Wikidata:Status updates/2020 02 24

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2020-02-24.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: DannyS712, Fralambert
• Possible change of usage of "located in administrative territorial entity" (P131)

Events

• Scholarships application process for Wikimania 2020 (Bangkok) is now open until March 17th. More information, FAQ, apply
• Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference, one of the themes being how Wikidata can support minority languages, will take place on July 9-10 in Limerick, Ireland. Call for submissions open from February 27th to March 30th.
• Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: More discussion of pseudonyms and historical place names, 25 February. Agenda
• Upcoming: Wikimedia Research office hour, February 26th
• Upcoming: Wikidata x OSM meetup in Taiwan, March 9th
• Upcoming: Wikidata Days 2020 in Lisbon, Portugal. 2-4 July 2020.

Press, articles, blog posts

• Wikidata's Linked Data for Cultural Heritage Digital Resources: An Evaluation Based on the Europeana Data Model by Nuno Freire, Antoine Isaac
• When Humans and Machines Collaborate - Cross-lingual Label Editing in Wikidata, by Lucie-Aimée Kaffee: video during Wikimedia Research Showcase (at 30:00), paper
• Do you speak data? Wikidata as the Open Internet’s universal language, by Elisabeth Giesemann
• “Wikidata is just a matter of facts”, by Andra Waagmeester
• Does Biodiversity Informatics 💘 Wikidata?, by Quentin Groom & Deborah Paul

Tool of the week

• Wiki Art Depiction Explorer is a web interface for adding depiction information for artworks in Wikidata by surfacing frequently used terms and providing suggestions. Read the full project description and documentation

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• QWiki, a mobile game asking geography questions based on Wikidata, now has a new version released as well as a website where one can learn how the game was made and how to contribute;
• soweego is an artificial intelligence that links Wikidata to large external catalogs. The proposal for version 2 is out for your consideration. review of version 1 is open for discussion.
• Wikimedia Developer Satisfaction Survey run by the WMF until March 6th (source)

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: Wikimedia community discussion
  • External identifiers: Open Food Facts label, BioLexSOE ID, Roglo person ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: applies to name of object, Country of registry, Poeti d'Italia in lingua latina author ID, generational suffix
  • External identifiers: RealGM basketball coach ID, Irish playography person ID, Irish playography play ID, Mirabile title ID, Mirabile manuscript ID, Filmfront person ID, Filmfront film ID, Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon ID, Global Music Rights work ID, SESAC work number, The First Amendment Encyclopedia ID, Indiegogo project ID, Glassdoor company ID, block creators, targeted block time, staking ratio, SOCAN work number, NHLR ID, The Washington Post ID
• Query examples:
  • Importing from ThePeerage (Nov. 2019) added 50% to the number of Johns on Wikidata (source)
  • SF movies and series with a significant character known to have been portrayed by an actor who was born in Liverpool (source)
  • countries in Europe whose ISO 2-letter abbreviation contains letters not in the native language name of their country (source)
  • places names in Wales with Welsh pronunciation audio (source)
  • Map of types of GLAMs in Wales (source)

Development

• Provide better redirect for statement nodes (phab:T203397)
• Wikidata Bridge: style fixes and font size adjustments (phab:T239421, phab:T243192)
• making the edit based on the user's fixed/updated choice (phab:T238662)
• research how to do reference rendering (phab:T244987)
• showing the loading bar while saving (phab:T237433)
• More work on wb_terms table and fixing various issues
• Removing all of pre-entity source based federation code
• Fixing various issues causing errors in production
• Investigate on an issue with pasting exact Commons file title (phab:T196165)
• Update the APIs to specify an errorformat and a uselang parameter (phab:T242769)

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!