Wikidata:Status updates/2017 01 28

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-01-28.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2

Events/Press/Blogs

• Economists in Wikidata: Opportunities of Authority Linking
• FOSDEM, February 4-5th in Brussels Come and talk about Wikidata with us! See also the talk about UX and users' needs for Wikidata
• Web Search and Data Mining Conference, February 6-10th, Cambridge

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Data donation: BBC Things ID (P1617) for news topics, kindly supplied by the BBC. All now uploaded, via Mix'n'Match
• The StrepHit grant tool was renewed, so the Primary Sources tool can be improved in the future
• The Bodleian Libraries (Oxford University) are looking for a Wikimedia data assistant to work on Wikidata

Did you know?

• Newest properties: FIBA player ID, MLB ID, NFL.com ID, fussballdaten.de ID, FootballDatabase.eu ID, euroleague.net ID, JapanTour ID, Australian Government Organisations Register ID, draftexpress.com ID, databaseFootball.com ID, AZBilliards ID, par, median income, Luding game ID, eurobasket.com ID, wisdenindia.com ID, acb.com ID, Simple Modular Architecture Research Tool ID, Rfam ID, NHL.com ID, EuroTour ID, databaseOlympics.com ID, Pfam ID, Smithsonian trinomial, Geographical Names Board of New South Wales ID, National Park Foundation ID, NPCA ID, U.S. National Geodetic Survey ID, peakware ID, means of locomotion, VGMDb label ID, Dagens Nyheter topic ID, Bivouac Mountain Encyclopedia ID, Luding designer ID, BoardGameGeek designer ID, Florentine Inventario Palatina art ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali building ID, Ameblo username, Catholic rite, Ringgold identifier, Gentoo package
• Query examples:
  • Most articles about films in each Wikipedia
  • Largest companies by revenue in USD
  • Characters whose actors died recently (source)
  • Stock-listed US companies with founders who (or whose parents) were born outside the US (source)
  • Wizards from Harry Potter and their houses/groups (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: Wikidata:WikiProject Companies
• Newest database reports: film festivals this month

Development

• RDF exports will contain sitelink page names as strings in addition to the URLs (phab:T148923)
• Switching the remaining special pages for labels, descriptions and aliases to the OOUI design (phab:T48248)
• Finalizing the security review of the Cognate extension for Wiktionary (phab:T149082)
• We plan to provide og:image Open Graph tags for sharing Item pages in social networks (phab:T51859)
• Introducing a new test framework for special pages (phab:T69122)
• Refactoring the wbeditentity API to work with the new Lexeme entity type (phab:T154288)
• Added docs/change-op-serializations.wiki documenting how to use the wbeditentity API
• Added a CREDITS file to the Wikibase code base, listing all authors

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