Wikidata:Status updates/2019 04 29

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2019-04-29.

Events

• Past: WikiNusantara 2019, the first Wikimedia Indonesia conference was successfully held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on Apr 27-28, 2019. The conference included two Wikidata talks:
  • Wikidata I: Intro to Wikidata by Raisha Abdillah from WMID
  • Wikidata II: Advancements for Wikidata by Adila Krisnadhi, Ph.D. and Dr. Fariz Darari from Faculty of Computer Science, Universitas Indonesia
• Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in London on May 2nd
• Upcoming: Ghent University Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop, 3 - 5 July 2019

Press, articles, blog posts

• Wikidata is mentioned in Mozilla's Internet Health report

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Breaking change - Important for Wikidata tools maintainers: wb_terms table to be dropped at the end of May
• The ability to add structured depicts (P180) statements to file pages is live on Commons.
• Suggestions based on the one-of constraints are now enabled for all users
• New tool: Wikimedia Related Projects provides statistics about Wikimedia projects and the relations between them, using the number of sitelinks they have in common

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: approach angle, departure angle, Løøv classification, linear reference, data transfer speed
  • External identifiers: Japan Search name ID, Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG cards ID, Saxony protected area ID, Referee.ru person ID, Shanghai Library person ID, Shanghai Library place ID, FrogMAP ID, Ming Qing Archive ID, De Agostini ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: specifying descriptor, SciGraph IDs, era name, moved by, seconded by, debated by, Commons quality assessment, National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities code, OBO Gazetteer ID
  • External identifiers: FemBio ID, BlackPast.org ID, CineChile filmmaker ID, grwar.ru person ID, Whitney Museum of American Art artwork ID, Arabic Ontology ID
• Query examples:
  • A map of the Rio de Janeiro light rail network
  • Nigerian women with Wikipedia article and pictures (source)
  • Map of places of residence for accused witches with a layer for occupations (source)
  • Map of Wikidata items that are dedicated to, named after or depict etc, St George. (source)
  • Partigiani color-coded by year of death (source)

Development

• Displaying mapframes for geocoordinate on client requires preprocessing by the user (phab:T220122)
• Fixing cursor jumping to next field and overlapping of menus (phab:T172937)
• Wikidata a focus issue on grammatical features field (phab:T218229)
• Add language codes rm-rumgr, rm-sursilv, rm-surmiran, rm-sutsilv, rm-vallader, rm-puter for Lexemes (phab:T210293)
• Align RTL languages in glosses to right (phab:T203081)
• Add new monolingual codes: qya + sjn, el-cy, syc, abq, hbo) (phab:)
• Fix a bug with NewLexeme suggester menu (phab:T199409)
• Created a dedicated Phab board to help tool builders with the changes on wb_terms
• More internal work to get the first version of mobile termbox ready for deployment

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!