Wikidata:Status updates/2016 11 12

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-11-12.

Discussions

• Current request for comments: Editing descriptions from Wikipedia Android app

Events/Press/Blogs

• Wikidata and the Chain of Death, by Karl Beecher
• Scaling multilingual name tags with Wikidata OpenStreetMap contributor blog post
• Wikidata and Persistent Identifiers was presented at PIDapalooza November 9th.
• Wikidata in OpenStreetMap
• Wikidata and the Semantic Web of Food

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• A new Wikidata PageRank dataset has been published. The dataset was computed in August 2016 and provides PageRank scores for 10,364,840 Wikidata entities.
• Due to a possible hack, please consider resetting your passwords.

Did you know?

• Newest properties: generation time, hazard on site, ACM Digital Library event ID, ACM Digital Library citation ID, HGVS nomenclature, Supermodels.nl ID, CIViC variant ID, wurvoc.org measure ID, Réserves Naturelles de France ID, World Waterfall Database ID, Ylioppilasmatrikkeli 1853–1899 ID, ID petit-patrimoine.com, opponent during disputation, Vlindernet ID, male form of label, board member, Patrimonio Inmueble de Andalucía ID, BDI ID, ICCF ID, chesstempo ID, 365chess player ID, plan image, muscle action, SummitPost ID, lib.reviews ID, Galiciana Author ID, ICAA rating, KINENOTE person ID, NGS pumping station ID, third-party formatter URL, Open Media Database film ID, broadcast by, musical conductor, Student register of the University of Helsinki 1640–1852 ID, Belgian Senate person ID, Flemish Parliament person ID

• Query examples:
  • Map of educational institutes from all over the world (source)
  • Current US Supreme Court justices by their date of birth (source)
  • Death dates of people with Wikidata items (source)
  • French towns that a street in Paris is name after(source)
  • Statements with “reason for deprecation” rank that aren’t deprecated(source)

Development

• More work on federation (phabricator:T76007)
• Worked on first basic version of Lexeme entity type for Wiktionary support (phabricator:T148139)
• Test system for automated language links for Wiktionary (phabricator:T987)
• Analysed feedback prototype for editing on Wikipedia in order to refine it
• Worked on mapping Commons workflows and needs
• Analysed queries used with Listeria
• More work on making ArticlePlaceholder pages indexeable by search engines (phabricator:T117693)
• More work on enabling translations from existing articles in other languages on ArticlePlaceholder pages (phabricator:T124036)
• Link to local articles in ArticlePlaceholders (phabricator:T113955)
• Fix for bug that prevented editing (phabricator:T150401)
• Experimented with improvements for property suggestions (phabricator:T132839)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Monthly Tasks

• Hack on one of these.
• Help develop the next summary here!
• Contribute to a Showcase item
• Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention