Wikidata:Status updates/2016 11 26

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-11-26.

Discussions

• Closed request for comments: Semi-automatic Addition of References to Wikidata Statements

Events/Press/Blogs

• Past: Wikidata introduction by Pigsonthewing at DJUK 2016

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Items without statements is down to 5% for enwiki (source)
• Wikidata:WikiProject Biographical Identifiers

Did you know?

• Newest properties: Auckland Art Gallery artist ID, Observatoire du Patrimoine Religieux ID, Géopatronyme ID, Prabook ID, GECD film ID, GECD person ID, Enciclopedia Treccani, stereoisomer of, Tennishof ID, operating income, PictoRight ID code, Nobel Prize People Nomination ID, negative prognostic predictor, positive prognostic predictor, negative diagnostic predictor, positive diagnostic predictor, negative therapeutic predictor, positive therapeutic predictor, National Recreation Trails Database ID
• Query example : List of sovereign state flags by proportion (source)
• Newest tool: Display the link to Wikiversity in the title of Wikipedia using Wikidata
• Newest database report: Unique films: film items with a link to a single Wikipedia

Development

• Adding new wikis to interwiki sort order and move sort orders to WMF config. phab:T111023

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