Wikidata:Status updates/2021 02 08

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2021-02-08.

Events

• Past: Parliament of Ghana Wikidata contest launch: from February 1 to February 28, 2020 - (YouTube replay)
• Upcoming: Next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 11 February 2021 (Add to calendar). You're welcome to come and share out about your project or what you're working on around Wikibase.
• Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Mapping the Scottish Reformation, Tuesday, February 9th.[1]
• Upcoming: SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, February 9 at 18:00 CET
• Upcoming: Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #49, February 14
• Upcoming video: LIVE Wikidata editing #31 Free Software Day - YouTube, Facebook, February 14
• Upcoming: Bug triage hour about Lexemes, February 16

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blog post by 62mkv about importing Estonian Lexemes on Wikidata
• Video: Wikidata editing #30 - YouTube, Facebook
• Video: Global Open Initiative Foundation Open Refine and Quikstatement Workshop. By Ursula Oberst - YouTube
• Video: Wikidata and Minority Languages (Art+Feminism 2021 in Ghana). By Dagbani Wikimedians User Group - (YouTube)
• Video: Wikidata as a PID community. By Simon Cobb - YouTube

Tool of the week

• Item documentation has two new features. First, it now includes two predefined SPARQL queries. The first one give the number of statements about the item by property and the second the list of statement about the properties. Second, for items of class award, it includes predefined SPARQL queries from TP award. See Q1624297 for an example.

• Ranker lets you edit the ranks of several statements at once.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Update on the state of WikidataCon 2021 for January
• New development roadmap for Wikidata and Wikibase for 2021 has been published. In addition, you will find here the status updates on what was achieved for each of the 2020 goals.
• Update on the development of the Easy Query Builder, your feedback is welcome
• Call for feedback on Wikimedia Foundation Community Board seats has started on February 1. More information and ways to participate are available on this Meta-Wiki page.
• New updates to meta:Mix'n'match:
  • Import/update function for Mix’n’match catalogs (manual) (source)
  • Refreshed the Mix’n’match dataset for potential new human Wikidata items (source)

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: number of vaccinations, Commons media contributed by
  • External identifiers: CineFanRo person ID, Enciclopedia del Museo del Prado ID, Encyclopedia of Brno object ID, Dictionnaire des journalistes ID, Oxford Classical Dictionary ID, Erudit article ID, Holocaust.cz person ID, Le Lettere di Theodor Mommsen agli Italiani ID, SISSCO ID, IFLA value vocabularies ID, Patrinum ID, Mathematica Italiana person ID, Jewish Museum Berlin object ID, Musica Brasilis score ID, BVFE author ID, Family Video Game Database ID, LexML Brazil ID, Pepys Encylopedia ID, National Museum Norway artwork ID, SportsLogos.net team ID, Catalan Vikidia ID, Russian Vikidia ID, Microsoft MVP profile ID, Debian Package Tracker ID, Data Collection of the Hungarian Peerage ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: IPHAE ID, FLOSS policy URL, Digest, subsidy, fingerprint
  • External identifiers: TlF Artist ID, Encyclopedia of Seventh-day Adventists ID, GTDB taxon, Joods Monument ID, HathiTrust Volume Identifier, Open Tree of Life ID, AllMusic IDs, Evighetsrunor, Tree of Life contributor ID, Astro Awani topic ID, Rate Your Music genre ID, De Lakenhal-artwork-ID, Encyclopédie berbère article ID, Can I use, identifiant inventaire Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, identifiant inventaire Centre-Val de Loire, identifiant inventaire Hauts-de-France, identifiant inventaire Normandie, identifiant inventaire Île-de-France, identifiant inventaire Pays de la Loire, identifiant inventaire Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
• Query examples:
  • directors of episodes of The Mentalist (source)
  • Articles from The Wētā entomology journal (Source)
  • Town halls of the municipalities that surround Nantes (Source)
  • Caves containing prehistoric art (Source)
  • Endemic birds in a place located in France (Source)
• Newest WikiProjects:
  • WikiProject Brazilian Laws

Development

• Made it possible to connect query conditions with OR (instead of only AND) in the Query Builder (phab:T272694)
• Making it possible to query only for statements with or without a reference in the Query Builder (phab:T272699)
• Continuing to work on adding a rate limit for creating Item IDs to prevent people from allocating a large number of unassigned Item IDs that are then lost (phab:T272032)
• Working on the problem of Lexeme merging failing if the source Lexeme has links to its own Senses (phab:T273830)
• Working on showing an error when trying to save a Lemma with invalid language code on a Lexeme (phab:T265783)
• Fixing an issue in the Property selector fallback where it is not falling back from language variant to major language (phab:T272712)
• Making it possible to add Interwiki links to/from Multilingual Wikisource (phab:T138332)

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!