Wikidata:Status updates/2018 12 24

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2018-12-24.

Discussions

• Closed request for comments: Changes in email property, Datatype of P667, How to capture negative results in Wikidata?

Events

• Current: Chaos Communication Congress (35C3) where several Wikidata people are present and related sessions happening
• Next Wikidata IRC office hour: January 8th, 18:00 (UTC+1) on the channel wikimedia-office

Press, articles, blog posts

• Wikidata architecture overview by Addshore
• Créer une carte avec Wikidata, OpenRefine et uMap (in French) by Jean-Baptiste Pressac

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Structured data on Commons: Multilingual captions beta testing
• Lingua Libre now adds audio pronunciation on Forms
• Check out the roadmap for the development of Wikidata and Wikibase for 2019

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: API endpoint, demonym of, specific rotation, concentration, copyright representative, Berlin protected area ID, advertises
  • External identifiers: Garzanti Linguistica ID, Multiplayer ID, Danmarks svampeatlas ID, Boobpedia article, Amazon Music artist ID, Objectif Gard topic ID, Epic Games Store ID, ZVR-Number, IPPDH ID, French Academy of Sciences member ID, MNopedia ID, NCpedia ID, Weeds in Ontario ID, ICCD ID - S form, ICCD ID - CF form, ICCD ID - CG form, ODNR Division of Wildlife ID, Penthouse ID, bbcmicro.co.uk identifier, YSA ID, ARTIC exhibition ID, ARTIC artist ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: maintenance method, second family name in Scandinavian names, organizational unit, story by, Code of Natura 2000 FFH habitats, century fl., adjective of, holonym 2, meronym 2, has contraction 2, yield, colorist, distinguishing property, Wikispecies template for this work, affiliation string
  • External identifiers: bgm.tv person identifier, bgm.tv character identifier, PC-9801DB ID, ACB.com coach ID, The Armory Show at 100 ID, researchportal.helsinki.fi profile URL, Scoresway tennis person ID, Dictionnaire de spiritualité ID, Muséosphère ID, Historical RNA ID, TheFinalBall coach ID, TheFinalBall referee ID, WorldFootball.net referee ID, teams.by player ID, pressball.by player ID, AMFR player ID, premierliga.ru staff ID, premierliga.ru referee ID, CFU player ID, AIC player ID, RusTeam player ID, Critique d'art ID, Centre Pompidou ID, Agence photo RMN ID, INE ID (Portugal), Agence photo RMN package ID, Wikiapiary entry, England Football Online player profile, England Football Online manager profile, DVR Number, Politika topic, Goodreads character ID
• Deleted properties: P4570 (Wikidata project)
• Query examples:
  • Catchphrases in Wikidata (source)
  • Timeline of Indian mathematicians (source)
  • Painting part of the Bavarian State Painting Collections (source)
  • Types of pasta in Wikidata with pictures (source)

Development

• Writing a maintenance script to make configuring WikibaseQualityConstraints easier (phab:T209958)
• Working on new ID generator using different SQL to attempt to stop lock errors when creating lots of items (phab:T194299)
• Making more parts of the Query Service UI more configurable such as the copyright page, title, and started work on the favicon / logos (phab:T194175)
• Adding tracking for Wikibase Lua functions so we can see how they are used on various different projects (phab:T191416)
• Working on fixing alignment issues with glosses (phab:T207401)

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!