Wikidata:Status updates/2021 08 16

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2021-08-16.

Events

• Ongoing:
  • Wikimania Wikidata related events (On this page you can find a summary of sessions and community gatherings related to Wikidata and Wikibase.):
    • Add a pinch of Wikidata to your web browser: Entity Explosion
    • Documenting Women Artists in the University of Salford Art Collection Through Wikidata
    • Automatically maintained citations with Wikidata and Cite Q
    • Making feedback loops work for Wikidata
    • Wikidata: What happened? Where are we going?
• Upcoming:
  • A biodiversity-themed hackathon is being organized at the National Botanic Garden of Belgium for September 20-24. Three of the ten proposed topics are Wikidata-related — biodiversity-related Wikidata lexemes, taxonomic names, and women in biodiversity research. Remote participation is possible.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Papers
  • Wikidata:PAWS describes how to use PAWS to write SPARQL notebooks.
• Videos
  • Guide to fetch Wikipedia data from Wikidata using Wikibase-SDK and node.js (in Hindi) - YouTube
  • How to create an item on Wikidata (in Portuguese) - YouTube
• Books
  • SPARQL wikibook

Tool of the week

• Template:SPARQL Inline is a Wikidata template which allows to write SPARQL query in Wikidata with a label. It is an alternative to Template:SPARQL and Template:Wdquery.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• User:So9q/KORP-link.js is a userscript to look up any Swedish lexeme in the Swedish corpus KORP via a link in the Tools section.
• WMF Search team is working on scaling up Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) to handle increasing graph size and queries. Please provide feedback by filling out this Google Forms survey!

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: performed at, Smithsonian trinomial format regex, setlist, number of Classification of the Functions of Government
  • External identifiers: Rock Paper Shotgun game ID, Looted Cultural Assets Database ID, abART term ID, The Women's Print History Project person ID, FANZA AV actress ID, Tax Identification Number (Belarus), IFFR filmmaker ID, Index Theologicus ID, IrishTheatre.ie company ID, Joods Biografisch Woordenboek ID, Smartify artwork ID, Yale Center for British Art artwork Lido ID, ASE person ID, Alsharek Archive author ID, UCLA Space Inventory LocID, ARPI author ID, IRIS SSSUP author ID, Royal Ontario Museum ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: dissertation program, CDDA designationType, container, remix of, insurance number (building), numéro de parcelle
  • External identifiers: SNK ID (2), CREPČ IDs, Spotify podcast episode ID, Fontaines de France ID, Center for Turkish Cinema Studies film ID, Center for Turkish Cinema Studies person ID, Palynodata taxa ID, arheologi.ro ID, DDB-Person-Nummer, CDDA designationTypeCode, WiiG game ID, Svenska Ord ID, Penguin Random House book ID, Penguin Random House author ID, Brussels Inventory of movable heritage object ID, Brussels Inventory of movable heritage institutions ID, izeltlabuak.hu ID, Mapping the Lives ID, MART catalog person ID, Asian Historical Architecture structure ID, Palynodata publications ID, opaquenamespace ID, HarperCollins product ID, Derrieux Agency person ID, Lambic.Info ID, Jornal do Vôlei ID, GLN, Unconsenting Media ID, Svenska Akademins Ordbok-section ID, Civilisti Italiani member ID, ICCD ID - Santuari Cristiani, Iași Central University Library ID, Volleybox ID, Team-Deutschland-Paralympics-ID, ISL ID, Anagrafe degli studiosi ID, ASJC
• Query examples:
  • List of properties which have instances or subclass of organisations as possible value (source)
  • List of classes which are used as value constraints for the properties (source)
  • Concepts, processes, practices, etc. linked to the philosophical concept of power (Source)
  • Twelve Times table using Wikidata items (Source)
  • Newly protected World Heritage sites in 2021 (Source)
  • Total number of wins for each world snooker champion (Source)
  • Who was the UK Prime Minister when each of the English Premier League/First Division title winners last won the title (Source)
  • Map of the birthplace of sports team players by decade (lines link birthplace to home venue location) (Source)
• Newest WikiProjects: Neighborhood Public Art in Boston

Development

• Cut save-time for edits in half (phab:T288639)
• Mismatch Finder: We are making good progress on the tool. We made it possible to retrieve mismatches that are in the store part of the tool via an API.
• Regular expressions in constraints are now no longer checked via the Query Service. The checks have been completely moved over to a dedicated service for regular expression checking. (phab:T204031)
• Edits made via the user interface (as opposed to with tools, bots, etc.) are now tagged as such to make them easier to filter (example - edits made to labels, descriptions and aliases on mobile are still missing but will follow soon)
• Working on allowing to restrict constraints to certain entity types (phab:T269724)

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!