Wikidata:Status updates/2017 11 20

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-11-20.

Discussions

• Monolingual language code creation process

Events/Press/Blogs

• Past: IRC office hour (log)
• Past: Wikidata Lab II, a workshop to teach users how to create lists using Wikidata in São Paulo (images from the event)
• Upcoming: IRC office hour about Structured Data on Commons, November 21, 18:00 UTC in the channel #wikimedia-office
• Upcoming: WLM-Wikidata-Editathon 2017 in Berlin, November 24-26
• Upcoming: Wiki4MediaFreedom edit-a-thon - II edition (with Wikidata track) in Sofia, November 27
• Upcoming: Wikidata-Hackathon at WikiMUC in Munich, November 30
• WikidataCon 2017
• Fünf Jahre Wikidata at Chaosradio
• "Turning a historical book into a data set"
• "Creating Wikipedia articles from research data"

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• New tool by Magnus: Wikidata SPARQL Recent Changes - get diffs for all items matching a SPARQL query, for a date range
• New tool by Magnus: WD edit stats - get edit stats for all items matching a SPARQL query
• Wikidata coverage for 'place' in OpenStreetMap (as of October 2017)
• OpenRefine 2.8 was released. Adding columns from Wikidata and importing Wikitables is now possible. Let's write tutorials for it.
• Mix'n'match now shows for a catalog which user originally imported it and if it is updated regularly (example)
• A breaking change to the wbcheckconstraints API output format was announced

Did you know?

• Newest properties: CGF athlete ID, OKS athlete ID, Gymn Forum athlete ID, sexually homologous with, Tennis Temple player ID, has listed ingredient, World of O athlete ID, HOO athlete ID, IBTrACS cyclone ID, Collective Biographies of Women ID, Snooker Database player ID, Spider Ontology ID, EThOS thesis ID, EUTA theatre ID, EUTA person ID, Czech Street ID, Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Trial ID, ChinesePosters artist ID, Bangladesh administrative division code, Douban movie ID, REGINE water system number, UK Parliament thesaurus ID, ABA bird ID, MuIS ID, Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Person ID, Vermont Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Alaska Sports Hall of Fame athlete ID, Radio Radicale person ID, SUNCAT ID, payload mass, Melon album ID, ctext work ID, Mémoire du cyclisme cyclist ID, Prisma ID, Africultures person ID, Africultures movie ID, Scottish Cemetery Kolkata ID
• Query examples:
  • List of subclasses of Matrices
  • Works of art in which the artists depicts their spouse (source)
  • locations Van Gogh depicted in his paintings (source)
  • Gender split of past Google Doodles (source)
• Newest database reports: expeditions

Development

• Fixed Commons media suggester not loading all preview thumbnails (phabricator:T160528)
• RDF exports can handle entity references to foreign Wikibase repositories now, needed for Structured Data on Commons (phabricator:T161592)
• Worked on making statements on Forms editable and persistent (phabricator:T163724)
• Worked on fine-grained usage tracking in Wikibase' Lua library (phabricator:T172914)
• Worked on caching constraint check results (phabricator:T179849) and indicating when constraint check results are cached (phabricator:T179844)
• Wikibase code base does not use Composer class autoloading any more (phabricator:T180067) as another step towards getting rid of our own build process and being more in line with the rest of Wikimedia

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!

Anything to add? Please share! :)