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Wikidata report

News from Cape Town, Aberystwyth, Berlin, Milan and Everywhere

By Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing)

Wikimania and Hackathon 2018, took place in Cape Town, South Africa, 18-22 July. Many Wikidata-related events were included
Celtic Knot Conference, dedicated to Wikimedia projects and minority languages, was held in Aberystwyth, Wales, on July 5-6. There was a specific Wikidata track. See also this month's UK report.
There was a Wikibase workshop in Berlin.
State of the Map, the OpenStreetMap equivalent of Wikimania, was held in Milan from 28-30 July. There were two meetups on interactions between Wikimedia and OSM, and Wikidata was mentioned in several sessions, including:
More events are coming soon:
- Call for proposals and scholarship applications are now open for WikiConference North America (deadlines: 15 August!)
- Sixth birthday of Wikidata: it's time to think about what you'd like to organize in your area! There will be a phone call for organizers, and the deadline to request swag is September 7th.

The Commons template Wikidata infobox passed 1.3 million uses on Commons categories, with plenty more still to come. A new help page gives advice on how to add, extend or improve uses of it, and how to fix data problems.
You can discuss the right properties to describe files on Commons, to help moving on with Structured data on Commons* You can help teaching ORES how to better detect vandalism
Wikidata items now contain an average of 10 statements.
New tool: Wikidata Cradle, by Magnus Manske, to create new items by filling a form. You can build your own forms.
Terminator, another tool by Magnus, that finds Wikidata items that lack a label, description, or article in a specific language, has now a version 2 (blog post)

Change for 'maxlag' impacts bots and semi-automated tools
EditGroups can now revert batches which created items. These items are deleted in the revert batch. This feature is only available to administrators but other users can easily request revert from the tool.
There was an interesting issue where some parts of the interface were shown in a different language than they should be.
populationWDvsOSM: a new script that compares the population in OSM place nodes and boundary relations with Wikidata
A new user-script, d:User:Husky/ifff-viewer-link.js, shows selected parts of images, according to P2677 qualifiers - for example d:Q17335769#P180.