Wikidata:Status updates/2018 07 02

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2018-07-02.

Events

• Celtic Knot Conference, dedicated to Wikimedia projects and minority languages, July 5-6, in Aberystwyth (Wales). A lot of Wikidata workshops will take place during this event.

Press, articles, blog posts

• 4800 Welsh portraits added to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata, blog post at the National Library of Wales by Jason Evans, National Wikimedian of Wales
• LIPID MAPS identifiers and endocannabinoids on Wikidata, blog post by Egon Willighagen

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Change for maxlag impacts bots and semi-automated tools
• The five-thousandth lexeme, about a interjection "jau" in Nynorsk language, has been created
• The Commons template Wikidata infobox has now passed 1.3 million uses on Commons categories, with plenty more still to come. A new help page gives advice on how to add, extend or improve uses of it, and how to fix data problems.
• You can discuss the right properties to describe files on Commons, to help moving on with Structured data on Commons
• Help improving the fight against vandalism with ORES
• Sixth birthday of Wikidata: it's time to think about what you'd like to organize in your area! There will be a phone call for organizers, and the deadline to request swag is September 7th.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: JMA Seismic Intensity Scale, permanent resident of, auxiliary verb, homograph lexeme
  • External identifiers: École normale alumnus ID, Académie des sciences d'outre-mer member ID, BIU Santé person ID, Medicina author ID, Étonnants voyageurs participant ID, Akadem person ID, GAMECIP platform ID, National Academy of Sciences member ID, EGROKN ID, Behind The Voice Actors franchise ID, archINFORM project ID, Behind The Voice Actors film ID, IGN video game ID, Behind The Voice Actors tv show ID, Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer ID, Classiques des sciences sociales author ID, Norwegian Polar Institute place name ID, Poetry Archive poet ID, cipM poet ID, Poets & Writers author ID, Canadian Encyclopedia article ID, Online Books Page publication ID, Tierstimmenarchiv ID, TDKIV term ID, GeoNLP ID, CNAP artist ID, RYM artist ID, Rendez-vous de l'histoire ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: JMA Magnitude, Coached by, Harmonized System Code, reverse lemma, reference properties, LilyPond notation, valency, section number, propdef, antonym, Central Index Key (CIK), note
  • External identifiers: Flanders Music Centre ID, Île en île ID, Fantastic Fiction ID, mhk object ID, CeBeDem ID, Ricochet ID, Common procurement vocabulary, pixiv ID, NYRB ID, The Paris Review ID, GS1 GPC brick code, Pasteur Institute ID, The Trading Card Database person ID, Legaseriea.it team ID, Deutsche Biographie person ID, Setlist FM artist ID, Setlist FM venue ID, Poetry International Web ID, EuroVoc ID, Språkrådets termwiki ID, Elysee.fr president ID, Reseñas Biográficas (Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile), abuse filter ID, Herder Encyclopedia author ID, Collège de France professor ID
• Query examples:
  • Map of the birth places of people who have had taxa named after them (source)
  • Space observatories and their namesakes (source)
  • Timeline of computer games (source)
  • List of companies owned by Disney (source)
  • Same gender spouses (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Patents
• Newest user-scripts: d:User:Husky/ifff-viewer-link.js (shows selected parts of images, according to P2677 qualifiers - for example d:Q17335769#P180.)

Development

• Working on prefilling spelling variant of new form representation (phab:T195708)
• Start breaking down stories in order to implement Senses
• Finding a better solution for dewiki's Modul:Wikidata isParent (phab:T179155)
• Adding support for linking to a particular statement (phab:T169224)
• Implement property scope constraint (phab:T197473)
• Track maxlag for wikidata on grafana dashboard (phab:T196868)

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!