Wikidata:Status updates/2020 03 02

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2020-03-02.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Kostas20142

Events

• March 7: Wikidata introductions and editathon during OpenDataDay in Hasselt, Belgium
• July 2-4, Lisbon: WikiData Days 2020. Call for proposals is open until April 15.
• Program submissions for the Celtic Knot Conference are open until March 30th. Submissions about languages on Wikidata, GLAM or supporting minority languages are very welcome.

Press, articles, blog posts

• Tutorial on how to use machine learning with Wikidata.
• Bob DuCharme's blog post: Populating a Schema.org dataset from Wikidata
• About Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons:
  • Explainer video with a beginner-level introduction about Structured Data on Commons
  • Connecting the work of three generations of decorative artists, with structured data, by Sandra Fauconnier
  • Structured Data on Commons and GLAM: open questions and fresh challenges, by Sandra Fauconnier
• OpenRefine: results of the 2020 user survey

Tool of the week

• Wikidata graph builder is a front-end on top of the Query service, allowing to easily build graphs.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The Wikidata Languages Landscape dashboard provides insights into the ways languages are organized and used in Wikidata and across the Wikimedia projects that reuse Wikidata.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: business model, format of creative work, associated electoral district
  • External identifiers: Adelsvapen ID, Irish playography play ID, Irish playography person ID, Corpus Corporum author ID, Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon ID, Adventure Gamers company ID, Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland: 1880-2000 ID, NHLR ID, The Washington Post writer ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: Type of bow used, staking lock-up period, validator bond lock-up period, URL match pattern, Pertainym, cognate, symbol of, transactions per month, compatible wallets, minimum amount to run a validator, minimum amount to participate in voting
  • External identifiers: Kooora player ID, Marvel Comics creators ID, DC Comics talent ID, EcuRed, IGCD fictional car ID, Chicago Landmarks ID, URL on Nintendo eShop, BC Register of Historic Places ID
• Query examples:
  • Updated chart of the number of infections and deaths caused since the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2, as reported by the World Health Organisation
  • British Prime Ministers with children under the age of 5 when elected, or born during their time in office (source)
  • Timeline of countries of origin of the winner of the European Film Award for Best European Film
  • People with profiles on the Washington Post website

Development

• Started working on Federated Properties for Wikibase
• Bridge: more style adjustments
• Research on reference rendering for the Bridge (phab:T244987)
• Disable WDQS jump to focus when used in an iframe (phab:T245637)

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!