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Wikidata weekly summary #275

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Discussions
- Open request for adminship: علاء
- New request for comments: How to capture negative results in Wikidata?
- Comment about approach on items about pages in cebwiki created by Lsjbot
- Comment about whether to have a "Wikimedia username" property

Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: WikiArabia, in Cairo, Egypt, on 23-25 October. They're looking for a volunteer to give a Wikidata workshop. Please contact them if you're interested!
- A Glimpse into Babel: An Analysis of Multilinguality in Wikidata, by Lucie-Aimée Kaffee et al. (Q37859976)
- The Gene Wiki: Using Wikipedia and Wikidata to organize biomedical knowledge August Wikimedia Research Showcase (second half), presented by Andrew Su, about how GeneWiki is using Wikidata. Video on YouTube
- Citation.js: Endpoint on RunKit shows a demo REST API to convert Wikidata entries into BibTeX, Bib.TXT, citations, and CSL-JSON.
- Video of 3 Wikimania 2017 sessions: Wikidata Revolution, Performing arts in Wikidata, and Sum of all paintings. Others videos can be found on Andrew's channel.

WikidataCon
- The organization team is still looking for sponsors to support the event and provide even more awesome stuff to the attendees. If your company can support the WikidataCon, please get in touch with Lydia.
- Seeing the enthusiasm of the community for the WikidataCon, we raised our attendees limit from 150 to 200 persons. The last tickets will be released on September 1st. People who registered on the waitlist will be notified when a ticket is available.
- The program committee is currently reviewing and organizing the submissions. We will contact the speakers soon, and publish the program in the beginning of September (around 6th).
- We're looking for a keynote speaker who could bring an external point of view on ontologies. If you know interesting people, feel free to help

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Q38000000 was created
- Language fallback indicators hidden on variant fallback languages

Did you know?
- Newest properties: National Natural Landmarks site ID, GujLit Book ID, GujLit Person ID, tabular population, Beazley Archive Pottery Database ID, Finnish National Gallery person ID, effective firing range, Patreon person ID, Wikimedia username, Instagram location ID, America's Byways road ID
- Query examples:
- Newest external tools: Metaphacts, a feature to search in Wikidata via Alexa

Development
- Worked on fixing the technical glitch in the UI (phabricator:T173543)
- Did polishing on the Constraint Checks gadget (for example phabricator:T173738)
- Worked on caching constraints checks results which is needed to enable constraints checks for all logged-in users (phabricator:T173696)
- Made progress on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532)
- Worked more on making it easier to see when input in a property or value input field is not recognized (phabricator:T170531)
- Fighting with load issues in the job queue (phabricator:T173710)
- Looking into not showing language fallback hints for dialects to make the UI less cluttered for them and make it less necessary to enter labels and descriptions for them (phabricator:T174318)
- Wrapping up our experiments with the new front-end technologies

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 28. aug 2017, 16:34 (CEST)

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Chandigarh, India - September 9-10
- Doctoral Advisor or Medical Condition: Towards Entity-specific Rankings of Knowledge Base Properties, by Simon Razniewski et al.
- ctj rdf: Part One, showing linking text minded data to Wikidata with SPARQL.
- Creating parliament charts with Wikidata by Knut
- The great Wikipedia bot-pocalypse by Aaron Halfaker on WMF's blog
- When Westminster Was Wikified, by Luca Martinelli

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New admin: congrats to علاء
- Open Library, the biggest resource of freely-licensed books, now links to Wikidata (through Reasonator) and to VIAF (example here; see "Wikidata" in the right-hand column).
- With 200 attendees, the WikidataCon is now complete. Thanks all for your enthusiasm \o/ If you registered on the waitlist or submitted a talk, check your mailbox for more information.
- The WikidataCon program will be released this week, and we will call for volunteers soon

Did you know?
- Newest properties: THL Simplified Phonetic Transcription, Tibetan pinyin, Wylie transliteration, Australian Women's Register ID, iconographic symbol, slope, angle from vertical
- Query examples:
- Newest external tool: official map for Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 displays cultural heritage monuments worldwide, using Wikidata
- Newest database reports: Mireille Darc filmography, given names by soundex

Development
- Looked into all the things necessary to make it possible to store forms and senses on Lexeme pages.
- Worked more on caching constraints checks results which is needed to enable constraints checks for all logged-in users (phabricator:T173696)
- Making progress on checking constraints also on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532)
- Removed language fallback hints for dialects to make the UI less cluttered for them and make it less necessary to enter labels and descriptions for them (phabricator:T174318)
- Fixed an issue that links to an item were not showing the label when it pointed to a redirect (phabricator:T96553)
- Unrecognized input in entity selectors will be highlighted in red (phabricator:T170531)
- Added language code fr-ca for monolingual text input (phabricator:T151186)
- Added an additional normalization for page titles when linking pages on Wiktionary via Cognate (phabricator:T172987)
- The API will not only output the hashes for qualifier snaks, but also for main snaks as well as references snaks (phabricator:T174692). Note that hashes (other than IDs) are not meant to be stable identifiers, and should not be stored for a longer time.
  - Snak hashes will also appear as part of CSS classes in entity pages (phabricator:T171725)

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!