Wikidata:Status updates/2017 05 01

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-05-01.

Events/Press/Blogs

• Past: FOSSnorth (Gothenburg), where Lydia gave a keynote about Wikidata
• Past: Wikidata meetup in Berlin
• Past: Datensummit in Berlin, organized by OKFN, where we introduced Wikidata and the query service
• Combining Forces with the Wikipedia Universe - by Songkick, about their data donation
• Introducing Wikimedian in Residence, Mr Andy Mabbett - by The History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Attention: Editing will be disabled for an hour on May 3rd, to allow a server switch
• New filters for the Recent Changes will be deployed on May 9th. (more info)
• new data type for tabular data to be deployed on May 15th
• Try our new script that displays constraint violations on the item pages
• Get involved in the movement strategy for Wikidata
• Query the Mediawiki API with the Query Service? Give us your feedbacks
• Documentation on using OpenRefine to match from a data set you have to items in Wikidata

Did you know?

• Newest properties: Canadian Coastguard Lighthouse ID, contributed to published work, Répertoire national des associations identifier, IPA number order, UNESCO Thesaurus ID, Athletics Australia athlete ID, GuideStar Israel organization ID, MobyGames developer ID, newspaper format, STW Thesaurus for Economics ID, Bollywood Hungama ID, last words, Reprezentacija ID, LoJ peak ID, Ishim ID, GINCO ID, VIVC grape variety ID, column, had as last meal, ADAGP artist ID, CONICET person ID, Medium username
• Query examples:
  • 15415 people who died in 2016
  • Maps of statues of Jeanne d'Arc on a horse (source)
  • Families who’ve had the same occupation for five generations (source)
  • Couples of capitals more than 19,000 km away from each other (source)
  • A ten-persons “surname = given name” chain on Wikidata (source)
• Newest database reports: list of newspapers by newspaper format

Development

• Working on Lexeme support - specifically grammatical features of Forms of a Lexeme and statements on Forms
• Finishing touches on a new notification type for Echo. This will notify the creator of an article when it has been connected to an item on Wikidata.
• The new d:Special:AvailableBadges list all badges that can be used for sitelinks.
• Discussed implementation plan for Multi Content Revisions which are a building block for structured data on Commons (phabricator:T107595)
• Worked on feedback for the constraints API and user script
• Worked on database and access improvements to take load off a much-used database table

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!