Wikidata:Status updates/2017 09 04

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-09-04.

Events/Press/Blogs

• Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Chandigarh, India - September 9-10
• Doctoral Advisor or Medical Condition: Towards Entity-specific Rankings of Knowledge Base Properties, by Simon Razniewski et al.
• ctj rdf: Part One, showing linking text mined data to Wikidata with SPARQL.
• Creating parliament charts with Wikidata by Knut
• The great Wikipedia bot-pocalypse by Aaron Halfaker on WMF's blog
• When Westminster Was Wikified, by Luca Martinelli

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• New admin: congrats to علاء
• Open Library, the biggest resource of freely-licensed books, now links to Wikidata (through Reasonator) and to VIAF (example here; see "Wikidata" in the right-hand column).
• With 200 attendees, the WikidataCon is now complete. Thanks all for your enthusiasm \o/ If you registered on the waitlist or submitted a talk, check your mailbox for more information.
• The WikidataCon program will be released this week, and we will call for volunteers soon

Did you know?

• Newest properties: THL Simplified Phonetic Transcription, Tibetan pinyin, Wylie transliteration, Australian Women's Register ID, iconographic symbol, slope, angle from vertical
• Query examples:
  • The most famous painting from each country (source)
  • Ranking universities according to PageRank (source)
  • Actors who were cast in two different films with the same name (source)
• Newest external tool: official map for Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 displays cultural heritage monuments worldwide, using Wikidata
• Newest database reports: Mireille Darc filmography, given names by soundex

Development

• Looked into all the things necessary to make it possible to store forms and senses on Lexeme pages.
• Worked more on caching constraints checks results which is needed to enable constraints checks for all logged-in users (phabricator:T173696)
• Making progress on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532)
• Removed 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)
• Fixed an issue that links to an item were not showing the label when it pointed to a redirect (phabricator:T96553)
• Unrecognized input in entity selectors will be highlighted in red (phabricator:T170531)
• Added language code fr-ca for monolingual text input (phabricator:T151186)
• Added an additional normalization for page titles when linking pages on Wiktionary via Cognate (phabricator:T172987)
• The API will not only output the hashes for qualifier snaks, but also for main snaks as well as references snaks (phabricator:T174692). Note that hashes (other than IDs) are not meant to be stable identifiers, and should not be stored for a longer time.
• Snak hashes will also appear as part of CSS classes in entity pages (phabricator:T171725)

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!