Wikidata:Status updates/2018 07 30

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2018-07-23.

Discussions

• Closed request for comments: Help:Modelling

Press, articles, blog posts

• Ce que révèlent les noms des rues de Paris (fr): a study about the names of the streets of Paris, using data from OSM and Wikidata

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• EditGroups can now revert batches which created items. These items are deleted in the revert batch. This feature is only available to administrators but other users can easily request revert from the tool.
• populationWDvsOSM: a new script that compares the population in OSM place nodes and boundary relations with Wikidata
• user:Lakokat is back to adminship, congratulations!
• Terminator, a tool by Magnus Manske that finds Wikidata items that lack a label, description, or article in a specific language, has now a version 2 (blog post)

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: four-corner method, Cangjie input, toughness, Unicode block, fanqie, horizontal depth, valency, yield strength, Hangul of a Chinese character
  • External identifiers: Virtual Laboratory person ID, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regional Inventory identifier, CONDEPHAAT ID, Academia Brasileira de Letras ID, Belgian Heritage in Brazil ID, Altmetric ID, Central Index Key, L'île author ID, Kopaliński Online ID, Open Media Database person ID, Prison History ID, Swedish place name register SOFI
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: toponym, Bpk-Identifikator, number of arrests, Multi-channel network, Coefficient of friction, expiration date, number of persons depicted, located in the ecclesiastical territorial entity, surface roughness, environment, force, atomic mass, fatigue limit, Pitting resistance equivalent number, casting director, touringclub.it destinazione, organizational unit id
  • External identifiers: INEPAC ID, La Vie des idées ID, IDIH ID, CNRS ID, Institut culturel de Bretagne ID, CSDE Lynching Database ID, Tebeosfera character ID, QS World University URL, MUSE journal ID, Times Higher Education World University ID, iNaturalist observation ID, Indian census area code (2011), archINFORM ID (Orte), code Transport Canada, Lyrically artist ID, Flight Report Airline ID, NooSFere author ID, NooSFere book ID, PRELIB ID
• Query examples:
  • Ancient Greek pottery items stored in Museum St-Raymond, France (source)
  • Timeline of early aviators who died in an accident (source)
  • Timeline of direct-to-video sequels of theatrical movies (source)
  • Music albums from Argentina (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: iNaturalist
• Newest database reports: list of lexemes, number of lexemes by languages and lexical categories

Development

• Corrected several translation errors on Lexeme page (confusing Form word) (phabricator:T191614)
• Working on merging of Lexemes (phabricator:T198105)
• Working on adding a better HTML title to Lexeme pages (phabricator:T195386)
• Further work on supporting Senses on Lexemes - specifically persistent IDs for Senses and preventing the deletion of the last Gloss of a Sense (phabricator:T198032, phabricator:T198199)
• Adjusted colors of the Query Service UI to be more in line with Wikimedia style guide (phabricator:T192235, Thanks abian!)
• Fixed validation of input length on Special:NewItem (phabricator:T145932)
• Fixed issue with embedded view of query results (phabricator:T200409)
• Fixed change dispatching issues (phabricator:T200420)
• Investigated issue where some parts of the interface were shown in a different language than they should be (phabricator:T199983)

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!