Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: WikiCon 2016
- Past: OASPA conference (slides)
- Past: State of the Map
- Past: National Institute of Health: frontiers in data science lecture series (slides)
- Upcoming: SMWCon
- Upcoming: office hour on IRC
- Blog post about Wikidata and data about Czech trees
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The query examples have been migrated from mediawiki.org to wikidata.org at d:Wikidata:SPARQL examples
- HPI is doing a linked data engineering course online
- TXT Werk is doing automatic entity recognition in text with the help of Wikidata. Previously only German was supported. English is now supported as well.
- Andy has mapped most of the W3C's ontology for vCard to Wikidata properties.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Heritage Lighthouse of Canada ID, Heritage Railway Station of Canada ID, New General Catalogue ID, Vine user ID, data.gouv.fr ID, patient of, Ciné-Ressources person ID, Ciné-Ressources movie ID, UAI code, Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities ID, Northern Ireland charity number, charity number (Isle of Man), JewishGen Locality ID, Federal Heritage Buildings ID, USGS earthquake id, league points system, INA video ID, GS1 Manufacturer code, Last.FM music ID, IMIS person ID, innervates, innervated by, Nobel prize ID, Marburger Professorenkatalog ID, TAXREF ID, VKontakte username, Czech National Bibliography book ID, WSJ topic ID, FANTOIR code, OpenCitations bibliographic resource ID
- Query examples: taxonomy of squirrels (source), good or featured articles about people on Wikipedia but with no picture on Wikidata (source), Nordic Cross flags (source)
- Development
- mnc (for Manchu) will soon be available as a language code for monolingual text values (phabricator:T137808)
- Worked on foreign EntityIds in order to be able to use Wikidata's items and properties on Commons in the future (phabricator:T145516, phabricator:T146030, phabricator:T146274)
- More work on usage tracking UI (phabricator:T145965, phabricator:T143148, phabricator:T145189, phabricator:T144923)
- RFC discussion about Multi-Content-Revisions - another big blocker for structured data on Commons (phabricator:E273)
- Ran a bot to mark dates that need a check of their calendar model (phabricator:T105100)
- Getting unit conversion into the query service soon. We'll start with units for length and then expand based on feedback. (phabricator:T117032)
- Working on extension to automatically link pages between languages on Wiktionary (phabricator:T145412)
- Added the value that is responsible for an error in the error message so it can be found and fixed more easily (phabricator:T144303)
- Working on fix for issue with extremely large or small date values in RDF (phabricator:T146356)
- Expanding references again in diffs (phabricator:T129836)
- Unbroke CopyReferences gadget. More work is needed. (phabricator:T142203)
- Fixed issue with 2 search suggestion boxes showing up instead of 1 (phabricator:T119492)
- Worked on improving the query service documentation (phabricator:T133052)
- 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.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention