Wikidata:Status updates/2016 09 17

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-09-17.

Discussions

• We're starting working on lexicographical data! Please read the proposal and give us your feedback :)
• New request for comments: Merging male and female labels

Events/Press/Blogs

• Upcoming: State of the map, September 23 - 25, Brussels
• Next Wikidata office hour: Tuesday September 27th, from 18:00 to 19:00 (Berlin time, UTC+2), in #wikimedia-office
• Video of a SPARQL workshop (& materials) organized by Wikimedia Foundation's Discovery and Research teams
• Slides of Lydia's keynote about Wikidata at the DBpedia conference 2016
• Slides of Andreas Thalhammer about Unified PageRank for DBpedia and Wikidata at the DBpedia conference 2016
• #SundayQuery: ask for help on queries every Sunday on Twitter! This week, a tutorial about surnames by Harmonia Amanda, and how to use SPARQL and Python to fix typographical errors by Ash Crow

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Quality process on Wikidata

• The Project Grants program is accepting proposals from September 12 to October 11 to fund new tools, research, offline outreach, online organizing and other experiments that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers.
• The RevisionSlider is now available as a beta feature, try it to have a visual overview of your diffs.
• You can also activate ORES the review tool to watch damaging edits more easily!
• There's an infographic on the quality process in Wikidata you can use and edit.
• You can also use and translate this new datamodel representation.
• How to fix taxon common names with Pywikibot, tutorial by TweetsFactsAndQueries and Tobias1984.

Did you know?

• Newest properties: Visual Novel Database ID, territory overlaps, Zaragoza monument ID, Patrimonio Web JCyL ID, uses property, Statoids ID, art director, offers view on, World Bridge Federation ID, Olympic.org ID, Cultural Heritage Armenia ID, Harasire ID, Sporthorse data ID, Allbreedpedigree ID, Webpedigrees ID, Horsetelex ID
• Query examples:
  • Embassies (source)
  • World map of water towers (source)
  • "Battles of the Middle Ages" without place or date (source)
  • Asteroids named after characters from works by Lewis Caroll (source)
  • Map of Austrian cultural heritage (source)
  • Statues in Paris depicting historical female figures (source)
• Newest database reports: list of embassies

Development

• We're working on entity usage on Wikimedia projects, check our different features
• The Wikidata team attended and participated to a lot of conference these past days (WikiCon, ViewSource, DBPpedia, SoCraTes, Write the doc) that's why we don't have many tasks to share with you this week :)

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!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention