Wikidata:Status updates/2017 07 31

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-07-31.

Events/Press/Blogs

• Upcoming: Wikimania is coming! Check out all the things related to Wikidata
• Upcoming: Wikidata hackathon during Repository Fringe 2017, in Edinburgh, August 4th
• Data Partnerships with Wikidata: beaTunes (version in German)
• Wikidata visualizes SMILES strings with John Mayfield's CDK Depict
• Freedom versus Standardization: Structured Data Generation in a Peer Production Community

WikidataCon

• Today is the very last day to submit projects in the program! (deadline: July 31th)
• You can also subscribe to the existing submissions to show your interest and support your favorites

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• wbsearchentities with ElasticSearch test
• Quantities with units are now supported in the new QuickStatements.
• Property talk pages now include queries for items with the property and most sitelinks, statements or identifiers.
• We now have Q34000000
• Wikidata Constraint Violations tool visualizes changes in constraint violations for last few weeks. Some of constraints produce millions of violations (marked as red).

Did you know?

• Newest properties: maximum age, WIGOS station ID
• Query examples:
  • Which White House chief of staff had the shortest tenure? (source)
  • Total number of sister city statements per country (source)
  • Pictures of tube stations in London (source)
  • Works created with the software Maya (source)
  • Do I cite works from Nobel Prize winners? (source)
  • ...or do Nobel prize winners cite me? (source)
  • Timeline of Humanitarian personality of the year (source)
• New feature/gadget requests: Gadget for changing property

Development

• Added Special:NewItem to Special:SpecialPages (phab:T169456) Thanks to Matěj Suchánek
• Making possible to check constraints on qualifiers and references (phab:T168532)
• Working on showing non-mandatory and mandatory constraints differently (phab:T164254)
• Improving Special:PagesWithProp for Wikidata use cases (phab:T66950)
• Doing last polishing on the Lexeme entity type and cleaning up the demo data for the demo at Wikimania
• Improving the dispatching of changes to Wikipedia and co to cope with the increased demand that lead to delays in Wikidata changes showing up in Wikipedia watchlist and recent changes

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
• 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!