Wikidata:Status updates/2018 08 20

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2018-08-20.

Events

• Past: Wikimedia and IIIF, IIIF Community Call, August 15th. Including current use of Property:P2677 (relative position within image) and plans for Commons structured data.
• Incoming: Wikidata Lab X in São Paulo, Brazil, September 17th

Press, articles, blog posts

• Google Summer of Code:
  • GSoC ‘18: In 60 seconds: Prssanna Desai has been helping improve the Query Service
  • JOSM/Plugins/Wikipedia/GSoC 2018: 'Floscher' has been working to improve the Wikidata/Wikipedia-related functionality of the 'JOSM' editor for OpenStreetMap
• Design Challenges in Named Entity Transliteration (Q56152111) - a paper discussing "fundamental design challenges that impact the development of a multilingual state-of-the-art named entity transliteration system", with reference to Wikidata
• Quicksilver: Training an #ML system to generate draft Wikipedia articles and Wikidata entries simultaneously, slides by John Bohannon and Vedant Dharnidharka

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• http://sciencestories.io/ - Using Wikidata to explore the scientific research of women - e.g. http://sciencestories.io/Q6376201
• New version of JsonDumpReader, a tool for using JSON dumps from Wikidata or other Wikibase instances
• WikiCite/Roadmap: a summary of the meetup at Wikimania 2018 and presentation of four possible ways forward for Wikicite
• Wikidata Extractor: A tool to extract Wikidata IDs from OpenStreetMap, given an Overpass Turbo query
• d:Wikidata:ScienceSource focus list/Main subject needed, ListeriaBot-generated workflow for main subject (P921)
• New administrator: Bencemac. Welcome on board!
• Wikidata Shape Expressions Inference tool announced
• Gender gap in Wikidata: the tool Denelezh will be closed on October 31st

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: prisoner count, risk factor, railway traffic side, bulk modulus, compressive strength, glass transition temperature, linear thermal expansion coefficient, shear modulus, thermal diffusivity, relative permittivity, relative permeability, flexural strength, dissipation factor, electrical resistivity, flexural modulus, heat deflection temperature, tear resistance
  • External identifiers: football.it female player ID, Brasseur ID, Canal Académie ID, Persons of Indian Studies ID, Amphi-Theatrum ID, Theatrum ID, ANZL writer ID, Black Ferns ID, CNL author ID, IEEE standard, LARB contributor ID, New Zealand Book Council writer ID, PRELIB person ID, RSL author ID, World Rugby Women's World Cup player ID, Académie française prize winner ID, AniDB anime ID, Baidu ScholarID, AniDB character ID, AniDB creator ID, Exoplanet Data Explorer exoplanet ID, Expedia hotel ID, Carthalia ID, Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia exoplanet ID, France Musique person ID, iTunes music video ID, MuIS collection ID, National Humanities Medal winner ID, VGMdb product ID, Diffusion ENS ID, Académie de Montpellier member ID, Académie de Mâcon member ID, Académie de Versailles member ID, Savoirs ENS ID, Cartooning for Peace cartoonist ID, Quais du polar writer ID, NASA Exoplanet Archive exoplanet ID, Hoopla ID, iNaturalist observation ID, ITU-R Recommendation, New Zealand Business Number, ITU-T Recommendation, Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: BND ID, Status in the Red List of Threatened Species in the Czech Republic, set score, historical region, modified version, sample, end point, coordinate location GCJ02, bgm.tv identifier, bilibili ID, Moegirlpedia Chinese Article Entry, Academia URL, requires grammatical feature, Seed, peak Billboard chart position, number of weeks on the Billboard chart
  • External identifiers: Bibliopoche ID, La Lorraine des écrivains ID, Fandango movie id, So Foot ID, Indian Railways station code, Norwegian war refugees register ID, Index of Historic Collectors and Dealers of Cubism ID, Tasmanian Heritage Register ID, Basisklassifikation, LARB author ID, TPA ID, Revues littéraires ID, IMEC ID, Recours au poème ID, National Medal of Arts ID, PAM ID, Tor.com author, 2006 Commonwealth Games athlete ID, Boobpedia article
• Deleted properties: NARA person ID (P1222), print run (P4877)
• Query examples:
  • Federated query with Nobel.org: Places on Moon or Mars named after Nobel prize winners (source)
  • Texts ranked by the number of languages in which they are available through Wikisource (adapted from source)
  • Map of places co-occurring with species or higher-order taxa as main subjects of publications (source)
  • Software titles and what they were inspired by (source)
  • Occupations of the accused witches in the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft database (source)
  • Gallery of Nobel prizes winners (federated query) (source)
• Showcase items: Crawford

Development

• Show Senses in WhatLinksHere (phab:T200980)
• Build ability to remove Senses (phab:T196283)
• Reference a Sense in a statement (phab:T196263)
• Improve the language code check for Lexemes (phab:T198202)
• Prepare item/property link formatter that uses cache instead of wb_terms DB table (phab:T201831)
• More work on merging Lexemes (phab:T198104)
• Showing the Lemma or Representation when Lexemes or Forms are mentioned in constraint reports (phab:T195315)
• Add new monolingual language codes: uga (Ugaritic), rar (Rarotongan), gmy (Mycenean Greek), mnw (Mon), mid (Modern Mandaic), haz (Hazaragi)
• Fix a bug on the Query Service interface (phab:T201951)
• Add number of results in embed map view of the Query Service (phab:T201908)

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!