Wikidata:Status updates/2016 04 09

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-04-09.

Discussions

• Splitting a property to limit formatter URLs to one per property: Authority_control#DE-ISIL

Events/Press/Blogs

• Past: digikult.se
• Upcoming: IRC office hour
• Upcoming: FOSSCOMM
• A week of looking at women

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Document with lots of useful links around Wikidata for workshops etc
• Nice list of species with sounds linked on Wikidata

Did you know?

• Newest properties: typeface/font, disjoint union of, union of, Biographical Directory of Federal Judges id, UNZ journal identifier, UNZ author identifier, Persée journal ID, Persée author ID, Projeto Excelências ID, ISSF ID, Badminton World Federation ID, CageMatch worker ID, United World Wrestling ID, UIPM ID, GOG application ID, Deezer track ID, Deezer album ID, Deezer artist ID, Encyclopaedia Metallum release ID, embed URL, Hungarian-style transcription, lowest-observed-adverse-effect level, no-observed-adverse-effect level, collage image, elected in, sectional view, median lethal concentration, minimal lethal concentration, Cycling Quotient identifier (cyclist, woman), Cycling Quotient identifier (women races), Karate Records ID, EIDR identifier, British Film Institute identifier
• Query examples: women with most sitelinks and no image born in 1921 or later (source), what is depicted in artwork (source), most eponymous mathematicians (source)
• Showcase items: Iron Man (film)

Development

• Lucie successfully defended her thesis about the ArticlePlaceholder. Congrats!
• Worked more on the first version of the user interface for structured data for multimedia files
• Worked on simplifying input of queries for people who do not know SPARQL
• Improved localizability of the sitelink and reference counters
• Allow input and output of localized dates with precision smaller than years (phab:T95532 and phab:T127820)
• More string properties have been converted to external id ones, so that we have over 850 external id properties now
• Experimenting with Citoid support for Wikidata to make it easier to add complete references in the way Visual Editor does it
• Improved performance of sticky property labels (phab:T103485)
• Released DataValues JavaScript 0.8.1

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!
• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Anything to add? Please share! :)