Wikidata:Status updates/2017 07 17

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-07-17.

Events/Press/Blogs

• Past: talk about Wikidata at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing by Lydia
• Past: Wikidata hackathon during Africa Open Data Conference in Accra
• Upcoming: Café OpenStreetMap e Wikidata, July 22nd, in São Paulo, Brazil
• Report of the workshop about election data (in German)
• Integrating Wikidata and other linked data sources – Federated SPARQL queries, on The SuLab

WikidataCon

• The scholarship process is now closed. Recipients will be informed around July 25th.
• You can still suggest ideas for the program, or submit a project until July 31st. The program of the conference is made by the attendees, only what you bring will be in there :)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• We now have a page describing our use of RDF
• We now have Q33000000
• The database reports about items without statements are updated again. English Wikipedia is up at 4.8% (from 4.6%). Dutch Wikipedia remains low at 0.8%.
• Check out some improvements to the Query Service, and a new prototype for the Query Helper
• New Wikidata maps with a comparison between October 2016 and July 2017
• Help improving Wikidata documentation during the Wikimania hackathon

Did you know?

• Newest properties: NPSN Indonesian school ID, EmbassyPages.com ID, ESEC person ID, Titan ID, Who's Who in France biography ID, French National Assembly ID
• Query examples:
  • Graph of operating systems (source)
  • Couples of Members of Parliament in UK (source)
  • People who have the same person listed as both their parent and their child (source)
  • Map of “railway things” in Berlin, as classified by LinkedGeoData.org (source)
  • Map of discovery locations of the objects stored in the Musée Saint-Raymond (Toulouse) (source)
  • metro stations in Germany with public domain images on Commons (source)
  • UK Members of Parliament who are born out of the UK (source)

Development

• Preparing Lexemes demo for Wikimania
• Fixing links to non-entity namespaces (phab:T169221) (thanks to Matěj Suchánek!)
• Tracking labels of quantity units in parser and Lua functions (phab:T170167) (thanks to Matěj Suchánek!)
• Fixing checking of constraints on deprecated statements (phab:T170391)
• Improving the Query Service UI (phab:T170279)
• Improving wbsearchentities (phab:T103875)
• Removing links from printable version (phab:T87108)
• Adding customizable fallback to Special:GoToLinkedPage (phab:T166473)

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!