Hey folks :) Here's what's been happening around Wikidata over the past week. Enjoy!
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Past: WikiCon USA (slides <http://filbertkm.com/wikicon2015.pdf>) - Ongoing: World Health Summit (slides <http://www.slideshare.net/lydiapintscher/wikidata-giving-more-people-more-access-to-more-knowledge> ) - Upcoming: ODI Summit <http://summit.theodi.org/programme> with a session on the gene-related efforts on Wikidata - Don't forget to sign up <https://www.eventbrite.de/e/wikidatas-3-geburtstag-wikidatas-3rd-birthday-registration-18899772729> if you are coming to Wikidata's third birthday party <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Third_Birthday/Party>. Other Noteworthy Stuff - Discussion <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Football#Obtaining_data_from_Wikidata.3F_General_opinions> has started on English WikiProject Football <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Football> about using Wikidata for player squad templates (example <https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorlage:Navigationsleiste_Kader_von_Montreal_Impact>) and player club history (example <https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambroise_Oyongo>). Needs more input on best practices and commitment to update data. - A command line client <https://github.com/nichtich/wdq#readme> to the SPARQL query service has been released - Query example: popularity of the given name Adolf <http://demo.seco.tkk.fi/visu/#/?sparqlEndpoint=https:%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fbigdata%2Fnamespace%2Fwdq%2Fsparql&query=PREFIX%20wikibase:%20%3Chttp:%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wd:%20%3Chttp:%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%20%0APREFIX%20wdt:%20%3Chttp:%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20rdfs:%20%3Chttp:%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2F01%2Frdf-schema%23%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20%3Fyear%20%28COUNT%20%28DISTINCT%20%3Fa%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Fa%20wdt:P735%20wd:Q18145837%20.%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%3Fa%20wdt:P569%20%3Fdate%20.%20%0A%20%20%20BIND%28year%28%3Fdate%29%20AS%20%3Fyear%29%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fyear%20ORDER%20BY%20%3Fyear&outputType=gchart&chartConfig=%7B%22containerId%22:%22chart%22,%22options%22:%7B%22hAxis%22:%7B%22useFormatFromData%22:false,%22viewWindow%22:%7B%22max%22:2000,%22min%22:1775%7D,%22minValue%22:1775,%22maxValue%22:2000,%22viewWindowMode%22:%22explicit%22,%22logScale%22:false,%22formatOptions%22:%7B%22source%22:%22inline%22,%22prefix%22:%22%22%7D,%22format%22:%220.%23%23%22,%22gridlines%22:%7B%22count%22:%228%22%7D,%22minorGridlines%22:%7B%22count%22:%224%22%7D%7D,%22title%22:%22%22,%22useFirstColumnAsDomain%22:true,%22vAxes%22:%5B%7B%22useFormatFromData%22:true,%22viewWindow%22:%7B%22max%22:null,%22min%22:null%7D,%22minValue%22:null,%22maxValue%22:null,%22logScale%22:false%7D,%7B%22useFormatFromData%22:true,%22viewWindow%22:%7B%22max%22:null,%22min%22:null%7D,%22minValue%22:null,%22maxValue%22:null,%22logScale%22:false%7D%5D,%22isStacked%22:false,%22animation%22:%7B%22duration%22:500%7D,%22booleanRole%22:%22certainty%22,%22legend%22:%22right%22,%22width%22:600,%22height%22:371,%22domainAxis%22:%7B%22direction%22:1%7D,%22series%22:%7B%220%22:%7B%22color%22:%22%23ff0000%22%7D%7D%7D,%22state%22:%7B%7D,%22view%22:%7B%7D,%22isDefaultVisualization%22:false,%22chartType%22:%22ColumnChart%22%7D> - MoMa artists have been added to Mix'n'match <https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/?mode=catalog_details&catalog=101> - Books without authors on Wikidata are now down to 12.5K from 25K since drive began. You can help get it down even further. <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/?action=noauthor> - Number of articles that are not connected to a Wikidata item on Catalan Wikipedia has been brought down significantly. <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/duplicity.php?mode=stats&wiki=cawiki> How about yours? - This Month in GLAM has Wikidata coverage <https://glamwiki.wordpress.com/2015/10/11/this-month-in-glam-september-2015/> - Interested in British politics? WikiProject British Politicians has some stats to show where you can help out <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_British_Politicians#Property_statistics> Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: median lethal dose <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2240>, first aid measures <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2239>, official symbol <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2238>, units used for this property <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2237>, external subproperty <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2236>, external superproperty <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2235>, volume for quantity <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2234>, semi-major axis <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2233>, cash <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2232>, explosive velocity <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2231>, torque <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2230>, Max TDP <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2229>, maximum thrust <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2228>, metallicity <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2227>, market capitalization <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2226>, discharge <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2225>, spectral line <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2224>, decay width <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2223>, gyromagnetic ratio <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2222>, flux <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2221>, household wealth <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2220>, real gross domestic product growth rate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2219>, net worth <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2218>, cruise speed <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2217>, radial velocity <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2216>, proper motion <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2215>, parallax <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2214>, longitude of ascending node <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2213>, angular distance <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2212>, position angle <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2211>, relative to <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2210>, SourceForge project <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2209>, average shot length <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2208>, Spotify track ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2207>, Discogs release ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2206>, Spotify album ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2205>, minimum explosive concentration <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2204>, upper flammable limit <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2203>, lower flammable limit <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2202>, dipole moment <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2201>, electric charge <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2200>, autoignition temperature <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2199>, (average) gradient <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2198>, production volume <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2197>, students count <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2196>, Soccerbase manager id <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2195>, PSS-Archi architect id <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2194>, Soccerbase player id <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2193>, endangeredlanguages.com ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2192>, NILF author id <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2191>, C-SPAN identifier of a person <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2190>, BiblioNet publisher identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2189>, BiblioNet author identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2188>, BiblioNet publication identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2187>, Wiki Loves Monuments ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2186>, DLI <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2185>, history of topic <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2184>, ISO 9:1995 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2183>, Finnish Ministers database ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2182>, Finnish MP ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2181>, Kansallisbiografia ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2180>, ACM Classification Code (2012) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2179>, solvent <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2178>, solubility <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2177>, drug used for treatment <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2176>, medical condition treated <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2175> Development - You'll now get redirected to the mobile view automatically on mobile devices (example <http://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1>) - Made it possible to use more entities on a page via Lua without running into Lua's memory limit - Added the Article Placeholder extension’s results to the search result page (this is one of a few remaining blockers before we can put it on a testsystem for you to try out and give feedback) - Added option to create a new article from Article Placeholder - More work on the new datatype for properties - More work on making meaningful edit summaries on the client. Found a few remaining bugs during testing. - More work on a birthday present :D You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>. Monthly Tasks - Hack on one of these <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/R8GRzX1eH0tb/#R>. - Help develop the next summary here! <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next> - Contribute to a Showcase item <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items> - Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats> or proofread pages in your own language! - Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above. Anything to add? Please share! :) Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
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