Wikidata:Status updates/2017 04 10

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-04-10.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Zolo
• New request for comments: Proposed client side disambiguation page

Events/Press/Blogs

• The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) helps unlock millions of connections between scholarly research, on WMF blog, by Dario Taborelli
• Le canal de Nantes à Brest sur Wikidata (fr) by Édouard Hue
• Comprende!, a quiz interface on top of MediaWiki/WikiBase by Magnus Manske
• Next Wikidata meetup in Berlin: April 26th, 18:00 in WMDE's office

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Deadline for submitting a talk, workshop or roundtable for Wikimania is today, April 10th, at midnight (UTC)!
• There's now also a #100wikidays challenge on Wikidata, aptly named #100wikidatadays! It is a personal challenge in which a person very significantly improves (at least) one Wikidata items per day, for 100 days in a row. There was already a version of the challenge on various Wikipedias, on Commons and on Wikisource - now on Wikidata as well. Participate and make Wikidata shine!
• New filters for Recent Changes: the beta deployment is rescheduled on May 9th
• Grant application to extend the work of John Commings at UNESCO
• New MapRoulette challenges: Add missing Wikidata ids to cities and capitals on OpenStreetMap
• You can be a candidate for the Wikimedia Foundation's board of trustees
• Log of the last IRC office hour with Wikidata development team
• Help us translating this short message in your language

Did you know?

• Newest properties: TV Guide person ID, Deutsche Synchronkartei film ID, DLV athlete ID
• Query examples:
  • Notable integers
  • Longest streets of Moscow
  • Top 20 of heaviest humans in Wikidata (source)
  • Timeline of Paris marathons (source)
  • Countries not involved in any world war (source)
  • People whose place of birth is named after them (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: Figure skating
• Newest external tools: Sistercities, an overview of sister cities of German cities on Wikipedia and Wikidata
• Newest database reports: list of duos

Development

• Preparing for making more ArticlePlaceholder indexable by search engines on Welsh Wikipedia (phab:T162244)
• Preparing the deployments of Cognate and geoshape data type
• Lexemes: starting adding sections for forms and senses

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!