Wikidata:Status updates/2018 01 22

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2018-01-22.

Discussions

• Closed request for adminship: Mahir256 (as successful)

Events/Press/Blogs

• Getting data from Wikidata into WordPress custom taxonomy
• PIDapalooza - Girona, 23-24 January,with a session on PIDs in Wikidata by Andy Mabbett
• The EuropeanaTech Call for Proposals is open till February 7. Themes are Data, Discovery, Delivery. The conference will take place in Rotterdam, NL, May 15-16, 2018.
• Call for papers for Celtic Knot conference is open

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Nominations for the Steward elections are open
• Grant proposal for GlobalFactSync
• repology is a nice new project about software packages with the help of Wikidata. They have a list of potentially outdated packages on Wikidata that might need updating or fixing.
• Painters gives you a list of paintings that don't have a creator statement but "painting by" in the description
• Big City Lights: where are the cities whose items are most used across the Wikimedia projects?

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: Commons compatible image available at URL, is a hydrated form of, biological phase, lot number, MAC Address Block Large ID, has boundary
  • External identifiers: SRCBB coach ID, Manus Online ID, Ecocrop ID, Harvard botanical journal ID, UK railway station code, V Live channel ID, Songwriters Hall of Fame ID, MONA ID, Luminous-Lint ID, LTI Korea Library ID, Images d'Art artwork ID, Common Database on Designated Areas ID, crates.io ID, Arcade artwork ID, Australian honours ID, cinematografo company ID, cinematografo name ID, GameRankings game ID, compArt institution ID, compArt person ID, MobyGames company ID, USA Rugby player ID, MYmovies actor ID, MYmovies movie ID, MYmovies director ID, Movieplayer characters ID, Movieplayer film ID, Movieplayer TV-series ID, MYmovies name ID
• Query examples:
  • Map of nuclear tests (source)
  • Languages with more than one writing system (source)
  • Subclasses of malware (source)
  • Male actors who starred in a trilogy of movies when they were in their 20s and then no fewer than 40 years later played the same character again(source - see whole thread for more)
  • Bands from the UK whose member's average age is at least 70 (source)
  • Disney movie narrative locations (source)

Development

• Worked on persistent editing of grammatical features of a lexeme’s form (phab:T173742)
• Made diffs for statements, grammatical features and representations of a form work (phab:T182424)
• Turned off access to lexicographical data from the clients for now (phab:T178904)
• Started logging warning on pages that use too many items (phab:T184319)
• Added support for relation instance or subclass of in the constraint checks (phab:T169858)
• Now also checking single value and multi value constraints on qualifiers and references (phab:T175566)
• Now also checking difference within range constraints on qualifiers and references (phab:T175565)
• Fixed a bug with duplicate items in “distinct values” violation message in the constraint checks gadget (phab:T184705)

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
• 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!

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