Wikidata:Status updates/2020 07 13

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2020-07-13.

Events

• Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: New co-facilitator introductions and tools for editathons, 14 July. Agenda
• Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #12, 18 July Facebook, YouTube
• Past: Celtic Knot Wikimedia language conference, online, July 9-10. Videos, documentation and slides of sessions are accessible from the program page.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Using OpenRefine with Wikidata for the first time, by Addshore
• Using Wikidata in Mathematica and Wolfram, by Toni Schindler
• Fostering the presence of museums on Wikipedia and Wikidata, by Debora Lopomo
• Extending the Met’s reach with Wikidata, by Jennie Choi
• Wikidata-related videos from the Celtic Knot Conference:
  • Wikidata and how you can use it to support minority languages (Mohammed Sadat)
  • Wikidata-powered infoboxes (Pau Cabot)
  • Hands-on Wikidata and lexicographical data (Nicolas Vigneron and Léa Lacroix)
  • FAIR linguistic data thanks to norm data – Wikidata as part of the research project VerbaAlpina (Christina Mutter)
  • Sámi placenames on Wikidata (Jon Harald Søby)
• Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - Wikidata editing #11 Facebook, YouTube
• Video: Introducing the Wikidata powered Dictionary of Welsh Biography timeline (Jason Evans), YouTube
• Video: Diving into Wikidata workshop (Will Kent), YouTube
• Video: Linked data for libraries with Wikibase, Infrastructure track (Jens Ohlig), YouTube

Tool of the week

• DragNDrop.js makes it possible to show a Wikipedia article and drag items to Wikidata.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• GQIS can now render results from a Wikidata SPARQL query with a new plugin.
• New feature in V for Wikipedia that uses Wikidata identifiers to direct users to their favorite streaming app.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: Dowker-Thistlethwaite name
  • External identifiers: AlloCiné theater ID, Maniadb artist ID, Group Properties wiki ID, Oberwolfach mathematician ID, Archive Of Our Own tag, GameBanana video game ID, Spanish Olympic Committee athlete ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: Image link, numeric ID, peak bagging classification, vanDerWaalsConstantA, vanDerWaalsConstantB, road name formatter, road number formatter, Medical Service, Ofsted inspection rating, OpenStreetMap numeric user ID, traffic sign template image, Vietnamese middle name
  • External identifiers: Wiki Loves Earth Ukraine identifier, OHM Relation ID, Filmstarts title ID, UK Research and Innovation person ID, SmallGroup ID, Personendatenbank Germania Sacra ID, SAH Archipedia building ID, SAH Archipedia architect ID, Our Campaigns candidate ID, VPE railway line ID, Churches in Limburg, The Draft Review ID, ANZSCO 2013 ID, ANZSOC ID, ASCRG ID, Encyclopédie berbère, 雑誌コード, OpenStreetMap user name, National Registry of Exonerations Case ID, Svenska Akademiens Ordbok ID, QLD Biota ID, Australian Weed ID
• Query examples:
  • Illustrated Basque word of the day for children
  • Oldest UK MPs at the time of election (Source)
  • Map of archives in Wikidata (Source)

Development

• Continued building out documentation for Federated Properties (phabricator:T255651) and making interface improvements to the first stage of the feature (incl. phabricator:T246886, changes to special pages that interact with both Items/Properties, and phabricator:T255581, changes to Special:ListDataTypes when federation is enabled)
• More work on the consistent design system
• More work on decoupling the different Wikibase extensions from each other to make development easier
• Finalizing research and interviews to better understand what could be improved in the way developers access Wikidata's data (APIs, SPARQL)
• Testing the first prototype of the Simple Query Builder with some editors to get final input before coding starts
• Sorting of language links on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects was broken (presumably by a change in MediaWiki core). A fix is being worked on. (phabricator:T257625)

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
• 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!