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 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. 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