Wikidata:Status updates/2015 10 31

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2015-10-31.

Discussions

• How to add dates with undefined calendar (Julian or Gregorian)? is discussed on Project chat.

Events/Press/Blogs

I love Wikidata because

• Wikidata turned 3! The party doubled as the award ceremony for the Land der Ideen prize.
  • Page with state of the project editorial, message from the development team and greetings
  • Images from the party
  • Denny and Erik look back at the beginning of the project - the other recordings are still being cut but you can already see the uncut stream here
  • Presents:
    • Three presents for Wikidata's third birthday from Amir including artificial intelligence to find vandalism!
    • Improved query.wikidata.org by the dev team
    • Preview of the Article Placeholder by Lucie (bachelor student of the dev team)
    • Special:Nearby by the dev team
    • Donation of CC World University & School (WUaS) to CC Wikidata to celebrate its 3rd birthday! by Scott_WUaS
    • Your name in Wikidata Morse code from TMg
• Help organize the Wikidata related sessions at Wikimania 2016
• Past: Open Access Week
• Past: DINI Jahrestagung (slides)
• Past: Tehran SFD (video)
• Upcoming: ODI Summit
• Upcoming: SWAT4LS
• Modeling the social network of movie actors of the 1920s and 1930s with Wikidata
• Looking for…science fiction movies on the Linked Data Cloud

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Italian Wikipedia matched up nearly all of their articles to items on Wikidata. Congrats!
• Bene updated the Tours. Please help translate them here.
• The Distributed Game now has a Kian module suggesting statements to add
• Andrew made maps of missing images on Wikidata: South Africa, India, Australia, world
• Nikki imported dates of birth and death for more than 40,000 persons from Japanese Wikipedia.
• Example query: French people with an article on English Wikipedia but not French Wikipedia
• Example query: paintings without dimension (add some?)
• Example query: people or things born or created on the same day of the year as Wikidata
• We passed 15M items.
• Happy 10th anniversary to Semantic MediaWiki! We wouldn't be where we are today without you.
• All 8,860 fellows of the Royal Society have been matched to Wikidata items

Did you know?

• Newest properties: Wikidata property sample, Emporis building complex ID, Orsay Museum artist ID, Politifact Personality Identifier, Fashion Model Directory ID, mix'n'match catalogue ID, ISOCAT id, draft, beam, ionization energy, ITU-T network identifier, mobile country code, frequency of event
• Newest External tools: Top missing P31 by number of sitelinks list the items with most sitelinks lacking instance of or subclass of

Development

• Worked on birthday presents (Special:Nearby, article placeholder demo system and improvements to query.wikidata.org)
• Wes, Stas, Dan and James from the WMF came over to talk through current work around Wikidata and plans for the future
• Further poked at editing references at the same time as rest of the statement
• Investigated where we can push next to improve performance

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! :)