Wikidata:Status updates/2017 06 19

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-06-19.

Discussions

• New requests for comments:
  • How would you state the number of (rooms, restaurants, suites) in a hotel?
  • Findagrave removed as a source for information

Events/Press/Blogs

• Upcoming: Hackathon about election data in Ulm, Germany, June 23-25th
• Upcoming: Peer-to-peer Wikidata workshop 2017, June 24th, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic
• Upcoming: Query Service workshop in Berlin, June 28th, 18:00, in WMDE's office
• Upcoming: IRC office hour, June 28th, at 20:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2), on the channel wikimedia-office
• Wikidata as authority linking hub (PDF). Presentation by Joachim Neubert (ZBW) and Jakob Voß (GBV) at ELAG 2017 conference in Athens
• Facto Post newsletter, first issue and comments on Wikidata at Wikidata:Project chat#Facto Post – Issue 1 – 14 June 2017. Contains a number of blog links, particularly about WikiCite.

WikidataCon

• Registration is now open! Check the information and fill the form to register.
• Let's build the program by proposing a project until July 31st
• Due the necessary time for people to get visas (about 3 months), we changed the deadline for the scholarship applications. You can apply for a scholarship before July 16th. We will then make sure that the applicants receive a response on July 25th.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• We have reached 500,000,000 edits.
• You can now query the Mediawiki API from the Query Service (documentation)
• Your feedback is still welcome on the prototype for editing Wikidata from Wikipedia
• beaTunes 5’s new Album Info pane is powered by Wikidata

Did you know?

• Newest properties: Zemereshet song ID, Zemereshet artist ID, identifier shared with, CONI athlete ID, CIS Chinese Athletes Database ID, COSR athlete ID, MOB athlete ID, COA athlete ID, Team USA athlete ID, ČOV athlete ID, LTOK athlete ID, COB athlete ID, Irish National Monument ID, FINESS medical facility ID, Irish Sites and Monuments Record ID, NZOC athlete ID, Norwegian List of Lights ID, Team Canada athlete ID, Deutsche Olympiamannschaft athlete ID, Academia.edu institutional ID, Ukrainian regulations base ID
• Query examples:
  • Gallery of monsters of the Japanese folklore
  • Lang by number of label (with quarry.wmflabs.org)
  • The 10 smallest countries with some kind of urban rail transit system (source)
  • Occupations with highest rate of deaths by homicide (source)
  • Software titles ranked by number of readable file formats (source)
• Newest external tools: Causegraph, a tool to visualize and analyze cause/influence relationships using Wikidata

Development

• Improvements to Wikidata Query Service UI
• Continued work on importing property constraints from statements (phab:T102759)
• Started to add support for Senses of Lexeme entities (phab:T160053)
• More experimenting with the new front-end framework
• Added RDF mapping for "tabular data" data type (phab:T167951)

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!