Wikidata:Status updates/2015 06 13

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2015-06-13.

Discussions

• Should we have a Wikidata User Group?

Events/Press/Blogs

• Past: Thanks to everyone who participated in the Wikidata:Menu Challenge which made Wikidata shine at A Taste of Stockholm. The live results are still up at https://wikimedia-sverige.github.io/tastydata .
• Upcoming: Donostia-San Sebastián Wikidata Editathon
• Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata in Paris
• News about Wikidata FIST
• Review of the big interwiki link migration
• Timeline of Christopher Lee films
• Wikidata map - 19 months on
• A challenge was raised to calculate the degrees of separation to Kevin Bacon. Already one routine has been produced, the next step is to use live data so that we can work on reducing the number of intermediary steps.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• ViziData has been improved significantly
• Wikidata Visualization Challenge winners announced: first prize to ViziData.
• New paper: Peer-production system or collaborative ontology development effort: what is Wikidata?
• Jura1 posted some data around property usage on items about people
• Tpt is interning at Google now to free up more content from Freebase for us. He's adding more data to the Primary Sources Tool.

Did you know?

• Newest properties: street key, relief location map, location map, McCune-Reischauer romanization, conifers.org ID, Dyntaxa ID, Project Gutenberg ID, UN/LOCODE, Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire ID, DBCS ID, Animator.ru ID, MobyGames ID, stated as, PGCH ID

Development

• Deployed arbitrary access on all Wikivoyage and Wikiquote projects and announced the next ones. See d:Wikidata:Arbitrary access for more.
• More fine tuning on entity usage tracking (relevant for arbitrary access)
• Fixed bug that sometimes allowed multiple properties to have the same label in a given language (phabricator:T102148)
• More work on automatically creating redirects when merging items
• More code review of the Wikidata Quality extensions (improved constraint reports and checks against 3rd party databases). Starting to look good for a first deployment.
• The sitelinks heading hierarchy changed and includes a “Site links” heading now that is only shown on mobile. This is a DOM change needed to make Wikidata work better on mobile.
• Started working on having PHPCS coverage for the major Wikibase.git code base to find small code issues more easily
• Prepared Wikibase.git for the DataModel 3.0 switch
• Released Wikibase DataModel Serialization 1.4
• Released Wikibase Internal Serialization 1.4
• New releases of several DataValue components, including DataValues Number 0.5, DataValues JavaScript 0.7 and ValueView 0.14.5

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! :)