Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Events/Press/Blogs
- Wikidata workshop in Paris, Friday, April 21st, about external tools
- "Wikidata pour la science" training day in Paris, April 24th
- Heritage in Flanders and Crowd-Sourced Projects - featuring Wikidata, Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap
- The ACS Spring disclosures of 2017 #1 - about news drug compounds entering Wikidata
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Attention: Editing will be disabled during parts of April 19 and May 3, to allow a server switch
- Wikidata description editing in the Wikipedia Android app to be deployed on several Wikipedias
- More federated endpoints have been added (DBpedia, INSEE, UK Office for National Statistics...)
- All UNESCO sites in Wikishootme
- You can now cheat Stadt Fluss Land game with a query ;)
- To be deployed on Monday, April 24th: new datatype for geoshapes and Cognate on Wiktionaries
Did you know?
- Newest properties: type of reference, suicide rate, Italian Navy Lighthouses and Beacons ID, MyDramaList name ID, iTunes app ID, Wormbase Gene ID, Environment Ontology ID, route diagram, cinenacional.com person ID, Quebec municipalities geographical code, LombardiaBeniCulturali artwork ID, Soundtrack Collector ID, Rat Genome Database ID, FlyBase Gene ID, cinenacional.com movie ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali toponym ID, LombardiaBeniCulturali institution ID, Irish Rugby Football Union ID, Open Library subject ID, DBC author ID
- Query examples:
- Newest external tools: Wikinity displays a map of items near any given place
- Newest database reports: list of anthology films
Development
- More work on support for Forms and Lexemes (phab:T160052)
- Adding monolingual language code UMU (phab:T160531)
- Fixing a bug about Commons gallery and category (phab:T161826)
- Improving header image gadget (phab:T160530)
- Provide a special page to list all available badges (phab:T114473)
- Show supported data formats in Special:EntityData (phab:T162870)
- Track the number of identifier properties on an item (phab:T114617)
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 - proposals needing attention
- 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!