Wikidata:Status updates/2019 12 02

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2019-12-02.

Events

• Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Gadgets, 3 December. Agenda

Press, articles, blog posts

• Open Access Directory’s List of Blogs: Wikidata Ingest by A. Britton
• Wikidata and Archival Metadata ; opportunities and challenges for heritage institutions by Baptiste de Coulon, 22.11.2019, Linking the Past, Royal Library of Belgium, City of Brussels.
• Introducing ISA – a cool tool for adding structured data on Commons by Isla Haddow-Flood
• Video of live queries building by WikidataFacts
• Video of the Wikidata editathon in Swedish with Jan Ainali, Magnus Sälgö and UncleCJ

Tool of the week

• Alt Labels displays item labels in other languages when there is no label in your default language. You may click a label to add it as the label for your language. This tool is very helpful for labels for people, books, articles, or films that do not need their labels to be translated.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel and Special:EntitiesWithoutDescription will use ElasticSearch, improving display and ranking
• Edit summaries coming from wbeditentity API will have a new format

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: covered period
  • External identifiers: Biblioteche dei filosofi ID, Dictionary of Wisconsin History ID, Finnish generals and admirals in the Imperial Russian Army 1809–1917 ID, Lutris genre ID, Lutris platform ID, VLR ID, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church ID, Enciclopedia dei Papi ID, Church Heritage Cymru ID, TheGamesDB game ID, TheGamesDB platform ID, YVNG ID, WPI ID, NVE Powerplant ID, Artsdata.ca ID, Dictionary of Scottish Architects building ID, MPPDA Digital Archive film ID, MPPDA Digital Archive organisation ID, MPPDA Digital Archive person ID, administrative district of Czech municipality with authorized municipal office ID, administrative district of Czech municipality with expanded powers ID, IDU theatre ID, OverDrive creator ID, OverDrive publisher ID, MTV Germany artist ID, TheGamesDB publisher ID, Encyclopedia of Cleveland History ID, RomanianMaleActors person ID, IISG ID, Cochrane concept ID, OverDrive series ID, Vectrex Game Database ID, WeChat ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija ID, Prog Archives artist ID, www.gesetze-im-internet.de ID, quantity symbol, research status, Playstation Data Center ID, recombination author, superfamicom.org ID, commissioned for
  • External identifiers: Code de l'autorité de l'aviation civile grecque, Flanders Architecture Institute ID, NEC Retro ID, Semion author ID, WorldCat Identities, Czech district ID, Czech region ID, Cinépolis KLIC ID, Vie publique person ID, Vie publique intervention ID, Wikimapia, OpenRetro Game Database ID, Vie publique report ID, Israel Museum Jerusalem artist id, Colorado Encyclopedia ID, National Library of New Zealand authority ID, Utah History Encyclopedia ID, Mississippi Encyclopedia ID, South Carolina Encyclopedia ID, The Oregon Encyclopedia ID, Online Nevada Encyclopedia ID, CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas ID, Encyclopedia of the Great Plains ID, WyoHistory.org ID, Kansaspedia ID, The Sierra Chest ID, Quora topic ID (Spanish) 2, RomanianActresses person ID, Europeana Entity, Aberdeenshire HER ID, AncientFaces person ID, SNESmusic.org game ID, Français libres ID, Musée de la Résistance ID
• Query examples:
  • Graph of shared borders between regions of Myanmar (source)
  • Plurals in German ending with only "n" (not "en") (source)
  • Women's + Gender History Digital Humanities list (source)
• Newest database reports: descendants of Charlemagne

Development

• Fix security issues impacting the Query Service GUI (more details)
• Work on a a new Parser function (commaSeparatedList) (phab:T224013)
• Implement Shortened version for edit summary (phab:T224013)
• Add user agent to Wikidata Query UI code examples (phab:T226709)
• Add label and description collision detectors for new terms store (phab:T232040)
• Wikidata Bridge: showing a loading bar during initialization (phab:T232468)
• Showing an error dialog if users can’t edit on Wikidata (phab:T235154)

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!