Wikidata:Status updates/2016 05 28

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-05-28.

Discussions

• New request for comments: Standards for property proposal discussions, Semi-automatic Addition of References to Wikidata Statements
• Import of Wiki Loves Monuments database

Events/Press/Blogs

• Past: WikiCite (including links to documentation etherpads)
  • interview with Open Science Radio
• Past: Gulaschprogrammiernacht (video)
• Ben Whishaw, Broadway, La Rada et WWikidata
• Meet TED’s Wikipedians-in-Residence
• Orte, die mit 'ow' oder 'itz' enden

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Charlie published her thesis about editing Wikidata directly from Wikipedia and co
• Learning pattern about using data of Wikipedia and Wikidata in Google spreadsheet

Did you know?

• Newest properties: Library of the National Congress of Argentina ID, Minitel, SureChEMBL ID, type of unit for this property, property usage tracking category, PubChem BioAssay ID (AID), time in space, tourist office, miRBase mature miRNA ID, miRBase pre-miRNA ID, record or record progression, has role, Molenecho's ID, Hollandsche Molen ID, Band number, OpenCritic ID, Nederlandse Molendatabase ID, Catalogus Professorum Academiae Rheno-Traiectinae ID, Leidse Hoogleraren ID, cites, X-SAMPA Code, KLOV ID, WWE.com superstar ID, EU Surface Water Body Code, VAT-rate, disease burden, electrical plug type, emergency phone number, payment types accepted, iTunes artist ID
• Query examples: Fictional universes with most fictional planets (source), main subject of West Wing episodes (source), places with free wifi (source), citation network of paper about Zika (source), taxons and what they are named after (source), billionaires (source), animals that were executed (source), chemical elements and their isotopes by number of neutrons (min/max) (source), popes with children (source), birthplaces of astronauts (source)

Development

• Worked on fix for issue with language fallback in main part of header (phabricator:T135714)
• More work on support for Commons - main focus right now is on making it possible to actually store a new entity without jumping through hoops
• Fixing a bug in Internet Explorer with prevents editing (phabricator:T136543)
• Worked on more blockers for next deployment of the ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T135624)

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! :)