Wikidata:Status updates/2016 12 31

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-12-31.

Discussions

• Open requests for adminship: יונה בנדלאק, Pyb

Events/Press/Blogs

• Next IRC office hour on January 5th
• Past: we were at 33c3
• Scaling OpenStreetMap with Wikidata knowledge
• 2016 – A busy year for Gene Wiki and WikiData

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikidata and the celebrity deaths of 2016 on Buzzfeed
• Welsh Wikipedia has some 16,000 lists regularly maintained from Wikidata

Did you know?

• Newest properties: INSEE arrondissement code, INSEE countries and foreign territories code
• Query examples:
  • Filtered timeline of Spotify artists
  • Paintings of the Eiffel Tower by Robert Delaunay (source)
  • Ratio of “famous” (≥25 sitelinks) people’s deaths since 2000 (source)
  • Things with coordinates on globes other than Earth (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: US Virgin Islands
• Newest external tools: "Descriptioner" - Tool to add descriptions batchwise
• Newest database reports: Popular items without claims, Portuguese-language films without articles in Portuguese

Development

• When a {{#statements:…}} property couldn't be resolved, a tracking category will be added (phab:T50799)
• Rewrote Special:NewItem and all other Special:New… pages to use OOUI error handling (phab:T150205)
• Getting ready the basic Lexeme prototype (phab:T146662)
• Continued work on federation basics (phab:T149580)
• Release version 1.0.0 of the DataTypes component
• Enjoying the holidays and getting ready for this year's challenges. Hope you do to :)

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