Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Ongoing: Repository Fringe
- Ongoing: ICBO (slides)
- Upcoming: CCBWIKI
- Localités au fil de l'eau
- WDQ, obsolete?
- BigQuery, Wikidata & AgreeList — idea
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- You can now see the very first steps towards structured data support for Wikimedia Commons.
- You can now translate all sister project pages to your language, like Wikidata:Wikipedia. Please, link to them from your projects to give your fellow users chance to learn Wikidata basics.
- You can now enable the CoordinateDiffMap Gadget in your preferences to get a map for coordinate changes.
- There is a new command line tool to extract taxonomies from Wikidata
- Simple guide to help Wikipedia editors find Wikidata IDs. In English - please translate into other languages!
- You can now use Wikidata to do cool things in Mapbox with the Mapbox iOS SDK
- IPTC's NewsCodes Working Group has mapped the top two levels of hierarchical terms of Media Topics to Wikidata
- WMDE's progress report for the annual plan grant with a focus on Wikidata has been published
- Need to query Wikidata, but lack SPARQL skills? There is now Wikidata:Request a query for you!
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: residence time of water, railway signalling system, located in protected area, Rolling Stone artist ID, French national research structure identifier, backup or reserve team or crew, laws applied, surface tension, Standard Geographical Classification code, World Archery ID, Conservatoire du littoral ID, Australian Heritage Database Place ID, Cadw Monument ID, Marine Regions Geographic ID, valid in place, Galiciana ID, zanikleobce.cz abandoned objects ID, Untappd brewery ID, retirement age
- Query examples: frequency of Romans' praenomen (source), movies by number of actors who studied at RADA (source), actors directed by Tony Scott + number of appearances (source), actors directed more than 20 times by the same director (source), actors directed more than 20 times by the same director with years (source)
- Newest database reports: list of Romans, minimum ages by country
- Development
- Got the demo system for structured data on Commons ready for first show (see above)
- Wikipedia editors will soon get a notification when an article they created was connected to a Wikidata item. Thanks Matej! (phabricator:T110604)
- Worked on improving handling of +-1 etc in quantities (phabricator:T115269)
- Added a message to the suggester that pops up when you search for items or properties. When no matching property or item is found it will now tell you. (phabricator:T140085)
- Considerably improved our browser tests to find more issues before You ever see them.
- Added Haida as a language available for monolingual text properties (phabricator:T138131)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.