Wikidata:Status updates/2020 03 09

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2020-03-09.

Discussions

• Closed request for adminship: Fralambert, Kostas20142, welcome on board!
• New request for comments: Restrictions on making items

Events

• WikiGap Challenge, online editing challenge to improve the coverage of women on Wikipedia and Wikidata, from March 8th to April 8th

Press, articles, blog posts

• Knowledge Graphs on the Web -- an Overview - Nicolas Heist, et al.
  • Some issues with this paper's reporting of Wikidata are identified in this Twitter thread
• The List Revolution: Creating dynamic lists using linked data, by Alex Stinson

Tool of the week

• [1 wikibase-cli] (Q87194660) now (>= v9.2.0) has a [2 batch mode], and [3 EditGroups support] (auto-activated for batch edits targeting Wikidata): ready to make some mass edit, and open for [4 feedback]!

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The WikidataCon 2019 grant report has been published
• EqualStreetNames.Brussels shows streets in Brussels named after men and women, visualized with data from OpenStreetMap and Wikidata

Did you know?

• Newest properties:

• • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: The Washington Post contributor ID, DoME artist ID, ArchiWebture ID, Museu de Memes ID, WeChangEd ID, GreatSchools ID, Czech War Graves Register, Marvel Comics creators ID, DC Comics talent ID, The First Amendment Encyclopedia ID, Indiegogo project ID, RealGM basketball coach ID, Global Music Rights work ID, SESAC work number, Directory of Maîtres d'art, Chicago Landmarks ID

• New property proposals to review:

• • General datatypes: SIUSA archive conservator ID, ToposText IDs, content partnership category, eligible award recipient, NetBSD package, OpenBSD port, Number of recoveries, footedness, HTML autocomplete attribute, SoloTutes, see talk page discussion at

• • External identifiers: BC Register of Historic Places ID, Encyclopédie sur le développement des jeunes enfants ID, RFI Musique ID, Moravian Lives, EL, Dictionnaire des femmes de l’ancienne France ID, Google Scholar case ID, TaDiRAH ID, Movie Review Query Engine ID, SkiMo Stats ID

• Query examples:

• • Subjects and panelists of the BBC radio programme In Our Time (source)
  • People affected by COVID-19
  • Map of hillforts in the UK (source)
  • Images for language items (source)

Development

• Querying the URL datatype with haswbstatement is now possible (phab:T243693). It will take two to three months before URLs are indexed for all Wikidata items.
• Wikidata Bridge: more style fixes, preparing a prototype to show how we will display references
• Fixing various production errors
• Monitoring the run of wb_terms migration
• Fixing an issue with the Commons files search field (phab:T196165)

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
• 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!