Hey folks :)

Here's your short summary of what's been happening around Wikidata over the
past week.

Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>

   - How many female scientists are there on Wikipedia? This time with
   SPARQL!
   
<http://ashtree.eu/wordpress/mais-combien-y-a-t-il-de-femmes-scientifiques-sur-wikipedia-this-time-with-sparql/>
   (French)
   - Wikidata Enpoint SPARQL and the paintings of Goya Wikidata's SPARQL
   endpoint and the paintings of Goya
   <http://zone47.com/dozo/wikidata-enpoint-sparql-et-les-peintures-de-goya>
   (French)
   - Upcoming: 3rd Birthday \o/ (Please don't forget to register
   
<https://www.eventbrite.de/e/wikidatas-3-geburtstag-wikidatas-3rd-birthday-registration-18899772729>
   if you're coming to the party.)
   - More wrapups of Wikiconference USA including slides: [1]
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-October/007355.html>,
   [2]
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-October/007358.html>

Other Noteworthy Stuff

   - Magnus overhauled the Wikidata Game!
   <http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=362> Sweeeeeet! Now includes one
   where you can match an author and a publication
   <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/distributed/#game=9>. And it
   has stats
   <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/distributed/#mode=stats>.
   - Mix'n'match got skyscrapers to match up
   <https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/?mode=catalog_details&catalog=106>
   for you.
   - Sitelinks and P569
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jura1/sitelinks_and_P569> compares
   various Wikipedias by the proportion of items with date of birth (
   Property:P569 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P569>)
   - Catalan Wikipedia match up all of their articles to items on Wikidata
   <https://twitter.com/AmicalWikimedia/status/655022833140154368>.
   Congrats!

Did you know?

   - Newest properties
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: periapsis
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2244>, apoapsis
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2243>, Florentine musea
   catalogue ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2242>, reason for
   deprecation <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2241>

Development

   - Worked on adding auto-completion for item and property prefixes to the
   SPARQL query editor (so you can search by label when entering a query)
   - Wrote maintenance script for changing some properties from datatype
   string to upcoming datatype identifier
   - More work on birthday present
   - More work on the article placeholder to get it ready for a first demo
   - Prepared patch for also publishing JSON dumps with bzip2 compression
   - Further improved edit summaries we show on Wikipedia etc
   - Prepared for giving Wikispecies, Meta and Mediawiki access to the
   sitelinks on Wikidata on 20. of October

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

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Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager for Wikidata

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