Wikidata:Status updates/2021 02 01

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2021-02-01.

Events

• Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #30 - YouTube, Facebook, 6 February
• Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #48, 7 February

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Paper: A Review of the Semantic Web Field
• Paper: Towards a Systematic Approach to Sync FactualData across Wikipedia, Wikidata and ExternalData Sources
• Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #29 - YouTube, Facebook
• Video: Set preferences and common.js (in Italian) - YouTube
• Video: Entity Linking and Neural Semantic Parsing - YouTube
• Video: Persistent identifiers as the basis for multilingual and human-machine collaboration - YouTube

Tool of the week

• Labelcleaner is a script by Andrew Gray used to clean up Wikidata labels/aliases/descriptions for a given language on a set of items.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• OpenRefine has got a new user manual and your feedback is welcome;
• A new tool, Ranker (documentation, announcement tweet and video), lets you edit the ranks of multiple statements at once.
• The SPARQL endpoint for linguaLibre is now available (Source)
• New Wikidata property GitHub topic (P9100) announced at the GITHUB community
• Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a Wikidata Query Service(WDQS) Data Analyst Consultant. Apply today!
• Clean-up tasks to experiment with bots or other tools

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: BAMID film rating
  • External identifiers: Akademická encyklopedie českých dějin ID, 45cat 7" release ID, ABC News topic ID, Aracne author ID, Econlib person ID, KBR Catalogue ID, Songlexikon ID, Swiss Games Showcase ID, MNBAQ ID, Art in the Christian Tradition ID, Australian Lichen ID, Pantone color ID, Kunstmuseum Basel ID, Malpedia ID, AAR ID, BiblioLMC ID, Cultural heritage ID in Lower Saxony, GitHub topic, Discord username
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: represented in sport by, photographer of, reissue, master's thesis, service status information URL, unusualness, Debian Package Tracker ID, Seismic classification
  • External identifiers: Dictionnaire des journalistes ID, EMS ID, FloGrappling ID, SOUNZ contributor ID, Wolfram language WordData word ID, Mathematica Italiana person ID, Musica Brasilis score ID, Finna ID, LexML ID, Swedish Literature Bank placeID, BVFE author ID, Union Catalog of Armenian Continuing Resources authority ID, playDB play ID, playDB artist ID, DicoPolHiS ID, Pandektis ID, NHS Organisation Data Service ID, Bayerischer Denkmal-Atlas Objekt-ID (Baudenkmal), Bayerischer Denkmal-Atlas Objekt-ID (Bodendenkmal), Whiskybase distillery ID
• Query examples:
  • Basque lexemes and their attestations in a 1745 Spanish-Basque dictionary, with links to dictionary entries in Wikisource
  • Lexemes describing a color (Source)
  • Danish-Hebrew Lexeme pairs (Source)
  • Lexemes in Swedish with usage example that demonstrates both a form and a sense and a reference (Source)
  • Episodes of the TV series "The Mentalist"
  • Nationality of authors publishing papers relevant to the Australian fauna (Source)
  • Number of musicians on Wikidata by country (Source)
  • Map of ISO 3166-2 codes (Source)
  • Map films that have been filmed in Mexico (Source)
  • Map of Githubtopics on Wikidata (Source)
  • Eye color distribution of the people on Wikidata (Source)
  • Timeline with the start date of the Summer Olympics (Source)
• Newest database reports: Czech given names

Development

• Continuing development on the first version of the Query Builder. It's starting to be able to do the first really meaningful queries now. Latest addition was the ability to negate conditions. Up next is the ability to connect conditions with OR instead of only AND as well as querying for quantities and ranges. You can follow along on the test system.
• Exploring possible solutions for how to compare Wikidata's data against other databases to find and highlight mismatches automatically.
• Added lexicographical data codes for a few languages: rkt, ctg (phab:T271589), and az-cyrl (phab:T265906)
• Finished working on the issue of TypeError on a diff of a Wikidata talk page phab:T271402
• Updated Wikidata unit conversion configuration (phab:T267644)
• Fixed two last places where links in the the Query Service UI were not using Special:MyLanguage yet to redirect to the documentation page in the user's language (phab:T267656)
• Pushing JSON dumps for Lexemes over the finish line (phab:T264883)
• Working on showing an error when trying to save lemmas with invalid language codes (phab:T265783)
• Wikibase Release Strategy
  • Investigated the release of Wikibase suite components not maintained by Wikimedia (phab:T271193)
  • Continued process of adding additional components to the Wikibase release, including OAuth (phab:T272580)

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!