Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Expanding Wikidata’s Parenthood Information by 178%, or How To Mine Relation Cardinalities, by Paramita Mirza, Simon Razniewski and Werner Nutt (Q27038095)
- Extracting Scientists from Wikipedia, by Gustaf Harari Ekenstierna and Victor Shu-Ming Lam (Q27037451)
- Comparison of Wikidata and DBpedia projects as spatial data sources (cs), by Jan Macura (Q27042632)
- Wikidata challenge to take on language obstacles in medical analysis on Warriors Planet
- The Wikidata scholarly profile page on Finn Årup Nielsen's blog
- Wikidata as a digital preservation knowledgebase on Open Preservation Foundation
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- We need you for Wikidata's birthday! Organize an event or tell us your story about Wikidata
- Item Q27000000 was created, about Stakihnúkur, a hill in Iceland
- Log of our last office hour discussion
- The first WikiCite newsletter has been published
- You can help a research project to understand the use of the SPARQL query service
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: OKPD2 code of the good or service, OKP ID of the good or service, OKP Code, OKVED 2 code of the economic activity, OKPD code of the good or service, OKVED 1.1 code of the economic activity, SIC code, Catholic Encyclopedia ID, NBN System Key, trunk prefix, KU Leuven person ID, PhilPapers publication, PhilPapers topic, Library of Congress Cultural Heritage Organizations, PhilPapers profile, PhilPapers author, Mediaarts-DB ID, SCAR Composite Gazetteer, South Dakota legislator ID, Schläfli symbol, Cultural Heritage Kosovo ID, HAS member ID, Corporate Number (Japan), NAICS code, List of lights id, Nationalencyklopedin Online ID, NYT topic ID, KvK company ID, Encyclopædia Universalis Online ID, Auñamendi ID, Dictionary of Swedish National Biography, ClassInd rating, SIRET number, Onisep occupation ID, Indian census area code, ISAN
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: Virtual Twins
- Newest external tools: Free Software Directory plugin with a bot
- Newest database reports: list of articles with "uses property" (P3176)
- Development
- Worked more on making it possible to use Wikidata items and properties to make statements about multimedia files on Commons in the future
- Adding a list of items used in an article to the edit page on Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T144921)
- More work on automated language links for Wiktionary (phabricator:T145412)
- Improve the way to count and display the number of items on the main page (phabricator:T144687)
- Solved a bug on the gadget DuplicateReferences (phabricator:T146318)
- Clicking on the desired property while adding a new Statement didn't focus the value input. That has been fixed (phabricator:T144037).
- Made it possible to use the
bzr
andcvs
protocols in URL data types (phabricator:T146692)
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.
- Help merge items of people with the same name and dates.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention