Wikidata:Status updates/2015 10 17

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2015-10-17.

Events/Press/Blogs

• How many female scientists are there on Wikipedia? This time with SPARQL! (French)
• Wikidata Enpoint SPARQL and the paintings of Goya Wikidata's SPARQL endpoint and the paintings of Goya (French)
• Upcoming: 3rd Birthday \o/ (Please don't forget to register if you're coming to the party.)
• More wrapups of Wikiconference USA including slides: [1], [2]

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Magnus overhauled the Wikidata Game! Sweeeeeet! Now includes one where you can match an author and a publication. And it has stats.
• Mix'n'match got skyscrapers to match up for you.
• Sitelinks and P569 compares various Wikipedias by the proportion of items with date of birth (Property:P569)
• Catalan Wikipedia match up all of their articles to items on Wikidata. Congrats!

Did you know?

• Newest properties: periapsis, apoapsis, Florentine musea catalogue ID, reason for deprecation

Development

• Worked on adding auto-completion for item and property prefixes to the SPARQL query editor (so you can search by label when entering a query)
• Wrote maintenance script for changing some properties from datatype string to upcoming datatype identifier
• More work on birthday present
• More work on the article placeholder to get it ready for a first demo
• Prepared patch for also publishing JSON dumps with bzip2 compression
• Further improved edit summaries we show on Wikipedia etc
• Prepared for giving Wikispecies, Meta and Mediawiki access to the sitelinks on Wikidata on 20. of October

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! :)