Wikidata:Status updates/2021 02 22

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2021-02-22.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Dr.üsenfieber - RfP scheduled to end after 24 February 2021 14:19 (UTC)
• New request for comments: P155/P156 as qualifiers only, rather than as main statements

Events

• Past: Wikidata bug triage hour about Lexemes. Notes available here
• Past: Online Talk Show on Fri, Feb 19, 2021, by Wikimedia Indonesia and Fariz Darari - Take a peek into the data warehouse of Wikimedia projects (= Wikidata): Youtube link
• Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Adding bibliographic data to Wikidata with Jason Evans, Wikimedian in residence at the Wales National Library, Tuesday, February 23rd.[1]
• Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #33 - YouTube, Facebook, February 27
• Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #51, February 28

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogpost: Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2020 edition
• Video: Basic tutorial on how to annotate an article with Wikidata tags for the ANN project - YouTube
• Video: The Wikidata community: tools to communicate, ask for help, exchange ideas and opinions (in Italian) - YouTube
• Video: REfB (Reference Bot): Adding new references to WikiData statements by Houcemeddine Turki - YouTube
• Video: Wikidata editing #32 - YouTube, Facebook
• Video: Knowledge graphs lecture - RDF, Wikidata, SHACL, ShEx (in Russian) - YouTube
• Podcast: Adam Shorland talks about Wikidata and Wikibase on Between The Brackets Mediawiki podcast.

Tool of the week

• LexemeForms-SearchPage adds links on the search results page for creating new lexemes using the Lexeme Forms tool based on the languages in your Babel box.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• vglist is a video game library tracking web app that is mostly based on Wikidata.
• WMF Board of Trustees - Call for feedback: Community Board seats: Meetings with the Wikidata community on Feb 24 and Mar 3.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: coordinates of depicted place, thesis committee member, number of at bats
  • External identifiers: IPHAE ID, Play:Right ID, National Portrait Gallery (London) artwork ID, Xinjiang Data Project identifier, CITWF title ID, Union Catalog of Armenian Continuing Resources ID, Saxony-Anhalt cultural heritage object ID, FloGrappling ID, Can I use feature ID, CollectieGelderland-creator-ID, VAi building ID, Heritage Information System ID in the database of cultural heritage in Austria, Joods Monument ID, Lumni person ID, Open Tree of Life ID, Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal GTB ID, People Australia ID, Biographical Dictionary of the Czech Lands ID, EMS ID, Spletni biografski leksikon znanih Primorcev in Primork ID, Svenska Institutet i Rom ID, Lexikon Literatur in Tirol ID, Curling.fi player ID, De Lakenhal artwork ID, Hauts-de-France Inventory identifier, Tree of Life contributor ID, Taiwan River Code, RILM ID, playDB artist ID, Rate Your Music genre ID, XXXBios transgender performer ID, Centre-Val de Loire Inventory identifier, Occitanie Inventory identifier, playDB play ID, Biblioteca Franco Serantini ID, Biblioteca Iglesia Nacional Española en Roma ID, Germanistenverzeichnis ID, uta-net.com song ID, uta-net.com artist ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: sensors, Applying institution, FAQ url, digital distribution platform, Bandcamp Tag, Anzahl der Staffeln, PDDikti ID, template applies category, workers represented by, alt text, demographics of topic
  • External identifiers: AaRC title ID, Dizionario biografico online degli anarchici italiani ID, JedeSchule.de ID, bashenc.online ID, Svoya Igra television player ID, Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory ID, TaDiRAH ID (2), Oklahoma's NRHP ID, Sauvons nos tombes cemetery ID, Discogs genre ID, Sauvons nos tombes person ID, Odnoklassniki user numeric ID, CPC-PR ID, Obituaries Australia ID, Indigenous Australia ID, Women Australia ID, AIATSIS Subject Thesaurus ID, Biografisches Handbuch – Todesopfer der Grenzregime am Eisernen Vorhang ID, Filmitalia film ID, Filmitalia person ID, Resident Advisor Venue ID, GB1900 ID, AIATSIS Place Thesaurus ID, Mixcloud ID, Labour Australia ID, Mexicana Repositorio, Science Magazine author ID, Everipedia ID, ARAE ID, Archivo Linz de la Transición Española ID, Museo Nacional de la Estampa ID, NParks Flora & Fauna Web ID, identifiant inventaire Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, identifiant inventaire Île-de-France, identifiant inventaire Normandie, identifiant inventaire Pays de la Loire, identifiant inventaire Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Diccionari de la traducció catalana ID
• Query examples:
  • List of vegan restaurants
  • List of food that are iconic to particular countries (Source)
  • Map of monuments in Lower Saxony, Germany (Source)
  • Map of former plantations in Surinam (Source)
  • Map of Wats in Thailand - (Source)
  • Localities in Mexico and contain 𝐒𝐚n in their name (Source)
  • Female mycologists born pre-1900, sorted by number of sitelinks (Source)
  • Women scientists who were born between the year 1500 and 1900 (Source)

Development

• Fixed wrongly encoded HTML in some messages in the Wikidata Bridge (phab:T272350)
• Working on showing all languages in the language suggester for monolingual text Properties (phab:T124758)
• Fixed an issue with spaces in external identifier URLs being replaced by "+" (phab:T271126)
• Added a rate limit for creating Item IDs, which should help with decreasing the number of skipped Q-IDs (phab:T272032)
• Fixed an issue where whitespace was stripped while typing when editing Lexemes (phab:T250550)
• Fixing the case where you cannot easily edit negative quantities after saving (phab:T274129)
• Working on making it possible to query for quantity values in the Query Builder (phab:T268942)

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!