Wikidata:Status updates/2018 01 15
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2018-01-15.
Discussions edit
Events/Press/Blogs edit
Other Noteworthy Stuff edit
- GraFa, a new faceted browser for Wikidata is looking for feedback.
- Analysis: How much are items about scientific articles, genes and chemical entities used on the Wikimedia projects?
- New catalogs in Mix'n'match - for example Nobel Prize People Nomination (More than 600 properties now have a corresponding catalog in Mix'n'match.)
- Next round of Projects Grants is open for applications until the end of January (see also this blog post)
Did you know? edit
- Newest properties: National Historic Ships certificate no., Dictionnaire des auteurs luxembourgeois ID, Line Music album ID, Line Music artist ID, Elhuyar ZTH ID, is proceedings from, Basketball-Reference.com NBDL player ID, animal breed, Uniform Resource Identifier Scheme, OpenEdition journal ID, Brooklyn Museum artwork ID, Musée des Augustins artwork ID, Yale Center for British Art artwork ID, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum artwork ID, IBM graphic character global identifier, IBM coded character set ID, IBM code page identifier, produced sound, IUPAC GoldBook ID, The Baseball Cube player ID, Mir@bel journal ID, INRAN Italian Food ID, uBio ID, Deutsche Synchronkartei dubbing voice actor ID, Sign@l journal ID, C-SPAN organization ID, Le Maitron person ID, GSMArena phone ID, Érudit journal ID
- Query examples:
- Gallery of photography techniques
- Street names that exist several times in Berlin (source)
- Average length of movie by genre and year (source)
- Inventions by Republicans (source)
- Celebrities born in January of a leap year (source)
- Countries with no rivers (source)
- Female aviation pioneers born before 1900 (source)
- People who died on K2 (source)
- Showcase items: 15 January 2018
Development edit
- Wikidata moved to a new and bigger server.
- Added support for a constraint scope in the constraint check gadget (phabricator:T183542)
- Now ignoring deprecated constraints in the constraint check gadget (phabricator:T180874)
- Added new Lua function getAllStatements (phabricator:T166056 - thanks Eran!)
- Worked on diff support and edit summaries for edits on Forms (phabricator:T182424)
- Worked on persistent editing of the grammatical features of a Form (phabricator:T173742)
- Google Code-In 2017 work on the Wikidata Query Service UI:
- add highlight and selection for query result table, by Anpans (phabricator:T183807)
- keyboard accessibility, by eflyjason (phabricator:T173213 and subtasks)
- make more areas translatable, by Albert221 (phabricator:T171636)
- mobile / responsive menus, by eflyjason (phabricator:T154890)
- lazy loading in ImageGrid, by Sydney (phabricator:T166216)
Monthly Tasks edit
- 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!
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