Wikidata:Status updates/2016 03 12

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-03-12.

Events/Press/Blogs

• Upcoming: WikiArabia
• Upcoming: Wikimedia Hackathon
• Upcoming: digikult.se
• Wikidata Tour Down-Under
• Open culture session at Open Belgium

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Coming to Wikimania? Consider submitting a Wikidata related poster, training or discussion! Deadline is on the 20th.
• Wikidata has passed the milestone of 1 Billion Datapoints (Triples) on Wednesday, 9th of March.
• Wikidata Graph Builder now supports arbitrary SPARQL queries (example)
• ESWC 2016 has a new Wikidata Bonus Challenge
• Playing with Wikidata in BigQuery
• There will be server maintenance work next week on all Wikimedia servers that will prevent editing for a short time.
• Wikidata external ID resolver now uses SPARQL and supports lookup of properties via English name (fragment)
• iSpecies now has multilingual summaries and links to Wikidata (example)
• Awarder lets you add awards to a biographical item, or use the Wikipedia text of the award to add all recipients]
• A new version of the Wikidata nuclide chart is online

Did you know?

• Newest properties: thickness, World Heritage criteria (2005), Valencian Property of Local Relevance id, BookBrainz creator ID, PlayStation ID, ČSFD person ID, Kinopoisk person ID, Kinopoisk film ID, Hockeydb.com player ID, Eurohockey.com player ID, Geni.com profile ID, block size, serial number, Gram staining, culture, maximum gradient, Latvian Olympic Committee athlete ID
• Query examples: Number of museums by U. S. state on map, Film directors ranked by number of sitelinks multiplied by their number of films, all museums in Barcelona with coordinates, women mushers, women scientists, women artists, air accidents, Twitter accounts of biologists, torture devices, public art in Paris, Locations of Pablo Picasso works

Development

• We reduced the loading time of items significantly. Enjoy a faster Wikidata :)

  

  Faster!!!

• Wikidata Query GUI now supports maps. Check it out with one of the example queries above. (Select Map under Display results menu).
• Pywikibot now has SPARQL endpoint support.
• We worked on getting the first pieces of Commons support on a test system. Nothing shiny to see yet but we're making progress.
• Converted more identifier to the new identifier datatype. Still some to go but 450 properties have been converted by now.
• Updated the data that generates suggestions when adding a new statement

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Monthly Tasks

• Hack on one of these.
• Help develop the next summary here!
• Contribute to a Showcase item
• Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Anything to add? Please share! :)