Wikidata:Status updates/2016 07 09

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-07-09.

Events/Press/Blogs

• Connecting OpenStreetMap and Wikidata, blog post by Mapbox
• Past: office hour on IRC (log)
• Now: ISMB 2016 Editathon
• Upcoming: Viquimarató de Wikidata sobre Ramon Llull
• Upcoming: OpenSym
• Monitoring the Gender Gap with Wikidata Human Gender Indicators
• An Empirical Evaluation of Property Recommender Systems for Wikidata and Collaborative Knowledge Bases
• Mapping street names to Wikidata entities they refer to and enriching OpenStreetMap with linked data

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The removal of Persondata from the English Wikipedia is completed. There are still much information to migrate to Wikidata at KasparBot's tool.
• Tour de France data is coming from Wikidata in at least 3 Wikipedias
• Freebase API will be shut down on August 31
• TXT Werk is now using Wikidata to identify entities (previously Freebase)
• Magnus' reference drag and drop script is now a gadget
• Got an idea for a cool project around Wikidata but need some funding? A project grant might be an option.
• There are several full PhD/postdoc positions available at TU Dresden with Markus including work on Wikidata
• Magnus' Wiki Loves Monuments tool now also reads cultural identifiers from Wikidata and was switched to use SPARQL

Did you know?

• Newest properties: archive date, permanent duplicated item, throughput, NAIF ID, point of penalty, Transferred Account Data Interchange Group Code, Estonian Research Portal person ID, bateau d'intérêt patrimonial, Cultural heritage database in Austria ObjektID, Nomisma ID, WikiTree ID, Estonian cultural monument ID, BacDive ID
• Query examples: timeline of space probes (source), countries with most UNESCO World Heritage Sites (source), places in America named after places in England (source), emergency number by country size (source)

Development

• Working on an infographic to represent the flow of data in Wikidata
• Work on multi-content revisions in order to be able to store an entity (item, property, mediainfo) and wiki text in the same page (This is needed for Commons) (phabricator:T107595)
• Did more interviews with editors as preparation for the work on automated list generation for Wikipedia and co based on Wikidata data
• Fixed a bug with data parsing in Korean and a few other languages (phabricator:T139509)
• Added "non" as a language code for monolingual text values (phabricator:T137115)
• Removed display of calendar model for dates with precision of 10 years or larger (phabricator:T133973)
• Fixed issues in some of the forms on special pages on mobile (phabricator:T138413)
• Disabled PDF export in item and property pages (phabricator:T136814)
• Worked on making it possible to have quantities with no bounds set (phabricator:T115270)

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.

Anything to add? Please share! :)