Wikidata:Status updates/2015 09 12

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2015-09-12.

Events/Press/Blogs

• Past: Wikidata edit-a-thon at Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2015 in Estonia
• Upcoming: Office hour on IRC, 23 September
• Upcoming: Mobilizing Open Cultural Data, Helsinki, 2 October
• Upcoming: Wikidata tutorial at SWAT4LS, December
• Un-deleting 500,000 Wikidata items
• Wikimania 2015 report by Multichill
• DSS Wikidata Editathon
• A simple way to write Wikidata bots

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Please vote for Wikidata to win the people's choice award of Land der Ideen (voting instructions)
• We passed 70M statements.
• Stalagmites and stalactites visualizes items without statements, items with statements, and deleted/redirected items by batches of 100,000 QIDs
• Mix n Match is now available for mobile, has an improved automatic matching algorithm, got speed improvements and new catalogs were added like the National Gallery of Victoria, World Heritage Sites and CulturaItalia
• The annual Wikipedia editing competition organized by the International Society for Computational Biology will include a Wikidata component this year for the first time.
• Matched birth and death days seeks to investigate all pairs of humans (in various subsets) that appear to have the same birth dates and death dates. De-duplication underway!
• You can now use the new special page Special:PagesWithBadges to see which articles on that project have a badge like "featured article".
• New tool by Magnus to suggest links to Wikidata items while you type
• Meta, MediaWiki, Wikispecies and Wikibooks will get (more) access to Wikidata soon
• Wikidata now has an official SPARQL endpoint so you can query the data
  • announcement
  • examples
  • How US Presidents Died According to Wikidata
• Wikidata now supports units
  • announcement
  • properties with units already created
  • Properties with units waiting for creation
  • example
• Prototype database to store all Wikipedia references
• Duplicity can show you how many (and which) articles on a Wikipedia are not connected to an item on Wikidata (example for frwp)
• Magnus wrote a user script to let you edit Listeria-powered lists on Wikipedia directly
• Musicpedia has been released in beta and is using data from Wikidata
• New tool by Magnus to create a Commons creator page from a Wikidata item

Did you know?

• Newest properties: length, elevation above sea level, orbital inclination, area, duration, height, width, wingspan, M x sin i, speed, watershed area, density, electrical conductivity, heat capacity, HMDB ID, depositor, luminosity, aspect ratio, HSDB ID, LIPID MAPS ID, KNApSAcK ID, NIAID ChemDB ID, Fusion enthalpy, mass

Development

• Release of the query service and unit support (see above)
• Made quantities not show URIs when editing a value but instead show the label
• Worked on new datatype for identifiers to be able to split them from the other statements in the user interface, link them without the need for the authority control gadget and be able to link them in JSON/RDF
• Worked more on making the edit summaries in the watchlist on Wikipedia and co more meaningful

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!
• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Anything to add? Please share! :)