Wikidata:Status updates/2017 07 10

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-07-10.

Events/Press/Blogs

• Upcoming: Africa Open Data Conference in Accra, including a Wikidata editathon on July 17th
• Past: Celtic Knot Conference, Edinburgh, including several presentations related to Wikidata (tweets about Wikidata during the conference)
• Past: WikiWomenCamp (including a Wikidata presentation by Harmonia Amanda)
• A visual exploration of musical bands on Wikidata, by RAW Graphs team

WikidataCon

• Last days of the scholarship process! If you need to be funded for the WikidataCon, please fill the form before July 16th
• Which discussions, workshops, demos should be covered during the WikidataCon?

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• We have some real Meta data!
• The StrepHit team has submitted an official uplift proposal for the primary sources tool
• Migration of constraint definitions to property statements around July 12th
• Sitelinks for the new Atikamekw Wikipedia (atjwiki) can be added
• Citation management tool Zotero can now read data from Wikidata, and can write data from other sources to Wikidata via QuickStatements. See Wikidata:Zotero for details.
• New step towards structured data for Commons is now available
• One week after Q31000000 we have Q32000000

Did you know?

• Newest properties: PalDat plant ID, openAIP ID, Ontario Heritage Act Register ID, NLS Geographic Names Place ID, NLS-FI Geographic Name ID, National Record of the Historic Environment ID, JewAge person ID, INSPIRE ID, ADK member ID, FRED time-series ID, danskfilmogtv person, danskefilm TV Christmas calendar, Crunchyroll ID, URN-NBN, Gedbas genealogy person ID, Framalibre ID, Finnish archaeological heritage ID, EGF rating, Carnegie Hall agent ID, assets under management, Atlas of Hillforts ID, dissertation submitted to
• Query examples:
  • Scientific articles from PubMed that mention what version of STATA was used (source)
  • 1000 places in UK that have no label in Welsh (source)
  • Wikivoyage banners for French municipalities (source)
  • Paintings with musical instruments from Spain or related to Spain (source)
  • Images of things or persons in Wikidata with a Github account (source)
  • Map of birthplaces of women who were educated in Edinburgh university (source)
• Newest database reports: reports with items that only have a P641-statement (sport)

Development

• Search results will not only show labels but also descriptions with language fallbacks (gerrit:362215). Thanks to Matěj Suchánek!
• Fixed link to the file description page in the Image Header gadget (phab:T169558)
• Forms of the Lexeme are multi-variant (phab:T165575)
• Preparing a demonstration of referencing Forms and Sense of a Lexeme in statements (phab:T169716)
• Property constraint definitions will be migrated to statements (phab:T169647, Project chat)
• Implemented “Format” constraint (phab:T102752, help page)

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!