Wikidata:Status updates/2019 07 29

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2019-07-29.

Discussions

• Closed request for adminship: 1997kB, welcome on board!
• Closed request for comments: Adopt a username policy

Events

• Past: lecture on Wikidata and Mix'n'Match at the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School, Oxford University, 24 June
• Upcoming: Wikimania, 16-18 August in Stockholm. Full program, list of Wikidata-related sessions
• Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4-Wikidata Affinity Group call discussing communication in Wikidata/Wikimedia communities, 30 July. Agenda

Press, articles, blog posts

• Technical usability of Wikidata’s linked data - Evaluation of machine interoperability and data interpretability, by Nuno Freire and Antoine Isaac

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Reminder: because of a database switch, Wikidata will be read-only on July 30th, between 05:00AM-05:30 AM UTC (Phabricator task, help translate the banner)
• Scripts that use the Query Service need to be identified by user-agent header
• Structured Data on Commons - testing statements other than Depicts is ongoing this week before release into production on Commons.
• OpenRefine 3.2 was released
• The config value mw.config.get('wbEntity') has been dropped in order to improve the page load time

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: IAAF competition category, video game mod of, typing discipline, shrinkage, specific absorption rate, quotation or excerpt, surface roughness, related category, start grade, inverse label item, end grade, privacy policy URL, start of covered period, end of covered period
  • External identifiers: Album of the Year artist ID, Atlas of Living Australia ID, Jaxsta profile ID, Indian Super League player ID, misas.org Catholic church ID, Jaxsta release ID, Jaxsta recording ID, FEC Campaign Committee ID, National Library of Morocco ID, Premier Badminton League player ID, NosSénateurs.fr identifier, Supreme Court docket number, PBS Manufacturer ID, Kerala state school code, Taxonomicon ID, Album of the Year album ID, Gotlands museum, Musixmatch writer ID, Qobuz artist ID, wiki on WikiApiary, extension on WikiApiary, skin on WikiApiary, Zaragoza public art ID, Paris Foreign Missions Society ID, TikTok username, AFCD PFKID, Australian Marine Algal Name Index ID, Common Sense Media ID, FFR fencer ID, ABBBS Taxon ID, WaterNSW Rivers and Streams Site No., Lens ID, Grand Canyon Trust ID, LezWatch.TV actor ID, LezWatch.TV character ID, LezWatch.TV show ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: estimated IQ, Manner of torture, date of the first one & date of the last one, Glacier Status, School code of the Ministry of Education, Taiwan, bequest, Sells, Opinion joined by, ComingSoon.it film ID, Acknowledgments, copyright exemption, Subscribers, external georeferencer URL, 出演作品, Bar
  • External identifiers: Media Art Database console games ID, Acharts artist ID, Acharts chart ID, Museu do Diamante ID, CUP2002.RU person ID, Euro04.Ru person ID, Germany06.Ru person ID, 08euro.Ru person ID, WorldCup10.Ru person ID, Gazeta.Ru Euro 2012 person ID, AMPAS collections person ID, AMPAS collections film ID, Hiking Project ID, Douyin, Vidwan ID, AllTrails ID, Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America ID, PEPC ID, Bureau des longitudes ID, Goibibo Hotel ID, Cleartrip Hotel ID, identifier of french public Forest, Rijksmonument complex ID, Mojarto artist ID, located on street with OSM relation ID, muenchenwiki.de article ID
• Query examples:
  • Settlements along the Way of Saint James in Basque Country (source)
  • Map of places of residence of accused witches in Scotland (source)
  • List of regional languages of France (source)

Development

• Re-evaluate supporting dcatap namespace (feel free to give feedback)
• Data bridge: open modal with edit link information (phab:T226996)
• Show the current Wikidata value in the modal (phab:T226997)
• Add editing widget/input to client edit modal (phab:T226998)
• supporting baserevid request param in lexeme api endpoints (phab:T217245)
• Fix new store code in order to continue the terms migration (phab:T226008)
• Fix an issue with broken WikibaseQualityConstraints tests (phab:T228855)
• Fix issue that used to cause many fatals on production (phab:T227450)
• Drop wbEntity config in entity pages (phab:T85499)
• Fix an Internal error in Recent Changes for Lexeme (phab:T228996)
• Create better summaries for our wbeditentity endpoint (phab:T220696)
• Respect user's preference for thumbnail sizes on Wikidata (phab:T224189)
• Allow linking to Schemas in statements (phab:T214884)
• Fix a bug with Wikidata Tours (phab:T223999)
• Update accounting for WDQS lag in wikidata maxlag param (phab:T221774)
• More work on allowing accesing one wikibase instance from another (phab:T214557)
• Deploy the mobile termbox on test.wikidata.org and fix various bugs
• Show progress/activity on termbox mobile if a save request is still being processed (phab:T222890)

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!