Wikidata:Status updates/2018 09 03

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2018-09-03.

Events

• 3-5 September, Bologna: Workshop on Open Citations, with several WikiCite-related talks and an associated hackathon
• 8 September, Zurich, Switzerland: Wikidata Hackathon
• September and early October: Andy Mabbett is touring Australia for a series of open-science and GLAM Wiki-focused talks, workshops, and meetups.
• 23 October 2018, Berlin: Workshop How can I use Wikidata for my research?
• Applications are invited for WikiCite 2018 (27-29 November in Berkeley)
• Registration is now open for PIDapalooza 2019 in Dublin, Ireland on 23-24 January.

Press, articles, blog posts

• Many faces of Wikibase: Cataloging the history of the Illuminati

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• New admin: Abián. Welcome onboard!
• Better suggestions for constraint values on properties
• Wikidata now has 100 million qualifiers on statements
• A proposal comes forth to use Wikidata Qs as permanent IDs for OpenStreetMap. See the discussion.
• A Stanford University announces a Wikimedian in Residence position focused on Library metadata and Wikidata: see the announcement on Wikidata-l
• SourceMD and ORCIDator have been merged and can now be run in batch mode (announcement by Magnus Manske)

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: ideographic description sequences, editor-in-chief, image of interior
  • External identifiers: WSJP ID, Turkish Basketball Super League ID, Greek Basket League ID, Polish Basketball League ID, Basketball Bundesliga ID, Baloncesto Superior Nacional ID, Pietre della Memoria ID, Partis d'Arcadie ID, Angelicum author ID, bgm.tv subject identifier, bilibili ID, Historic Hotels of America ID, Historic Hotels Worldwide ID, Minor Planet Center body ID, Moegirlpedia Chinese Article Entry, Open Exoplanet Catalogue exoplanet ID, PUSC author ID, So Foot ID, Voetbalstats player ID, SR Number, KERIS school ID, Pacific Coast Architecture Database person ID, Directorate General of Civil Aeronautics (Mexico) code, CWA writer ID, Basisklassifikation, ASIN, FBref player ID, Syndikat writer ID, EU RCN, ABMC person ID, DAV hut ID, PZS hut ID, ÖAV hut ID, Petit Futé site ID, SAC ID, NDB identifier for airport beacons, Directorio de Museos y Colecciones de España ID, IMA museum ID, The Park Database ID, Osservatorio culturale del Cantone Ticino ID, Animator.ru person ID, RBU athlete ID, RBU coach ID, Television Academy Foundation interviewee ID, Historic Hotels of Europe ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: Cryptocurrency Symbol, Cooperative Patent Classification, usage example, described in Wikimedia article, beer color, beer bitterness
  • External identifiers: DBUnico ID, EU participant ID, WorldofVolley ID, Skijumping.pl ID, Arnet Miner author ID, Cranach Digital Archive Kunstwerk ID, DSV ID, The Gymternet ID, Ski Jumping Hill Archive ID, cpcrulez, e621, AustLII ID, NooSFere series ID, IGDB game ID, IGDB platform ID, IGDB person ID, Dobry słownik ID, Twitch channel ID, OlympicChannel athlete ID, Académie de Marseille member ID, Film Indonesia ID, BGCI Garden ID, International Mathematical Olympiad participant ID
• Query examples:
  • License of an image on Commons, while Structured Commons is in the making (source)
  • Gallery of Gods and other deities
  • Closest library for each public bookcase in Vienna (source)
  • Line chart of Human Development Index over time for a set of countries (source)
• Newest database reports: people by Erdős number and number of works in Wikidata

Development

• Final polishing on first version of Senses support for Lexemes. (phabricator:T201000, phabricator:T202729, phabricator:T198036, phabricator:T203334)
• Continued work on merging Lexemes. Merging via the SpecialPage is done and will be rolled out soon. Merging via the API is still being worked on. (phabricator:T189129)
• Long Lemmas in Lexemes look bad because they are not flowing to the next line and instead break the layout. Working on a fix. (phabricator:T195367)
• Improving the validity of the HTML of the Lexeme headers. (phabricator:T196228)
• Worked on showing the Lemma(s) or Representation(s) when Lexemes or Forms are mentioned in constraint reports. (phabricator:T195315)
• Got a new beta feature ready for deployment that will improve the suggestions for properties like sex/gender by first suggesting the values defined in the one-of constraint. (phabricator:T202712)

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!