Wikidata:Status updates/2016 07 23

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-07-23.

Events/Press/Blogs

• Playing with Wikidata: communities over water
• Interview with Lydia for her upcoming keynote at the DBpedia conference

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The Olympic Games are coming up soon. Let's make Wikidata a good place to get open data about the Olympics!
• StrepHit's grant is up for renewal and could use your endorsement
• There is a sub-reddit for Wikidata
• We now have P3000 and Q26000000!

Did you know?

• Newest properties: marriageable age, age of consent, age of candidacy, age of majority, partition coefficient water/octanol, software quality assurance, IBSF ID, FIL ID, has grammatical case, GOST 7.67 cyrillic, Taekwondo Data ID, aircraft registration prefix, DSBE ID, Snapchat username, UNDP country code, UIC numerical country code, UIC alphabetical country code, ARLHS Lighthouse ID, Maritime identification digits, wheel arrangement, LBT person ID, patronym or matronym, host, habitat, Spenserians person ID, SNAP ID
• Query examples: most cited Danish people (source), most self-citing authors (source), topics of series (source), human settlements, north of the Arctic Circle (source), poles of inaccessibility (source), people with the same family and given name (source), compositions for organ and orchestra/compositions for organ and anything else (source), people with a statement with start time / end time qualifiers over 100 years apart (source), causes of death for noble people (source), long-running noble families (source)
• Numbers on Wikidata:Database reports/without claims by site for some projects decreased (e.g. dewiki), remained consistently low (e.g. nlwiki), or recently increased to new highs (e.g. enwiki).

Development

• Finished first rough prototype for structured data on Commons. Wanted to sent out announcement on Friday but one configuration issue is still unsolved. Should be solved in the next 1 or 2 days.
• We are adding a "no match found" message to the suggester that you get when selecting an item or property while adding a new statement for example (phabricator:T140085)
• When a query result contains a mathematical expression it will soon be rendered correctly (phabricator:T137784)
• Added support for Haida (hai) for monolingual text values (phabricator:T138131)
• Finalized the infographic on data flow. For off-wiki usage and For on- wiki usage.

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! :)