Wikidata:Status updates/2019 12 09

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2019-12-09.

Events

• Upcoming: Online editathon in Swedish, 15 December
• Upcoming: Sydney Wikidata Workshop, 16 December

Press, articles, blog posts

• Use of Wikidata in GLAM institutions, research report done by the user experience team at Wikimedia Deutschland
• Measuring Social Bias in Knowledge Graph Embeddings
• Letra zopak, Scrabble eta euskarazko letrarik ohikoena, about the most common characters in Basque language, and how this should affect automatic letter-soups and Scrabble point-system.
• Two new blog posts about GLAM pilot projects for Structured Data on Commons:
  • How we helped a small art museum to increase the impact of its collections, with Wikimedia projects and structured data by Sandra Fauconnier
  • How can Structured Data on Commons, Wikidata, and Wikisource walk hand in hand? A pilot project with Punjabi Qisse by Satdeep Gill

Tool of the week

• overpass: Embeds a map displaying features tagged with the current item in OpenStreetMap. Powered by overpass turbo. It helps check if the Wikidata object is mapped in OSM and also if it's correct.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• A WikiCite event will take place in May 2020 in Cologne. Call for contributions is now open (more info)

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: file page
  • External identifiers: Hoopla series ID, Germany06.Ru person ID, MovieGe person ID, Ratingraph FEMALE person ID, Speiderhistorisk leksikon article, Arolsen ID, Doctrine court decision ID, Juricaf decision ID, POWiS ID, super-famicom.jp ID, GameFAQs credit ID, Scilit journal ID, Scienza a due voci ID, FMV World ID, Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija ID, Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority airport code, NEC Retro ID, Prog Archives artist ID, Semion author ID, Musiikkituottajat artist ID, Czech district ID, Czech region ID, Vie publique intervention ID, Vie publique person ID, www.gesetze-im-internet.de ID, Wikimapia ID, Cinépolis KLIC ID, Colorado Encyclopedia ID, Israel Museum Jerusalem artist id, National Library of New Zealand authority ID, OpenRetro Game Database ID, Vie publique report ID, CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas ID, Encyclopedia of the Great Plains ID, Kansaspedia ID, Mississippi Encyclopedia ID, Online Nevada Encyclopedia ID, South Carolina Encyclopedia ID, The Oregon Encyclopedia ID, Utah History Encyclopedia ID, WyoHistory.org ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: Complex Portal accession, Cache, is supervisor of, Gazette of India notification, molecular model, SSNE person ID, sex, year of recombination (taxonomy), Text features
  • External identifiers: Slovak National Library id, National Library of Lithuania id, Maine: An Encyclopedia ID, e-WV ID, SNESmusic.org company ID, Våre falne person ID, World Flora Online ID, ACMA Broadcast Service Licence Number, tDAR creator ID, SNESmusic.org composer ID, identifiant Auteurs - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Domaines - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Découverte - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Dénominations - Joconde du Service des musées de France, Beni Ecclesiastici in web ID, portable music history ID, Atlas Obscura identifier, identifiant Genèse - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Inscriptions - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Lieux - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Périodes - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Techniques - Joconde du Service des musées de France, identifiant Epoques - Joconde du Service des musées de France, Mille Anni di Scienza in Italia ID, Czech cohesion region ID, Czech territorial region ID, Prague territorial district ID, SPIE profile ID, console music history ID, Wikispore, DLE RAE ID, DEJ RAE ID, MarketScreener business leaders ID, VBProfiles person ID, garaph.info game ID, PubAg ID, Tubi movie ID, Tubi series ID, NTIS accession number, garaph.info group ID, Fossilworks ID for journal article, Littré ID, DES ID, DAF ID, Bob ID, TLFi ID, NES Cart Database ID
• Query examples:
  • Number of lexemes on Wikidata in Indian languages (source)
  • Collections of the National Gallery of Armenia imported into Wikidata (source)
  • Movie directors having the longest carrier (source)

Development

• Implement Shortened version for edit summary (phab:T224013)
• Add monolingual language code WLS (Wallisian) (phab:T239411)
• DumpRDF for MediaInfo entities loads each page individually (phab:T222497)
• Add user agent to Wikidata Query UI code examples (phab:T226709)
• Wikidata Bridge: Showing a loading bar during initialization (phab:T232468)

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!