Wikidata:Status updates/2017 06 05

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-06-05.

Discussions

• Open request for bureaucrat: Lymantria

Events/Press/Blogs

• Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, June 7th, 18:00, in the WikiBÄR local room
• Upcoming: An introduction to Wikidata for GLAMs, Berlin, June 9th (more info in German)
• Upcoming: Hackathon cartographie des logiciels libres in Paris on June 10th
• Upcoming: Wikidata workshop during HackZurich, September 14th (registration opening on June 9th)
• Wikidata, WikiCite, and the "bibliography of life" by Rod Page (Q7356570)
• MySociety (Q10851773) are publishing a "five part series examining how to use Wikidata to answer the question: 'What is the gender breakdown of heads of government across the world?'".
  1. Help us find the offices of heads of governments across the world!
  2. Help us to show who fills the role of head of government on Wikidata
  3. Linking back in the other direction
  4. Check that the data is consistent
• Wikicite 2017, and the 7 features Wikidata needs most

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Breaking change: "wb_entity_per_page" table will not be updated and replicated on ToolLabs anymore
• Data donation: following WikiCite, our friends at DBLP (Q1224715) have begun to donate data, with >4,800 values in the first batch, including >1,300 DBLP ID (P2456) plus assorted aliases, and values for VIAF ID (P214), GND ID (P227), ORCID iD (P496), ACM Digital Library author ID (P864), zbMATH author ID (P1556), & Google Scholar ID (P1960).
• Sitelinks of Wiktionary will be enabled on June 20th

Did you know?

• Newest properties: reviewed by, Hungarian NGO ID, PLU Code, Latvian Protected Nature Territory ID, Google Scholar paper ID, DNCI musical work ID, Cullum number, Pinakothek artist ID, ADW taxon ID, DFB datacenter player ID, danskefilm TV series ID, danskefilm animated film ID, dimension, USL player ID, The Arabidopsis Information Resource Accession, Ustream username, SlideShare username, Vimeo username, Australian Statistical Geography 2011 ID, Giphy username, Semantic Scholar author ID, Semantic Scholar paper ID, GDP (PPP), RKY national built heritage environment ID, Early Aviators people ID, DBS ID, overrules, Bavarikon ID, shield image, official Facebook page, WFD Ecological status, Latvian Protected Nature Territory URL
• Query examples:
  • Number of citizens with “blood type” statements per country (source)
  • Works with most citations (running time 20-45s) (source)
  • Female recipients of the Palme d'Or award (source)
  • Timeline of albums by Manu Chao and Mano Negra (source)
  • Female given names ending in "o" (source)
• Newest external tools: Wikidata Diff (compares two items; proof-of-concept, doesn't yet include qualifiers, etc.), Wikidata Recent Changes livestream
• Newest database reports: list of items with the property "has fruit type"

Development

• Removing some config variables (phab:T93773)
• Fixing a conflict with Language Converter (phab:T166429)
• Showing badges in the sidebar (phab:T73887)
• Fixing a bug on Query Service (phab:T166762)
• Adjusting code reading from wb_terms (phab:T162673)
• Adding an accesskey to the undo button (phab:T165078)
• Fixing preferences settings for the new Echo notification (phab:T166657)
• Adding Rangi language (lag) to Wikidata (phab:T161983)
• Working on moving PropertySuggester extension from github to gerrit (phab:T104309)
• More work on usage tracking (phab:T151717)
• More work on Lexemes (phab:T157974)
• More work on statements (phab:T165480)
• More work on constraints (phab:T167107)

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!