Wikidata:Status updates/2018 02 05

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2018-02-05.

Discussions

• AICAT grants proposal
• ScienceSource grants renewal
• Open request for adminship: Kostas20142

Events/Press/Blogs

• From the life of Wikidata: with the Wikidata Concepts Monitor we can now begin to discover how our communities use knowledge across the Wikimedia projects, by Goran S. Milovanović
• See also: WDCM Journal, several examples of the use of Wikidata on the Wikimedia projects
• What GLAM can teach us about multimedia metadata on Wikimedia Commons, by Jonathan Morgan and Sandra Fauconnier
• Wikidata and the German handball player nicknames by k-nut

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• We are saddened to report that Polish Wikimedian Krzysztof Machocki (who was also active on Wikidata) died on 31 January 2018, aged 36, after a couple of weeks of illness. Our condolences to his family and friends.
• Notes of the IRC office hour of January 30th
• The call for submissions for Wikimania (Cape Town, July 2018) is now open. Deadline is March 18th. Ideas of submissions related to Wikidata can be discussed here
• Based on community discussions, the ArticlePlaceholder will soon be deployed on Urdu and Estonian Wikipedias.
• Statistics
  • January 2018 brought us 9,770,248 edits, 445,027 new items were created.
  • The number of users that edited Wikidata per day grew in 2017 from 2439 to 2672 users, 9,6% more compared to 2016. The number of edits by them grew with 18% to 190k edits per day. We also get edited by 542 IP adresses per day, 50% more than in 2016.
  • In 2017, Wikidata got edited by 46 various bots per day, executing 334k edits per day (63% more than in 2016). The most active bot in 2017 was Emijrpbot, who added 18 million edits to Wikidata.
  • 284 million statements now contain references, compared to 67 million at the start of 2017. The average number of statements per item grew from 5 to almost 9. 73 million qualifiers are now used to provide more details for statements, 13 million in early 2017.
• New tool based on Wikidata: Random TV episodes

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: uses data storage type, commanded by, dam
  • External identifiers: Who's Who UK ID, Basketball-Reference.com euro player ID
• Query examples:
  • Items that have or will have been gone for as long as they were there this month (source)
  • Members of the current UK Parliament who have ancestors in Wikidata who are identified as possibly mythical (source)
  • Older siblings who died less than a month before their younger sibling entered an office (source)
  • List of tram lines in Vienna (source)
  • Adjacent districts in Vienna that have no tram line connecting them (source)
  • Places of birth, death and burial of the artists hosted in the Sweden’s museum of art and design (source)
• Newest gadgets and scripts: a script for semi-automated import of information from Commons categories is waiting for feedback

Development

• Diffs now show the entity ID in the page title (phab:T181077)
• Improved handling of translations in the Query Service UI (gerrit:406301, gerrit:406996), thanks to Li Song
• Continued working on diffs for forms on Lexemes (eg. phab:T186317)
• Added summaries for edits on representations or grammatical features of a form (phab:T184702)
• Worked on showing links to Lexemes and statements (phab:T185332)
• Rolling out fine grain usage tracking on more wikis, so only relevant changes are shown in the watchlist and recent changes (phab:T185032)
• Improved scalability of fine grain usage tracking (phab:T185693)

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!