Wikidata:Status updates/2015 08 15

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2015-08-15.

Discussions

• Reinforcement of data analysis before any modification of the DB

Events/Press/Blogs

• cooperation between free content projects
• A case is made to concentrate our quality efforts on the differences between Wikidata and other sources
• Ongoing: Several team members are attending the Chaos Communication Camp.
• Upcoming: SmartDataConference
• A Comparative Survey of DBpedia, Freebase, OpenCyc, Wikidata, and YAGO

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikidata needs your vote! It only takes a minute.
• WikiProject Sum of all Paintings reached the milestone of 100.000 paintings. Congrats!
• Arbitrary access is now available on another ~250 Wikipedias].
• See d:Wikidata talk:Arbitrary access#Use cases: testing modules and templates for two general use cases for arbitrary access on Wikipedia's regression testing of Wikidata-related modules and templates and testing infoboxes with Wikidata content.
• List of articles on English Wikipedia without a Wikidata item (also works for other projects)
• You have a bunch of names etc. and want to find Wikidata items with those labels/aliases? Try relabel!
• SourcererBot is adding lots of references to existing statements on several thousand items.
• Mix-n-Match has new catalogs including the National Library of Australia.
• Deaths at Wikipedia are a series of reports comparing items at Wikidata with death-by-year-categories of Wikipedia. For the years since 2000, only about 15% of items at Wikidata lack d:Property:P570 (date of death).
• 93% of items about people have a gender set now.
• Want to make both Wikidata and Inventaire better? You can help by finding those books' authors.

Did you know?

• Newest properties: Find A Grave cemetery ID, German cattle breed ID, Erdős number, worldfootball.net ID, AllMovie artist ID
• Newest tools: Suggestor

Development

• Rolled out arbitrary access to about 250 Wikipedias including German, French and Japanese. More to come in a few days.
• Worked more on quantities. Looks like we'll have it on a demo system for you to try a first version within the next two weeks.
• Bene* is joining us for a month as an intern. Welcome!
• References are now hidden while loading the page, speeding up page load time
• First commit to the ArticlePlaceholder extension
• Expensive parser functions now count each entity only once
• Released a new version of the DataModelServices component and started using it
• Started working on phasing out the wb_entity_per_page table. It will be kept around and updated for some time to allow tool owners to migrate.
• The Wikibase code base now fullfills all of MediaWiki’s PHPCS coding standards
• Added property IDs to Special:ListProperties
• Did a lot of bug triage on Phabricator

You can see all open bugs 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!
• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Anything to add? Please share! :)