Wikidata:Status updates/2019 01 21

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2019-01-21.

Events

• Past: Workshop on Data Quality Management in Wikidata, 18 January, Berlin. You can check the collaborative documentation
  • Keynote by Amrapali Zaveri (video)
  • Keynote by Daniel Mietchen (slides, video)
• Upcoming: free software workshop (including Wikidata) in Lyon, France, January 23rd
• Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Côte d'Ivoire, February 9th
• Upcoming: Library data camp, a training for librairies about open data and Wikidata, Manchester, UK, March 11th

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: WordLift ID, official color, member category, located at street address, charter URL, works in collection
  • External identifiers: Crew united title ID, Genius album numeric ID, Genius song numeric ID, Litchfield Ledger ID, Microsoft Academic ID, Bahamut Gamer's Community ACG Database, Bunkacho Media Art Database (Development Version): Animation Database, Bunkacho Media Art Database (Development Version): Comic Database, REDIZO, Archives of Maryland Biographical Series ID, Interpol WOA artwork ID, Online Catalog of Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal ID, MAMVP artwork ID, Psyl'list species ID, VectorBase taxonomy ID, iTunes TV season ID, Hungarian public thesaurus ID, TV Spielfilm film ID, Viperson ID, Krugosvet article, biathlon.com.ua person ID, RBU person ID, sportufo.ru person ID, Skiresort.info ID, Educational Institution Identification Number, U-DISE code, AISHE code
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: inverse label, tussenvoegsel, Linked to profession, chassis, Swedish Organization Number, COOL species ID, Trading name, funk channel ID, personal pronoun
  • External identifiers: Skimap.org ID, Gault et Millau ID, ID theatreonline.com, Swiss Films, Dizionario di Storia Treccani ID, Romanian Soccer player ID, sports.md athlete ID, iTunes movie ID, iTunes book ID, vodnimlyny.cz ID, Smarthistory ID, World Cube Association ID, CORE (Connecting Repositories) ID, GEOFON earthquake ID, LevskiSofia.info player ID, LevskiSofia.info coach ID, Homosaurus identifier, DIZIE ID, identificador Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música
• Query examples:
  • Images of exoplanets (source)
  • Types of protected historical objects in Loire-Atlantique, France (source)
  • Common long words in scholarly article titles (source)
  • Timeline of writing systems and alphabets (source)
  • Image grid of synthesizers produced by ARP Instruments (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Data Quality

Development

• Fixed a small bug that we introduced with editing badges on wd.org (phab:T213998)
• Finished collecting data about the user of the termbox (phab:T211015)
• Fixed an i18n message (phab:T206416)
• Created some maintenance scripts for creating and approving oauth consumers (phab:T211568)
• Checked for possible data coruptions due to an issue with change tags (phab:T213281)
• Fixed an issue with restoring merge revisions in Lexeme (phab:T204041)
• Configured WikibaseQualityConstraints on test.wikidata (phab:T209922)
• Turned on the new entity id formatting for properties (phab:T201838)
• Continued work on glosses, displaying the language name also in edit mode (phab:T209931)
• Starting investigating on Shape Expressions
• Mobile termbox: showing language, description and aliases (phab:T207150)

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

• Update outdated software versions
• 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!