Wikidata:Status updates/2015 05 23

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2015-05-23.

Events/Press/Blogs

Wikimedia Hackathon 2015

• State of the Map US (OpenStreetMap's conference) in New York on 6-8 June
• Wikimedia Hackathon 2015 in Lyon from 23-25 May. Some of the activities and outcomes:
  • Wikidata descriptions can soon be edited in the Wikipedia iOS app.
  • A early preview of the primary SPARQL endpoint for Wikidata has been created to query Wikidata. Remember that it is not stable and still beta. A short introduction to SPARQL can be found in Lucie's slides.
  • If you are not familiar with SPARQL yet, a tool has been created by Tpt and Bene* to generate SPARQL queries from natural language questions.
  • To do SPARQL queries from the command line, a command line tool was crafted by Marius.
  • The special page to query for badges is within reach.
  • A feedback session on the architecture of Wikibase was held.
  • We got a cool presentation by Maxime about inventaire.io.
  • We figured out the next steps to make Wikidata more mobile friendly.
  • Pilot on the Hungarian Wikipedia to show diagrams based on Wikidata in their articles on Spanish villages

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• New command line tool for mapping SKOS to Wikidata (video)
• The Wikidata Visualization Challenge is ending soon. Please submit your entries. The Wikidata Menu Challenge is also ending soon.
• The number of videos about Wikidata is growing and there is now a category on Wikimedia Commons for these.

Did you know?

• Newest properties: lowest note, highest note, source website, Fauna Europaea ID, Danish urban area code, OpenPlaques plaque identifier, signatory, BNC identifier, different from
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Elections

Development

• Got early preview of the primary SPARQL endpoint for Wikidata live
• The Graph extension is now live on Wikidata
• Arbitrary access is rolled out on fawiki, hewiki and enwikivoyage now
• Busy with the hackathon (see above)

You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here.

Monthly Tasks

• Hack on one of these.
• Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
• 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, for the new properties listed above.

Anything to add? Please share! :)