Wikidata:Status updates/2018 11 12

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2018-11-12.

Discussions

• Closed request for comments: Political alliance vs P4100, Changes to P2737 and P2738, Why do we have an item for dogs and another one for Canis lupus familiaris?, start time / end time vs. publication date of 1st / last episode, Mapping and improving the data import process, Familypedia links removed for "described at URL", Allow the creation of links to redirects in Wikidata

Events

• Past: Several Wikidata-related presentations at International Data Week from November 5-8 in Gaborone:
  • Wikidata and Wikibase as global platforms for democratizing data publishing
  • WikiCite and Scholia - a Linked Open Data approach to exploring the scholarly literature and related resources
  • A wiki approach to collecting, curating and managing citizen science data
  • A wiki perspective on an Open Science Commons
• Past: Several Wikidata-related presentations at GLAMWiki conference, including:
  • Wikidata — what's new?
  • Open your structured GLAM data with Wikibase — install your own instance of the technology behind Wikidata
• Incoming: a new Illuminatis Data Mining workshop on 16-17 November in Gotha
• Incoming: Wikidata workshop in Vienna
• Incoming: Wikidata train the trainers in Cologne, Berlin and Vienna (in German)
• Incoming: Data Quality Management in Wikidata Workshop happening on January 18th in Berlin (WMDE), has a call for abstracts open until December 3rd.

Press, articles, blog posts

• Incoming partnership with the German National Library by Jens Ohlig (in German)
• How Wikidata Is Solving Its Chicken-or-Egg-Problem in the Field of Cultural Heritage, by Beat Eastermann

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• wikitable.info is a visualization of Wikidata items in HTML tables in many languages, easy to print and export. Feedback goes to Germartin1
• OpenRefine 3.1 beta is out, with many fixes and improvements to the Wikidata integration suggested by the community.
• There's a new Wikidata game: Commons category matches

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: location of sense usage, dramaturge, head coach of sports team, beer bitterness, beer color, INEP IGC discrete grade, clinical trial phase, maintained by WikiProject, uses capitalization for
  • External identifiers: NYC Building Identification Number (BIN), Cineuropa person ID, The Guardian article ID, Caselaw Access Project case ID, MGG Online ID, Map of Life ID, AfroMoths ID, FloraWeb ID, FLOW ID, AllPowerlifting.com person ID, Info Flora ID, YÖK Academic Profile ID, Mushroom Observer ID, Schleswig-Holstein object ID, Michigan Flora ID, Observation.org ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: Vice, sense associated with form, declared patrimony, season ends, inscription mentions, DanNet 2.2 word ID, Study fees, HASC, exchange rate, Verspreidingsatlas.nl ID
  • External identifiers: AllMusic release ID, DBU profile, MusicNotes product ID, MusicNotes song ID, Nobel Prize in Literature ID, Code de l'Autorité de l'Aviation Civile argentine, Playbill venue ID, Digital Flora of Central Africa ID, Portal to the Flora of Italy ID, Envanter.gov.tr Monument ID, B3Kat Joint Union Catalogue, Santiebeati ID, Soccerway team ID, identifiant Littera, Letterboxd actor ID, Letterboxd film ID, Threatened Species Link ID, VD 18 ID, Siamzone film ID, Thaifilm ID, National Portrait Gallery (United States) object ID, Newseum newspaper front page ID, Playbill person ID, SWH Release ID, APA ID, Virtual Guide to the Flora of Mongolia ID, identifiant À nos grands hommes, BioOne ID, Academy Awards Database film ID
• Query examples:
  • Currently happening figure skating competitions (source)
  • Software developed by groups within Google (source)
  • Knowledge organization systems (source)
  • Most common election days by country (source)

Development

• Displaying Senses before Forms (phab:T208592)
• Making quality constraints play nicer with the Query Service
• Putting in the ground work to have quality checks run in jobs
• Enabling arbritrary access on oldwikisource
• Allowing configuration of the licence in .ttl output
• Configuration of more string limits, such as URL and mono / multilingual texts
• Moving wdqs frontend to a blubber deployment (phab:T192006)
• Asserting a users name so they can't edit when accidently logged out (phab:T124451)
• Showcase a termbox placeholder in the mobile frontend of m.wikidata.org (phab:T206200)

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!