Wikidata:Status updates/2016 08 20

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-08-20.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2
• Closed request for comments:
  • Category commons P373 and "Other sites"
  • Adopt Help:Classification as an official help page
  • Review of "change datatype to monolingual" actions for some properties
  • Refining "part of"
  • Are colors instance-of or subclass-of color
  • Wikidata:Notability overhaul
  • RfP voting eligibility
  • Standards for property proposal discussions

Events/Press/Blogs

• August 17-19 : VIVO conference, see also the keynote about collaboratively created, linked open knowledge.
• August 20-21 : the Wikiconvention in Paris. Check the notes taken during the Wikidata workshop
• Why you should be paying attention to Wikidata and GLAM, on the Wikimedia Foundation blog
• All your locations are belong to us on Magnus' blog
• Paper: An Empirical Evaluation of Property Recommender Systems for Wikidata and Collaborative Knowledge Bases
• Paper: Managing and Consuming Completeness Information for Wikidata Using COOL-WD

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Job offer : PHP software developer for Wikidata, Wikimedia Deutschland
• Wikidata has now a stable interface policy to guarantee the stability of the tools
• Enabling Wikidata data access in user language
• COOL-WD now includes a gadget to show completeness information in Wikidata
• Mix'n'Match can list entries of some external databases, and allows users to match them against Wikidata items. A new catalogue for ContentMine has been added!
• WikiShootMe has a lot of new updates: OAuth-based image upload button, uploads to Commons and adds to Wikidata item with one click, right-click on the map to add a missing item, build-in Wikidata search, free images search (example for Central Cambridge)
• Extracting Wikidata annotations to create DBpedia mappings project during Google Summer of Code

Did you know?

Popular surnames among humans

• Newest properties: develops from, recovered by, film crew member, mount, flight number, Flags of the World ID, ID of Catalogue of Life in Taiwan, fiscal/tax revenue, speed limit, qualifies for event, freedom of panorama
• Query examples:
  • A famous Italian song, Tanti Auguri by Raffaella Carrà, states "Com'è bello far l'amore da Trieste in giù" (literally, in English: "How great it is to make love from Trieste to below"). This is a query to find out where you shouldn't make love.
  • Common occupations of heads of state (source).
  • Murderers by region in France (source).
  • Authors with a known location and an ORCID (source).
  • Popular surnames among humans (source).
  • Movies that won all the Oscars they were nominated for (source).
  • Colors with multiple RGB statements (source)
  • Filmography of Jean Gabin (source)
  • Cities as big as Antwerp (source)
  • Cities connected by the Trans-Mongolian and Trans-Siberian Railway (source)
  • Histropedia timeline of Europeana280 artworks (source)
• Newest gadgets: Sort the statements on items, prefill "access date" with current date
• New templates: {{Belgium properties}}, {{France properties}}, {{Italy properties}}, {{Spain properties}}. Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar template for your country or region. Also, add P17-statements to property entities.
• Newest database reports: list of riders and their horse

Development

• Continuing to work on the concepts for the automatic list generation
• Enable allow data access in user language will come on Wikidata soon
• Menus are now internationalised on the query service
• Clarified error message when adding a URL without a protocol
• Created a gadget to try out global sort order in items
• Fixed a bug where the input field for a value was not loaded
• Worked on the interface stability policy
• Made possible to create mediainfo entity by adding a statement
• Worked on showing from which items a given Wikipedia article uses data

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

Anything to add? Please share! :)