Wikidata:Status updates/2018 04 23

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2018-04-23.

Events

• Past: Wikimedia Conference in Berlin
  • Wikidata meetup
  • how to train new Wikidata trainers
  • Structured Data on Commons and GLAM pilots session
• Wikibase workshop in Antwerp, Belgium, April 23-25
• WikiWorkshop, a forum bringing together researchers exploring all aspects the Wikimedia projects, in Lyon, April 24th. Seven papers related to Wikidata will be presented.
• Wikidata meetup in Zurich, Switzerland, April 25th
• DDJ Monaco: Wikidata for digital Journalists; Open-Source-Treffen: SPARQL-Workshop, Munich, April 25 and 27

Press, articles, blog posts

• Old Periodicals, a New Datatype and Spiderfied Query Results in Wikidata by Simon Cobb (National Library of Wales)
• Wikimedia and The Met: A Shared Digital Vision by Katherine Maher and Loic Tallon

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikidata:Tools has been reorganized and updated, thanks to Pasleim! Feel free to help keeping this page up to date.
• Wikidata:List of properties has also been reorganized and updated.
• Lexicographical data on Wikidata will start at the end of May. Some property proposals are already discussed
• A rate limit for edits and page creation has been set up
• Please give feedback on a first proposal on GLAM metadata and ontology mapping for Structured Data on Commons. This feedback round runs until 4 May.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: fastest lap, cabinet, patronym or matronym for this person, modified version of, unit symbol, wind speed, operating temperature, non-operating temperature, service life, French standard size for oil paintings, boiler pressure, presented in
  • External identifiers: IRMNG taxon ID, Handball Bundesliga ID, e-teatr.pl ID, DOAB publisher ID, ILI ID, World of Physics identifier, Flanders Arts Institute person ID, JAAF ID, Polish Athletics Federation ID, Römpp online ID, Russian Athletics ID, Athletics Canada ID, NVE lake ID, Norsk biografisk leksikon ID, Norsk kunstnerleksikon ID, Store medisinske leksikon ID, Adult Film Database film ID, Yahoo Answers category, Pschyrembel Online ID, FIPS string code for US states, FIPS numeric code for US states, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy ID, USGS-ANSS event page, ARRS race ID, HanCinema drama ID, ISC event ID, road number (Estonia), Heritage of Portuguese Influence ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: Commercialized from, synonym, translation, antonym, demonym of, item for this sense, pronunciation variety, grammatical gender, grammatical number, etymology, person, areas affected, award category, nature of statement, donation platform, has grammatical gender, has grammatical person, Phonetic pronunciation, medical finding model, landmass, accessed from, research measurement, hyperonym, hyponym, meronym, holonym, troponym
  • External identifiers: Swedish Literature Bank, Logainm ID, Wikipedia glossary entry, Réunion des musées nationaux id, Il mondo dei doppiatori ID, FIS speed skier ID, cryptocurrency address, New Zealand Gazetteer ID, Bridge number, HanCinema film, Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures ID
• Scarcely used properties created >3 months:
  • Indian Financial System Code (P4635), RCR number (P4645), partition type identifier (P4654), partition table type (P4653), Wiki Aves bird ID (P4664), Buenos Aires legislator ID (P4667), Sjukvårdsrådgivningen Category ID (P4670), tabular software version (P4669), constraint scope (P4680), GEMS Code (P4695)
• Query examples:
  • Historical monuments in Wales (source)
  • Software titles ranked by the number of dependencies listed for them (source)
  • National parks around the world (source)
  • Narrative locations of TV series and episodes (source)
• Newest database reports: Sports equipment: balls

Development

• Track the number of constraints by type (phab:T191891)
• Include thumbnails in image statements (phab:T46727)
• Install Query Service on Factgrid (phab:T189863)
• Page creation and edit rates (phab:T184948)
• Implement unit constraint (phab:T164372)
• Implement no bounds constraint (phab:T170610)
• Started working on the constraint violation type to restrict to indicate that certain properties can only be used on items or lexemes (phab:T164744)
• Creating a Docker container for QuickStatements (phab:T192079)
• Removed hardcoded demo data in Wikibase Lexeme (phab:T188899)
• New data type for linking to Forms (phab:T165579)

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!