Wikidata:Status updates/2016 02 27

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-02-27.

Events/Press/Blogs

• Wikidata makes Wikipedia a database. Let the fun begin
• Bringing the world's cultural heritage online
• In search of French towns on Wikidata

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikiversity is now supported by Wikidata as well. Language links can be maintained on Wikidata now. Access to the data will follow. Welcome, sister!
• Wikidata now has cross-wiki notifications as a beta feature. You can enable it in your preferences. Once enabled you will see notifications you received on the other Wikimedia wikis.
• A major German newspaper used Wikidata's data for their Oscar coverage
• Amir is making progress on vandalism detection but needs your help. He also set up an IRC feed for unpatrolled edits with a high likelihood of being vandalism.
• Property:P1367 ("BBC Your Paintings artist-ID") has become "Art UK artist identifier". Identifier values were replaced.
• The number of claims on each item is to be included in the "page property" database table. For some items where it had been missing, it was recently added. This leads to improved coverage by database reports: without claims by site.
• Mix'n'match has new catalogs: Artists of the Nationalmuseum in Sweden and Encyclopædia Britannica

Did you know?

• Newest properties: Köppen climate classification, superhuman feature or ability, married name, name, GPU, Wikidata usage instructions, autores.uy database id, stroke, bore, fee, production designer, in work, quantitative metrical pattern, used metre, recording or performance of, Italian Senate of the Republic ID
• Query example: battles

Development

• Wikidata Query Service has been upgraded to Blazegraph 2.0
• Wikidata Query Service now allows to view images linked from Commons and display image galley if the query result has images. Example: Paintings by Gustav Klimt
• More groundwork for Commons support
• Fixed a bug with slashes in URLs for identifiers (phabricator:T128078)
• Fixed a bug in Special:NewItem which prevented submission of the form (phabricator:T128075)
• More performance work
• In diffs for mathematical expressions we're now also showing the TeX source to make it possible to see changes that do not affect the rendering of the formula (phabricator:T125712)
• More work on cleaning up languages for multilingual text values and labels/descriptions/aliases

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! :)