Wikidata:Status updates/2016 03 05

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-03-05.

Events/Press/Blogs

• Oscars 2016: Movies that got the most attention on Wikipedia (followup with most famous cats)
• Statements per item

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• COOL-WD has been announced to help assess the completeness of various parts of the knowledge base
• You can apply for a grant as part of the Inspire Campaign around the topic of content review and curation
• Wikimedia was accepted for Google Summer of Code. If you're a student this can be your chance to work on Wikidata code this summer.
• A catalog of Uruguayan authors has been added to Mix'n'match
• Listeria bot now has experimental support for references (example)
• Self-portraits of women through the ages, powered by Wikidata

Did you know?

• Newest properties: Québec cultural heritage directory people identifier, grammatical option indicates, Statistics Indonesia language code, Statistics Indonesia ethnicity code, village code of Indonesia, has phoneme, INSEE departement code, INSEE region code, Australian Wetlands Database Directory of Important Wetlands Reference Code, distance from Earth, J. Paul Getty Museum object id, BabelNet id, Baltisches Biographisches Lexikon digital ID, studied by, studies, admissible rule in, UCSC Genome Browser assembly ID, measures, National-Football-Teams.com player ID, number of out of school children, Twitter hashtag, uncertainty corresponds to, Saros cycle of eclipse, contact times of eclipse, repealed by, amended by, ECHA InfoCard ID, global-warming potential
• Query example: French heads of government by length of service, Metro stations in Paris

Development

• Lucie and Charlie handed in their Bachelor theses on the Article Placeholder and Editing Wikidata from Wikipedia. Work on both topics will continue. We'll publish both theses soon. A big congrats to both of them!
• More work on the first prototype for Commons support (phabricator:T125822)
• Continued working on improving language support for monolingual text and labels/descriptions/aliases (phabricator:T125066)
• Conversion of properties from string to external identifier datatype is ongoing
• Experimenting with putting query results on a map in query.wikidata.org (earthquakes, ski resorts)

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! :)