Wikidata:Status updates/2018 09 17

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2018-09-17.

Discussions

• Open requests for adminship: Dan Koehl, Joalpe

Events

• Continuing through September and early October: Andy Mabbett is touring Australia for a series of open-science and GLAM Wiki-focused talks, workshops, and meetups.
• New events added for the sixth birthday of Wikidata: Berlin, Oslo, Tehran, Beijing

Press, articles, blog posts

• An increasing number of reports from This Month in GLAM Wikidata related stories. To follow, subscribe here. Though most country reports include Wikidata activities, highlights from this month include:
  • Brazilian Wikimedians develop tools for mass contributions: Mbabel and Import-500px
  • A report about the Wikidata workshop held at the International Federation of Library Associations Conference in Kuala Lampur
  • A report discussing increasing interest for mapping the Portuguese National Library data with Wikidata
  • More information on the recently funded WMSE Projects
  • And, of course, the Wikidata Report highlights
• Crotos: a project on visual artworks powered by Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons
• Wikidata Query Service recipe: qualifiers and the Greek alphabet

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Linking knowledge organization systems via Wikidata Presentation at DCMI conference in Porto, by Jneubert
• Senses for lexicographical data will be deployed on October 18th
• The final release of OpenRefine 3.0 is out.
• Collection Explorer, a Wikidata-driven tool bringing together collection data from the Ashmolean Museum, the Bodleian Library, and the Pitt Rivers Museum.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: state of conservation, state of use, admission rate, is retracted by, ISO 15919 transliteration, majority opinion by, seed, demonstrates form, usage example, political coalition, Status in the Red List of Threatened Species in the Czech Republic, item inherits value from
  • External identifiers: BGCI garden ID, International Mathematical Olympiad participant ID, Film Indonesia ID, ArhivX LOD, Belvedere object ID, National Trust for Historic Preservation ID, Television Academy Foundation show ID, Playbill production ID, LHW hotel ID, World Travel Awards ID, Relais & Châteaux ID, Nintendo GameID, Académie de Marseille member ID, NPR podcast ID, iTunes podcast ID, Gynopedia place ID, Vocabolario Treccani ID, AnimeClick anime ID, AnimeClick novel ID, AnimeClick character ID, AnimeClick person ID, AnimeClick manga ID, Ex-USSR internal airport code
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: Cook Partisan Voting Index, ONS Community codes, Implies (necessary condition), Index herbariorum code, limiting oxygen index, Model item for, Model item, Taxonomic Literature 2 number, Place of devotion, Stadtteilnummer, restriction of, blazon, ENI number, parties, term of venery, root, unicode range, Ġabra lexeme ID, Ultimate Guitar artist ID, inflection class
  • External identifiers: ResearchGate publication ID, Indonesian Basic Data of Primary and Secondary Education ID, AnimeClick drama ID, MobyGames platform ID, Adelphi author ID, UOL Eleições ID, Tourisme et Handicap ID, Qualité Tourisme ID, Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Belgium ID, Northern Ireland Assembly ID, SJPXVII ID, Microsoft Store app ID, CharacTour character ID, re3data repository ID, IGN film ID, Arkivportalen aktor ID, Arkivportalen arkiv ID, Muziekweb performer ID, SPXVI ID, Spectral Database for Organic Compounds ID, LakeNet ID, Álgu ID, Uralonet ID, Geheugen van de VU person ID, Comic Vine ID, Shazam track ID, IANA Root Zone Database ID, ASCE ID, Dxomark ID, PlayStation Store ID, Oqaasileriffik online dictionary ID
• Query examples:
  • Map of caves with prehistoric art (source)
  • Most cited works with Swedish first author (source)
  • Map of events for Wikidata's 6th Birthday (source)
  • Heads of the same state whose family names share the first four letters but are not identical (source)
  • Map of caves containing prehistoric art (source)

Development

• Fix a problem with the language of the lemma (phab:T194347)
• Improving the diffs for Lexemes (phab:T185481)
• Exclude es-formal and hu-formal from monolingual text codes (phab:T203311, thanks to MarcoAurelio)
• Implement the contemporary constraint (phab:T141859, thanks to Abiàn)

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!