Hey folks :)

Here is your quick overview of what's been happening around Wikidata over
the past week.

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

   - Past: Wikimedia Research Showcase - A Glimpse into Babel: An Analysis
   of Multilinguality in Wikidata
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#September_2017>
   - Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop about the Austrian election data
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Wikidata_Wahldaten_Workshop_2017>,
   September 30th, Vienna
   - Upcoming: The next IRC office hour will take place on November 14th,
   19:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2) on the channel #wikimedia-office
   - Weekend at the Museum (of Brittany)
   <https://www.lehir.net/weekend-at-the-museum-of-brittany>

Other Noteworthy Stuff

   - Wikidata's 5th birthday is about 1 month away. Time to think about
   birthday presents? ;-)
   - Siri shows more information based on Wikidata in iOS 11
   <https://twitter.com/sjoerddebruin/status/910487090026221568>
   - 2 funding proposals are looking for comments and support: soweego
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Hjfocs/soweego> and
   CrossWikiFact
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/DBpedia/CrossWikiFact>
   - Quick graph of the relation of the number of labels in a given
   language on Wikidata and the number of first language speakers of that
   language <https://twitter.com/frimelle/status/910918203953557505>

Did you know?

   - Newest properties
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: candidate number
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4243>, maximal rate of climb
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4242>, refine date
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4241>, regular expression syntax
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4240>, vocalized name
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4239>, webcam page URL
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4238>, Heritage Building in
   Finland ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4237>, PatientLikeMe
   symptom ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4236>, PatientLikeMe
   treatment ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4235>, PatientLikeMe
   condition ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4233>, Figshare
   author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4232>
   - Query examples: standards bodies by number of standards they are
   connected to
   
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ABubbleChart%0ASELECT%20%3Fbody%20%3FbodyLabel%20%20%28COUNT%28%3Fstandard%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%0A%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%0A%20%20%3Fstandard%20wdt%3AP1462%20%3Fbody%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%09%09bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fbody%20%3FbodyLabel%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29%0A>
   (source <https://twitter.com/WikiDigi/status/910855968245903360>)

Development

   - Rolled out more fine-grained usage tracking on Greek Wikipedia. This
   will lead to less irrelevant changes showing up in watchlist and recent
   changes on those projects. We're testing this on Greek Wikipedia to see if
   the solution we have scales before rolling it out further. (
   phabricator:T151717 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151717>)
   - Adding an API module to copy a statement from one item to another (
   phabricator:T55619 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T55619>)
   - Working more on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references
   (phabricator:T168532 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168532>)
   - Added support for the Creator namespace to the constraints check for
   Commons links (phabricator:T176062
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176062>)
   - Fixed an error message on Special:GoToLinkedPage (phabricator:T176327
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176327>)
   - Finishing touches on including full URIs for external IDs in the RDF
   export (phabricator:T121274 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121274>)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>.
Monthly Tasks

   - Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed
   above.
   - Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview>
   - Suggested and open tasks
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contribute/Suggested_and_open_tasks>
   !
   - Contribute to a Showcase item
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Showcase_items>
   .
   - Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats>
   or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
   - Help merge identical items
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge> across
   Wikimedia projects.
   - Help write the next summary!
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next>

Anything to add? Please share! :)

Cheers
Lydia

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

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