*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.*
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>/ Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Current: Wikimedia Dev summit <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit> in San Francisco (January 9-11th) If you are there, come and meet our developers and volunteers! - Upcoming: WikiIndaba <http://2017.wikiindaba.net/index.php?title=Main_Page>, January 20-22th, Accra, Ghana - Wikidata used to connect people giving interviews for the oral history project at the computer history museum <http://campuspress.yale.edu/knowledgepermaculture/2017/01/03/oral-history-at-the-computer-history-museum/> Other Noteworthy Stuff <https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Donating_data_to_Wikidata.webm> - Video: how institutions can donate data to Wikidata, explained in a cartoon <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Donating_data_to_Wikidata.webm> - Category:Articles with infoboxes completely from Wikidata <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 <http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=436> - Wikidata-powered citation lists with citation.js <http://www.rightrelevance.com/search/articles/hero?article=f45a0623de249f99e242214bc9df33ed16ff5ea2> - How to use objects from OpenStreetMap in Wikidata <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Kartographer/OSM> - Video: Navigating a cemetery using Spotify and Wikidata <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmOm0YRVn2A> (by Magnus Sälgö) Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: eBird taxon ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3444>, Victorian Heritage Database ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3443>, Debian package <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3442>, FIFA country code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3441>, time signature <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3440>, angular resolution <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3439>, vehicle normally used <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3438>, people or cargo transported <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3437>, AELG ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3436>, VGMDb artist ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3435>, ERIH PLUS ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3434>, biological variant of <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3433>, parent cell line <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3432>, Publons Publication ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3431>, Social Networks Archival Context ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3430>, Electronic Enlightenment ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3429>, INCAA film rating <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3428>, as.com athlete ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3427>, ArbetSam ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3426>, Natura 2000 site ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3425>, Polish cultural heritage register number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3424> - Query examples: - Birth place of Academy Award winners <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23Born%20place%20of%20Academy%20Award%20winners%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3FpersonLabel%20%3Fkoord%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP166%2Fwdt%3AP31%2a%20wd%3AQ19020%20.%0A%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP19%20%3Fjaiolekua.%0A%20%20%3Fjaiolekua%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fkoord.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D> - Neujahrskonzert with conductor by country and age <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23Neujahrskonzert%20with%20conductor%20by%20country%20and%20age%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FconductorLabel%20%3FcountryLabel%20%3Fage%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%09%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ339152%20%3B%20wdt%3AP585%20%3Fdate%20%3B%20wdt%3AP3300%20%3Fconductor%20.%0A%09%3Fconductor%20wdt%3AP569%20%3FDOB%20%3B%20wdt%3AP27%20%3Fcountry%20.%0A%09BIND%28YEAR%28%3Fdate%29%20-%20YEAR%28%3FDOB%29%20as%20%3Fage%29%20.%0A%09SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22fr%22%20%7D%0A%7D%20order%20by%20%3Fdate> (source <https://twitter.com/belett/status/815926627356078080>) - 9 species named after the President of the USA <https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Ftaxon%20%3FtaxonLabel%20%3Fname%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Ftaxon%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ16521%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP138%20wd%3AQ76.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Ftaxon%20wdt%3AP225%20%3Fname.%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D> (source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/817096239850385410>) - Newest external tools: R wrapper for WDQS API <https://github.com/bearloga/WikidataQueryServiceR> (by Mikhail Popov), Wikidata authority file mapping tool <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/wdmapper/0.0.5> (by Jakob Voß) - Newest database reports: list of episodes of Desperate Housewives (in English and German) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Movies/lists/episodes_of_Desperate_Housewives> Development - Log of our last IRC office hour <https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2017/wikimedia-office.2017-01-05-18.00.log.html> - This week, most of the developers are at the Dev Summit <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit> hacking stuff and doing great things! - Continued working on "federation" – support for multiple Wikibase repositories (phab:T76007 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76007>) - New dimensions for unit conversion in the query service (phab:T150881 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150881>) - Fixed a timing issue that can happen when using the property suggester (phab:T115267 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115267>) - Still investigating an issue in which the "save" button stays disabled, as reported in December <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contact_the_development_team/Archive/2016/12#Quantity_datatype> - We may remove the sliding animation when using the date, geo, monolingual, and quantity experts (gerrit:330145 <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/330145>). The preview popup may now cover parts of the page. Please try it at wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org and tell us what you think on our contact page <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contact_the_development_team>. You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>. Monthly Tasks - Hack on one of these <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/R8GRzX1eH0tb/#R>. - Help develop the next summary here! <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next> - Contribute to a Showcase item <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Showcase_items> - Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats> or proofread pages in your own language! - Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above. - Comment on property proposals: all open proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview> - Add statements to items without <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/without_claims_by_site> - Help with one of the bot requests <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Bot_requests> - Help merge identical items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge> across Wikimedia projects. -- Léa Lacroix Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. 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