Wikidata:Status updates/2017 12 04

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-12-04.

Events/Press/Blogs

• Past: Using the Digital to Engage Archival Radio Collections: Part II (Wikidata Workshop), Washington, D.C., November 2, 2017 with Andrew Lih and Alex Stinson
• Past: Wikidata Clinic (slides) in Washington, D.C., December 1, 2017, with Andrew Lih and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
• Past: Wikikonference in Prague with a Wikidata workshop in Czech and a introduction of Wikidata and its community
• Wikipedia Weekly audio podcast coverage of Wikidata:
  • Episode 126 - Introduction to Wikidata, with Andrew Lih and Rob Fernandez
  • Episode 127 - WikidataCon 2017 roundtable discussion, with Andrew Lih, Liam Wyatt, Stacy Allison-Cassin, Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, Rob Fernandez
• Wikidata as authority linking hub: Connecting RePEc and GND researcher identifiers by Joachim Neubert
• Importing data into Wikidata - Current challenges and ideas future development by Navino Evans
• The Wikidata map in November 2017 and what changed during the last four months, by Addshore

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• You can now vote for your favorite proposals on the Community Wishlist Survey. The voting phase is open until December 10th.
• If you run any functionality on Wikimedia sites that uses queries to the Wikidata Query Service, please add it here (more information)
• The 600,000,000th edit has been made.
• The first content made specifically for Wikimedia projects in space has been added to Wikidata (see Close encounters of the Wikipedia kind)
• The Aaron Swartz Fellowship at OSA, Budapest, Hungary, is open for applications (deadline Dec. 31). The second focus area of the fellowship may be of interest to Wikidata folks.

Did you know?

• Newest properties: set designer, Swedish Musical Heritage composer ID, National Film Board of Canada movie ID, South Dakota Sports Hall of Fame ID, World Rugby Hall of Fame ID, Microsoft Store album ID, date of burial or cremation, Lives of WWI ID, polymer of, monomer of, FAPESP researcher ID, FAPESP institution ID, NIOSH Publication Number, post town, arXiv author ID, CPE athlete ID, Mountain Project ID, National Inventory of Canadian Military Memorials ID, Atomic Heritage Foundation ID, Dreadnought Project page, IWGA athlete ID, Argentinian Historic Heritage ID
• Query examples:
  • Timeline for the writer Robert Louis Stephenson (source)
  • Movies with Bud Spencer and Terence Hill (source)
  • Photographers born before the inception of the earliest photograph (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: Stolpersteine, Jasmerah
• Newest database reports: Q5 with identical P18

Development

• Wikidata will get dedicated database resources, and go read-only for 30 minutes on 9th January 2018 (phabricator:T181645)
• There were no RDF dumps last week due to problems generating them, investigation is still going on (phabricator:T181385)
• Improved the threshold for ORES on Wikidata (phabricator:T180450)
• Working on fixing a regression after a change in MediaWiki core that makes edit links show up on diff pages (phabricator:T181807)
• More work on persistent editing of statements on Forms of a Lexeme (specifically phabricator:T180467)
• Improved size of the diff that we sent to Wikipedia and co for changes happening on Wikidata. This is one more needed step towards only showing meaningful edits in the watchlists and recent changes there. (phabricator:T113468)

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!