Wikidata:Status updates/2018 01 08

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2018-01-08.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Jarekt
• New request for comments: Changes to P2737 and P2738, Privacy and Living People

Events/Press/Blogs

• Upcoming: IRC office hour on January 30th - you can share ideas for topics to discuss
• Call for papers for WikiIndaba is open
• Scholarship applications for Wikimania are open
• Registration is open for the Wikimedia hackathon
• Paper submission deadline for Wiki Workshop (part of The Web Conference) is closing later this month
• The Tom Longboat Awards as Wikidata - Mita Williams
• Using the Semantic Web to Improve Knowledge of Translations - Karen Smith-Yoshimura (OCLC)
• There is no deadline so every second is one: on anxiety, perfectionism, and Wikimedia projects by Léna
• Up2date software versions for Wikidata by Michi

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikidata will be in read-only mode on January 9th from 06:00 to 06:30 UTC
• The WikidataCon 2017 report has been published
• Results of two research projects for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons have just been published:
  • Supporting Commons contributions by GLAM institutions: an overview of how cultural institutions contribute to Wikimedia Commons, and which issues they encounter there
  • Baseline Metrics for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons: an overview of measurable behaviors on Wikimedia Commons, against which the effectiveness of structured data can be measured in the future
• You can start organizing an event for Wikidata's 6th birthday in October 2018
• A short summary of the workshop with historians using Wikibase to collect data about the Illuminati has been published at Wikidata:FactGrid
• How would the World look like if countries were as large as their Wikidata items are used across the Wikimedia projects?
• New catalogs in Mix'n'match - for example Rolling Stone artist
• New tool: Hub

Did you know?

• Newest properties: MuBE Virtual ID, Basketball-Reference.com WNBA coach ID, Basketball-Reference.com NBA coach ID, Académie française member ID, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres member ID, Guide to North American Birds ID, title page number, Walters Art Museum ID, Minneapolis Institute of Art artwork ID, CHGIS ID, Guardiana ID, Barnes Foundation ID, VOGRIPA ID, Rugby Canada ID, Ent'revues ID, World of Spectrum ID, Smithsonian American Art Museum ID
• Query examples:
  • Events starting in 2017 and ending in 2018, shortest duration first (source)
• Newest database reports: days of 2018

Development

• Tweaked the ranking of the results in the entity suggester
• Finished persistently storing edits of statements on forms (phabricator:T163724)
• Cleaned up some of the hard-coded demo data on the demo system for lexicographical data
• Working on diff support for Forms on Lexemes (phabricator:T182424)
• Prevented checking of constraints on "Wikidata property example" statements (phabricator:T183267)
• Added link to the property's talk page to the constraint violation dialog to guide people there to discuss the constraint if necessary (phabricator:T164351)

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!

Anything to add? Please share! :)