Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Alphama (RfP scheduled to end after 24 January 2021 15:12 (UTC))
- Other: Wikidata will be one of the communities involved in the Phase 2 of the Universal Code of Conduct consultation. Have your say at the consultation talk page or get in contact with the UCoC facilitator, User:Sannita (WMF).
- Events
- Upcoming: Wikidata+Wikibase office hour, Thursday, January 21st, at 17:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time), on Telegram
- Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #28 - YouTube, Facebook, 23 January
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #46, January 24
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogpost: Automatically maintained citations with Wikidata and Cite Q, by Mike Peel and Andy Mabbett.
- Video: Wikidata editing #27: #Wikipedia20 - YouTube, Facebook
- Video: Dealing with more than one date value in Wikidata (using preferential rank) - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- User:Lagewi/navigation.js userscript enables adding links to list subclasses and instances to Wikidata items.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New dashboard for lexicographical data statistics: Wikidata Datamodel Lexemes
- The Wikidata Analytics dashboards are now available at a new URL: https://wikidata-analytics.wmcloud.org/ (announcement)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: date canceled, subdivision of this unit
- External identifiers: dati.beniculturali.it agent ID, dati.beniculturali.it site ID, dati.beniculturali.it cultural heritage ID, Projecto Vercial author ID, National Historic People ID, Olympedia event ID, TheCocktailDB drink ID, TheCocktailDB ingredient ID, Fichier des personnes décédées ID, POSIX locale identifier, National Museum in Warsaw ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: shadows, Sacrament conferred by, logo image within scope, BAMID film rating, ABC News Topic, number of rooms to rent
- External identifiers: Portal da Literatura author ID, Base de Dados de Autores Portugueses ID, Parabola package, JAANUS ID, Studio di Fonologia Musicale RAI person ID, BiblioLMC ID, Le Lettere di Theodor Mommsen agli Italiani ID, StrategyWiki page, Encyclopedia of Brno Object ID, Holocaust.cz ID, Australian Fungi ID, DeCS ID, Australian Lichen ID, KBR Catalogue ID, Enciclopedia del Museo del Prado ID, The Language Council of Norway Term ID, Red Cross FDRS ID, Xinjiang Data Project identifier, SISSCO ID, SEARCH on line catalogue ID, 45cat release ID, Aracne author ID
- Query examples:
- Red Cross and Red Crescent societies
- The people of the government of Bangladesh on 13 January 2005 (Source)
- Buildings in the Basque Country dedicated to San Roque (Source)
- List of words for "beard" in Eighth Schedule languages (Source)
- Map of train services starting at Howrah station (Source)
- Map of big sculptures of New Zealand (Source)
- Map of mosques in Bangladesh according to architectural style (Source)
- UK deaths per month since 2005 split by sex/gender (Source)
- Timeline of Indian cricket tours abroad (Source)
- Timeline of inception of Mexican universities (Source)
- Mangifera species and mango cultivars (Source)
- Locations where The Antartic Circumpolar Voyage expedition passed (Source)
- English Language forms missing an audio pronunciation -- you can contribute via LinguaLibre
- Newest WikiProjects:
- WikiProject Greek War of Independence, development of content relative to the Greek War of Independence (Q182062) (this year is the 200th anniversary, from its beginning in 1821)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Continued working on the Query Builder. We continued to set up tracking for the number of queries that result in an error, timeout, etc. (phab:T269224). We als made it possible to query for Item values (phab:T268814). You can always try the current state on the test system.
- Finished fixing an issue with whitespace being stripped while typing when editing Lexemes (phab:T250550)
- Worked on no error being shown when trying to save Lemma with invalid language code (phab:T265783)
- Working on using Special:MyLanguage feature for more links in the Wikidata Query Service interface to redirect people to documentation in their language (phab:T267656)
- Continued interviewing people to better understand how to best compare Wikidata's data against other databases in order to find mismatches that need the editors' attention
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!