Wikidata:Status updates/2018 03 26

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2018-03-26.

Discussions

• Closed request for adminship: Putnik, Okkn. Welcome on board!
• Closed request for comments: Former ATE

Events

• Upcoming: 1st Workshop on Quality of Open Data, Berlin, July 18–20 (submission deadline May 27) – a workshop to bring together different communities working on quality of information in Wikipedia, DBpedia, Wikidata and other open knowledge bases
• Upcoming: EuropeanaTech and Wikidata Workshop Day for GLAMs, Rotterdam (NL), Monday 14 May. A day of GLAM-related workshops around Wikidata and Structured Commons, for beginners and advanced users.

Press, articles, blog posts

• SPLASHes in Wikidata, by Egon Willighagen

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• report about items with identical birth and death dates updated
• Relator, a tool to improve family relations in Wikidata
• Descendants check: consistency across multiple generations
• Due to Easter Monday, the next issue of the Weekly Summary will be sent on Tuesday, April 3rd. Until that day, feel free to add information in there

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: prerequisite, relevant qualification, derivative work, alternate names, test method
  • External identifiers: Biographical Dictionary of Swedish Women, SPLASH, Behind the voice Actors video games ID, Hungarian MP identifier, UK Provider Reference Number, Norwegian war sailor register ID, Wikitribune category, Scottish Rugby Union men's player ID, Scottish Rugby Union men's sevens player ID, Scottish Rugby Union women's player ID, IDA place ID, PRS Legislative Research MP ID, Thésaurus de la désignation des objets mobiliers ID, Thésaurus de la désignation des œuvres architecturales et des espaces aménagés ID, Kinoliste ID, Women’s Elite Rugby ID, TMDb TV series id, TMDb person id, Routard.com place ID, Scottish Rugby Union women's sevens player ID, RKDlibrary ID, Statistics Canada Geographic code, Biographical Dictionary of Georgia ID, DBA ID, Hungarian public body ID, ruchess ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: had part, METAR code, Zulassungszahlen, Analog or derivative of, GHS labelling elements, en opposition à, output method
  • External identifiers: Filmweb.pl film ID, Filmweb.pl person ID, Orthodox Encyclopedia Online ID, National Thesis Number, Deutsche Biographie Identifikator, Welsh Rugby Union IDs (women's XV and men's 7s)
• Query examples:
  • Airports named after a person, color-coded by gender (source)
  • Movies that Wikidata knows about and that have a German title that implies that someone or something doesn't answer (source)
  • Software developed by people/organizations that have archival material at the ComputerHistory museum (source)
  • Most common eponyms of French departments (source)
• Newest database reports: HOLBY CI⁺Y episode list, list of 2-part episodes

Development

• New search code for Wikidata merged. You may notice the improvement in the search results output for Wikidata item. However, new code for search is not enabled, only new results format. The search code will be enabled next week.
• Improving formatting of language and lexical category in diff for Lexemes (phab:T189679)
• Allow to remove a Form (phab:T189675)
• Translate the grammatical feature properly on Lexemes (phab:T189143)
• Investigate and fix a bug on Lexemes when undoing an edit (phab:T187215)
• Progress on refactoring the table wb_terms (phab:T189777, phab:T188993, phab:T188279)
• Fixing an error on the caching of the constraint checks (phab:T189842)
• Improving the performance of a table in the database (phab:T180834)
• Improving the way we're building dumps (phab:T177550)
• Investigate on improving Lua functions (phab:T143970)

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
• 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!