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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Do we want automatic inverse property creation and if so, how should they happen?
- Press/Blogs
- Introduction to Wikidata as a platform and data source
- Europeana Innovation Agenda
- The Hand-editor’s Tale
- mySociety 2018 report including their work on Wikidata
- Using WikiData API to get the sense of words
- The Evolution of Power and Standard Wikidata Editors: Comparing Editing Behavior over Time to Predict Lifespan and Volume of Edits
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- In Pywikibot, you can now add a new statement with qualifiers and/or references in a single edit (phab:T112577, phab:T170432)
- A couple of gran proposals under review need your input and endorsement
- There are now over 2 million Wikidata infoboxes on Commons!
- Happy New Year! (L40653)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: bgm.tv character identifier, ACB.com coach ID, bgm.tv person identifier, PC-9801DB ID, Hymnary author ID, The Armory Show at 100 ID, Dictionnaire de spiritualité ID, Swedish Anbytarforum, researchportal.helsinki.fi profile ID, Wikimedia OTRS ticket number, AllMusic performance ID, Wikibase Registry ID, Scoresway tennis person ID, Historical RNA ID, Muséosphère work ID, pressball.by player ID, premierliga.ru staff ID, premierliga.ru referee ID, WorldFootball.net referee ID, TheFinalBall referee ID, TheFinalBall coach ID, RusTeam player ID, CFU player ID, AIC player ID, AMFR player ID, teams.by player ID, vehicle identification number, Centre Pompidou ID, INE ID (Portugal)
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: agglomerative, urban population, rural population, Linear reference, located in urban area
- External identifiers: SHARE-VDE author ID, Panorama de l'art ID, PCGamingWiki ID, MDWS place ID, JKT48 member ID, Uppsala General Catalogue ID
- Query examples:
- Graph of student-master relationship of Christian Thielemann #Neujahrskonzert (source)
- Cricket teams in the world by number of players and their gender (source)
- Buildings designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer (source)
- Species have been named after Donald Trump (source)
- Catchphrases (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Not much happened this week because we took some time off over the holidays. Getting back to full speed again in the next days.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!