Wikidata:Status updates/2017 09 11

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-09-11.

Events/Press/Blogs

• RDFIO: extending Semantic MediaWiki for interoperable biomedical data management - Paper demonstrating interoperatility between WikiData and Semantic MediaWiki, among other things.
• Données structurées, la puissance de Wikidata au service de Wikimedia Commons - French-language article by Rama about Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons.
• Europeana is interested in linking its new Entity Collection to Wikidata, and will talk about this at the WikidataCon.
• Upcoming (21.9.2017): "Wikidata as a linking hub for knowledge organization systems? Integrating an authority mapping into Wikidata and learning lessons for KOS mapping". Presentation by Joachim Neubert at the 17th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop, TPDL 2017 Conference, Thessaloniki (Greece)
• Upcoming: Wikidata Zurich, one day dedicated to Wikidata and the Query Service in Zurich, Switzerland, September 14th
• Upcoming: Monthly Wikidata meetup in Paris, France, September 15th
• Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Kolkata, India, September 16th and 17th
• Past: Wikidata workshop in Chandigarh, India

WikidataCon

• The program of the WikidataCon is now published on-wiki. You will find there a lot of different formats, topics and speakers, during the two days of the conference.
• The official visuals have also be released! Check out the conference logo and the volunteers visual, both designed by Bleeptrack under CC-BY-SA.
• The event is now complete, no more tickets available. The last tickets have been attributed to the first persons who registered on the waitlist. If some more seats get free because another attendee cancels participation, the next person on the waitlist will be informed.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Q39000000 was created
• Wikidata passed 7 average statements per item
• The ArticlePlaceholder is now deployed on Albanian Wikipedia

Did you know?

• Newest properties: danskfilmogtv title ID, Billboard artist ID, Italian National Earthquake Center ID, Flemish organization for Immovable Heritage person ID, Foursquare username, The Times of India Topic ID, ROARMAP ID, WFD Chemical status, PagesJaunes ID, Christie's creator id, Google Play Music album ID, Google Play Music artist ID, Graphic character set global ID, cytogenetic location, category for employees of the organization, CNPS taxon ID, Familypedia person ID, LNH player ID, Alljudo athlete ID, Rivers.gov river ID
• Query examples:
  • Places of education of the UK members of Parliament (source)
  • Pairs of churches in the UK that are within 25 metres of each other (source)
  • National parks in India (source)
  • Persons buried more than 13000 km away from their death place (warning: some errors needing correction)
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject India
• Newest user scripts: Overpass (adds a map showing features tagged, in OpenStreetMap, with the ID of the current Wikidata item, if any)

Development

• The new Echo notification is now deployed on all wikis
• Looked into further possible improvements for change dispatching
• Worked on persistently storing edits in more parts of a Lexeme
• Worked on getting expanded URIs for identifiers into the RDF exports (phabricator:T121274)
• Continued work on caching constraints results so we can roll it out for more users (phabricator:T173696)
• Fixing a bug that highlights input in value fields as not recognized when it shouldn't be (phabricator:T175525)
• Released version 2.1.0 of the Serialization JavaScript component (phabricator:T174011)
• Released version 2.0.0 of the DataValues base component (phabricator:T168681)
• Released version 0.9.0 of the DataValues JavaScript component (phabricator:T172916)
• Released version 0.8.6 of the DataValues Time component (phabricator:T151088)

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!