Wikidata's birthday: presents, stories and events

The birthday week started and already a lot of events happened, presents have been shared, stories have been told! Here's what you may have missed:

• a word from the development team by Lydia
• a new version of the map showing all the Wikidata items with geolocalisation, by Addshore, who explains how he generated it in a blog post
• The 4th birthday logo by Incabell
• A new release of the Wikipedia and Wikidata Tools for Google Spreadsheets add-on has made working with Wikidata a lot easier for Google Sheets users, by Tomayac
• A guide to SPARQL and the Wikidata Query Service, by TweetsFactsAndQueries
• Four new types of charts for the Query Service: line chart, bar chart, scatter chart and area chart (read more and try examples in the documentation) by Jonas
• {{#statements:…}}, a new parser function is currently in development with better features that you can try on beta by the Wikidata dev team and volunteers
• Search field added in Scholia, a tool to create scholarship profiles, by fnielsen
• 10 cool queries for Wikidata that will blow your mind. Number 7 will shock you, by Jens and Cornelius
• 4 years of Wikidata by Stryn
• A lot of people celebrating and posting pictures on Twitter or on Commons!

The birthday party is not finished yet, every day until November 4th you will discover new presents and stories. Follow the project chat or the mailing-list or #Wikidatabirthday to get the news!

Events/Press/Blogs

• Wikidata birthday in Kanpur (India), November 3rd
• Wikidata birthday in Berlin (Germany), November 4th
• Wikidata birthday in Rennes (France), November 5th
• OKlab Berlin hacknights, October 31st and November 7th
• Pidapalooza, Reykjavik, November 9-10
• Past: Ladies that FOSS (livetweet report)

Did you know?

• Newest properties: SummitPost ID, lib.reviews ID, Galiciana Author ID, ICAA rating, KINENOTE person ID, NGS pumping station ID, third-party formatter URL, Open Media Database film ID, broadcast by
• Query examples:
  • Deities and their families
  • Most frequently variants of given names (source)
  • Cheese made with cow milk (source)
  • Abandoned villages in the Czech Republic (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Informatics: File Formats
• Newest database reports: Liam Neeson filmography

Development

• We proposed a meaningful initial order for the statementSort gadget (phabricator:T147062)
• Commons media file properties now support pasting full Wikimedia Commons URLs (phabricator:T147917)
• Added distinct hover tooltips to rank and snak type selectors, as well as some of the "add" buttons (phabricator:T139356)
• Our concept base URI will be exposed as part of the meta=siteinfo API (phabricator:T143910). Thanks, user Lokal Profil!
• Progress on the list=wbsubscribers API module to query entity usage information (phabricator:T145880)
• Progress on the new parser function for rich, formatted statements (phabricator:T142940)
• Released Wikibase DataModel 6.2.0
• Released ValueView 0.18.0

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