Wikidata:Status updates/2017 02 20

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-02-20.

Events/Press/Blogs

• Past: GLAMwiki meeting in Paris, February 16-17th
• Incoming: Wikidata workshop in Grenoble (France), March 7th
• If Voltaire had used Wikipedia… using Wikidata to share knowledge about an author

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• WMF open call for Project Grant proposals (Feb 13-Mar 14)
• Wikimania: the deadline for applying for scholarships is 20 February 2017 23:59 UTC. Submissions are running until end of March (see our discussions about Wikidata-related topics)
• Wikimedia Deutschland is hiring a fullstack developer and an engineering manager to work on Wikidata
• Editing Wikidata descriptions from Wikipedia app (beta)

Did you know?

• Newest properties: USA Gymnastics athlete ID, Tennis Archives player ID, Swimming Australia swimmer ID, Sambafoot player ID, International Weightlifting Federation ID, EPCR player ID, L'Équipe football player ID, Futsal Planet player ID, Fotbal DNES player ID, Football Federation of Ukraine player ID, Fora De Jogo manager ID, FootballFacts.ru player ID, Estonian Football Association player ID, DZFoot.com player ID, Croatian Football Statistics ID, Cross-tables.com Scrabble player ID, BDFutbol player ID, Chess.com player ID, ARRS runner ID, Kontinental Hockey League player ID, American Hockey League player ID, JMK film rating, IDEAS person ID, NatureServe conservation status, NBA player ID, Basketball Hall of Fame ID, All Blacks player ID, FFR player ID, significant environmental impact, ARCHON code, Uniform Type Identifier, National Drug Code, Key to English Place-Names (KEPN) ID, Oorlogsmonument ID, European Medicines Agency product number, PDB ligand ID, Peakbagger area ID, The Met object ID, British Museum place ID, British Museum thesaurus ID, Babelio work ID, Babelio author ID, stated age at event, British History Online VCH ID, Historical Gazetteer of England's Place Names ID, Australian Antarctic Gazetteer ID, Kirshenbaum, Common Weakness Enumeration ID, BadmintonLink player ID, rusbandy player ID, Darts Database player ID, Bwfbadminton.com player ID, ski-db.com skier ID
• Query examples:
  • People born at the sea (source)
  • Persons buried in Père-Lachaise cemetery, Paris (source)
  • Paintings by women painters in the Louvre (source)
  • People born on Valentine's day, colour coded by country of citizenship (source)
• Newest external tools: wikidata-cli can now edit Wikidata, edit Wikidata from NodeJS

Development

• Making final fixes to initial version of Federation (needed to be able to use Wikidata items and properties to describe media on Commons in the future)
• More work on baseline for Lexeme entity type for Wiktionary support
• Fixed an error on d:Special:ConstraintReport (phabricator:T158183)
• Wikidata Query Service got additional servers, the data has been reloaded to fix a number of issues caused by missed updates and an increase of the time-out of 30s is being looked into.

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