Wikidata:Status updates/2019 02 04

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2019-02-04.

Events

• Next Wikidata workshop/meetup in Paris: February 15th
• Next Wikidata meetup in Berlin: March 12th
• The conference grant proposal for WikidataCon was submitted and could use endorsements.

Press, articles, blog posts

• „Eisberg voraus!“ – Sächsische Landeskunde mit SXRM, Wikisource und Wikidata by Jens Bemme (in German)
• Linking the OLAC Video Game Vocabulary with Wikidata by Tracy Hoffmann and Peter Chan
• Adam blogged about how to update an existing Wikibase docker instance

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Got some time? SpeedPatrolling, a tool to simplify patrolling of recent changes on Wikidata (documentation), has been announced and you can use it to help fight vandalism.
• Got some time? Match some streets and the humans they are named after.
• Got some time? Help link OpenStreetMap and Wikidata Items with the new OSM <-> Wikidata matcher.
• Wikidata Query Service now has over 7 billion triples.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: affiliation string, RightsStatement status according to source website, trading name, Alexander–Briggs notation
  • External identifiers: DIZIE ID, football.odessa.ua person ID, sport-strana.ru article ID, Homosaurus ID, funk channel ID, GEOFON earthquake ID, Georgian National Filmography ID, infosport.ru person ID, ManualsLib brand ID, MusicBrainz event ID, LGD local body code, HAER ID, Hymnary hymnal ID, Hymnary instance ID, Hymnary tune ID, Global Species ID, Amsterdam code
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: does not have quality (2), Den Digitale Byport-ID, expression of, calendar feed url, Total goals in career, Strepsiptera database species ID, Brentidae of the world species ID, Illustrated catalog of Tessaratomidae species ID, WBCHSE code
  • External identifiers: Douban Book ID, Douban Musician ID, Douban Author ID, Douban Music ID, Douban Drama ID, Douban Game ID, Douban Read Author ID, Douban Read eBook ID, Douban Site Name, Douban Username, Zhihu username, Bilibili user ID, QQ number, Bilibili video ID, Bilibili bangumi ID, Bilibili tag ID, Mtime movie ID, Mtime people ID, Dictionary of Anhui Writers ID, Fuzhou Architecture Heritage ID, Eventa Servo ID, Rocks Backpages author ID, Rocks Backpages artist ID, Rocks Backpages publication ID, Hulu movie ID, Hulu series ID, Democracy Club ID, ISA ID, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Schutzgebiete-ID, DALFAN ID, GameFAQs franchise ID, CABB player ID, castingvideos ID, Bildarchiv, Herder-Institut, IEEEXplore document ID, IEEEXplore author ID, Antarctica NZ Digital Asset Manager, Pacific Coast Architecture Database building ID, Twitter user ID, Australian Antarctic Data Center, Enciclopedia delle donne ID
• Deleted properties: P1112 (Pokédex number)
• Query examples:
  • Common topics of publications by people affiliated with a given organization
  • World __ days and other awareness days in calendar order (Source)
  • timeline of writing systems (source)
  • family tree of Donald Duck (source)
  • Common long words in titles of scholarly articles (source)
  • schools of magic by number of students (source)

Development

• Making progress towards first showable version of basic Shape Expression support
• Layout polishing for the mobile termbox (the box that shows labels, desctiptions and aliases) and continuing work on the "in more languages" and "all entered languages" sections in it
• Added tracking for the number of Senses and Forms to our graph for tracking the number of Items, Properties and Lexemes
• Worked more on making it easier to set up Quickstatements in other Wikibase instances
• Preventing an entity to redirect to itself (phabricator:T214919)
• Working on making Federation (reusing Wikidata's Items and Properties to make statements) work for Wikimedia Commons to get the rollout of the next stage (support for depicts statements) unstuck
• Fixed an issue with adding sitelinks from Commons (phabricator:T213975)
• Fixing Cognate support for yue Wiktionary (phabricator:T214400)

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! :)