Wikidata:Status updates/2019 12 30

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2019-12-30.

Discussions

• New request for comments: Handle genealogical information, Sort identifiers

Press, articles, blog posts

• Data Roundtripping: a new frontier for GLAM-Wiki collaborations, by Sandra Fauconnier
• Leveraging open data at the National Library of Wales, by Jason Evans
• Context-aware Entity Linking with Attentive Neural Networks on Wikidata Knowledge Graph, Isaiah Onando Mulang et al. (on Arxiv)
• Celebrating FactGrid’s Q100000: Conrad Alexandre Gérard
• Descartes, social networks and popular culture: An excursion into digital scholarship
• How to select your Christmas movie using SPARQL and Wikidata

Tool of the week

• The revised version of the very powerful PetScan offers to edit or create items based on Wikipedia categories, search, SPARQL, links with filters by label or properties

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• New tool: Dwynwen, adapted from Crotos, provides users with a search interface designed specifically for artworks and other visual digital content from Commons, using Wikidata.
• MichaelSchoenitzer is looking for co-maintainers for the tool MachtSinn and the Lexeme Python library
• We now have Q80000000
• Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a UX designer to work on Wikidata and Wikibase as well as a technical writer

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: litter size, legislative committee
  • External identifiers: Fossilworks ID for journal article, Wikispore ID, TLFi ID, The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture ID, Littré ID, PlanetMath ID, GUI number
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: filename in archive, Microworld ID, Position with respect to the noun, network bands, Viewpoint heading, egg incubation period, author's wikimedia username, unit of measurement, type of age limit, attested as, provides data, recipient, external type, Amino community ID, used in phrase, type of external page
  • External identifiers: Australian National Maritime Museum ID, Australian National Maritime Museum person ID, The Video Games Museum system ID, Vikidia article, National Aviation Hall of Fame person ID, RationalWiki ID, The Video Games Museum game ID, CEEB K-12 school code, D-MSX ID, Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging, VGMPF ID, Games Database system ID, ICD-11 ID (foundation), AdoroCinema, Games Database game ID, Games Database developer ID, LFE player ID, PersonalData.IO ID, Games Database publisher ID, The Digital Local Culture Encyclopedia of Korea ID, textove.com, textove.com Song ID, kino-teatr.ru person ID, dovidka.com.ua person ID, Russian PFL player ID, Ten-Bruggencatenummer, J-GLOBAL ID, The Good Old Days ID, AuthenticusID, Ciência ID, ExoticA ID, Decine21 person ID, Identifier for a resource held by the Smithsonian Institution, Macintosh Garden game ID, UCUM code, PragerU presenter ID, Ukrainica ID, Macintosh Repository ID, LaunchBox Games Database platform ID
• Query examples:
  • Map showing objects named after a person represented in Europeana
  • Locations where paintings were made (source)
  • Swedish citizens who died in 1949 and whose works will enter the public domain on 1 January 2020 with profession and image, ordered by number of Wikimedia articles (source)
  • Oldest subways (source)
  • Popes who were children of other popes (source)
  • Colorful flags (source)

Development

• Worked on better error dialogues for the Wikidata Bridge
• Investigated and fixed labels for some Properties not being shown (phabricator:T237984)
• Continued working on the new database tables that replace wb_terms
• Expanded documentation for 3rd party Wikibase installs
• Continued working on making sure components in different areas of Wikibase can easily be shared to make development easier (phabricator:T240329)
• Enjoying the holidays. Hope so are you :)

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! :)