Hey folks :) Here is your summary of what's been happening around Wikidata over the past week. Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Jarekt <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Jarekt> - New request for comments: Changes to P2737 and P2738 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Changes_to_P2737_and_P2738>, Privacy and Living People <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Privacy_and_Living_People> Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>/ Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Upcoming: IRC office hour on January 30th - you can share ideas for topics to discuss <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Next_IRC_office_hour_on_January_30th> - Call for papers for WikiIndaba is open <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiIndaba_conference_2018/Submissions> - Scholarship applications for Wikimania are open <https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships> - Registration is open for the Wikimedia hackathon <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2018> - Paper submission deadline for Wiki Workshop <http://wikiworkshop.org/2018/> (part of The Web Conference) is closing later this month - *The Tom Longboat Awards as Wikidata <https://librarian.aedileworks.com/2017/12/19/the-tom-longboat-awards-as-wikidata/>* - Mita Williams - *Using the Semantic Web to Improve Knowledge of Translations <http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/dc-2017/paper/view/496/609>* - Karen Smith-Yoshimura (OCLC) - *There is no deadline so every second is one: on anxiety, perfectionism, and Wikimedia projects <https://commonists.wordpress.com/2018/01/03/there-is-no-deadline-so-every-second-is-one-on-anxiety-perfectionism-and-wikimedia-projects/>* by Léna - *Up2date software versions for Wikidata <https://www.schoenitzer.de/blog/2018/Up2date%20softwareversions%20for%20Wikidata.html> by Michi <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:MichaelSchoenitzer>* Other Noteworthy Stuff - Wikidata will be in *read-only mode* on January 9th from 06:00 to 06:30 UTC <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Wikidata_in_read-only_for_30min_on_January_9th> - The WikidataCon 2017 report <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference/WMDE/WikidataCon/Report> has been published - Results of two research projects for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data> have just been published: - Supporting Commons contributions by GLAM institutions <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Supporting_Commons_contribution_by_GLAM_institutions>: an overview of how cultural institutions contribute to Wikimedia Commons, and which issues they encounter there - Baseline Metrics for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Baseline_Metrics_for_Structured_Data_on_Wikimedia_Commons>: an overview of measurable behaviors on Wikimedia Commons, against which the effectiveness of structured data can be measured in the future - You can start organizing an event for Wikidata's 6th birthday <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Sixth_Birthday> in October 2018 - A short summary of the workshop with historians using Wikibase to collect data about the Illuminati has been published at Wikidata:FactGrid <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:FactGrid> - How would the World look like if countries were as large as their Wikidata items are used across the Wikimedia projects? <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikidata_Concepts_Monitor/WDCM_Journal#§_WDCM_Journal,_4._January_2018._The_Twisted_Geography_of_Wikidata> - New catalogs in Mix'n'match - for example Rolling Stone artist <https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/#/catalog/836>] - New tool: Hub <https://tools.wmflabs.org/hub/> Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: MuBE Virtual ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4721>, Basketball-Reference.com WNBA coach ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4720>, Basketball-Reference.com NBA coach ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4718>, Académie française member ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4717>, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres member ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4716>, Guide to North American Birds ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4715>, title page number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4714>, Walters Art Museum ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4713>, Minneapolis Institute of Art artwork ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4712>, CHGIS ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4711>, Guardiana ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4710>, Barnes Foundation ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4709>, VOGRIPA ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4708>, Rugby Canada ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4707>, Ent'revues ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4706>, World of Spectrum ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4705>, Smithsonian American Art Museum ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4704> - Query examples: - Events starting in 2017 and ending in 2018, shortest duration first <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20events%20starting%20in%202017%20and%20ending%20in%202018%2C%20shortest%20duration%20first%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fstart%20%3Fend%20%3FdurationInDays%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ1656682%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP580%2Fpsv%3AP580%20%5B%20wikibase%3AtimeValue%20%3Fstart%3B%20wikibase%3AtimePrecision%20%3FstartPrecision%20%5D%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP582%2Fpsv%3AP582%20%5B%20wikibase%3AtimeValue%20%3Fend%3B%20wikibase%3AtimePrecision%20%3FendPrecision%20%5D.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%222017-01-01%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%20%3C%3D%20%3Fstart%20%26%26%20%3Fstart%20%3C%20%222018-01-01%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%29%0A%20%20FILTER%28%222018-01-01%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%20%3C%3D%20%3Fend%20%26%26%20%3Fend%20%3C%20%222019-01-01%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%29%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3FstartPrecision%20%3E%3D%2010%20%26%26%20%3FendPrecision%20%3E%3D%2010%29%20%23%20precision%2010%20%3D%20month%0A%20%20BIND%28%3Fend%20-%20%3Fstart%20AS%20%3FdurationInDays%29%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%2Cfr%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20ASC%28%3FdurationInDays%29> (source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/947539555187675136>) - Newest database reports: days of 2018 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Calendar_Dates/lists/days/2018> Development - Tweaked the ranking of the results in the entity suggester - Finished persistently storing edits of statements on forms ( phabricator:T163724 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163724>) - Cleaned up some of the hard-coded demo data on the demo system for lexicographical data <http://wikidata-lexeme.wmflabs.org> - Working on diff support for Forms on Lexemes (phabricator:T182424 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182424>) - Prevented checking of constraints on "Wikidata property example" statements (phabricator:T183267 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183267>) - Added link to the property's talk page to the constraint violation dialog to guide people there to discuss the constraint if necessary ( phabricator:T164351 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164351>) 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 Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. 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