Wikidata:Status updates/2017 03 27

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-03-27.

Events/Press/Blogs

• Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, Friday, March 31st at 19:30 in Neukölln
• Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, April 5th, 16:00 UTC, on #wikimedia-office^connect
• A tool to estimate gender gap on Wikidata and Wikipedia (source)
• (fr) Odonymie rennaise : que nous apprend Wikidata sur les noms des voies de Rennes ? (source)
• Wikidata's excellent sample SPARQL queries by Bob DuCharme
• 10 steps to integrate CIViCdb with other public data in Wikidata

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• RFC: Wikidata → OSM lookup table
• Participate to the definition of the Wikimedia movement's strategy
• The deadline for Wikimania talks submission has been extended to April 10th (check what we're planning around Wikidata)
• Conceptual documentation for the Lexemes and examples (feel free to help translating)

Did you know?

• Newest properties: FI WarSampo army unit ID, KMRB film rating, FI WarSampo person ID, film script, volcano observatory, BoF person ID, Bivouac.com pass ID, Elle.fr person ID, Evidence & Conclusion Ontology ID, Parks.it ID, YerelNET district ID, The Numbers movie ID, S2A3 Biographical Database ID, Mapa place ID, Tax-exempt heritage asset ID, TV Guide show ID, original film format, Launchpad.net project ID, INEGI municipality ID, Safsal coach ID, Safsal player ID, Star Wars Databank ID, autonomous system number, Bureau of Meteorology station ID, Flora of Israel plant ID, Dictionary of Sydney ID, IPv6 routing prefix, rate of fire, Art Renewal Center ID, AnimeCons.com ID, Telegram username, BNA author ID, danskefilm silent film ID, danskefilm person ID, danskefilm film ID, CiteSeerX ID, Christie's work ID, Artnet artist ID, has active ingredient, active ingredient in, negative allosteric modulator of, positive allosteric modulator of, antisense inhibitor of, inhibitor of, disrupting agent for, blocker of, antagonist of, agonist of, activator of, PeakFinder ID, It's Rugby ID, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain Book ID
• Query examples:
  • Time zones that are more than 12 hours away from UTC (source)
  • Countries which have the same name as their capital in their official language (source)
  • Roman amphitheatres on Wikidata (source)
  • Canal locks in Bretagne (France) (source)
• Newest database reports: film scripts
• Showcase items: Wressle Castle (Q8037764)

Development

• Fixing a bug that prevented users to edit descriptions in some non-latin alphabets (phab:T161263)
• Worked on Special:NewLexeme which will be used to create new Lexemes for supporting lexicographical data (phabricator:T157973)
• Aligned some more colors with Wikimedia color palete (phabricator:T151194)
• Added more autocompletion for the Wikidata Query Service (phabricator:T150950)
• Started working on support for Forms of words in the UI for supporting lexicographical data (phabricator:T160520)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Monthly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
• Suggested and open tasks!
• Contribute to a Showcase item.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!