Hey folks :)

Here is your summary of what happened around Wikidata over the past week.

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

   - Connecting OpenStreetMap and Wikidata
   <https://www.mapbox.com/blog/id-wikidata/>, blog post by Mapbox
   - Past: office hour on IRC (log
   
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2016/wikimedia-office.2016-07-08-16.03.log.html>
   )
   - Now: ISMB 2016 Editathon
   
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Computational_Biology/ISMB_2016_Editathon>
   - Upcoming: Viquimarató de Wikidata sobre Ramon Llull
   
<http://www.cccb.org/ca/activitats/fitxa/de-lars-combinatoria-a-wikidata/224219>
   - Upcoming: OpenSym <http://www.opensym.org/os2016/>
   - Monitoring the Gender Gap with Wikidata Human Gender Indicators
   <http://wigi.wmflabs.org/monitoring-gender-gap.pdf>
   - An Empirical Evaluation of Property Recommender Systems for Wikidata
   and Collaborative Knowledge Bases
   <http://www.evazangerle.at/wp-content/papercite-data/pdf/opensym16.pdf>
   - Mapping street names to Wikidata entities they refer to and enriching
   OpenStreetMap with linked data
   <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-42089-9_1>

Other Noteworthy Stuff

   - The removal of Persondata
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Persondata> from the English
   Wikipedia is completed. There are still much information to migrate to
   Wikidata at KasparBot's tool
   <https://tools.wmflabs.org/kasparbot/persondata/>.
   - Tour de France data is coming from Wikidata in at least 3 Wikipedias
   <https://twitter.com/JGH_JAEHNICK/status/750075844652072961>
   - Freebase API will be shut down on August 31
   - TXT Werk <http://www.txt-werk.de/> is now using Wikidata to identify
   entities (previously Freebase)
   - Magnus' reference drag and drop script is now a gadget
   - Got an idea for a cool project around Wikidata but need some funding?
   A project grant <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/07/01/project-grants/>
   might be an option.
   - There are several full PhD/postdoc positions available at TU Dresden
   with Markus including work on Wikidata
   <https://iccl.inf.tu-dresden.de/web/Stellenausschreibung4/en>
   - Magnus' Wiki Loves Monuments tool now also reads cultural identifiers
   from Wikidata and was switched to use SPARQL
   <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wlmuk/index_wd.html>

Did you know?

   - Newest properties
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: archive date
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2960>, permanent duplicated item
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2959>, throughput
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2957>, NAIF ID
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2956>, point of penalty
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2955>, Transferred Account Data
   Interchange Group Code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2954>, Estonian
   Research Portal person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2953>,
   bateau d'intérêt patrimonial
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2952>, Cultural heritage
   database in Austria ObjektID
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2951>, Nomisma ID
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2950>, WikiTree ID
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2949>, Estonian cultural
   monument ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2948>, BacDive ID
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2946>
   - Query examples: timeline of space probes
   
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ATimeline%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Flaunchdate%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fimage%29%20AS%20%3Fimage%29%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%09%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ26529%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP619%20%3Flaunchdate%20.%0A%09SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Flaunchdate>
   (source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/750336305679241216>),
countries
   with most UNESCO World Heritage Sites
   
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ABubbleChart%0ASELECT%20distinct%20%3Fcountry%20%3FcountryLabel%20%20%28count%28%3Fsite%29%20as%20%3Fsites%29%0A%0AWHERE%20%7B%20%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%3Fsite%20wdt%3AP1435%20wd%3AQ9259%20.%20%0A%20%20%3Fsite%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fcountry%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%09%09bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%09%7D%0A%7D%0A%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fcountry%20%3FcountryLabel%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fsites%29%0A>
   (source <https://twitter.com/Histropedia/status/751726988872839168>), places
   in America named after places in England
   
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3FplaceInAmerica%20%3FplaceInEngland%20%3FamericaName%20%3FenglandName%20%3FamericaLocation%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%3FplaceInAmerica%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ1496967%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP17%20wd%3AQ30%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP138%20%3FplaceInEngland%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP625%20%3FamericaLocation.%0A%20%20%3FplaceInEngland%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ1496967%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP17%20wd%3AQ145.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FplaceInAmerica%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FamericaName.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FplaceInEngland%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FenglandName.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D>
   (source <https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/751867482542137344>), emergency
   number by country size
   
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23Emergency%20numbers%20by%20population%20using%20them%0A%23Lists%20emergency%20numbers%20and%20the%20total%20amount%20of%20people%20which%20can%20use%20them%0A%23defaultView%3ABubbleChart%0ASELECT%20%3FemergencyNumber%20%3FemergencyNumberLabel%20%3Ftel%20%3Fpopulation%20%3Fcountries%20%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%3FemergencyNumber%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ694554%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%7BSELECT%20%3FemergencyNumber%20%28COUNT%28%3Fstate%29%20as%20%3Fcountries%29%20%28SUM%28%3Fpop%29%20as%20%3Fpopulation%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%09%3Fstate%20wdt%3AP2852%20%3FemergencyNumber%20.%0A%20%20%09OPTIONAL%7B%3Fstate%20wdt%3AP2046%20%3Fpop%7D%20.%0A%20%20%09%3Fstate%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ6256%0A%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3FemergencyNumber%20%7D%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%7B%3FemergencyNumber%20wdt%3AP1329%20%3Ftel%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fpopulation%29>
   (source <https://twitter.com/RSeppelt/status/751381151529463808>)

Development

   - Working on an infographic <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T132782>
   to represent the flow of data in Wikidata
   - Work on multi-content revisions in order to be able to store an entity
   (item, property, mediainfo) and wiki text in the same page (This is needed
   for Commons) (phabricator:T107595
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107595>)
   - Did more interviews with editors as preparation for the work on
   automated list generation for Wikipedia and co based on Wikidata data
   - Fixed a bug with data parsing in Korean and a few other languages (
   phabricator:T139509 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139509>)
   - Added "non" as a language code for monolingual text values (
   phabricator:T137115 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137115>)
   - Removed display of calendar model for dates with precision of 10 years
   or larger (phabricator:T133973
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133973>)
   - Fixed issues in some of the forms on special pages on mobile (
   phabricator:T138413 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138413>)
   - Disabled PDF export in item and property pages (phabricator:T136814
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136814>)
   - Worked on making it possible to have quantities with no bounds set (
   phabricator:T115270 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115270>)

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!
   - Help merge identical items
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge> across
   Wikimedia projects.
   - 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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