Wikidata:Status updates/2019 02 11

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2019-02-11.

Events

• Past: Linking OpenStreetMap and Wikidata at FOSDEM

Press, articles, blog posts

• Paper: Discovering Implicational Knowledge in Wikidata

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• There is now an experimental SPARQL service to query Wikidata history

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: day of regular release, Euler characteristic, has lyrics, maintenance method, CBFC rating, does not have quality
  • External identifiers: Code of Natura 2000/FFH habitat, Douban Author ID, Douban Book ID, Douban Drama ID, Douban Game ID, Douban Music ID, Douban Musician ID, Douban Read Author ID, Douban Read eBook ID, Douban Site Name, Douban Username, Zhihu username, Bilibili bangumi ID, Bilibili tag ID, Bilibili username, Bilibili video ID, Eventa Servo ID, Mtime movie ID, QQ number, Swedish Organization Number, Rock's Backpages artist ID, Rock's Backpages author ID, Rock's Backpages publication ID, Mtime people ID, Democracy Club ID, Hulu movie ID, Hulu series ID, ISA ID, Fuzhou Architecture Heritage ID, DALFAN ID, Den Digitale Byport ID, GameFAQs franchise ID, NMSRCP reference number, Swiss Films ID, CABB player ID, castingvideos ID, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern protected area ID, IEEEXplore author ID, IEEEXplore document ID, Strepsiptera database species ID, Image Archive, Herder-Institut, WBCHSE code, Antarctica NZ Digital Asset Manager, Brentidae of the world species ID, Pacific Coast Architecture Database building ID, Illustrated catalog of Tessaratomidae species ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: creator name string, Literate population, Illiterate population, designated survivor, stall speed, maintain, Insects (Insecta) of the World ID, solar eclipse type, student organization of
  • External identifiers: BibliotecaVirtualAndalucia authority ID, BIDICAM authority ID, BVPH authority ID, CCBAE ID, identifiant sur l'annuaire du service public, Joan Miró Online Image Bank ID, ISTC No., KSI player ID, Board Game Atlas ID, LSE article ID, JWF Wrestlers Database, Georgian National Filmography ID for Persons, Eliseu Visconti Project ID, Indian census area code (1991), AICTE Permanent ID, German School ID, DOGC ID, DoBIH Number
• Query examples:
  • Counts of Indian films directed and written by the same person, sorted by film language (source)
  • Sovereign states that have more than one capital city (source)
  • Decreases in sex ratio for mandals of West Godavari district between 2001 and 2011 (source)
  • Counts of articles published in different Indian medical journals, sorted by year/journal (source)
  • Forms to Lexeme ratio per language (source)
  • Airports and railway stations named after fictional people or works of fiction (source)
  • Species of hummingbirds, their genus, and image (source)

Development

• Working on the "in more languages" and "all entered languages" parts of the termbox on mobile
• Working on making undo, revert, edit summaries and more work for Shape Expressions
• Fixed an error when detecting the same label and description in another Item (phabricator:T194770, thanks Matěj)
• Making Lemma input on Lexeme pages save your input when you press enter (phabricator:T206140)
• Making QuickStatements work more easily for other Docker-powered Wikibase instances (phabricator:T205606)
• Worked more on making Federation work for making Statements on Wikimedia Commons (phabricator:T214557)
• Working on stripping whitespaces at the beginning and end of Glosses when saving them (phabricator:T212019)
• Looking into adding more signals to ORES' vandalism detection model so we can detect bad edits more accurately (phabricator:T194737)
• Preventing a redirect of an Entity onto itself (phabricator:T214775)
• Fixed an issue with adding sitelinks from Wikimedia Commons (phabricator:T213975)
• Unified the separators between language and lexical category in different places (phabricator:T201808)

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!

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