Wikidata:Status updates/2018 01 29

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2018-01-29.

Discussions

• Closed request for comments: Defining account creators

Events/Press/Blogs

• Upcoming: IRC office hour on the channel #wikimedia-office, January 30th, at 18:00 (UTC+1). Special topic: how to address the growth of Wikidata
• Upcoming: Wikidata hackathon in London, February 3rd
• Past: PIDapalooza 2018 - Slides on FigShare
• Mapping Wikidata to Bibframe (representation of books)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Breaking change: wbcheckconstraints status parameter
• Wikidata-driven infoboxes, with multilingual labels, are now available on Wikimedia Commons category pages
• Wikidata vandalism dashboard for Wikipedians
• Grant proposals looking for review: WikidataJS, GlobalFactSync

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: cinematografo film ID, CiNii author ID (articles)
• Query examples:
  • Buildings higher than the Eiffel Tower (source)
  • Descendants of Charlemagne by year of birth (source)
  • Cinemas in Berlin (source)
  • Things (or people) depicted in the xkcd webcomic (source)
  • Image grid of inductees to WITI Hall of Fame (source)
  • Movies filmed in Austria (source)
• Newest WikiProjects:
• Newest gadgets: Mix'n'Match gadget: loads all Mix’m’match entries about an item, shows descriptions, lets you drag’n’drop entries as references

• Newest database reports: tennis federations, Davis Cup and Fed Cup teams
• Showcase items:

Development

• Constraint violations can now be checked on qualifiers and references (phab:T168532)
• Implemented usage tracking deduplication to reduce database load (phab:T178079). This should not have any effect on what users see on recent changes and watchlists.
• Redirects on client wikis that are connected to a Wikidata item can have a tracking category, if set up (phab:T185743). Thanks, Matěj!
• Improved documentation of the pageterms query module (gerrit:406240). Thanks, Niedzielski!
• Improved empty "content was:" in deletion logs for entities (phab:T184025)
• Fixed links to external user pages in recent changes (phab:T183019)
• Fixed user names beginning with a star sometimes being rendered as a list (phab:T182800)
• Fixed constraint check results possibly showing up in the wrong language (phab:T185688)
• Fixed ArticlePlaceholders possibly not showing up in search results (gerrit:406168)
• Some of the developers attended to the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2018. You can find some notes on the Phabricator board

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!