Wikidata:Status updates/2018 03 05

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2018-03-05.

Events/Press/Blogs

• Past: Wikidata workshops in different places in the world for Open Data Day
• WikiCite presentation (video) as part of Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting - February 2018
• Wikidata: Knowledge as a Service, by martin Poulter

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Global preferences are available for testing
• Statement 400.000.000 was created
• You can now use a SPARQL query to match the result labels against Mix’n’match entries

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: court, time index, 3D model, broader concept, season, number of players in region, century breaks, dialect of, produces cohesive end, isocaudomer
  • External identifiers: FFF male player ID, AFL Tables coach ID, FFF female player ID, Webumenia creator ID, AFL Tables umpire ID, MuIS person or group ID, EPHE ID, Patrons de France ID, Siprojuris ID, ESPN X Games athlete ID, ACE work ID, AICTE institute ID, Chronicling America newspaper ID, Brooklyn Museum Exhibition ID, Zenodo ID, CONABIO ID, New Georgia Encyclopedia ID, Tropicos publication ID, KMSKA work PID, Bargeton ID, Guide Nicaise ID, AlloCiné company ID, Annuaire des fondations ID
• Query examples:
  • 3D models on Commons (source)
  • Timeline of programming languages (source)
  • Date of birth of computer scientists (source)
  • Women born in Latin America without an article on Spanish Wikipedia (source)
  • Timeline of Düsseldorf mayors (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: Energy, Motorsports
• Newest database reports: nomes de países em português

Development

• Re-enable Wikidata Recent Changes integration on Russian Wikipedia (phab:T179012)
• Investigate on the size of logging table (phab:T188635)
• Fix issues with graph vizualisation UI (phab:T186467)
• Work on results of security review for the deployment of Wikibase-Lexeme (phab:T186726)
• Enable constraint result caching on Wikidata (phab:T184812)

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!