Wikidata:Status updates/2019 11 04

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2019-11-04.

Events

• Past: Wikidata Zurich Training 2019
• Upcoming: Next Wikidata office hour on Tuesday, November 5th at 18:00 Berlin time (UTC+1) on the the Wikidata Telegram channel
• Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Martin Poulter on Wikidata projects at the University of Oxford, 05, November. Agenda

Press, articles, blog posts

• ZBW Labs: 20th Century Press Archives: Data donation to Wikidata
• The WikidataCon Card Game, Envel Le Hir
• The Great(er) Bear - using Wikidata to generate better artwork
• Linked (Open) Data for Knowledge Solutions, Artificial Intelligence and more presentation touching amongst others Wikidata and schema.org at Semantics 2019 by Felix Sasaki and Christian Lieske
• Querying the Edit History of Wikidata - Thomas Pellissier Tanon & Fabian Suchanek
• Online Disinformation and the Role of Wikipedia - Diego Saez-Trumper (WMF)

Tool of the week

• SPARQL RC is showing the recent changes on items that are listed from a specific query. It is very useful to monitor the changes on a specific subset of data, for example data that you recently imported in Wikidata.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikimedia Deutschland is hiring a Product Manager for Wikibase
• Live Wikidata editing videos: Jan Ainali makes videos showing his process while editing Wikidata. Magnus Sälgö also makes videos showing specific features and tools
• {{query page}} is a new template that can be used to store SPARQL queries on a dedicated wiki page, to be transcluded in various styles (announcement)
• New feature on Mix'n'match: job management

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: comorbidity, audio system, election called by, XML namespace
  • External identifiers: Austrian Parliament 1848 - 1918 ID, Eu-football.info match ID, playmarkerstats.com match ID, Soccerway match ID, Fussballdaten.de team ID, NZPCN ID, Wolfram Language entity type, Women Film Pioneers ID, Van Wijngaarden quarry ID, Golden ID, Ovrtur Biography ID, Jeugdliteratuur ID, ACL Anthology article ID, Naver Encyclopedia ID, Ben Yehuda author ID, Estonian biographical database ID, doujinshi.org author ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: food composition, landscape architect, charge conjugation quantum number, IP address or range, featured in, Room number, Jabber channel, lighting, Mentioned at
  • External identifiers: Sega Retro ID, CA Prop 65 ID, Gaming-History company ID, dp.ru company ID, Filmový přehled film ID, Filmový přehled person ID, SK cinema film ID, SK cinema authority ID, ePSD ID, classicamiga ID, Czech cadastral area ID, MEA Indian Mission ID, Planète Aventure ID, AaRC person ID, fyyd podcast identifer, Encyclopedia of Mathematics wiki ID, fyyd podcast episode ID, UEFA referee ID, Flowers of India ID, Panoptikum podcast episode ID, NBAIR pest ID, Reptiles of India ID, Odonata of India ID, Birds of India ID, Moths of India ID, India Biodiversity Portal species ID, Indian Medicinal Plants Database ID, ZSI author ID, Biodiversity of West Bengal species ID, UK Lakes Portal ID, askArt person ID
• Deleted properties: P2035 (LinkedIn personal profile URL), P1946 (N6I ID)
• Query examples:
  • Map of UK MPs coloured by party (source) - may change in the next few weeks
  • Maintenance query: items which have a value of "unknown" (Q24238356) rather than the "unknown" special value (source)
  • 100 cities closest to the North pole with more than 200k inhabitants (source)
  • Actors with whom Shah Rukh Khan collaborated, in a bubble chart showing how many times it happened (source)
• New Integraality dashboards: Journals by publisher, Theses by institution
• Schema examples:
  • Painting
  • Member of parliament from Sweden
  • Malayalam lexeme
• Newest WikiProjects: Sum of all Podcasts
• Newest database reports:
  • Uniform Resource Name (URN) in Wikidata
  • Universally Unique IDentifier (UUID) constraint check

Development

• Made the Lua functions mw.wikibase.getBestStatements and mw.wikibase.getAllStatements faster if called more than once for the same statement on a single page
• Fix a bug on the mobile termbox (phab:T236677)
• Update Wikibase Lua documentation (phab:T225497)
• Highlight individual statements when selecting them in the URL (phab:T234079)
• Add monolingual language code "sa-Sidd", "pi-Sidd", tnq (Taíno), car (Kalinago) and bdr (phab:T230881, phab:T220284, phab:T234330)
• Make it possible to collapse the "All entered languages" section when at the end of the section (phab:T232595)
• Cache php.getEntityStatements in mw.wikibase (phab:T236491)
• Tracking Wikidata Bridge openings by Datatype in Grafana (phab:T231204)
• Not showing Bridge edit pens when the editor cannot edit the article (phab:T235152)
• A bugfix to only show scrollbars where they are supposed to be shown (phab:T235622)
• Enabling/Disabling the Save button depending on the bridge state (phab:T230342)
• More work on tainted references

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
• Suggested and open tasks!
• 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!