Wikidata:Status updates/2017 04 24

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-04-24.

Events/Press/Blogs

• The Wikidata data model and your SPARQL queries by Bob DuCharme
• Wikidata meetup in Berlin, Wednesday, April 26th in WMDE's office
• Datensummit by OKFN, April 29th, in Berlin

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Editing will be disabled during parts of May 3rd, to allow a server switch
• Deployed on Monday, April 24th: new datatype for geoshapes and Cognate on Wiktionaries

Did you know?

• Newest properties: PictoRight ID-Droit de suite, observing time available, MetaboLights Compound ID, Swiss Federal Archives ID, Boijmans artist ID, KVAB member ID, number of perpetrators, History of Modern Biomedicine ID, Tilastopaja male athlete ID, Red Bull athlete ID, Tilastopaja female athlete ID, National Track & Field Hall of Fame athlete ID, Caverphone, Cologne phonetics, Soundex, HappyCow restaurant ID, category for alumni of educational institution, Justia Patents company ID, Justia Patents inventor ID, daily patronage, patronage, tributary orientation, ZFIN gene ID, IAFD female-born performer ID, MyDramaList title ID, Israel Chess Federation player ID, LAWA waterbody ID
• Query examples:
  • Place of birth of the candidates to French presidency since 1958 (source)
  • Oldest given names on Wikidata (source)
  • Cocktails and their ingredients (source)
  • Cities in UK named after a patron saint (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: Wikiproject Terrorism
• New template: d:Template:Film festivals

Development

• Changing Special:NewProperty to not have a datatype selected by default (phab:T138295)
• Restoration of deleted items broken on Wikidata (phab:T163144)
• Making notifications when page is being connected to Wikidata ready to deploy (phab:T110604)
• Writing basic documentation for WikibaseMediaInfo extension (phab:T159710)
• Hiding header image gadget when sitelinks are floated below the statement section (phab:T160530)
• Making the "add" button display the "add Form" form (phab:T162342)
• Getting the datatype to link to tabular data sets on Commons ready to deploy (phab:T160048)
• Showing supported data formats in Special:EntityData (phab:T162870)
• Setting meta name="description" on article placeholders (phab:T157466)

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!