Wikidata:Status updates/2017 02 11

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-02-11.

Discussions

• New request for comments: P171 (property "parent taxon"), changing the label of property "has role"

Events/Press/Blogs

• Probing Parliament(s) with Wikidata, by Martin Poulter
• Jan Dittrich and Charlie Kritschmar gave a talk at FOSDEM on finding user needs and gave some examples from their work.
• A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners by Asaf Bartov: video and slides
• Validating Wikidata tags on OpenStreetMap
• Reminder: the deadline for Wikimania's scholarship is February 20 (and you can discuss about your ideas for Wikidata here)
• Wikidata workshop in Paris about SPARQL, Friday 17.02

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The satisfaction survey concerning Flow has been published (and Wikidata is the community which prefers Flow the most)
• Module Wikidata on Wikidata received an update to improve its performance. If your wiki has forked this one, consider updating it and report any problems (already reported one).
• Experimental c:Template:Category contains for categories on Commons, including a per-category Wikidata query. See introductory discussion on Commons Village Pump. Presented together with current statistics on Commons category <-> Wikidata links
• ContentMine looking for a Wikimedian in Residence to work on Wikidata and WikiFactMine in Cambridge
• It is now possible to edit the Wikidata description from the Wikipedia app in some languages in beta

Did you know?

• Newest properties: base salary, Visions of Britain place ID, Visions of Britain unit ID, DigDag ID, Sweden Nature Reserve ID, Le Monde diplomatique subject ID, Borden Code, fare zone, Recreation.gov area ID, EU VAT number, Booking.com hotel ID, BOLD Systems taxon ID, 90minut player ID, ITU triathlete ID, Minneapolis Institute of Art Constituent ID, candidacy in election, MarineTraffic Lighthouse ID, protected heritage site in Brussels ID, Archives nationales producer record, Hockey-reference player ID, F-Droid package, Danish ancient monument ID, BLF article ID, Araneae Spider ID, AFI Catalog of Feature Films ID
• Query examples:
  • Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK
  • Office-holders convicted of crimes (source)
  • Monarchs convicted of regicide (source)
  • Timeline of antipopes (source)
  • Battles etc of the U.S. Civil War, that have maps (source) -- but the results are a bit patchy.
  • Grade I listed buildings in Bedfordshire (source: Commons "category contains" template)
• Newest external tools: new reconciliation for OpenRefine

Development

• Doing a trial run of allowing search engines to index a number of ArticlePlaceholder pages on Welsh Wikipedia. If there are no major issues we will enable this for all placeholders.
• Improving Federation-related after initial tests,
• Getting ready to deploy automated sitelinks for Wiktionary
• Further work on the new datatype for geoshapes (phabricator:T57549)

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