Wikidata:Status updates/2017 01 21

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-01-21.

Discussions

• New administrator: Pyb is now admin on Wikidata!

Events/Press/Blogs

• Wikidata: the new hub for cultural heritage
• Past: WikiIndaba, Ghana
• Upcoming: FOSDEM, Brussels, February 4-5th

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Coordinates on Russian Wikipedia now link to maps generated with the Kartographer extension. The map includes the location outline, if that object exists in OpenStreetMap (OSM) with a corresponding Wikidata ID (ways and relations only, not nodes). Example: w:ru:Зальцбург (click coordinates in the upper right corner, or in the infobox on the side). If you create a Wikidata item about a specific administrative area, building, or other physical individual object which appears on maps, then please add the Wikidata ID to the relevant object in OSM, using key:wikidata= (here's how to contribute to OSM).
• QuickStatements V2 can now run your commands in the background, no need to keep the browser tab open anymore
• List of churches generated from Wikidata on Cymraeg Wikipedia

Did you know?

• Newest properties: ZNIEFF Code, teams classification by time, cycling teams classification by points, FilmPolski.pl ID, points classification, legal status (medicine), basic reproduction number, muscle insertion, muscle origin
• Query examples:
  • Tide mills in France (source)
  • Wind mills in Paris (source)
  • Mathematical formulae containing HTML escapes (source)
  • Fire stations in Paris (source)

Development

• Created a new Special:EntityPage, needed for federation (phabricator:T153499)
• Sitelink "name" and "badges" in diffs are now translated (phabricator:T111016)
• Worked on finalizing mockups for editing Wikidata from Wikipedia and co. Now working on the click-dummy for it so we can try it with you.
• Last touches for automated sitelinks for Wiktionary.
• A ton of refactoring needed for Wiktionary support.
• More research on improving our input widgets (for example URL and date).

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