[Wikidata] Weekly Summary #242

2017-01-09 Thread Léa Lacroix 
*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*

Events /
Press/Blogs 

   - Current: Wikimedia Dev summit
    in San
   Francisco (January 9-11th) If you are there, come and meet our developers
   and volunteers!
   - Upcoming: WikiIndaba
   , January 20-22th,
   Accra, Ghana
   - Wikidata used to connect people giving interviews for the oral history
   project at the computer history museum
   


Other Noteworthy Stuff


   - Video: how institutions can donate data to Wikidata, explained in a
   cartoon
   
   - Category:Articles with infoboxes completely from Wikidata
   

   on English Wikipedia
   - Mix'n'match encountered some problems with labels and descriptions,
   some of them are now fixed, cf post from Magnus
   
   - Wikidata-powered citation lists with citation.js
   

   - How to use objects from OpenStreetMap in Wikidata
   
   - Video: Navigating a cemetery using Spotify and Wikidata
    (by Magnus Sälgö)

Did you know?

   - Newest properties
   : eBird taxon ID
   , Victorian Heritage
   Database ID , Debian
   package , FIFA country code
   , time signature
   , angular resolution
   , vehicle normally used
   , people or cargo
   transported , AELG ID
   , VGMDb artist ID
   , ERIH PLUS ID
   , biological variant of
   , parent cell line
   , Publons Publication ID
   , Social Networks Archival
   Context ID , Electronic
   Enlightenment ID , INCAA
   film rating , as.com
   athlete ID , ArbetSam ID
   , Natura 2000 site ID
   , Polish cultural heritage
   register number 
   - Query examples:
  - Birth place of Academy Award winners
  

  - Neujahrskonzert with conductor by country and age
  

  (source )
  - 9 species named after the President of the USA

[Wikidata] Weekly summary #242

2017-01-02 Thread Léa Lacroix 
*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*

Discussions

   - Open requests for adminship: יונה בנדלאק
   
,
   Pyb
   


Events /
Press/Blogs 

   - Next IRC office hour on January 5th
   
   - Past: we were at 33c3
   

   - Scaling OpenStreetMap with Wikidata knowledge
   
   - 2016 – A busy year for Gene Wiki and WikiData
   

Other Noteworthy Stuff

   - Wikidata and the celebrity deaths of 2016 on Buzzfeed
   

   - Welsh Wikipedia has some 16,000 lists regularly maintained from
   Wikidata
   

Did you know?

   - Newest properties
   : INSEE
   arrondissement code , INSEE
   countries and foreign territories code
   
   - Query examples:
  - Filtered timeline of Spotify artists
  

  - Paintings of the Eiffel Tower by Robert Delaunay
  

  (source )
  - Ratio of “famous” (≥25 sitelinks) people’s deaths since 2000