Wikidata:Status updates/2019 06 03

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2019-06-03.

Events

• Past: Wikidata workshop, May 27th at UIN Maliki, Malang, Indonesia (in collaboration with Faculty of Computer Science, UI) - Slideset link - Press release
• Past: OSM x Wikidata workshop, June 3rd, Taipei, Taiwan
• Upcoming: Wikidata Days 2019, June 7-8th in Lisbon, Portugal.
• Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XVI, June 13th in São Paulo, Brazil
• Upcoming: Wikidata Edit-a-thon during Atla 2019, June 13th, Vancouver, Canada

Press, articles, blog posts

• Blogpost by RightStatements.org - a system of standardised interoperable rights and reuse information for GLAMs - describing the role and importance of the property RightsStatements.org statement according to source website (P6426).
• Welcome Japan Search to the web of Linked Open Data by Martin Poulter, Bodleian Digital Library

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Shape expressions are now live on Wikidata
• At WikiWoordenboek (Dutch wiktionary) a project titled Widawiwo has begun to explore how the maximal mutual benefit of Wikidata and WikiWoordenboek can be achieved.
• Hauki is a new tool by User:Vesihiisi to browse lexicographical data.
• Wikidata trainings & online courses for librarians by WikiEdu

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: ISO speed, f-number, WMI Code, minimum wage, UPA transcription
  • External identifiers: speedrun.com game ID, Harper's author ID, Pakistan Railways station code, National Library of Wales Catalogue ID, Arachne building ID, Messes.info Catholic parish ID, The Atlantic author ID, Find NZ Artists ID, Unified Social Credit Identifier, OSZMI ID, MSX Games World ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: motif represents, Shape Expression for class, Album Academicum-identificatiecode, gender educated, ABA League ID, start grade, end grade, digilibLT author ID, IntraText author ID, in defining formula, PHI Latin Texts author ID, associated shape, comparison image, emergency services, Married by
  • External identifiers: Rugby League Project ID (general), Hungarian National Namespace, Pakistan EMIS code(s), CCDC Number, swMATH work ID, Czech parliament ID, Tainacan MAI ID, Biographical Dictionary Of Iowa ID, Pro Football Hall of Fame ID (new), euroleague.net coach ID, eurobasket.com coach ID, Who's Who of American Comic Books, PCE Daisakusen ID, Musixmatch artist ID, eBiodiversity ID
• Query examples:
  • Gay parades in Italy in 2019
  • Map of communes of the French area "Ille-et-Vilaine" which share borders (source)
  • Connections between the subject and printing location of Welsh landscape prints (source)
  • Dunes in Wikidata (source)
  • Co-author network of Journal of Cheminformatics authors (source)
  • Map of archives in the world (source)
• Newest database reports: frequent first names in Spain

Development

• Specify license of mediawiki/Wikibase/WikibaseLexeme ontology (phab:T216842)
• Enable bugfix on beta for wbeditentity setting aliases to empty array (phab:T223300)
• Use correct validator in alias changeop and provide error messages if alias is too short (phab:T223311)
• More work on the use of special pages Special:SetAliases and Special:SetLabelDescriptionAliases with aliases containing | character (phab:T223270)
• Add Wikidata query service lag to Wikidata maxlag (phab:T221774)
• Fix BadMethodCallException wbgetentities when getting Lexeme subentities (forms, senses) (phab:T223995)
• Scale the machine learning components of the WDCM system w. {text2vec} WarpLDA implementation (phab:T203366)
• Inspect strange behavior of the WD_percentUsageDashboard (phab:T217994)
• WDCM dashboards maintenance: eliminating the need to use the wdcm.maintable in Hive, WDCM Geo is now independent of it (with its update engine running Spark instead) and re-designed to match the WDCM standards (phab:T217994, phab:T214586, phab:T217997)
• Further preparations for the Wikidata Languages Landscape project (phab:T221965)
• More progress in order to get the mobile service deployed
• Adding an IP edit warning popup for mobile termbox (phab:T221831)
• Allowing users to ignore this popup permanently (phab:T221833)

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!