Wikidata:Status updates/2020 09 21

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2020-09-21.

Events

• Upcoming: Online Wikidata Introduction Workshop (German) (September 29)
• Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 21 at 18:00 CEST
• Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: A starting point for newer institutions to think through what is involved in coordinating a Wikidata project, including shared infrastructure, training, and documentation, 22 September. Agenda
• Upcoming video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #21 WikiDojo: Facebook, YouTube, September 25

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• "Representing COVID-19 information in collaborative knowledge graphs: a study of Wikidata"
• ProWD: Detecting Knowledge Imbalances on Wikidata on blog.wikimedia.de
• Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #20 WLM: Facebook, YouTube
• Video: Wikidata Training Workshop 3, by Canadian Arts Presenting Association (YouTube)
  • Wikidata Query Service - (Parts 1, 2 & 3)
  • Wikidata Query Service (in French) - (Parts 1, 2 & 3)

Tool of the week

• copy-qid is a user script by Abbe98 that allows you to copy the Qid with one click.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The Wikidata development team is seeking to evaluate and improve the process of collecting and reacting to bug reports and feature requests. You can give feedback about your experience using this anonymous form until September 30^th or add feedback publically to Wikidata talk:Contact the development team/Process review 2020.
• WDQS/WCQS Status update (September 2): "We are planning to spend more time doing some analytics on our data. (1) What are the most expensive queries, what are they trying to achieve and is that reasonable? (2) Do we have performant subgraphs that we could expose independently?"
• Wikidata dumps failed for this week due to some issues that has now been fixed. New dumps will be available this upcoming week at the usual time(s).

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: category for the exterior of the item, axle track, Stairway To Hell ID, Oakeshott typology, construction point, turning radius, hill size, bibliography
  • External identifiers: Seattle Art Museum ID, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art artwork ID, TV Maze series ID, Barcelona Public art ID, University of Ghana Digital Collections (UGSpace) ID, Istrapedia ID, OnlyFans person ID, Linked Open Data Cloud identifier, The Cutting Room Floor ID, Fatcat ID, China Treaty Database ID, e-GOV law ID, Portugal. Dicionário Histórico ID, past Fellow of the Royal Society ID, Regesta Ecclesiastica Salisburgensia ID, Slack organization ID, Kansas Historic Resources Inventory ID, Historic Montana ID, ITF player ID 2020, BD Gest' series ID, American Battlefield Trust battlefield ID, P8624
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: defining mutations, nombre d'essais marqués, Netflix maturity rating, held event, number of paying subscribers, has census
  • External identifiers: Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank ID, Delft municipal monument ID, identificativo Ministero dell'interno, Dallas Museum of Art ID, Cincinnati Art Museum ID, Energy Identification Code, Wikimedia Chat channel, Symptom Ontology ID, MnDOT Historic Bridges ID, monumentsauxmorts.fr ID, monumentsdememoire.fr ID, Lower Sorbian place name ID, Région Île-de-France ID, Museen Dresden article ID, Turkey's Culture Portal ID, NPS place ID, SSYK 2012
• Query examples:
  • Map of anything that memorializes or is named after a Whig Party member - OSM/Wikidata query
  • Map of every railway station presently connected directly or indirectly to St Pancras on Wikidata
  • Age of the winners of the Tour de France (Source)
  • Location and date of death of Danish rulers (Source)
  • Map of the places & causes of death of Roman Emperors (Source)
  • Images of members of the 16th Odisha Assembly (2019-24) (Source)
  • Star signs of Japanese Prime Ministers (Source)
  • Video game series with the longest time gap between a game and its direct sequel (Source)

Development

• WQS now supports mwapi service request for Wikibooks (phab:T261125)
• The language codes lij-mc, ja-Hira, ja-Kana, ja-Hrkt, ja-Hani, ojp, ojp-Hira and ojp-Hani" have been added for use in monolingual text property values (phab:T254968, phab:T195816)
• The language codes de-1901, eo-hsistemo and eo-xsistemo, ja-hira, ja-kana and ja-hrkt have been added for Lexemes (phab:T262330,phab:T257422, phab:T250559)
• P1438 has been converted from string to external ID datatype (phab:T262198)
• Worked on fixing an input issue with invisible characters (phab:T261071)
• Investigating what work would be needed to get the new termbox that's available on mobile to also work on desktop
• Fixing several issues with Special:Undelete (phab:T261747)
• Fixing an error message being shown twice (phab:T260869)
• Starting the coding work on the Query Builder
• Continuing to write a draft for a REST API specification
• Finishing the remaining work needed to get the improved quality scoring for Items deployed to ORES
• Continuing work on WikibaseManifest: Determined the essential metadata that will be included in the WikibaseManifest file, added some new features (mostly MediaWiki metadata) to the Manifest that were requested by the OpenRefine team (phab:T262805 and phab:T262804) and set up a test system that will soon be ready for tool builders to use for testing the integration of their tools with WikibaseManifest

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!