Wikidata:Status updates/2020 02 03

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2020-02-03.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Mike Peel

Events

• Past: Wikidata in Social Science Classroom - Workshop, Dubai, January 21st
• Upcoming: Wikibase Community User Group online meeting (date to be decided, you can vote here)
• Upcoming: OSM TW x Wikidata Taiwan meetup, February 10th, Taipei

Press, articles, blog posts

• A newbie's guide to querying Wikidata, by Mark Needham

Tool of the week

• VizQuery allows you to use the Wikidata Query Service without having to know SPARQL. Simply use a couple of autocomplete input boxes and you can do most basic queries.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Bruno and Denny present how to use Lexical Masks in ShEx to validate lexemes, including a first set of example schemata. They also invite everyone to work on more languages, and will keep adding more ShEx schema over time.
• 2020 report on Property constraints by user:Abián
• Wikimedia Hackathon in Tirana: scholarship requests and registration for people needing visa support are open until February 9th.
• Mismatched reference: first version to be deployed this week
• OpenRefine 3.3 was released

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: category for maps, number of reviews/ratings, merged into, 8-bits.info ID
  • External identifiers: CoBiS author ID, marterl.at ID, NPDRIM record ID, Analysis & Policy Observatory node ID, Analysis & Policy Observatory term ID, PCBdB game ID, Diccionari del cinema a Catalunya ID, EFIS film festival ID, EFIS person ID, Eurogamer ID, FlashScore.com team ID, GameStar ID, Soccerdonna team ID, The Video Games Museum game ID, Voetbal International player ID, Games Database game ID, ft.dk politician identifier, Historical Marker Database ID, Joconde Inscription ID, Joconde time period ID, Media Art Database ID, Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology ID, EFIS filmfirm ID, EFIS film ID, Ciência ID, Swedish School Registry ID, Whaling History ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: hierarchy switch, Wikipedia infobox field, ontological level of Wikidata item, status of mortal remains, TheTVDB person ID, fails compliance with
  • External identifiers: Gamekult company ID, Gamekult franchise ID, CNGB project ID, Gamekult platform ID, Adelsvapen ID, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina ID, Clavis Clavium ID, FEMA number, SerialStation game ID, GBAtemp game ID, AnimalBase ID, RPGamer ID, Denkmalatlas Niedersachsen Objekt-ID, DR music artist ID, Jurisdiction List Number, Médias 19 ID, ArchiWebture ID, MOCAGH ID
• Query examples:
  • Number of cases coronavirus reported per country
  • Release date of albums from before 1980 by artists of the EDM genre (source)
  • Books related to LGBTI+ topics (source)
  • Map of medical facilities in Kalimpong district, India, color-coded by type (source)

Development

• Enable the first version of tainted/mismatched references on wikidata.org
• Work on adding a button to hide the notification (phab:T234789)
• Show the icon after canceling editing if the icon was shown before (phab:T234790)
• More work on Wikidata Bridge (restrict editing based on user rights or data types)
• More work on wb_terms migration

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!