Wikidata:Status updates/2017 12 25

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-12-25.

Events/Press/Blogs

• Upcoming: 34th Chaos Communication Congress, 27-30 December, Leipzig, Germany. The Wikidata team will be there
• WikiCite 2018
• Get your vocabularies in Wikidata... so Europeana and others can get them
• Moths and me
• Quality and collaboration in Wikidata
• The Tom Longboat Awards as Wikidata
• GLOWing the extra mile
• Seven translation tools you can use to work in multiple languages across Wikimedia projects

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• New tool by YMS to help with vandalism fighting. Give it a try and catch some vandals?
• Version 0.8.0 of the Wikidata Toolkit have been released. There is a short survey to figure out in which directions to move the library.
• You can try the Wikidata fulltext search prototype and give feedback
• You can also tell us what could be improved with the entity suggester
• The Geo dashboard shows a map on the most used items in Wikipedia and co in a given category
• Consultation on Blocking tools and improvements
• New documentation page with information about publishing open data that we can use when talking to institutions about why they should publish their data openly
• You can try the prototype to improve the term box and give feedback

Did you know?

• Newest properties: OpenSecrets organization ID, Oireachtas member ID, Environmental Register code (Estonia), geomorphological unit, Dictionnaire des peintres belges ID, Carnegie Museum of Art ID, Nintendo Game Store ID, National Gallery of Victoria artwork ID, National Gallery of Art artwork ID, Eldoblaje original actor ID, Eldoblaje dubbing actor ID, constraint scope, MAVISE company ID, MAVISE competent authority ID, MAVISE on-demand audiovisual service ID, MAVISE TV channel ID, appears in the form of, Indianapolis Museum of Art artwork ID, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston object ID, EMLO location ID, Hall of Light Amiga database ID, Sjukvårdsrådgivningen Category ID, tabular software version, USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame athlete ID, Buenos Aires legislator ID, Cinemagia actor ID, Cinemagia film ID
• Query examples:
  • Map with radio telescopes around the world (source)
  • People born on the same day their mother died (source)
  • Largest first-level administrative subdivision by country (source)
  • Data sets released under a Creative Commons NoDerivatives license (source)
  • Type foundries and their typefaces (source)
  • Map of Christmas traditions (source)
  • Movies that are Christmas traditions (source)
• Newest database reports: list of Christmas films

Development

• Due to the Christmas and New Year's Eve holidays, no deployment will happen before January 3rd.
• Monolingual language codes for Old French (fro) and Middle French (frm) added (phabricator:T181823)
• Finishing touches on storing statements on Forms
• No longer checking constraints on the property example statements (phabricator:T183267)
• More work on caching constraint check results so we can roll out constraint checking for all logged in users

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
• 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!

Anything to add? Please share! :)