Wikidata:Status updates/2016 04 02

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-04-02.

Events/Press/Blogs

slides for SPARQL and Wikidata intro by shonagon- École de Bibliothécaires Documentalistes

• Upcoming: WWW 2016
• Upcoming: WikiCite 2016
• Past: Wikimedia hackathon.
  • Some of the things that were worked on (but are not finished yet):
    • Easier referencing like it is done in VisualEditor
    • Data imports including National Library of Israel
    • Getting the ArticlePlaceholder ready for deployment on the first small Wikipedias
    • Updated maps of the geocoordinates in Wikidata (Adam will publish a blog post with them soon)
    • Improvements for Librarybase
    • Automated language links for Wiktionary
    • Cleanup of existing data import tools
  • partial group photo
• Objetos culturales y metadatos: hacia la liberación de datos en Wikidata

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Lucie published her thesis about supporting small Wikipedias through article placeholders based on Wikidata

  

  Lucie's thesis: Generating Article Placeholders from Wikidata for Wikipedia - Increasing Access to Free and Open Knowledge

• This article from Russian Wikipedia is generated only with Lua Module and Listeria, based on its Wikidata item.
• If you're into Wikidata, GLAM and Facebook there is now a Facebook group for you.
• There are 4 new games to help with the migration of the Persondata template on English Wikipedia.
• There was a huge increase in the number of qualifiers over the last 2 weeks. It went from 2.6 to 3.7 Million due to additions of qualifiers for evidence codes on human and mouse proteins.
• Interested in seeing Wikidata training sessions at Wikimania? Add yourself to interested attendees for the sessions.
• PetScan now has item creator functionality.
• The catalog of the National Library of Israel has been added to Mix'n'match
• Great examples on French and Russian Wikipedia for infobox based on Wikidata: fr:Andrew Tanenbaum, ru:Таненбаум, Эндрю and references based on Wikidata: fr:Trappeur, ru:Доказательство с нулевым разглашением

Did you know?

• Newest properties: dataset distribution, file format, protocol, URL, CricketArchive player ID, ESPNcricinfo player ID, FIG gymnast identifier, type locality, ISU figure skater identifier, New York Times Semantic Concept: Descriptor, New York Times Semantic Concept: Location, New York Times Semantic Concept: Organization, New York Times Semantic Concept: Person, BARTOC ID, Box Office Mojo person ID, NDL JPNO, Opensecrets Identifier, Basketball-Reference.com NBA player ID, Kijkwijzer rating, Bekker Number, is verso of, is recto of, author of afterword, author of foreword, Russiancinema.ru film ID, relative position within image, rating certificate ID, reply to
• Newest WikiProjects: Historical Place
• Query examples: phrases (source), Redewendungen (source), most commons eponyms (source)

Development

• 4 years ago we started coding on Wikidata. What a ride it has been and continues to be. <3 to everyone who is a part of it.
• We are going to make a change to the RDF format for geocoordinates.
• Here is a preview of geospatial search on the query service.
• The query service now has bubble charts as a visualization option (example)
• Busy at the Wikimedia hackathon.

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! :)