Wikidata:Status updates/2015 11 21

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2015-11-21.

Discussions

• New request for comments: Improve bot policy for data import and data modification

Events/Press/Blogs

• Upcoming: Ubuntu Party, Paris
• Upcoming: Wikidata editathon, National Library of Wales
• More mixin’, more matches
• Impact of Wikimania Mexico 2015 on Wikidata
• Myanmar coordinates on Wikidata by Lockal & Widar
• Tasty translations for the Taste of Stockholm food festival
• Bachelor thesis about generating quiz questions from Wikidata

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Mix'n'match: new catalogs were added
• Whitepaper for GLAM institutions wanting to work with Wikidata
• MediaWiki, Meta, Wikispecies and Wikinews will get access to the data on Wikidata on Dec. 2nd. (So far they only have access to sitelinks.)
• What kind of information does Wikidata have? Jura made an overview for the types of statements we have.
• You can now use SPARQL instead of WDQ for all Listeria bot-generated lists, on all wikis. See en:Template:Wikidata list
• Alpha release of Wikipedia Gender Inequality Index (using data from Wikidata)
• Query examples: all xkcd comics, English demonyms for countries

Did you know?

• Newest properties: Cycling Archives ID (team), Cycling Archives ID (race), antagonist muscle, ProCyclingStats ID (team), ProCyclingStats ID (race), GNS Unique Feature Identifier, mean anomaly, quantity buried, Swedish Olympic Committee athlete ID, article ID, general classification, aftershocks, elector, debut participant, call sign, constraint status, comment, min quantity, max quantity, max date, min date, relation, class, namespace, property, item, group by, exception to constraint, property constraint, minimal lethal dose

Development

• Rolled out simultaneous editing of main part of the statement and reference
• Did a clean-up of the statements section (removing some lines etc) and added icons for the actions on statements
• Worked more on moving identifiers into their own section in item pages and having them linked properly in the exports
• Work on improving ranking of search results on Wikidata
• Decreased size of html of item pages
• Adapted our code to some minor changes in the watchlist code in core
• More work on making the search on mobile work
• Made preparations for constraint definitions through statements on properties
• Fixing size of table of content on mobile
• Prevented merging of items which link to each other

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! :)