2016[edit]

19-11-2016
26-11-2016
03-12-2016
10-12-2016
17-12-2016
24-12-2016
31-12-2016

2017[edit]

Status update 19 nov 2016[edit]

Status update 19 nov 2016

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-11-19.

Discussions[edit]

New request for comments: How to make new languages enabled on Wikidata

Events/Press/Blogs[edit]

Problematizing and Addressing the Article as Concept Assumption in Wikipedia (Q27827559)
schema.org, Wikidata, Knowledge Graph: strands of the modern semantic web by Dan Scott

Other Noteworthy Stuff[edit]

Parlement & Politiek ID (P1749) has been completed in Mix'n'match. Over 5000 politicians from the Netherlands (and also Belgium) now have a link to this resource
Two policies about abandoned tools on Tool Labs are currently voted on
The Community Wishlist Survey is now closed and the vote phase will start on November 28. Here's the category for Wikidata
Data import hub and Data import guide: feel free to give feedbacks on these documents!

Did you know?[edit]

Development[edit]

Unit conversion has been rolled out for the first dimension for a short while now.
Undo diffs now utilize language fallbacks for property and item labels (gerrit:315291). Thanks to Matěj Suchánek!
Reworked database schema for Cognate (the extension that will do automatic interwiki links for Wiktionary). It is still waiting for security review before it can be deployed.
Worked more on basic version of Lexeme entity type
Fixed a bug where the links on action=info were wrong (phabricator:T149598)
Getting close to finishing the groundwork for Federation so that in the future you'll be able to use Wikidata's items and properties to describe files on Commons.
Added Innu-aimun as a language for monolingual text values (phabricator:T151129)
Worked on linking to Wikipedia articles in the statements on an ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T113955)
ArticlePlaceholder got a button to translate articles via the ContentTranslation extension (phabricator:T124036)
Prepared a bot to fix quantity values after the recent changes to precisions (phabricator:T142087)
Did user interviews for use cases and workflows on Commons
Analyzed more Listeria queries in order to figure out steps forward for easier query writing

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Monthly Tasks[edit]

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Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Status update 26 nov 2016[edit]

Status update 26 nov 2016

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-11-26.

Discussions[edit]

Closed request for comments: Semi-automatic Addition of References to Wikidata Statements

Events/Press/Blogs[edit]

Past: Wikidata introduction by Pigsonthewing at DJUK 2016

Other Noteworthy Stuff[edit]

Items without statements is down to 5% for enwiki (source)
Wikidata:WikiProject Biographical Identifiers

Did you know?[edit]

Development[edit]

Adding new wikis to interwiki sort order and move sort orders to WMF config. phab:T111023

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Status update 3 dec 2016[edit]

Status update 3 dec 2016

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

Discussions[edit]

Closed request for comments: Editing descriptions from Wikipedia Android app

Events/Press/Blogs[edit]

Past: Wikidata workshop at Code for Germany with OKLabs, Jens and WikidataFacts. You can read a blog post by Riedelwerk (in German) More documentation to come soon
How Wikidata could be used for biomedical knowledge (Benjamin Good)
The Fossasia Opentech Submit in Singapore is looking for speakers. If you're in the area and want to introduce attendees to Wikidata, feel free to send your application!

Other Noteworthy Stuff[edit]

Sitelinks for the new Finnish Wikivoyage can be added

Did you know?[edit]

Newest properties: French Sculpture Census work ID, Japan Sumo Association ID, film poster, GeneDB ID, File Format Wiki page ID, FAO 2007 genetic resource ID, Model Manual ID, Merck Index reaction ID, Bloomberg private company ID, Belgian Enterprise number, GECD Firmen-ID, endianness, sibling
Query examples:
Newest WikiProjects: Politicians in France
Newest database reports: list of films with multiple-language versions (Italian labels)

Development[edit]

Special:EntityUsage and Special:PagesWithBadges now are using OOjs UI (phab:T152046)
RFC discussion on ways to allow visitors to choose a language without logging in (phab:T149419 and phab:T114662)
Investigating performance issues with change dispatching (phab:T151681)
Continued work on Lexeme prototype (phab:T146662), refining the Lexeme data model (phab:T151582)
Continued work on federation basics (phab:T149580)
Some discussion on tracking usage of statements or statement groups on clients (phab:T151717, see mailing list)
Investigating support for Linked Data Fragments (phab:T136358)
We're participating in this year's Google Code-In with a couple of Wikidata related tasks
Research for Wikidata for Commons and Wiktionary continues
Added olo (Livvinkarjala), mai and tcy to interwiki sorting order. (phab:T151449)

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Status update 10 dec 2016[edit]

Status update 10 dec 2016

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-12-10.

It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of User:Coyau. He was a very active editor on Wikidata and the other Wikimedia projects. He will be deeply missed by his friends and family but his great work on open culture will stay. Feel free to browse and share his work. Thanks Guillaume for this message.

Discussions[edit]

New development input: Avoiding breaking gadgets when developing UI
Closed request for comments: Data quality framework for Wikidata
Wishlist at What government data is of best interest?

Events/Press/Blogs[edit]

Past: Open Gov Partnership conference in Paris, where Ash_Crow and other editors presented Wikidata
Next: Wikidata workshop in Paris, Friday, December 16th

Other Noteworthy Stuff[edit]

Have a look at PAWS, a tool to create Wikidata bots (and a cheat sheet from WikidataFacts)
Item Q 28 000 000 is about to be created.

Did you know?[edit]

Development[edit]

Continued work on Lexeme prototype (phab:T146662), we're discussing some details in the data model (phab:T152019)
Continued work on federation basics (phab:T149580)
Rework translation/article creation UI (phab:T151858)
Creating OOUI mockups as preparation for the dev summit
Finishing touches on the extension for automatic generation of inter-wiktionary links (preparatory work for lexicographic data in Wikidata)

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Monthly Tasks[edit]

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Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
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Status update 17 dec 2016[edit]

Status update 17 dec 2016

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

Discussions[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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

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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:
Newest external tools: “short author name” resolver tool
Newest database reports: hospital lists

Development[edit]

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)

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Status update 24 dec 2016[edit]

Status update 24 dec 2016

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-12-24.

Events/Press/Blogs[edit]

Other Noteworthy Stuff[edit]

Did you know?[edit]

Development[edit]

Worked more on the first entity type (Lexeme) for Wiktionary support
Worked more on federation in order to allow using Wikidata items and properties to describe images on Commons in the future
Fixed a bug with getLabelWithLang returning the wrong language (phabricator:T152241)
Fixed an issue where some coordinate values displayed 60 seconds instead of rounding to 1 minute (phabricator:T153429)
Adjusted language for simple English sitelinks (phabricator:T152915)

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Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Anything to add? Please share! :)

Status update 31 dec 2016[edit]

Status update 31 dec 2016

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-12-31.

Discussions[edit]

Open requests for adminship: יונה בנדלאק, Pyb

Events/Press/Blogs[edit]

Other Noteworthy Stuff[edit]

Wikidata and the celebrity deaths of 2016 on Buzzfeed
Welsh Wikipedia has some 16,000 lists regularly maintained from Wikidata

Did you know?[edit]

Newest properties: INSEE arrondissement code, INSEE countries and foreign territories code
Query examples:
Newest WikiProjects: US Virgin Islands
Newest external tools: "Descriptioner" - Tool to add descriptions batchwise
Newest database reports: Popular items without claims, Portuguese-language films without articles in Portuguese

Development[edit]

When a {{#statements:…}} property couldn't be resolved, a tracking category will be added (phab:T50799)
Rewrote Special:NewItem and all other Special:New… pages to use OOUI error handling (phab:T150205)
Getting ready the basic Lexeme prototype (phab:T146662)
Continued work on federation basics (phab:T149580)
Release version 1.0.0 of the DataTypes component
Enjoying the holidays and getting ready for this year's challenges. Hope you do to :)

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Status update 07 jan 2017[edit]

Status update 07 jan 2017

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-01-07.

Events/Press/Blogs[edit]

Current: Wikimedia Dev summit in San Francisco (January 9-11th) If you are there, come and meet our developers and volunteers!
Upcoming: WikiIndaba, January 20-22th, Accra, Ghana
Wikidata used to connect people giving interviews for the oral history project at the computer history museum

Other Noteworthy Stuff[edit]

Video: how institutions can donate data to Wikidata, explained in a cartoon
Category:Articles with infoboxes completely from Wikidata on English Wikipedia
Mix'n'match encountered some problems with labels and descriptions, some of them are now fixed, cf post from Magnus
Wikidata-powered citation lists with citation.js
How to use objects from OpenStreetMap in Wikidata
Video: Navigating a cemetery using Spotify and Wikidata (by Magnus Sälgö)

Did you know?[edit]

Newest properties: eBird taxon ID, Victorian Heritage Database ID, Debian package, FIFA country code, time signature, angular resolution, vehicle normally used, people or cargo transported, AELG ID, VGMDb artist ID, ERIH PLUS ID, biological variant of, parent cell line, Publons Publication ID, Social Networks Archival Context ID, Electronic Enlightenment ID, INCAA film rating, as.com athlete ID, ArbetSam ID, Natura 2000 site ID, Polish cultural heritage register number
Query examples:
Newest external tools: R wrapper for WDQS API (by Mikhail Popov), Wikidata authority file mapping tool (by Jakob Voß)
Newest database reports: list of episodes of Desperate Housewives (in English and German)

Development[edit]

Log of our last IRC office hour
This week, most of the developers are at the Dev Summit hacking stuff and doing great things!
Continued working on "federation" – support for multiple Wikibase repositories (phab:T76007)
New dimensions for unit conversion in the query service (phab:T150881)
Fixed a timing issue that can happen when using the property suggester (phab:T115267)
Still investigating an issue in which the "save" button stays disabled, as reported in December
We may remove the sliding animation when using the date, geo, monolingual, and quantity experts (gerrit:330145). The preview popup may now cover parts of the page. Please try it at wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org and tell us what you think on our contact page.

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Monthly Tasks[edit]

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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
Add statements to items without
Help with one of the bot requests
Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.

Status update 14 jan 2017[edit]

Status update 14 jan 2017

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-01-14.

Discussions[edit]

New request for comments: Badge for templates that work with Wikidata?

Events/Press/Blogs[edit]

Wikimedia Foundation receives $3 million grant from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to work on structured data for Commons
EPA CompTox Dashboard IDs in Wikidata
Data donation: 128K of Social Networks Archival Context IDs, matched to Wikipedia articles, and imported using P3430. Thanks, University of Virginia!
Past: Wikipedia Day 2017, NYC

Other Noteworthy Stuff[edit]

Discussion about the use of values from Wikidata in the English Wikipedia

Did you know?[edit]

Development[edit]

Attended the Wikimedia Developer Summit to talk about a lot of things (including editing Wikidata from Wikipedia directly, back-end work for structured data support for Commons - specifically Multi Content Revisions, ideas for improvements to the query service)
Final touches to get ArticlePlaceholder pages ready for search engine indexing
Continued working on "federation" – support for multiple Wikibase repositories (phab:T76007)
Clickable prototype for client editing is finally in the works!

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Help fixing the most important constraint violations
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Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Status update 21 jan 2017[edit]

Status update 21 jan 2017

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-01-21.

Discussions[edit]

New administrator: Pyb is now admin on Wikidata!

Events/Press/Blogs[edit]

Wikidata: the new hub for cultural heritage
Past: WikiIndaba, Ghana
Upcoming: FOSDEM, Brussels, February 4-5th

Other Noteworthy Stuff[edit]

Coordinates on Russian Wikipedia now link to maps generated with the Kartographer extension. The map includes the location outline, if that object exists in OpenStreetMap (OSM) with a corresponding Wikidata ID (ways and relations only, not nodes). Example: w:ru:Зальцбург (click coordinates in the upper right corner, or in the infobox on the side). If you create a Wikidata item about a specific administrative area, building, or other physical individual object which appears on maps, then please add the Wikidata ID to the relevant object in OSM, using key:wikidata= (here's how to contribute to OSM).
QuickStatements V2 can now run your commands in the background, no need to keep the browser tab open anymore
List of churches generated from Wikidata on Cymraeg Wikipedia

Did you know?[edit]

Newest properties: ZNIEFF Code, teams classification by time, cycling teams classification by points, FilmPolski.pl ID, points classification, legal status (medicine), basic reproduction number, muscle insertion, muscle origin
Query examples:

Development[edit]

Created a new Special:EntityPage, needed for federation (phabricator:T153499)
Sitelink "name" and "badges" in diffs are now translated (phabricator:T111016)
Worked on finalizing mockups for editing Wikidata from Wikipedia and co. Now working on the click-dummy for it so we can try it with you.
Last touches for automated sitelinks for Wiktionary.
A ton of refactoring needed for Wiktionary support.
More research on improving our input widgets (for example URL and date).

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Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Status update 28 jan 2017[edit]

Status update 28 jan 2017

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-01-28.

Discussions[edit]

Open request for adminship: ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2

Events/Press/Blogs[edit]

Economists in Wikidata: Opportunities of Authority Linking
FOSDEM, February 4-5th in Brussels Come and talk about Wikidata with us! See also the talk about UX and users' needs for Wikidata
Web Search and Data Mining Conference, February 6-10th, Cambridge

Other Noteworthy Stuff[edit]

Data donation: BBC Things ID (P1617) for news topics, kindly supplied by the BBC. All now uploaded, via Mix'n'Match
The StrepHit grant tool was renewed, so the Primary Sources tool can be improved in the future
The Bodleian Libraries (Oxford University) are looking for a Wikimedia data assistant to work on Wikidata

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Development[edit]

RDF exports will contain sitelink page names as strings in addition to the URLs (phab:T148923)
Switching the remaining special pages for labels, descriptions and aliases to the OOUI design (phab:T48248)
Finalizing the security review of the Cognate extension for Wiktionary (phab:T149082)
We plan to provide og:image Open Graph tags for sharing Item pages in social networks (phab:T51859)
Introducing a new test framework for special pages (phab:T69122)
Refactoring the wbeditentity API to work with the new Lexeme entity type (phab:T154288)
Added docs/change-op-serializations.wiki documenting how to use the wbeditentity API
Added a CREDITS file to the Wikibase code base, listing all authors

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Status update 04 feb 2017[edit]

Status update 04 feb 2017

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-02-04.

Discussions[edit]

We need your input about quality criteria for building a tool to evaluate item quality

Events/Press/Blogs[edit]

Other Noteworthy Stuff[edit]

Inspire Campaign on outside knowledge networks launched
What would you like to talk about during Wikimania Montreal?
Join the Wikimania program committee!
OpenStreetMap uses several wikidata-related tags in its database. See also the related documentation
Dutch is now the most used language for descriptions on Wikidata (56,7%), leaving English (55,8%) and German (34,7%) behind.
An OpenRefine service for Wikidata is waiting for testing: https://tools.wmflabs.org/openrefine-wikidata/
WMDE looking for a data analyst to work mostly on Wikidata
WMF looking for a project manager to work on structured data for Commons

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Development[edit]

You can now download query results as SVG images
When posting a link to an item to social networks and on messenger apps that show previews the previews will now be nicer and show an image. (phabricator:T51859)
WE published the results of our research around Commons usage: How do heavy Commons users work? ...and what does that mean for structured data on Commons?
Setting up test system for federation (being able to use Wikidata's items and properties on Commons)
Setting up test system for lexemes
Setting up test system for improved change dispatching (sending notifications about edits on Wikidata to Wikipedia and co)
Doing more groundwork for lexemes
Working on better integration with Elastic
More work on Federation
Getting ready to deploy automated sitelinks for Wiktionary
Fixing a number of keyboard navigation issues based on your feedback
Working on the new datatype for geoshapes (phabricator:T57549)
Looking into linking more complicated external identifiers properly (phabricator:T151329)
Improved the link to the help portal on the query service (phabricator:T154993)

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The Cebuano and Swedish wikis have a lot of bot-created content which is unconnected to other wiki articles. A good way to tackle that problem is by checking constraint violations for property GeoNames ID.

Status update 11 feb 2017[edit]

Status update 11 feb 2017

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-02-11.

Discussions[edit]

New request for comments: P171 (property "parent taxon"), changing the label of property "has role"

Events/Press/Blogs[edit]

Probing Parliament(s) with Wikidata, by Martin Poulter
Jan Dittrich and Charlie Kritschmar gave a talk at FOSDEM on finding user needs and gave some examples from their work.
A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners by Asaf Bartov: video and slides
Validating Wikidata tags on OpenStreetMap
Reminder: the deadline for Wikimania's scholarship is February 20 (and you can discuss about your ideas for Wikidata here)
Wikidata workshop in Paris about SPARQL, Friday 17.02

Other Noteworthy Stuff[edit]

The satisfaction survey concerning Flow has been published (and Wikidata is the community which prefers Flow the most)
Module Wikidata on Wikidata received an update to improve its performance. If your wiki has forked this one, consider updating it and report any problems (already reported one).
Experimental c:Template:Category contains for categories on Commons, including a per-category Wikidata query. See introductory discussion on Commons Village Pump. Presented together with current statistics on Commons category <-> Wikidata links
ContentMine looking for a Wikimedian in Residence to work on Wikidata and WikiFactMine in Cambridge
It is now possible to edit the Wikidata description from the Wikipedia app in some languages in beta

Did you know?[edit]

Newest properties: base salary, Visions of Britain place ID, Visions of Britain unit ID, DigDag ID, Sweden Nature Reserve ID, Le Monde diplomatique subject ID, Borden Code, fare zone, Recreation.gov area ID, EU VAT number, Booking.com hotel ID, BOLD Systems taxon ID, 90minut player ID, ITU triathlete ID, Minneapolis Institute of Art Constituent ID, candidacy in election, MarineTraffic Lighthouse ID, protected heritage site in Brussels ID, Archives nationales producer record, Hockey-reference player ID, F-Droid package, Danish ancient monument ID, BLF article ID, Araneae Spider ID, AFI Catalog of Feature Films ID
Query examples:
- Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK
- Office-holders convicted of crimes (source)
- Monarchs convicted of regicide (source)
- Timeline of antipopes (source)
- Battles etc of the U.S. Civil War, that have maps (source) -- but the results are a bit patchy.
- Grade I listed buildings in Bedfordshire (source: Commons "category contains" template)
Newest external tools: new reconciliation for OpenRefine

Development[edit]

Doing a trial run of allowing search engines to index a number of ArticlePlaceholder pages on Welsh Wikipedia. If there are no major issues we will enable this for all placeholders.
Improving Federation-related after initial tests,
Getting ready to deploy automated sitelinks for Wiktionary
Further work on the new datatype for geoshapes (phabricator:T57549)

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Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Status update 20 feb 2017[edit]

Status update 20 feb 2017

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-02-20.

Events/Press/Blogs[edit]

Past: GLAMwiki meeting in Paris, February 16-17th
Incoming: Wikidata workshop in Grenoble (France), March 7th
If Voltaire had used Wikipedia… using Wikidata to share knowledge about an author

Other Noteworthy Stuff[edit]

WMF open call for Project Grant proposals (Feb 13-Mar 14)
Wikimania: the deadline for applying for scholarships is 20 February 2017 23:59 UTC. Submissions are running until end of March (see our discussions about Wikidata-related topics)
Wikimedia Deutschland is hiring a fullstack developer and an engineering manager to work on Wikidata
Editing Wikidata descriptions from Wikipedia app (beta)

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Development[edit]

Making final fixes to initial version of Federation (needed to be able to use Wikidata items and properties to describe media on Commons in the future)
More work on baseline for Lexeme entity type for Wiktionary support
Fixed an error on d:Special:ConstraintReport (phabricator:T158183)
Wikidata Query Service got additional servers, the data has been reloaded to fix a number of issues caused by missed updates and an increase of the time-out of 30s is being looked into.

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Status update 27 feb 2017[edit]

Status update 27 feb 2017

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-02-27.

Discussions[edit]

New request for comments: Proposal to include command line arguments to Command line tool
We need your input on SPARQL federation

Events/Press/Blogs[edit]

Describing Wikidata items with OpenStreetMap tags
Deadline for applying to Wikicite 2017 is February 27th
Quora blog post about their collaboration with Wikidata. They are now displaying links to Wikidata items in their topic management pages - about 88K of them, so far.
Community Digest: Using data to visualize Wikipedia knowledge gaps; news in brief

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There is now a Community for Wikidata editors on Facebook
You can now make your Harvest Templates tasks run automatically. After you have generated a permalink to your task, add &run= to the url. When you open it next time, it will load and then run automatically. Alternatively, you can use &load= which will only prepare the task for running.
Wikidata description editing in the Wikipedia Android app for Hebrew, Russian and Catalan

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Continued to finalize the initial version of Federation (needed to be able to use Wikidata items and properties to describe media on Commons in the future)
More work on baseline for Lexeme entity type for Wiktionary support

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Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
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Contribute to a Showcase item.
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Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
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