Wikidata:Status updates/2020 04 20

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2020-04-20.

Discussions

• New request for comments: How to model curricula and link them to educational resources?, Need comment on English item label and foreign language proper noun, Merging 2 items
• Ongoing CheckUser nominations: Sotiale, Jasper Deng, Romaine

Events

• Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Wikidata Schemas, 21 April. Agenda
• Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #10, April 26
• Past Wikidata Lab XXII - Wikiproject COVID-19 (video in English)

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Open data and COVID-19: Wikipedia as an informational resource during the pandemic (Wikidata being also mentioned as a source for the research)
• Videos:
  • Commons image uploading and Wikidata: YouTube
  • A call to action directed at the audience of the Weekly Debrief to edit Wikidata YouTube
  • Propose new identifiers on Wikidata (in Italian) YouTube
  • The Map of Libraries on Wikidata (in Spanish) YouTube

Tool of the week

• Ordia generates statistics from Wikidata lexeme information, and through the "Text to Lexemes" feature allows linking a document to the associated lexemes, and highlighting missing lexemes that can be added.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• First step of blank node deprecation in WDQS & Wikibase RDF model: introducing the new function wikibase:isSomeValue()
• The tool wikidata-filter was renamed wikibase-dump-filter, to better reflect that it can be used with dumps from any Wikibase instance
• LexData – a python library to edit Lexicographical data – has been released in a major new version.
• The ImageHeader gadget, which had been broken since February, was fixed.
• Wikidata Lexeme Forms now supports Hebrew nouns
• New tool: Anagram generator based on Wikidata names

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: eligible award recipient
  • External identifiers: Wikiparques ID, Encyclopedia of Brno Person ID, FooDB compound ID, Forest Stewardship Council Certificate Code, HASC
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: IDU general item ID, CONI honoured ID, parliament seats, electoral system, same transportation stop on the other side of the road, string instrument handedness, Canadiana Name Authorities in French ID, defines curriculum, clinitalregister.eu
  • External identifiers: Encyclopedia of České Budějovice ID, DPVweb ID, IDU theatre ID, Ternopil Encyclopedia ID, ROKPS ID, Aberdeen Built Ships ID, Bibliotheca Augustana author ID, Diels-Kranz ID, IDU theatre name ID (2), Oregon Historic Sites Database ID, Infames Romani ID, Accademia delle Scienze di Torino ID, Heritage Gateway ID, Il Sole 24 Ore ID, identifiant monument MémorialGenWeb, Extratime.ie player ID, DGHS facility code, WikiTrek ID, Itch.io developper profile
• Deleted properties: P134 (has dialect), P1432 (B-side)
• Query examples:
  • Women with cats in paintings (Source)
  • Films by Peter Mettler available free on VOD (Source)
  • Films broadcast on VOD by artfilm.ch sorted by Director and Date (Source)
  • Swiss films listed by date and duration per minutes (Source)
  • Counties in England (Source)
  • Programming Languages, Year of creation and Image of inventor(Source)
  • Map of Antonine Wall items on Wikidata (Source)
  • Map of Hospitals in Buenos Aires on Spanish Wikipedia (Source)
  • Map of Michelin starred restaurants in Switzerland (Source)
  • English civil parishes on Wikidata with OSM relation ID (Source)
  • Collections in Louvre with an image on Wikimedia Commons (Source)
  • Chief Mousers(Source)
  • Books about Semantics (Source)
  • Danish COVID-19 research projects(Source)
• Newest database reports: Lincoln (disambiguation page)

Development

• Prototyping week: the Wikidata team at Wikimedia Germany spent one week working on some quick experiements. The projects developed during this week are not necessarily going to be added to the maintained codebase. Among those projects:
  • try to use GraphQL for the API providing access to Wikibase/Wikidata data
  • allow to programmatically access different configuration variables of a Wikibase instance to make it easier for tools to built on top of it
  • investigate ranking for Items to order them by their relevance in a query result
  • come up with a workflows for editing statements linking to other Items in the Wikidata Bridge
  • identify how to improve Wikidata's accessibility
  • create design system components to continue improving consistency

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!