Wikidata:Status updates/2016 09 10

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-09-10.

Events/Press/Blogs

• Upcoming: Keynote by Lydia Pintscher at DBpedia conference, September 15th, Leipzig.
• Upcoming: Wikidata workshop for beginners, September 16, Paris
• Upcoming: Semantic MediaWiki Conference, September 28-30, Frankfurt
• Upcoming: Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) & Liam Wyatt (User:Wittylama) speaking about GLAM-Wiki (including Wikidata) in Warsaw, 19 October. Details tbc.
• Upcoming: Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) speaking & running workshop about Wikidata at SFK 16 ("Software Freedom Kosova Conference") in Pristina, 21-23 October.
• Research on WikiProject Knowledge Organization Systems presented at 15th NKOS workshop at TPDL: Classification of Knowledge Organization Systems with Wikidata: Presentation and Paper.
• Being a Volunteer Developer for Wikimedia projects: An Interview with Tpt
• Sunday Query: The 200 Oldest Living French Actresses, query tutorial by Harmonia Amanda
• How to prototype Wikidata entities (in French) by Poulpy

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• We have new graphic material to present Wikidata. Feel free to use these files in your slides/talks/documents :)
• #SundayQuery on Twitter: every Sunday, you can ask for help or advice about SPARQL queries, how to build or fix it, some SPARQL-ninjas will be there to answer you!
• Researcher? You can participate in the WSDM Cup 2017 challenge and improve Wikidata vandalism detection
• How to build a query by Pigsonthewing
• Wikipedia gets Map links and Geoshapes service using Wikidata

Did you know?

• Newest properties: Scottish Charity number, Rock Hall of Fame ID, has grammatical mood, Minnesota legislator ID, UGent Memorialis id, enclosure, event distance, Australian Classification, Runeberg book ID, Runeberg author ID, Crossref funder ID, Findsmiley ID, iNaturalist taxon ID, birthday, molecule conformation, repeals, United States Reports ID, CiNetMag person ID, YouTheater ID, elFilm person ID, elFilm film ID, EDb person ID, EDb film ID, SourehCinema person ID, SourehCinema film ID, OFDb ID
• Query examples:
  • Posthumous marriages (source)
  • Communes of France with more than one railway station (source)
  • Languages and their grammatical cases they have in common (source)
  • Cocktails recipes (source)
  • People who died in the last seven days (source)
  • Places of birth of 20th century saints (source)
• New templates: {{Denmark properties}}, {{Greece properties}}. Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar template for your country or region.

Development

• Lowered relevance threshold for ArticlePlaceholder search results from 3 to 2 sitelinks (T144188)
• Added 'otk' as an available language for monolingual text values (T137809)
• Working on making it possible to paste partial URLs into the site selector (T144310)
• A Grafana board now tracks general usage and error metrics of the Query Service UI
• Made progress on showing editors on all Wikimedia projects which articles on their project use data from a given Wikidata item. We will also show in the page information (action=info) which items a given article uses. Also worked on showing which projects use a given item in the page information. (T103091)
• Added meta information to the html header of item pages (T88475)
• Made progress on making ArticlePlaceholders indexable for search engines (T144590)

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.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention