Wikidata:Status updates/2017 05 29

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-05-29.

Discussions

• Closed request for adminship: MisterSynergy, Queryzo, ChristianKl (all successful)
• New request for comments: Allow the creation of links to redirects in Wikidata

Events/Press/Blogs

• Past: WikiCite, May 23rd-25th in Vienna. Documentation will be available soon, in the meantime you can check on Twitter and the video streams to see what happened
• Six degrees on Wikidata, by Andrew Gray
• Some statistics on scholarly data in Wikidata, by Finn Årup Nielsen
• Wikidata for librarians, by Dan Scott

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Eurowings app uses Wikidata
• Are you searching for geolocations of Wikipedia articles on the OSM map? Alex-7 created a web app.
• Breaking change: sitelink encoding changing in RDF export/WDQS

Did you know?

• Newest properties: Filmweb.pl ID, racon signal, Vitaskrá ID, SSB urban settlement number, Austrian Textbook ID, EKATTE place ID, members have occupation, National Library Board Singapore ID, SHARE Catalogue author ID, Sequence Ontology ID, supports programming language, subreddit, sports league level, TA98 Latin term, Misjonsarkiv person ID, 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
• Query examples:
  • Map of subreddits associated to a place on Earth (source)
  • Potential reviewers for papers in computer science (source)
  • Paintings with 'portrait' in the name that lack P180 / depicts (source)
  • Publications and presentations about WikiCite (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Zika Corpus
• Newest external tools: Wikidata to CSV
• Newest database reports: Roger Moore filmography

Development

• Attending WikiCite
• Showing badges on other projects (phab:T73887)
• Improving label tracking (phab:T151717)
• Working more on statements on forms in order to support lexicographical data

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!