Wikidata:Status updates/2017 08 21

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-08-21.

Events/Press/Blogs

• Upcoming: Open Source Ladies, meetup for women who want to start coding for Mediawiki and other open source projects, August 22nd, Berlin
• Data Partnerships in Wikidata: Project Durchblick with Humboldt University by Jens Ohlig (in German)
• What do Wikidata and Wikipedia have in common? An analysis of their use of external references by Alessandro Piscoppo et al.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• New documentation page: How to use Wikidata data on Wikimedia projects (feel free to help improving it)
• The growth of items continues: we have Q37000000 and even Q37500000; Scientific article (Q13442814) becomes the most used Wikidata item (source)
• More than 80K locations in Belgium added to Mix'n'Match

Did you know?

• Newest properties: World Heritage Tentative List ID, eParks unit ID
• Query examples:
  • Surnames, similar to Muller, according to Cologne phonetics, Caverphone and Soundex algorithms
  • Shortest streets in Moscow
  • A timeline of theologians with a connection to Berlin (source)
  • Timeline of the life of Honoré de Balzac (source)
  • Twin cities of places in South Africa (source)
  • 51st UK parliament (1992) was the first one with more women than Johns (source)
  • All places that are named "earth" in at least one language (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: Parliaments

Development

• Working on making constraints work on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532)
• Working on making it easier to see when input in property or value fields is not recognized/wrong (phabricator:T170531)
• Added new language codes (eya, fuf, ood, pjt, yap, zun) for use in monolingual text values
• Fixed an issue with badges not being shown next to interwiki links on Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T172592)
• Worked on showing labels when linking to a redirect (phabricator:T96553)
• Worked on making change dispatching to Wikipedia and co work better so changes made on Wikidata show up there in a reasonable time. There were issues because of significantly increased edit activity on Wikidata.

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!