Hey folks :)

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

Discussions

   - Notability of items for templates
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Notability_of_items_for_templates>
   - One or more property examples?
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property_talk:P1855#Multi_or_single_value.3F>

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

   - Ongoing: Repository Fringe
   <http://rfringe16.blogs.edina.ac.uk/wikidata-wikisource-showcase/>
   - Ongoing: ICBO <http://icbo.cgrb.oregonstate.edu/> (slides
   
<http://www.slideshare.net/goodb/opportunities-and-challenges-presented-by-wikidata-in-the-context-of-biocuration>
   )
   - Upcoming: CCBWIKI
   
<http://www.wikimedia.org.br/content/confirmado-primeiro-keynote-speaker-do-ccbwiki>
   - Localités au fil de l'eau
   
<https://darkoneko.wordpress.com/2016/07/25/jouons-avec-wikidata-localites-au-fil-de-leau/>
   - WDQ, obsolete? <http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=410>
   - BigQuery, Wikidata & AgreeList — idea
   
<https://medium.com/@HectorPerez/bigquery-wikidata-agreelist-idea-50ac8657dcb8#.tc3wgrwal>

Other Noteworthy Stuff

   - You can now see the very first steps towards structured data support
   for Wikimedia Commons.
   
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Structured_data#It.27s_alive.21>
   - You can now translate all sister project pages to your language, like
   Wikidata:Wikipedia <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikipedia>.
   Please, link to them from your projects to give your fellow users chance to
   learn Wikidata basics.
   - You can now enable the CoordinateDiffMap Gadget in your preferences to
   get a map for coordinate changes.
   - There is a new command line tool to extract taxonomies from Wikidata
   <https://www.npmjs.com/package/wikidata-taxonomy>
   - Simple guide
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Finding_a_Wikidata_ID> to help
   Wikipedia editors find Wikidata IDs. In English - please translate into
   other languages!
   - You can now use Wikidata to do cool things in Mapbox with the Mapbox
   iOS SDK <https://www.mapbox.com/blog/ios-feature-querying/>
   - IPTC's NewsCodes Working Group has mapped the top two levels of
   hierarchical terms of Media Topics to Wikidata
   <https://iptc.org/news/wikidata/>
   - WMDE's progress report for the annual plan grant with a focus on
   Wikidata has been published
   
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2015-2016_round1/Wikimedia_Deutschland_e.V./Progress_report_form>
   - Need to query Wikidata, but lack SPARQL skills? There is now
Wikidata:Request
   a query <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Request_a_query> for you!

Did you know?

   - Newest properties
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: residence time
   of water <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3020>, railway
   signalling system <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3019>, located
   in protected area <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3018>, Rolling
   Stone artist ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3017>, French
   national research structure identifier
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3016>, backup or reserve team
   or crew <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3015>, laws applied
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3014>, surface tension
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3013>, Standard Geographical
   Classification code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3012>, World
   Archery ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3010>, Conservatoire
   du littoral ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3009>, Australian
   Heritage Database Place ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3008>,
   Cadw Monument ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3007>, Marine
   Regions Geographic ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3006>, valid
   in place <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3005>, Galiciana ID
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3004>, zanikleobce.cz abandoned
   objects ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3003>, Untappd
   brewery ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3002>, retirement age
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3001>
   - Query examples: frequency of Romans' praenomen
   
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Frequency%20of%20Roman%20praenomina%20in%20Wikidata%0A%23%20Reference%20list%20at%20%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fwiki%2FWikidata%3AWikiProject_Names%2Flists%2FRoman_praenomen%0A%23%20by%20Jura1%2C%202016-07-37%2C%20thanks%20to%20data%20recently%20added%20by%20Ep%C3%ACdosis%0A%23defaultView%3ABubbleChart%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fholder%29%20as%20%3Fsample%29%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fholder%29%20as%20%3Fct%29%0A%7B%0A%20%20%09%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ1240901%20.%20%0A%20%20%09OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fholder%20wdt%3AP2358%20%3Fitem%20%7D%20%0A%20%20%09MINUS%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ4167410%20%7D%20%0A%20%20%09MINUS%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ101352%20%7D%0A%20%20%09SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel>
   (source
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Names/lists/Roman_praenomen>),
   movies by number of actors who studied at RADA
   
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Movies%20by%20number%20of%20actors%20who%20studied%20at%20RADA%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%28COUNT%28%3Factors%29%20AS%20%3FnbActors%29%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ11424%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP161%20%3Factors%20.%0A%20%20%3Factors%20wdt%3AP69%20wd%3AQ523926%20.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3FnbActors%29>
   (source <https://twitter.com/ash_crow/status/759070617937317888>), actors
   directed by Tony Scott + number of appearances
   
<https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Factor%20%3FactorLabel%20%3FFilmCount%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Factor%20%28COUNT%28%3Ffilm%29%20AS%20%3FFilmCount%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Ffilm%20wdt%3AP57%20wd%3AQ193648.%0A%20%20%3Ffilm%20wdt%3AP161%20%3Factor.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Factor%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3FFilmCount%29>
   (source <https://twitter.com/Coyau/status/759740545694437376>), actors
   directed more than 20 times by the same director
   
<https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fdirector%20%3FdirectorLabel%20%3Factor%20%3FactorLabel%20%3FFilmCount%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fdirector%20%3Factor%20%28COUNT%28%3Ffilm%29%20AS%20%3FFilmCount%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Ffilm%20wdt%3AP57%20%3Fdirector.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Ffilm%20wdt%3AP161%20%3Factor.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fdirector%20%3Factor%0A%20%20%20%20HAVING%20%28%3FFilmCount%20%3E%2020%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3FFilmCount%29%20%3FdirectorLabel%20%3FactorLabel>
   (source <https://twitter.com/PoulpyWP/status/759750447691292673>), actors
   directed more than 20 times by the same director with years
   
<https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fdirector%20%3FdirectorLabel%20%3Factor%20%3FactorLabel%20%3FfilmCount%20%3FminYear%20%3FmaxYear%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fdirector%20%3Factor%20%28COUNT%28%3Ffilm%29%20AS%20%3FfilmCount%29%20%28MIN%28%3Fyear%29%20AS%20%3FminYear%29%20%28MAX%28%3Fyear%29%20AS%20%3FmaxYear%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Ffilm%20wdt%3AP57%20%3Fdirector.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Ffilm%20wdt%3AP161%20%3Factor.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Ffilm%20wdt%3AP577%20%3Fdate%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20BIND%20%28YEAR%28%3Fdate%29%20AS%20%3Fyear%29%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fdirector%20%3Factor%0A%20%20%20%20HAVING%20%28%3FfilmCount%20%3E%2020%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3FfilmCount%29%20%3FdirectorLabel%20%3FactorLabel>
   (source <https://twitter.com/PoulpyWP/status/759755366062141446>)
   - Newest database reports: list of Romans
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Ancient_Rome/lists/people>,
   minimum ages by country
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/age_limits>

Development

   - Got the demo system for structured data on Commons ready for first
   show (see above)
   - Wikipedia editors will soon get a notification when an article they
   created was connected to a Wikidata item. Thanks Matej! (
   phabricator:T110604 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110604>)
   - Worked on improving handling of +-1 etc in quantities (
   phabricator:T115269 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115269>)
   - Added a message to the suggester that pops up when you search for
   items or properties. When no matching property or item is found it will now
   tell you. (phabricator:T140085
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140085>)
   - Considerably improved our browser tests to find more issues before You
   ever see them.
   - Added Haida as a language available for monolingual text properties (
   phabricator:T138131 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138131>)

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

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Product Manager for Wikidata

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