Wikidata:Status updates/2017 03 06

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-03-06.

Events/Press/Blogs

• International Open Data Day was on Saturday, 4 March (tweets about Wikidata)
• Wikidata documentation sprint during the Wikimedia hackathon (May 19-21): We need your help to improve Wikidata help pages!
• Getting to know Wikidata (from Bob DuCharme, author of the book "learning SPARQL")
• Tutorial to mashup Wikidata and government data with Dataiku DSS and Palladio (fr)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Library of Congress updated their inventory of Format Description Documents to include Wikidata URIs
• Surfacing Wikidata objects with coordinates to match them with OSM
• The Wikiproject Welcome has been created to work on welcoming the new editors, feel free to participate

Did you know?

• Newest properties: FIH player ID, seed dispersal, number of works, inflorescence, minimum wavelength of electromagnetic sensitivity, maximum wavelength of electromagnetic sensitivity, Eurovision Song Contest song ID, Ghetto Encyclopedia ID, category for value same as Wikidata, MOOMA artist ID, PhilPapers record, Serbia cadastral municipality ID, next higher rank, next lower rank, New Zealand Heritage List number, Serbia municipality ID, Eu-football.info player ID, CEV player ID, USHMM Holocaust Encyclopedia ID, USCG Lighthouse ID, Commons maps category, public key fingerprint
• Query examples:
  • Countries with similar populations (source)
  • Items that have "feminist art" as a value (source)
  • Books, incipits, concatenating a sentence to the incipit (source and inspiration)
  • Paintings by Vermeer depicting maps (source)
  • Painters sorted by the number of Wikipedia articles about their works (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Fashion

Development

• Finishing touches on the new geo shape data type. It is available on the first test wiki now (phabricator:T57549).
• SetLabel, SetDescription, SetAliases, SetLabelDescriptionAliases, SetSiteLink have been migrated to ooUI. Thanks, Ricordisamoa! (phabricator:T48248)
• Making progress on integrating the new Lexeme entity type with the wbeditentity API (phabricator:T155699).

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