Wikidata:Status updates/2018 11 05

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2018-11-05.

Events

• Lots of parties and get-togethers for Wikidata's 6th birthday
• GLAM Wiki 2018, 3-5 November 2018 in Tel Aviv, had a number of sessions about Wikidata

Press, articles, blog posts

• "Wikidata and GLAM catalogues: another round-up" by Martin Poulter
• What Dutch GLAMs want from Wikidata

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikidata's Sixth Birthday \o/ Check out the well wishes and presents.
• The Community Wishlist Survey is now open, including a Wikidata category. Proposal phase is running until November 11th.
• New designs posted for structured copyright and licensing based off of Wikidata for Structured Data on Commons. Please visit the page on Commons and leave your feedback.
• CompareIT a new comparison tool, driven by Wikidata.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: INEP IGC continuous score, demonstrates sense, permeation, embodied energy, biobased content weight percentage
  • External identifiers: ResearchGate author ID, Clé des langues ID, Oiseaux.net ID, Hypericum MySpecies ID, ECOS ID, IGF entrant ID, CMS ID, Plant Finder ID, Steere Herbarium ID, Wild Herps ID, ProsopoMaths ID, AFAS author ID, AFD ID, BirdLife Australia ID, John J. Audubon's Birds of America ID, Echinoid Directory ID, Espèces Envahissantes Outre-mer ID, FEIS ID, Global Raptor Information Network ID, MNHN taxon ID, Neotropical Birds ID, New Zealand Birds Online ID, NOAA Fisheries Species Directory ID, OSF Online ID, Sea Slug Forum ID, Cockroach Species File ID, Coreoidea Species File ID, GT IBMA ID, Mantodea Species File ID, Red List of South African Plants ID, Systematic Catalog of Culicidae ID, Larousse ID, Biographie vosgienne ID, MoEML ID, Plant Parasites of Europe ID, Scoresway baseball person ID, Scoresway basketball person ID, Scoresway ice hockey person ID, Scoresway rugby person ID, Scoresway volleyball person ID, ARD Mediathek ID, DCMOTO identifier, BirdLife International IBA ID, Polish Olympic Committee ID, British Museum bioID, GameFAQs platform ID, Discogs track ID, Discogs composition ID, RIA Novosti reference
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: dramaturg, DEFAULTSORT, billed artist, also display sitelinks for, Objektnummer, Winterthur Glossar URL, Mushroom Observer ID, IIIF manifest, Category for players of a club, Notable print, Observation.org ID, maintenance tag, chord progression, music album, volunteers
  • External identifiers: Who's on First ID (WOFID), MGG Online ID, Caselaw Access Project case ID, Map of Life ID, AllPowerlifting.com person ID, AfroMoths ID, FloraWeb ID, Info Flora ID, FLOW ID, YÖK Academic Profile ID, Sotheby's ID, Michigan Flora ID
• Query examples:
  • Timeline of companies acquired by Red Hat (source)
  • Video game characters named after humans (source)
  • People who received an award on the day of their death (source)
  • Things named after Tux, as described in (source)

Development

• Helped get MediaInfo deployed on Commons
• Reduced load on the query service from the constraint checks (phabricator:T204469)
• Worked on getting constraints checks run regularly in the background so their results are complete in the query service (phabricator:T204714)
• Enabled access to arbitrary items and properties for Wiktionaries
• Working on infrastructure parts of the new termbox (the one showing labels, descriptions and aliases) on mobile

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!

Anything to add? Please share! :)