Wikidata:Status updates/2019 05 27

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2019-05-27.

Events

• Past: Wikidata Labs XV in Brazil, with an introduction to lexicographical data (slides)
• Past: Workshop for experienced editors of nl.wiktionary to explore the possibilities of lexicographical data.

Press, articles, blog posts

• Using contemporary constraints to ensure data consistency. David Abián, Jorge Bernad, Raquel Trillo LadoPublished in SAC 2019. DOI:10.1145/3297280.3297509 (Paywalled)
• Published in WWW 2019
  • Fast Interval Joins for Temporal SPARQL Queries. Melisachew Wudage Chekol, Giuseppe Pirrò, Heiner Stuckenschmidt. DOI:10.1145/3308560.3314997
  • QAnswer: A Question Answering prototype bridging the gap between a considerable part of the LOD cloud and end-users. Ronan Cummins, et al. DOI:10.1145/3308558.3314124
  • Implicit Bias in Crowdsourced Knowledge Graphs. Gianluca Demartini. DOI:10.1145/3308560.3317307
  • Learning to Map Wikidata Entities To Predefined Topics. Preeti Bhargava, et al. DOI:10.1145/3308560.3316749
• Citation.js: Wikidata Update, by Lars Willighagen
• Wikidata: Open Linked Data for Library Publishing, by Mairelys Lemus-Rojas et al.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The US Library of Congress are integrating Wikidata QIDs into their authority files (blog post)

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: Buddhist Author Authority Database ID, HAL structure ID, Mod DB video game ID, Finnish Trade Register ID, IMTL.org ID, Danskefilmstemmer.dk person ID, OBO Gazetteer ID, LGBTFansDB character ID, ProofWiki ID, ROR ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: title qualifiers, goodwill ambassador of, UPA transcription, hospital beds, Courage ID, bibliography url
  • External identifiers: Messes.info Catholic parish ID, The DRAGON Archive id, racing-reference track ID, racing-reference race ID, Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic (DPRR) ID, MSX Games World ID, Coco Game List ID, Dictionary of Irish Biography ID, Ask.fm ID, National Film Board of Canada director identifier
• Query examples:
  • European countries that have a street named after them in Rennes
  • Map of meteor impact craters (source)
  • Bubble chart of all instances of color which have an sRGB color hex triplet (source)
  • Number of riots per country (source)
  • Country having the most female politicians (source)

Development

• Deploy the EntitySchema extension on test.wikidata.org and beta.wikidata.org
• Remove the remaining beta feature config for constraint-suggestions (phab:T220609)
• Introduce baserevid for conflict checking in Lexeme (phab:T217245)
• Fix a bug making impossible to get Lexeme Forms and Senses via the API (phab:T223995)
• Add Wikidata query service lag to Wikidata maxlag (phab:T221774)
• Allow accessing Wikibase entities from multiple Wikibase databases (phab:T214557)
• More work to get termbox ready for deployment
• Add a login warning on mobile termbox editing (phab:T221831)

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!