Wikidata:Status updates/2017 06 12

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-06-12.

Discussions

• Discussion: Convert UBERON ID to external-id

Events/Press/Blogs

• Upcoming: Query Service workshop in Berlin, June 28th
• Querying OSM + Wikidata from a single RDF database intro (YouTube video) by Yuri Astrakhan
• The Role of Librarians in Wikidata and WikiCite, by Katie Mika
• MySociety (Q10851773) have now completed publishing a "five part series examining how to use Wikidata to answer the question: 'What is the gender breakdown of heads of government across the world?'". Here is the full set:
  1. Help us find the offices of heads of governments across the world!
  2. Help us to show who fills the role of head of government on Wikidata
  3. Linking back in the other direction
  4. Check that the data is consistent
  5. Conclusion: So, what is the gender breakdown of heads of government?

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The call for submissions for the WikidataCon program is now open! Submit your projects to share your experience with the community until July 31st.
• You can also apply for a scholarship for the WikidataCon
• Breaking change: improving the schema of wb_terms table
• Wikidata Diff, a tool to compare the basic properties (no qualifiers/ ranks, yet) of two Wikidata items
• OSM ↔ Wikidata matcher, new tool for OpenStreetMap mappers, to match objects in OSM to Wikidata items, using the wikidata= tag in OSM
  • Announcement & guide

Did you know?

• Newest properties: EspritBleu athlete ID, J.League manager ID, Sandbox-Geographic shape, SIMC place ID, Sandbox-Tabular data, therapeutic area, emulates, ESBL athlete ID, Rock.com.ar album ID, Rock.com.ar artist ID, Rock.com.ar biography ID, Danish List of Lights and Fog signals ID, South Australian Heritage Register Database ID, field of view, Shironet song ID, Shironet artist ID, Mastodon address, reviewed by, Hungarian NGO ID, PLU Code, Latvian Protected Nature Territory ID, Google Scholar paper ID, DNCI work ID, Cullum number, Pinakothek artist ID
• Query examples:
  • Coordinates of parallels and meridians according to Wikidata (source)
  • Uses of the property "IPv6 routing prefix" (source)
  • Non-politician jobs that UK Prime Ministers had (source)
• Newest external tools: matching things in OSM with Wikidata (more information)
• Newest database reports: new people gallery

Development

• Updating wording re associated Wikidata item following move (phab:T158842)
• More work on Forms (phab:T163723)
• Fixing rank icon (phab:T85388)
• Add monolingual code fkv (phab:T167259)
• Add monolingual code lag (phab:T161983)
• More work on property constraints (phab:T167126)
• Script for populating term_full_entity_id column in wb_terms table (phab:T162533)
• Full support for wikibase edits in enhanced changes format (phab:T46874)
• Adding Lua function to get Wikibase entity by site link (phab:T74815)
• New datatype for referencing Lexemes (phab:T165578)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

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!