Wikidata:Status updates/2018 12 03

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2018-12-03.

Discussions

• New request for comments: How to handle heat treating as a qualifier for material properties ?
• New development input: Identify problems with adding new languages into Wikidata

Events

• Upcoming: "Researcher meets Curator", with a subquestion: "What are the consequences of collecting born digital sources, working with digital network analysis and engaging with linked open data initiatives such as Wikidata", in Maastricht on 22 March 2019. Call for papers
• Upcoming: Wikidata Quality workshop, in Berlin on 18 January 2019. Call for abstracts is open until December 6th
• Upcoming: Advanced Wikidata Training in India, December 15-16
• Past: "Wikibase: configure, customize, and collaborate" workshop at SWIB 18 in Bonn, Germany on November 26, 2018. Workshop materials
• Past: EveryPolitician event to identify political data sources for Wikidata in Madrid, Spain, on December 1, 2018.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Author Disambiguator (github source), new tool by User:ArthurPSmith (based on SourceMD) for linking author items to their works.
• OpenRefine 3.1 was released
• New API module to format multiple entity IDs
• You can now access the number of Forms and Senses of Lexemes through API and special page

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: reference has role, tautomer of, eponymous category, language style, ratified by, funding scheme
  • External identifiers: GameFAQs company ID, AJOL journal ID, LEGO set ID, BDFA player ID, Sabinet journal ID, NSW State Archives and Records Authority Agency ID, Bygdeband location ID, Austrian Biographical Encylopedia ID, Badtaste ID, Badgames ID, Mexican female soccer players ID, member of the Portuguese parliament ID, BBC News topic ID, OBV editions ID, Geolex ID, CNPJ, Defined Term ID, Guida al Fumetto Italiano ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: gained independence from, nachgewiesen mittels, measured by (KPI), OpenTrials ID, administrated by the administrative territorial entity, level of description, stored as lexeme, taxon author citation, Astronomical coordinates, catchphrase, real estate developer, Danske Taler speaker
  • External identifiers: TrENSmissions person ID, LIGA profile, SEINet ID, BIBSYS work ID, Jewish Museum Berlin person ID, UK Parliament Identifier, HAER ID, Vesti.kz person ID, Genius album ID, Genius song ID, TASS reference, DIR3 ID, NooSFere story ID, L'Encyclopédie philosophique ID, RegiowikiAT ID, Discord Store game SKU, kohanimeregister, ARLLFB member ID, ARB person ID, Biographie nationale de Belgique ID, protected area authority ID, Flora of Wisconsin ID, identifiant Monument aux morts
• Query examples:
  • Timeline of early Western movies (source)
  • Species represented in the exhibition "Espèces en voies d'illumination" in the natural history museum of Paris (source)
  • Properties most used to describe cats in Wikidata (source)
  • List of UK embassies (source)
  • Map of places of residence for accused witches in Scotland with a layer for occupations (source)

Development

• Add Lexeme to Wikibase's ontology.owl (phab:T195368)
• Prepare to drop change_tag.ct_tag column (phab:T194163)
• Create Federated Wikibase instance on Beta Commons (phab:T204748)
• More work on preparing a new termbox for the mobile version of Wikidata

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!