Wikidata:Status updates/2016 12 17

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-12-17.

Discussions

• Voting on Make family member properties gender neutral: replacement of mother/father with a new "parent" properties
• Switch Wikidata entities from http to https: T153563

Events/Press/Blogs

• Blog post about the Wikidata workshop at Code for Germany (de)
• Wikidata people will be at the Chaos Communication Congress (Hamburg, December 27th-30th) on the Open Knowledge Assembly stand

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Basque language Wikipedia develops a most prominent basque and worlwide person born/death in this day for all the day related articles. For example, eu:Abenduaren 19. It also displays interesting red links for people born and dead that day that are not represented in eu:wp.
• WDQ about to be shut down (you can add sub-tasks for remaining uses to T153439)
• SQID now supports PrimarySources
• Project Grants program will fund 12 community-led projects, several of them directly related to Wikidata
• Citoid, a script for editing references that can automatically populate parts of the reference, is now available for testing!
• New parser function has been enabled
• Histropedia added new features to the Wikidata query timeline

Did you know?

• Newest properties: Yle Areena ID, Leopoldina member ID, Protected areas of Canada ID, Saxon Academy of Sciences member ID, Clergy of the Church of England database ID, Catalogus Professorum Lipsiensis ID, FINA Athlete ID, Klosterdatenbank, Saccharomyces Genome Database ID, Nederlands Soortenregister ID, The Vogue List ID, coextensive with
• Query examples:
  • Timeline of the Christmas movies (source)
  • All Theatre World Award winners, in a timeline with pictures (source)
  • Birthplaces of people buried in Norra Begravningsplatsen (source)
  • Planets, their moons, and the things they are named after (source)
  • Items with no father or no mother (source)
  • People born on Christmas day (source)
• Newest external tools: “short author name” resolver tool
• Newest database reports: hospital lists

Development

• Statements will soon be ordered as specified in MediaWiki:Wikibase-SortedProperties (phab:T150788)
• Getting ready the basic Lexeme prototype (phab:T146662), we're discussing some details in the data model (phab:T152019)
• Continued work on federation basics (phab:T149580)
• We removed the page property wb-status, old entries will not be updated any more (phab:T146792)
• Removed a visible jump while an entity page loads (gerrit:325924)
• Fixed a formatting issue in which the geo coordinate formatter may output "60 seconds" (phab:T153429)
• Fixed a bug in Special:NewProperty where it was not possible to provide the property type as part of the URL (phab:327496)
• Working on a major rewrite of Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel/Description, one of many steps to phase numeric entity IDs out (phab:T140891)

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.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
• Help with one of the bot requests
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.