Wikidata:Status updates/2017 12 11

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-12-11.

Events/Press/Blogs

• Incoming: Wikidata workshop in Rennes, France, December 12th
• Incoming:Next Structured Commons IRC office hour will be on Tuesday, February 13, 2018, at 18:00 UTC.
• Past: Tech-talk about knowledge technologies, featuring Wikidata, DBpedia, and Histropedia at Jakarta Digital Valley, Jakarta, Indonesia on Dec 8, 2017. Slides are available at Slideshare link.
• My vision of a possible strategy. How could we change Wikidata’s core infrastructure to be able to scale better in the future? by ChristianKl.
• Using WikiData as a multi-lingual multi-dialectal dictionary for Arabic dialects - conference paper
• WikiCite 2017 report by Dario Taborelli and the organization team

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Structured Data on Commons: Participate in this survey to help the team understand which tools and functionalities are most important to the Commons and Wikidata communities
• QuickStatements now has a CSV-like import function (under "import commands")
• wikidata-cli now support dynamic SPARQL requests using JS files
• New wikidata-sdk function: wdk.getSitelinkUrl, a function to easily build URLs from Wikidata API sitelinks data
• Musik Lovers (de) is a project created during Coding da Vinci 2017 and reuses data from Wikidata about composers played in the Koncerthaus of Berlin

Did you know?

• Newest properties: premiere type, name of the character role, Bechdel Test Movie List ID, Iowa Sports Hall of Fame ID, DORIS ID, Online Books Page author ID, ICTV virus genome composition, EK number, identity of object in context, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston object ID, squadron embarked, South Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee ID, trophy awarded, Württembergische Kirchengeschichte person ID, Merkelstiftung person ID, National Library of Brazil ID, AUSNUT 2011–13 Food Group ID, DVV player ID, UniProt journal ID, WAFL FootyFacts ID, watershed, Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ID, LKL player ID, LACMA ID, Art Institute of Chicago artwork ID, Queensland Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee ID
• Query examples:
  • Place of birth of author with pages on the French Wikisource (source)
  • Number of movies passing or failing the Bechdel test by year (source)
  • 100 of the earliest 1000 works created by women on Wikidata with an image on Commons (source)
  • Chemical entities, whom discovered them, and when (source)
  • Sister-city and twin-city relationships of the largest cities (source)
  • Cast age at date of film publication (source)
  • Male saints that are the most used to name French cities after them (source)

Development

• Add anchors to Special:ListDatatypes (phabricator:T181371)
• Data Types library has been integrated to Wikibase (phabricator:T180454)
• Investigate on the slow problems encountered on Wikidata (phabricator:T182322)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

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!