Wikidata:Status updates/2016 04 16

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-04-16.

Discussions

• Closed request for comments: Reforming the property creation process, Improve bot policy for data import and data modification

Events/Press/Blogs

• Past: office hour on IRC (log)
• Past: ISB2016 (slides)
• Past: WWW2016 - Freebase to Wikidata migration (slides)
• Past: CUNY Wikidata intro (slides)
• National Library of Wales: Our Wikidata Visiting Scholar
• New TSRI Project Helps Researchers Build a Biomedical Knowledgebase
• Yle <3 Wikidata - using Wikidata for concept tagging

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• ArticlePlaceholder is going live on the first small Wikipedias on May 11th and could use your help
• Wikimedia Commons will get the arbitrary access feature on April 26th
• The Europeana Art History Challenge has started
• Magnus made a handy user-script for duplicating items, for when a new item has similar property values to an existing one. See for instance, this set of edits for a second version of an artwork.
• Listeria now has a status page
• PetScan has now the option "Has no statements" to find items without statements for a category at Wikipedia (sample: en:Category:United States geography stubs) or an entire language version (sample: "sowiki").

Did you know?

• Newest properties: production statistics, DNZB, PASE name, this zoological name is coordinate with, Australian Geological Provinces Database Identifier, Tate artist identifier, ResearchGate institute ID
• Newest WikiProjects: d:Wikidata:WikiProject Museums
• Query examples: items named after their shape (source), recent events (source), assemblies by number of seats (source), characters portrayed by most actors (source)

Development

• Query results for the query service are now cached by default for 60 seconds (phabricator:T126730)
• Finishing touches on easier input of geocoordinates and dates (sneak peek)
• Finishing touches on easier manipulation of SPARQL queries (sneak peel - should go live later today)
• Significantly reduced the write access to the database to make sure we're not frying the poor servers unnecessarily (phabricator:T124737)
• Getting ArticlePlaceholder ready for first deployment
• More work on first prototype for structured data support for Wikimedia Commons
• Cleaned up icons for selecting rank and value type (phabricator:T129033#2217402)

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! :)