Wikidata:Status updates/2020 10 12

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2020-10-12.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: MsynABot
• Closed request for adminship: Fuzheado (successful)

Events

• Upcoming: live SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, October 13 at 18:00 CEST
• Upcoming: Wikidata birthday organizers call, October 14 at 12:00 GMT
• Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #34, October 18
• Search Platform Office Hours happens first Wednesday of each month. Come with questions related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia Commons Query Service, etc.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Wikidata reaches Q100000000, by Lydia Pintscher and Denny Vrandečić
• A new extension can add support for linking to local media files in Statements (and not just files on Wikimedia Commons) to a Wikibase instance (Demo video, developed by Professional.Wiki)
• LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group presentation: How Entity Explosion fits into the Wikidata ecosystem, by Toby Hudson
• Video: Wikidata and COVID-19: Creating a collaborative knowledge graph from CORD-19, by Csisc

Tool of the week

• OD2WD automatically converts CSV files from Open Data portals into QuickStatements for Wikidata republishing. Demo video

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• noratelimit for bots to be removed on October 20th
• The new Wikibase/Consultants and Support Providers' directory on Meta lists people/companies that provide professional help with Wikibase -- be it technical support (installation and setup), custom development, or data modeling services.
• The 2020 Coolest Tool Award is still accepting nominations until October 14th. Please use this form to recommend tools. You can nominate as many tools as you want by filling out the form multiple times.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: number of negative votes, number of support votes, x-offset, y-offset, social media followers, fandom, has census, parallel street, entry in abbreviations table
  • External identifiers: Dictionary of Occupational Titles Code (fourth edition, revised), FVLB work ID, Passion Patrimoine ID, Biographical dictionary of Fourierism ID, CompositionToday composer ID, ITHL author ID, Quebec Dams Directory ID, SwissLipids identifier, ACER code, Science Museum Group ID, Slovník českých nakladatelství 1848-1949 publishing house ID, Directory of Belgian Photographers ID, RNACentral ID, Turkey's Culture Portal ID, NSW State Archives and Records Authority ID, Scottish Brick History Brick & Tileworks ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: ship's captain, planetary coordinates, Date of signature, Unicode name
  • External identifiers: CPV Supplementary, PeoplePill person ID, O*NET OnLine code, Emojipedia ID, GADM ID, CTAN package ID, MinDat taxon ID, AniList anime ID, AniList manga and light novel ID, Normattiva ID, ILO Thesaurus ID
• Query examples:
  • Map of trees whose species is categorized as threatened on the IUCN Red List - OSM/Wikidata query
  • Women actress less than 70 years old who are descendants of the first king of Navarre, ordered by number of sitelinks
  • Dead Social Democratic Party members who have been ministers in 1992 or later (Source)
  • Artworks with an image in Wikidata by year of creation (Source)
  • Map of mountains in Switzerland (Source)
  • Map of markets in the city of Surabaya (Source)
  • National Anthems by tonality (Source)

Development

• The RFC to semi-protect all property pages has been implemented, all properties now require the “autoconfirmed” right to edit (T254280)
• Working on enabling JSON dumps for Lexemes (phab:T220883)
• Finishing preventing blocked users from making us skip QIDs (phab:T232620)
• Continuing work on the Wikibase Manifest extension that allows toolbuilders to easily access configurations of a specific Wikibase instance so it is easier for them to make their tools work with not just Wikidata but also other Wikibase instances
• Started analyzing what we consider a mismatch for our work around checking Wikidata's data against other databases
• Continued work on the Query Builder to get it to create the first very simple query. It can do that now but not yet visualize the result.

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!