Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Updating References for External Data
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Registration is open for the Celtic Knot Conference 2017 (July 6th, Edinburgh)
- Pre-hackathon of the Wikimedia Hackathon, May 12th-14th in Prague
- Wikimedia Hackathon 2017, May 19th-21st in Vienna. On site or remotely, you can join the Wikidata documentation sprint
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Vote in the board election (see also Voter guides and rationales
- Sitelinks for the new Doteli Wikipedia (dtywiki) can be added
- You can now track the number of identifier properties for an item
- We provide weekly a new type of database dumps: nt truthy dumps
- Wikipedia article-draft-generator developed by Pharos for Met Museum project
- Schema.org proposes to encourage the use of Wikidata as a common entity base for the target of the sameAs relation
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: light sector, Wikidata SPARQL query equivalent, Canadian Coastguard Lighthouse ID, contributed to published work
- Query examples:
- Newest database reports: list of oldest lighthouses
- Development
- Worked more on support for lexicographical data (specifically support for lexicographic category and statements on forms)
- Dealt with issues after the deployment of automatic interwiki links for Wiktionary
- Worked on constraint violation user script based on your feedback (improving messages to make it more understandable, layout, etc)
- Add support for the following new language codes for monolingual text properties: brx, chn, cop, gez, quc, kjh, nr (will become available in a few days)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
- 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!