Wikidata:Status updates/2017 08 28

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-08-28.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: علاء
• New request for comments: How to capture negative results in Wikidata?
• Comment about approach on items about pages in cebwiki created by Lsjbot
• Comment about whether to have a "Wikimedia username" property

Events/Press/Blogs

• Upcoming: WikiArabia, in Cairo, Egypt, on 23-25 October. They're looking for a volunteer to give a Wikidata workshop. Please contact them if you're interested!
• A Glimpse into Babel: An Analysis of Multilinguality in Wikidata, by Lucie-Aimée Kaffee et al. (Q37859976)
• The Gene Wiki: Using Wikipedia and Wikidata to organize biomedical knowledge August Wikimedia Research Showcase (second half), presented by Andrew Su, about how GeneWiki is using Wikidata. Video on YouTube
• Citation.js: Endpoint on RunKit shows a demo REST API to convert Wikidata entries into BibTeX, Bib.TXT, citations, and CSL-JSON.
• Video of 3 Wikimania 2017 sessions: Wikidata Revolution, Performing arts in Wikidata, and Sum of all paintings. Others videos can be found on Andrew's channel.

WikidataCon

• The organization team is still looking for sponsors to support the event and provide even more awesome stuff to the attendees. If your company can support the WikidataCon, please get in touch with Lydia.
• Seeing the enthusiasm of the community for the WikidataCon, we raised our attendees limit from 150 to 200 persons. The last tickets will be released on September 1st. People who registered on the waitlist will be notified when a ticket is available.
• The program committee is currently reviewing and organizing the submissions. We will contact the speakers soon, and publish the program in the beginning of September (around 6th).
• We're looking for a keynote speaker who could bring an external point of view on ontologies. If you know interesting people, feel free to help

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Q38000000 was created
• Language fallback indicators hidden on variant fallback languages

Did you know?

• Newest properties: National Natural Landmarks site ID, GujLit Book ID, GujLit Person ID, tabular population, Beazley Archive Pottery Database ID, Finnish National Gallery person ID, effective firing range, Patreon person ID, Wikimedia username, Instagram location ID, America's Byways road ID
• Query examples:
  • number of persons per QID (using P735=Q4925477) (source)
  • QID milestones by date
  • Timeline for biochemist and Nobel Laureate Hans Adolf Krebs (source)
  • Canadian actors who twice played a US president (source)
  • Duration of Steven Spielberg's films (source)
• Newest external tools: Metaphacts, a feature to search in Wikidata via Alexa

Development

• Worked on fixing the technical glitch in the UI (phabricator:T173543)
• Did polishing on the Constraint Checks gadget (for example phabricator:T173738)
• Worked on caching constraints checks results which is needed to enable constraints checks for all logged-in users (phabricator:T173696)
• Made progress on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532)
• Worked more on making it easier to see when input in a property or value input field is not recognized (phabricator:T170531)
• Fighting with load issues in the job queue (phabricator:T173710)
• Looking into not showing language fallback hints for dialects to make the UI less cluttered for them and make it less necessary to enter labels and descriptions for them (phabricator:T174318)
• Wrapping up our experiments with the new front-end technologies

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!