Wikidata:Status updates/2018 05 07

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2018-05-07.

Discussions

• New request for comments:
  • Sort identifier statements on items that are instances of human
  • Make "developer" and "programmer" properties clearer

Events

• Wikidata and GLAM workshop day in the context of the EuropeanaTech Conference, Rotterdam, Monday 14 May 2018
• Wikidata access methods, slides by Dan Scott

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• More than 850 living people' articles from the English Wikipedia which have date of death or place of death on their Wikidata item: manual checks needed. You can also check Category:P570 missing in Wikipedia
• Florian will be improving Wikidata support in the Wikipedia plugin for OpenStreetMap's JOSM editor, for the Google Summer of Code 2018
• Prssanna Desai will work on improvements for the Query Service during Google Summer of Code

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: Deutsche Bahn station category, has grammatical gender, has grammatical person, Wikimedia outline, assistant director, island of location, possible medical findings, suggests the existence of, has evaluation, evaluation of, greater than, less than
  • External identifiers: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures ID, Behind The Voice Actors character ID, HanCinema film ID, Italian School ID, Directory of Open Access Journals ID, LGDB game ID, LGDB emulator ID, LGDB tool ID, LGDB engine ID, TFRRS athlete ID, All About Jazz musician ID, Ontario public library ID, Swedish Literature Bank book ID, WikiCFP event ID, WikiCFP conference series ID, ICAA film catalogue ID, Stepwell Atlas ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: IMDA rating, is program committee member of, officialized by, KAVI rating, topographic map, child monotypic taxon, Köppens klimaklassifisering, Möllendorff transliteration, attested, geographic center, season of club or team, sports competition competed at, factorizsation, coastline, forest cover, vehicles per capita, audio transcription
  • External identifiers: e-MEC entry, Norwegian war sailor register ship ID, Thesaurus For Graphic Materials, GNOME Wiki ID, Israel Film Fund ID, The New Fund for Cinema and Television (Israel) ID, Cinema Project ID, Chinese Political Elites Database ID, Israeli Movie Testimonial Database Person ID, Israeli Movie Testimonial Database Movie ID, JMA Seismic Intensity Database ID, Portale della Canzone italiana IDs, Trustpilot company ID, Ester ID, Dictionary of Swedish Translators
• Properties lacking use created > 3 months:
  • Sign@l journal ID (P4726), INRAN Italian Food ID (P4729), produced sound (P4733), IBM code page ID (P4734), IBM graphic character global ID (P4736), Line Music album ID (P4748), Line Music artist ID (P4747), is proceedings from (P4745), National Historic Ships certificate no. (P4750), Manus Online ID (P4752)
• Deleted properties: Réunion des musées nationaux ID (P5100)
• Query examples:
  • Map of birth places of authors in the Portuguese Wikisource
  • Video games that are set in the Star Wars Expanded Universe by game mode (source)
  • Timeline of Programming Languages (source)
  • Timeline of people named Karl born in Karlsruhe (source)

Development

• Allow continuing Wikidata entity dumps (phab:T193688)
• Make sure Wikidata entity dump scripts run for a short amount of time (phab:T190513)
• Add monolingual language code shy (phab:T184783)
• More work on preparing QuickStatements to be run by other parties (phab:T193606, phab:T192079, phab:T192365)
• Expand references with constraint violations (phab:T177970)
• Improving validation of Form representations on WikibaseLexeme (phab:T193011)
• Fixing a bug that replaces a representation by another (phab:T192264)
• Enable finding forms using wbsearchentities API (phab:T191981)

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!