Wikidata:Status updates/2016 06 25

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-06-25.

Discussions

• New request for comments: Verifiability and living persons, RfP voting eligibility

Events/Press/Blogs

• Past: Wikimania! The Wikidata-related program parts including slides and notes can be found on the Wikidata Wikimania page.
• TIB and HsH project approved: The replication of Open-Access images

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• EasyQuery is now a gadget that you can enable in your preferences. It gives you an icon next to each statement value. That gives you a list of other items with the same statement.
• Stats have been updated and show a significant jump in references.
• SQID now shows references (example)
• INSPIRE HEP has been added to Mix'n'match
• PAWS is now available. It lets you easily run a Jupyter notebook and much more.

Did you know?

• Newest properties: language used, connector, Encyclopedia of Triangle Centers identifier, INSPIRE-HEP author ID, lighthouse range, memory capacity, water as percent of area, InterPro ID, domain of saint or deity
• Query examples: sandwich ingredients (source), inventors killed by their own invention (source), objects with most mass (source), music genres (source), number of jurisdictions by driving side (source)

Development

• The majority of the Wikidata developers team attended Wikimania
• You can now embed query results from query.wikidata.org in other websites (example)
• Linking MediaInfo entities to media files in the "MediaInfo for Commons" prototype (phabricator:T134473)
• Tracking more statistics for the ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T138500)
• Adding support for quantity values with unknown uncertainty (phabricator:T115269)
• Worked on fix for bug where new entities can be created with wrong language (phabricator:T138725)

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!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Anything to add? Please share! :)