Wikidata:Status updates/2017 05 22

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-05-22.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: MisterSynergy, Queryzo, ChristianKl

Events/Press/Blogs

• Upcoming: Wahlsalon (event Codefor.de about election data): Kickoff on May 24th in Berlin
• Upcoming: Open Science: the National Plan and you meeting for Dutch researchers: May 29th in Delft, The Netherlands
• Current: WikiCite, May 23rd-25th in Vienna
• Current: Met Open Access Artworks Challenge (May 15th-June 30th) help improving the data about the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art!
• Past: Wikimedia Hackathon 2017, May 19th-21st in Vienna
• Paper: Becoming Wikidatians: evolution of participation in a collaborative structured knowledge base (Alessandro Piscopo, Christopher Phethean, Elena Simperl)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The extension RevisionSlider is now available by default on Wikidata. Try it on a talk or project page!
• Check out some updates about the WikidataCon
• We reached Q30,000,000! Help us improve it and make a showcase item out of it.
• An additional 10k article placeholders on Welsh Wikipedia will be made indexable in search engines

Did you know?

• Newest properties: Unifrance person ID, Unifrance company ID, IECIC 2015 ID, Songkick venue ID, BVMC work ID, secretary general, Nature preserve in North Rhine-Westphalia ID, PIM authority ID, PASE Domesday place, PASE Domesday person ID, channel number, signed form, CETS no., final event, programming paradigm, Bridgeman artist ID, BDCYL authority ID, Clochers de France ID, Global Trade Item Number, Unifrance film ID, Base biographique AUTOR ID, NNL work ID
• Query examples:
  • Websites but without an official website
  • Plants with associated emoji (source)
  • Languages ordered by number of speakers (source)
  • HMDB identifiers with more than one item (source)
  • Painters with a lot of identifiers on Wikidata, but few Wikipedia articles (source)
  • Buildings with the greatest numbers of elevators (source)
  • Map of female writers on Wikidata by birthplace- generated by SPARQL query (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Counter-Vandalism, WikiProject Documentation

Development

• Participating to the Wikimedia hackathon 2017, having a lot of interesting talks with users, designers, developers...
• Helping improving the documentation for the property constraints, the beginner documentation about Wikidata, how to install Wikibase
• Rewriting most constraint violation messages to include more useful information (phab:T164354, help update translations)
• Working on a tree view for the Query Service (phab:T152676)
• Setting up a constraints development/testing wiki
• Moving PropertySuggester extension from github to gerrit (phab:T104309)
• Working on performance of change dispatching so database of wikidata goes read-only in lower rate (phab:T162557)
• Reducing number of duplicates rows in our database table for labels, descriptions and aliases to make it faster (phab:T163551)

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!