Wikidata:Status updates/2018 06 25

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2018-06-25.

Events

• Wikidata LGBT group at the Pride march in Paris, June 30th

Press, articles, blog posts

• Archives and Wikidata (in French) by Baptiste de Coulon
• Share cultural data in Wikidata (in French) video workshop by La cinématèque québécoise

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Try the new prototype of the termbox on mobile and give feedback
• There will be an IRC Office Hour for Structured Data on Commons on Tuesday, 26 June from 18:00-19:00 UTC. More information, including time and date conversion, is available on Meta. There is no set topic, you are welcome to bring any discussion that you would like to the office hour.
• Edit #700,000,000 happened on June 21th
• Magnus Manske released a new interface for QuickStatements V2. Among other changes, it now includes links to EditGroups, a tool that allows people to discuss about or revert batch edits
• WikiCite 2018 will take place in the San Francisco Bay Area on November 27-29

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: angular diameter, laps completed, Alexander polynomial, Conway polynomial, Jones polynomial, school district
  • External identifiers: Bérose ID, Rom Galil settlement ID, Or Movement settlement ID, Or Movement regional council ID, Google News ID, SilentEra.com film ID, Lega Serie A soccer player ID, AFI person ID, Poetry Foundation ID, Poets.org poet ID, Printemps des poètes poet ID, PC Engine Software Bible ID, Playmates Playmate ID, Amphibian Species of World ID, abgeordnetenwatch.de politician ID, Laut.de artist ID, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction ID, Operone opera ID, Operone composer ID, MobyGames group ID, BNB person ID, ASMP member ID, Académie des beaux-arts member ID, British Council writer ID, Internet Book Database of Fiction writer ID, Operissimo artist ID, YouTube Gaming game ID, National Gallery of Canada artist ID, Encyclopædia Universalis author ID, Entomologists of the World ID, GAMECIP media format ID, Dictionnaire critique des historiens de l'art ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: auxiliary verb, Number of works accessible online, model year, CETAF specimen ID, floor number, has pattern
  • External identifiers: MobyGames game group ID, Amazon.com ID, Behind the voice Actors tv show ID, Behind the voice Actors movie ID, Behind the voice Actors franchise ID, Radio Courtoisie host ID, archINFORM project ID, Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer ID, Classiques des sciences sociales ID, cipM ID, Poets & Writers ID, Poetry Archive ID, Norwegian Polar Institute place name ID, VIN, GeoNLP ID, Online Books Page publication ID, Tierstimmenarchiv ID, The Canadian Encyclopedia article ID, TDKIV term ID, Gfycat tag, Gfycat user ID, RYM ID, Identifient pour artistes du Centre national des arts plastiques, Whonamedit? ID
• Query examples:
  • Timeline of scientists dying a non natural death before 1900 (source)
  • Most P2860-cited surname (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: Research projects

Development

• Include Wikibase dispatch lag in API "maxlag" enforcing (phab:T194950)
• Run full constraint check when saving a statement (phab:T194760)
• Show map on items to preview coordinates (phab:T184933)
• Implement property scope constraint to say if a property should be used on main snak qualifiers or references (phab:T197473)
• Investigate on replacements for some parts of wb_terms table (phab:T197161)
• Fix a UI glitch on Lexeme editing interface (phab:T195298)
• Add names and descriptions for Lexeme, Form and Sense datatypes on Special:ListDatatypes (phab:T189935)
• Display a warning message and prevent entering of lemmas with the same spelling variant (phab:T195372)
• Work on showing description in Item selector in Special:NewLexeme (phab:T165597)

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!