Wikidata:Status updates/2019 01 14

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2019-01-14.

Events

• Past: IRC office hour, January 8th
• Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in WikiBär, Berlin, January 15th (in German)
• Upcoming: Academic workshop on data quality management in Wikidata, Berlin, January 18th (registration needed)
• Upcoming: Wikidata hackathon in Ulm, Germany, on February 22-24. The organization team is looking for people who can give introduction to Wikidata, QuickStatements or gadgets (in German).

Press, articles, blog posts

• Connecting PCGamingWiki and Wikidata by Connor Shea
• VOSviewer supports large number of new data sources (including Wikidata)
• Interview of Denny Vrandečić on the podcast Between the Brackets, about Wikidata and plenty of other things

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Structured data for Commons: multilingual captions are deployed on Commons on January 10th (documentation)
• The Wikidata Query Service has been encountering some data corruption issues that impact the results you can see when running a query. Some may still be running. You can check the current ticket for more updates.
• New dashboard for percentage of pages on a Wikimedia project make use of data from Wikidata (doesn't include sitelinks, doesn't include Commons file and category pages for now)
• Science Stories, a project highlighting women in sciences, uses Wikidata

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: urban population, rural population, corporate purpose, closest approach
  • External identifiers: Uppsala General Catalogue ID, IFPNI species ID, Dictionnaire des Wallons ID, The White-files species ID, Hymnary text ID, Lace bugs database ID, Doctrine ID, Genius artist numeric ID, OLAC video game genre vocabulary, OSGS-Number, MNAM artwork ID, IHOI work ID, Conférence du stage secretary ID, Musée Picasso artwork ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: official color, euler characteristic, REDIZO, number of articles, property for implied values, BNP Catalog ID, Psyl'list species ID, charter URL, works in collection, precedes word-initial, WordLift ID
  • External identifiers: Litchfield Ledger ID, NicoNicoPedia, Bahamut Gamer's Community ACG Database, Bunkacho Media Art Database (Development Version): Animation Database, Bunkacho Media Art Database (Development Version): Comic Database, Interpol WOA ID, MAMVP ID, VectorBase Taxonomy ID, Köztaurusz azonosító, TV Spielfilm, Norwegian silvertax 1816 contributor ID, Krugosvet article, infosport.ru person ID, Viperson ID, iTunes TV season ID, sportufo.ru person ID, RBU person ID, biathlon.com.ua person ID, skiresort.info ID, AiF dossier, JORFSearch organization ID, ELNET ID, U-DISE code, AISHE code, EIIN number
• Query examples:
  • Schools of magic by numbers of students (source)
  • Members of the Association for Computing Machinery who also gave TED talks (source)
  • Languages where some lexemes have more than one grammatical gender entered in Wikidata (source)
  • Timeline of early French aviation pioneers (source)
  • Map of schools where virtual twins were educated (source)
  • Most cited Magnuses in Wikidata (source)

Development

• Solving an issue that blocked deployments over the past weeks (phab:T212427)
• Improved the visual appearance of glosses (phab:T207401)
• Fixing problems with reverting Sense addition (phab:T211438)
• Improving our Javascript to be more standard (phab:T210744)
• Working on performing more constraint type checks in PHP before falling back to SPARQL (phab:T209504)
• Making the query service logo and favicon configurable in one's own Wikibase (phab:T212210)
• More work on displaying the termbox on mobile (phab:T207150)

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!