Wikidata:Status updates/2019 03 25

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Stanglavine
• An open discussion on how to model one-way train routes is now taking place, and everyone is welcome to pitch in

Events

• Past: Researcher meets Curator, 22 March 2019, Maastricht: meeting about biographies, where Wikidata was mentioned in many talks, eg. Visual Biographies of Scholars and the Topics they Studied, Egon Willighagen
• Upcoming: Training "Valoriser les collections patrimoniales et la recherche en histoire de l’art sur Wikipédia, WikiCommons et Wikidata" in Paris, 28 and 29 March (in French)
• Upcoming: GLAM and Wikidata in National Library, Bern (Switzerland), on March 28th (in German and French)
• Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop for GLAM in Lausanne (Switzerland), on March 29th (in French)
• Upcoming: Monthly Wikidata meetup in Buenos Aires
• Upcoming: Where iNaturalist meets Wiki April 16th, in Meise (Belgium)

Press, articles, blog posts

• SPARQL via WDQS (very basic introduction for archivist) (in French).
• "Build your own Digital Bodleian with IIIF and SPARQL", Martin Poulter, Bodleian Digital Library blog
• A call to action: Wikidata-fy your Commons photos, Martin Poulter, Wikimedia UK blog
• On Wikimedia Research from March 2019: Learning How to Correct a Knowledge Base from the Edit History, by Thomas Pellissier Tanon, Camille Bourgaux and Fabian Suchanek (slides, video)
• The panEuropean Research Infrastructure "Mobilising Data, Experts and Policies in Scientific Collections" initiative's kick-off meeting had a workshop on the "Authority Management of People Names". Wikidata featured strongly - and was highly praised: Twitter thread
• Lexicographical data on Wikidata: Words, words, words by Jens Ohlig

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• It is now possible to filter by property in EditGroups. For instance, you can get an overview of the author disambiguation efforts by filtering on author (P50).
• Related Wikidata Properties: new tool to explore Wikidata properties and find properties used together (example: external id properties used in conjunction with Elo rating (P1087)).
• New tool: BNF Scrapper generates content ready for QuickStatement from an author file from the French National Library
• Tips for Wikidata SPARQL query optimization

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: study or design for, constraint clarification, General Material Designation, value hierarchy property
  • External identifiers: Plant Illustrations artist ID, Ashmolean museum ID, Semantic Scholar topic ID, FFS athlete ID, CSKA person ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: quotation or excerpt (music), Classification RCQ, CHVRS Classification
  • External identifiers: Kicker.de player ID, XING company ID, Le Figaro tag ID, Le Parisien tag ID, L'Express tag ID, Orlando person ID, Identifier, Sumo Reference, SA Rugby Player ID, EUNIS ID for habitats, Japan Search name ID, FIS telemark skier ID, Rxivist author ID, Rxivist preprint ID, Motorsports Hall of Fame of America ID
• Query examples:
  • Maximum temperatures on Earth (°F/°C) (source)
  • People with social media accounts that are identical but differently capitalised (source)

Development

• Update property suggester data (phab:T216270)
• Add a link to the shex-simple tool to make it easier to check entities against a Schema (phab:T217331)
• Make the placeholders on Special:NewSchema now match the ones on Special:NewItem (phab:T215386)
• Check for edit conflicts when editing schemas (phab:T217338, phab:T218300)
• Enable the parser cache for Schema pages (phab:T218459, phab:T218769)
• Use the FormatAutocomments hook for Schemas to implement translatable edit summaries (phab:T218889)
• Implement a proper Wikibase-Termbox-Integration according to the ADR (phab:T214679)
• Fix the emoji breaking the termbox column layout (phab:T217244)
• Correctly showing revisions with the new termbox (phab:T210615)
• Correctly handle user-specific language settings in the new termbox (phab:T218111)
• Fix an issue for score extension (phab:T218535)
• Turn off RDF support for entity types that doesn't support it (phab:T213483)
• Respect nofollow config on wikidata identifier links (phab:T175230)
• Allow accessing Wikibase entities from multiple (Wikibase) databases (phab:T214557)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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!