Wikidata:Status updates/2016 08 27

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-08-27.

Discussions

• We need your imput about how you edit lists on Wikipedia

Events/Press/Blogs

• Upcoming: First Wikidata workshop in the Czech Republic, 3rd September, University of Pardubice
• Past: Wikidata workshop by Asaf Bartov during the CEE WikiConv in Dilijan, Armenia
• Past: Wikidata presentation during Django Girls in Berlin
• GSoC at Wikimedia (Part 1 of 3), by Alangi Derick
• Modeling books in Wikidata by Aubrey and Chiara Storti
• Paper: Vandalism Detection in Wikidata, by Stefan Heindorf, Martin Potthast, Benno Stein and Gregor Engels

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Planet to Earth: this tool uses data from Wikidata to visualise the links between places on an astronomical body named after a place on planet Earth.
• WikiDataScape is a Cytoscape app for interactive browsing of Wikidata.
• The property "KML file" was created last week (see list below) and has already a full list of values, sample LUA module and property documentation page available (Property talk:P3096)
• enabling data access in user language will be deployed on Wikidata on August 29

Did you know?

• Newest properties: Tela Botanica ID (Metropolitan France), Gare & Connexions ID, has tense, Plantarium ID, FloraBase ID, Flora of Australia ID, Internet Bird Collection species ID, ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier, ISBN identifier group, KML file, practiced by
• Query examples:
  • RADA alumni with a good or featured article on Wikipedia (source)
  • Historians with links to French Wikipedia or Wikisource, but missing VIAF ID (source)
  • Unicorn taxa, including the Indian rhinoceros (source)
  • Mithras shrines, as a map (source)
  • 2.300 Wikidata archaeological sites without coordinates (source)
  • All items on Wikidata whom we know we don't know their sex or gender: (source)
  • Drug-disease interactions (source)
  • Nicknames of serial killers (source)
  • Dynamic data map of all U-bahn lines in Berlin with colors (source)
  • Timeline of internet services by type to celebrate 25 yrs of the web (source)
  • Network of color (source)
  • Dynamic data map of all country by year of joining the United Nations (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: Theatre
• Newest gadgets:
• Newest external tools: Wikidata Class Browser (includes subclass counts and instance counts)
• Newest database reports:
• New feature/gadget requests:
• Showcase items:

Development

• Fixed a bug where the text field doesn't always load when trying to add a statement (phabricator:T115267)
• We're now also creating mediainfo entities when a statement is added to a non-existent media info entity (phabricator:T140760)
• Fixed a bug where the suggester would show information twice (phabricator:T143645)
• The ArticlePlaceholder now also shows the links to other projects in the In Other Projects sidebar (phabricator:T141771)
• Worked more in figuring out how to show usage tracking data (phabricator:T103091)
• Made progress on Citoid support for Wikidata to make it easier to add useful and complete references (phabricator:T141856)
• Worked on restore "purge without confirm" user right (phabricator:T143435)

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.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Anything to add? Please share! :)