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Timeline for Maxlath

Timeline	Date
Milestone 1	Day Month Year
Milestone 2	Day Month Year
Milestone 3	Day Month Year

Monthly updates

Please prepare a brief project update each month, in a format of your choice, to share progress and learnings with the community along the way. Submit the link below as you complete each update.

June

wikidata-sdk

New features:

• Added truthyClaims and truthyPropertyClaims functions
• Added simplify.entities

Developments:

• simplify_sparql_results: support rich values with descriptions and aliases

wikidata-cli

New features:

• wd props: allow to match on descriptions and aliases
• Added the possibility to override config options with environment variables

Developments:

• wd id: fixed URL parsing for projects others than Wikipedia
• wd id: fixed case when the argument isn't a URL
• wd props: allow to filter properties by matching on descriptions and aliases, instead of just labels
• wd props: added a -d, --details option to output properties with all the available data: labels, types, descriptions, aliases

communication

• Presenting WikidataJS tools at the DINSIC, the French Inter-ministerial Direction for Digital Affairs and the State’s Information and Communication System (organizer's tweet)

July

wikidata-sdk

Developments:

• getReverseClaims: Added ability to query entities by multiple property values
• Added simplify.qualifier, simplify.propertyQualifiers, simplify.qualifiers functions
• Added isGuid helper function
• Make wdk.simplifySparqlResults format statement URIs as claims GUIDs

Mentions:

• Connection of a historical social network with Wikimedia community - Rafael Díaz Rodríguez — 9.2 Wikidata SDK

August

wikidata-edit

New features:

• claim.update can now also accepts a claim GUID, instead of an entity id, a property, and a value

Developments:

• Added support for globecoordinate claims to claim.update
• Added support for somevalue and novalue claims and qualifiers

wikidata-cli

Developments:

• Added support for novalue and somevalue snaktypes to add-claim and add-qualifier

September

wikidata-cli

New features:

• Added wd hub

wikidata-sdk

Mentions:

• wikidata-sdk is used by a course about scientific programming
• mention of wikidata-sdk in XARXES. Un exemple d’integració d’un projecte d’humanitats digitals amb la Viquipèdia

October

wikidata-edit

New features:

• claim.add: added an allowDuplicates flag to force add when a claim with the same value already exists

Documentation:

• Add example with monolingual text string to show the syntax

wikidata-cli

New features:

• wd data --format ttl: dump entities in rdf/ttl (announcement tweet)
• wd convert: convert batches of external ids to Wikidata ids and vice versa (announcement tweet)
• Add option -y, --history to wd open

Developments:

• the Docker image can now be used with a persistant config and cache

wikidata-filter

Documentation:

• documenting increase in process RAM to prevent out-of-memory errors

November

Communication

• Presenting WikidataJS tools at WikiCite

Mentions:

• wikidata-edit starts being used by inventaire.io to create items in Wikidata (announcement tweet). Wikidata creations and edits from inventaire.io users can be seen in recent changes
• tweet recommanding wikidata-sdk and wikidata-cli to work with Wikidata

December

wikidata-edit

Documentation:

• Extend edit entity example with aliases

wikidata-cli

Developments:

• Added new keep options values to wd data: richvalues and types

January

wikidata-sdk

Mentions:

• Citation.js: a format-independent, modular bibliography tool for the browser and command line

February

wikidata-sdk

Mentions:

• Call to get wikidata-sdk above 200 stars to make it available on cdnjs

wikidata-filter

Mentions:

• StackOverflow question: an effective way to count items that share two properties

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