Wikidata:Status updates/2018 01 02

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2018-01-02.

Events/Press/Blogs

• Past: Wikidata team and volunteers were at 34C3. Check the videos, the tweets, a new design made by Bleeptrack for a cake. Videos of Wikidata-related workshops will be published soon.
• Upcoming: Cultural heritage Wikidata workshop in Prague, 13th January 2018
• Using Scholia as Open Notebook Science tool to support literature searching

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• New tool that allow users to fill labels and descriptions to Wikidata items en masse
• Change on the editing interface: save becomes publish. Please help translating in your language and update documentation

Did you know?

• Newest properties: Minneapolis Institute of Art ID, CHGIS ID, Guardiana ID, Barnes Foundation ID, VOGRIPA ID, Rugby Canada ID, Ent'revues ID, World of Spectrum ID, Smithsonian American Art Museum ID, HATVP ID, Google Arts & Culture partner ID, Google Arts & Culture asset ID, Cairn journal ID, Canal-U channel ID, Conseil de Presse Luxembourg journalist ID, Historic Place Names of Wales ID, CIQUAL2017 ID, GEMS Code, Arquivo Arq ID, Argentine deputy ID, American Art Collaborative object ID
• Query examples:
  • Landlocked countries bordering coastal countries (source)
  • Most common years of birth in Wikidata (source)
  • Map of lighthouses around the world (source)
  • Bubble chart showing countries with the highest number of children out of school in 2013 (source)
  • Playwright dead in 1947 (whose works are now in Public Domain) (source)

Development

• Fixed a problem with references in history of items (phab:T182767) Thanks to Matěj Suchánek who helped providing a workaround
• Make statements on forms persistent for lexicographical data (phab:T163724)
• Fix a bug that removed the collapse button (phab:T175492)
• Remove cache constraint check results on purge (phab:T182107)
• Add sitelinks to hif.wiktionary (phab:T180785)
• Read constraint check results from cache and check freshness (phab:T182106)
• Re-label the "Save" links to "Publish" (phab:T161367)

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!