeria ID, Treasury of Lives ID, muzzle velocity, WIGOS station ID
• Query examples:
  • Timeline of the programming languages created in the past 10 years (source)
  • Countries where no european language has official or national status (source)
  • Gallery of Star Trek characters (source)
  • Timeline of female medieval writers (source)
• Newest script: moveClaim.js allows moving claims across items. Try it and give feedback to Matěj Suchánek
• Newest external tools: d3-sparql allows you to query a SPARQL endpoint and get the data in a d3js-useful format

Development

• Released version 2.0.0 of the DataValues base component.
• Released the DataValues Interfaces component in version 0.2.3.
• Released the ValueView component in version 0.20.0
• Fixed a problem with suggestions of P279 (phab:T169060)
• Preparing everything for Wikimania and the hackathon

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!