Wikidata:Status updates/2018 10 01

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2018-10-01.

Discussions

• Closed request for comments:
  • P171
  • When multiple sources are cited for a fact, should IMDB be deleted as one of them when used
  • Findagrave removed as a source for information
  • How would you state the number of (rooms, restaurants, suites) in a hotel?
  • Updating References for External Data

Events

• Past: IRC office hour, September 25th
• Past: Working in a World of (linked, semantic) Open Data. Keynote by User:MartinPoulter at University of Stirling Life in Data Conference, September 28th
• Wikidata and Wikimedia workshop (30 September) and session about data modeling (2 October) at the CIDOC 2018 Conference of the International Council of Museums, Heraklion, Crete
• There were three Wikidata-related presentations at the 10th International Conference on Ecological Informatics that took place on 23-28 September in Jena.
• Upcoming: German-speaking WikiCon, October 3-5 in St Gallen (Switzerland). Several Wikidata-related talks and workshops in the programme.

Press, articles, blog posts

• Property Path use in Wikidata Queries, by Gregory Todd Williams

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The templates Reasonator and Scholia are available, for linking from en.Wikisource pages to representations of Wikidata items.
• Wikidata considered unable to support hierarchical search in Structured Data for Commons, see also thread.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: ENI number, inflection class, has inflection class, root, creates lexeme type
  • External identifiers: ASCE Historical Civil Engineering Landmark ID, Comic Vine ID, DxOMark ID, Geheugen van de VU person ID, HKCAN ID, Oqaasileriffik online dictionary ID, IANA Root Zone Database ID, Shazam track ID, Spotify show ID, Shazam artist ID, Sprockhoff Number, Index of Historic Collectors and Dealers of Cubism ID, ANZSRC FoR ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: applies to citizens of, Plot continued in, monument in the near, Sail emblem, São Paulo: os estrangeiros e a construção da cidade ID, reference template for this work, Wikipedia suggested article name, Personal title, stated in reference as, reference vocabulary, OSM zoom level
  • External identifiers: OpenStreetMap wiki ID, Wiki Loves ZEOs ID, Geschützte Objekte in Ostbelgien, ComiXology Creators, War Memorials Online ID, NT Flora ID, Film Indonesia person ID, Sekolah Kita ID, Museu Nacional ID, Annuaire de la magistrature ID
• Query examples:
  • Bounding boxes for a set of maps
  • Where were UK ambassadors educated? (source)
  • People who received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and were also in the NSDAP (Nazi party) (source)

Development

• Fix a bug when the "language of Lemma" box doesn't appear after failed submit of Special:NewLexeme (phab:T194347)
• Fix the order of elements in Lexeme edit diffs (phab:T185481)
• Enable constraint checks for Lexemes and Forms (phab:T195828)
• More work on editing Form Statements using API (phab:T194732)
• More work on a beta feature for suggestions based on constraints (phab: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!