Hey folks :)

Greetings from Gothenburg. Here's your 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>

   - slides for SPARQL and Wikidata intro by shonagon- École de
   Bibliothécaires Documentalistes
   
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SparQL_-_Wikidata_-_%C3%89cole_de_Biblioth%C3%A9caires_Documentalistes_-_2016-04-04.pdf>
   - Upcoming: WWW 2016 <http://www2016.ca>
   - Upcoming: WikiCite 2016 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016>
   - Past: Wikimedia hackathon.
      - Some of the things that were worked on (but are not finished yet):
         - Easier referencing like it is done in VisualEditor
         - Data imports including National Library of Israel
         - Getting the ArticlePlaceholder ready for deployment on the first
         small Wikipedias
         - Updated maps of the geocoordinates in Wikidata (Adam will
         publish a blog post with them soon)
         - Improvements for Librarybase <http://librarybase.wmflabs.org/>
         - Automated language links for Wiktionary
         - Cleanup of existing data import tools
      - partial group photo
      <https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/716308037758291969>
   - Objetos culturales y metadatos: hacia la liberación de datos en
   Wikidata
   
<http://www.ub.edu/blokdebid/es/content/objetos-culturales-y-metadatos-hacia-la-liberacion-de-datos-en-wikidata>

Other Noteworthy Stuff

   - Lucie published her thesis about supporting small Wikipedias through
   article placeholders based on Wikidata
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-April/008458.html>
   - This article
   
<https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D1%82%D1%82%D0%BE,_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8C>
   from Russian Wikipedia is generated only with Lua Module and Listeria,
   based on its Wikidata item.
   - If you're into Wikidata, GLAM and Facebook there is now a Facebook
   group <https://www.facebook.com/groups/Wikidata.GLAM/> for you.
   - There are 4 new games
   <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/distributed/> to help with the
   migration of the Persondata template on English Wikipedia.
   - There was a huge increase in the number of qualifiers over the last 2
   weeks. It went from 2.6 to 3.7 Million due to additions of qualifiers for
   evidence codes on human and mouse proteins.
   - Interested in seeing Wikidata training sessions at Wikimania? Add
   yourself to interested attendees for the sessions
   <https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Training_sessions>.
   - PetScan now has item creator functionality.
   
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/PetScan/en#Create_Wikidata_items_for_Wikipedia_articles_that_don.27t_have_one_yet_.28Creator_functionality.29>
   - The catalog of the National Library of Israel has been added to
   Mix'n'match
   <https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/?mode=catalog_details&catalog=192>
   - Great examples on French and Russian Wikipedia for infobox based on
   Wikidata: fr:Andrew Tanenbaum
   <https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Tanenbaum>, ru:Таненбаум, Эндрю
   
<https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BC,_%D0%AD%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D1%8E>
   and references based on Wikidata: fr:Trappeur
   <https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trappeur>, ru:Доказательство с нулевым
   разглашением
   
<https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%BE_%D1%81_%D0%BD%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%8B%D0%BC_%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5%D0%BC>

Did you know?

   - Newest properties
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: dataset
   distribution <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2702>, file format
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2701>, protocol
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2700>, URL
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2699>, CricketArchive player ID
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2698>, ESPNcricinfo player ID
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2697>, FIG gymnast identifier
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2696>, type locality
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2695>, ISU figure skater
   identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2694>, New York
   Times Semantic Concept: Descriptor
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2693>, New York Times Semantic
   Concept: Location <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2692>, New
   York Times Semantic Concept: Organization
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2691>, New York Times Semantic
   Concept: Person <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2690>, BARTOC ID
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2689>, Box Office Mojo person ID
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2688>, NDL JPNO
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2687>, Opensecrets Identifier
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2686>, Basketball-Reference.com
   NBA player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2685>, Kijkwijzer
   rating <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2684>, Bekker Number
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2683>, is verso of
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2682>, is recto of
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2681>, author of afterword
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2680>, author of foreword
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2679>, Russiancinema.ru film ID
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2678>, relative position within
   image <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2677>, rating certificate
   ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2676>, reply to
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2675>
   - Newest WikiProjects
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>:
   Historical Place
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Historical_Place>
   - Query examples: phrases
   
<https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fq%20%3FqLabel%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%09%3Fq%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ187931.%20%0A%09SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%7D>,
   Redewendungen
   
<https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fq%20%3FqLabel%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%09%3Fq%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ15841920.%0A%09SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%7D>,
   most commons eponyms
   
<https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Feponym%20%28COUNT%28%3Fitem%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fitem%29%20AS%20%3Fsample%29%0AWHERE%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP138%20%3Feponym.%20%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Feponym%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29>

Development

   - 4 years ago we started coding on Wikidata. What a ride it has been and
   continues to be. <3 to everyone who is a part of it.
   - We are going to make a change to the RDF format for geocoordinates.
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-April/008464.html>
   - Here is a preview of geospatial search on the query service.
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-April/008461.html>
   - The query service now has bubble charts as a visualization option (
   example
   
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ABubbleChart%0ASELECT%20distinct%20%3Fitem%20%20%3FitemLabel%20%28%3Fend%20-%20%3Fstart%20as%20%3Fduration%29%0A%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20%28wdt%3AP361%29*%20wd%3AQ362%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ178561%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP580%20%3Fstart%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP582%20%3Fend%20.%0A%20%20%0A%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%7D%0A%0A%7D%0A%0A%0A>
   )
   - Busy at the Wikimedia hackathon.

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

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