Wikidata:Status updates/2015 12 19

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2015-12-19.

Discussions

• Successful request for adminship: Eurodyne

Events/Press/Blogs

• World Health Summit yearbook for 2015
• You can apply for a scholarship to attend Wikimania 2016 (deadline: January 9th)
• Talk submissions for Wikimania 2016 are open. We'd love to see many Wikidata-related submissions. If you need help with your submission contact Lydia.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Google has launched the Knowledge Graph Search API, replacing the deprecated Freebase API
• Meta now has access to the data on Wikidata as well
• Want to get an overview of the classes and properties on Wikidata? The Miga class and property browser was updated.
• WikiBrowser - semantically browse Wikipedia with the help of Wikidata
• WikiFamou.us lets you compare topics by popularity across languages with the help of Wikidata
• Chronas is a history project linking Wikipedia and Wikidata with a chronological and cartographical view
• Visiting some place for the holidays? Check out the items nearby.

Did you know?

• Newest properties: Fashion Model Directory magazine ID, Fashion Model Directory designer ID, Artsy gene, WikiPathways ID, NII Article ID, set in period, short-term exposure limit, maximum peak exposure limit, ceiling exposure limit, time-weighted average exposure limit, Total assets, total expenditure, Six Degrees of Francis Bacon ID
• Query example: works created by females who died in 1945

Development

• <3 Thanks for being awesome. Enjoy the holidays :)
• We will take the "in other projects"-sidebar out of beta features in January (phabricator:T103102)
• Making ranking information like label and statement counts available to the CirrusSearch index in order to improve ranking in search results (phabricator:T110648)
• Continued work on the identifier data type for identifiers like VIAF and ISBN so we can easily put them into a separate section in the items and properly link them in the exports (phabricator:T95682, phabricator:T121274)
• Continued work on making external identifiers clickable links without the help of the authority control gadget (phabricator:T95684)
• Fixed a mistake in the set reference API documentation (gerrit:259171)
• More work on cleaning up the statement section (phabricator:T121390)

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! :)