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

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

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