Wikidata:Status updates/2018 06 11

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2018-06-11.

Events

• Wikidata workshop in Paris, June 15
• Wikidata Datathon on June 16 in Zurich
• Wikibase meetup on June 17-19 in Berlin

Press, articles, blog posts

• Learning to Generate Wikipedia Summaries for Underserved Languages from Wikidata, presented at the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics by Lucie Kaffee and Hady Elsahar (see the poster and the paper)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• A proposal for using Wikidata for PeerTube.
• New constraint type: citation needed constraint
• Sitelinks can be:
  • added for Bengali Wikivoyage ^{(bnwikivoyage)}
  • defined for Piedmontese Wikisource ^{(pmswikisource)}
  • completed for Pashto Wikivoyage ^{(pswikivoyage)}
  • entered to Sakha Wikiquote ^{(sahwikiquote)}
• A template listing the new Lexicographical properties is available
• Draft of consultation about creating separate user group for editing sitewide CSS/JavaScript
• Wikidata now appears in the LOD cloud and you can help improving it

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: reading pattern of Han character, medical evacuation to, sports competition competed at, winter view, Slavic Alphabet, grade of kanji, gender inflection of surname, hyphenation, radical, residual stroke count, ground level 360 degree view, Portable Game Notation
  • External identifiers: ARWU university ID, Canal-U person ID, myschool ID, Pornhub ID, Giant Bomb ID, IAB code, Corago opera ID, FilmTv.it movie ID, FilmTv.it person ID, FilmTv.it TV series ID, OpenCorporates corporate grouping, BirdLife International ID, Czech Geomorphological Unit Code, Swedish Gravestone ID, iTunes App Store developer ID, Les Enfoirés participant ID, Les Enfoirés song ID, Czech NDOP taxon ID, Relationship Science person ID, Dordrechts Museum artwork ID, Finnish national bibliography corporate name ID, YouPorn performer ID, MNAV work ID, Web umenia work ID, MonDO ID, Saint Louis Art Museum person ID, CDMC musician ID, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art person ID, SJP Online ID, OED Online ID, Strava ID of a professional sport person, Douban Movie Celebrity ID, Firmenbuchnummer, Songfacts artist ID, StadiumDB identifier, World Stadium Database identifier
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: permanent resident of, type locality, SPARQL endpoint, property scope, Romanization of Belarusian, factorizsation, Jones polynomial, Alexander polynomial, Conway polynomial, number of videos, Han character in this lexeme, número de etapas, Angular size, Red List status of species, United Kingdom railway station category, reference has role, mathematical concept defining formula, mathematical concept definition, subject facet
  • External identifiers: Redump.org, Church of Norway building ID, Taratata ID, B.R.A.H.M.S. work ID, NRJ ID, Akout ID, Lafonoteca ID, Swedish Academy member, Party Number (Taiwan), DLCM ID, AntWeb, Webb-site person ID, Webb-site organization ID, Companies House officer ID, France Culture ID, Dictionary of Scottish Architects ID, LONSEA people ID, Protected Buildings Register in Finland ID, Protected Buildings Register in Finland Building ID, Kino-teatr.ua film ID, Drouot ID, Kino-teatr.ua person ID, Swedish Signaturer.se, BioStor work ID, César Award film ID, César Award person ID, National Archive of Sweden, Libris-URI, IUF member ID, Museo del Prado artist ID, fernsehserien.de ID, ARMB member ID, OCLC work id
• Properties awaiting widespread use, created >3 months:
  • research intervention (P4844), International Numbering System number (P4849), BMI Work ID (P4860), Atarimania identifier (P4859), AtariAge identifier (P4857), RFE symbol (P4867), Operabase ID (P4869), GEPRIS person ID (P4872), GEPRIS organization ID (P4871), GEPRIS project ID (P4870)
• Deleted properties: Property:P2439 ("language"), Property:P2237 ("units used for this property"), Property:P883 ("FIPS 5-2 (code for US states)"), Property:P5190 ("synonym")
• Query examples:
  • Timeline of discoveries in the Solar System (source)
  • Map of Suffragettes around the world (source)
  • Female ministers in African countries (source)
  • References with only a quote but no other properties (source)
  • Islands in capital cities (source)
  • Map of titles in the Welsh Journals & Welsh Newspapers (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: Wikidata:WikiProject BHL (books etc from the Biodiversity Heritage Library)
• Newest gadgets: derivedstatements.js adds at the end of all item pages a new button to load inverse statements
• Newest database reports: list of films (चलचित्र) from Nepal

Development

• Developing a prototype for usability testing for how the term box (labels, descriptions, aliases) could work on mobile
• Investigating how we can do the display of items (their label and sometimes description when linked to in a statement or in listings like Recent Changes) in a way that is less of an issue for the database
• Working on including the dispatch lag in the maxlag API to make it easier for bots to see when they should stop editing because of performance reasons (phabricator:T194950)
• Working on adding a Lua function to check if an item is a subclass/instance of another one (phabricator:T179155)
• Created an API that returns constraint violations for an item in TTL format in preparation for making constraint violations queryable in the query service (phabricator:T194762)
• Started planning for support for Senses
• Added more helpful text on Special:NewLexeme to make it easier to understand what information is required (phabricator:T193602)
• Working on pre-filling the spelling variant for a new Form's representation (phabricator:T195708)
• Worked on showing the Lemma of a Lexeme instead of just its ID in Special:AllPages, Recent Changes and diffs (phabricator:T191600, phabricator:T195382, phabricator:T195511)
• Made the representation of a Form in a diff link to the Form (phabricator:T195512)
• Fixed an issue on the Wikipedias and co when a statement in an item that was used there linked to a Form or Lexeme (phabricator:T195615)
• Made the "publish" button stay disabled for a Lexeme's header when there is nothing to save (phabricator:T196342)

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!