Wikidata:Status updates/2019 01 28

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2019-01-28.

Discussions

• Open requests for adminship: Deror avi, Wildly boy

Events

• February 19th: Wikidata meetup in London - Facebook event
• Incoming: Wikidata Lab XII in São Paulo, Brazil, February 14th.

Press, articles, blog posts

• Making Wikidata visible, by Martin Poulter on Bodleian Digital Library's blog
• How to query Wikidata using R, by Envel Le Hir
• Inventory of the Cleveland Museum of Art images, by Magnus Manske

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• There is now a tool to validate mappings between Wikidata and external RDF vocabularies done with the properties equivalent property and equivalent class.
• Topic matcher, a tool to help you adding a "main topic" or "depicts" statement to items about streets, articles, painting, etc.
• Editing Wikidata - Swedish Cuisine by JanAinali on Twitch
• City-Country-Shapes visualization based on Wikidata: how many of a country's largest cities do you need to put on a map to be able to recognise the country?

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: ELNET ID, iTunes book ID, iTunes movie ID, Romanian Soccer player ID, Skimap ID, sports.md athlete ID, Gault et Millau ID, Theatreonline.com ID, Dizionario di Storia Treccani ID, Smarthistory ID, vodnimlyny.cz ID, World Cube Association ID, COOL species ID, CORE ID, LevskiSofia.info coach ID, LevskiSofia.info player ID, Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música ID, JORFSearch organization ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: journal series, has alt-text, has lyrics, day of regular release, CBFC rating, full work on commons
  • External identifiers: sport-strana.ru article ID, football.odessa.ua person ID, NMSRCP reference number, AKB48 member ID, TV Spielfilm Series ID, MCULE ID, Global Species ID, Georgian National Filmography ID, Bureau van Dijk Orbis company ID, Bureau van Dijk Orbis person ID, Musicbrainz Event ID, ManualsLib brand ID, LGD local body code, Hymnary hymnal ID, Hymnary tune ID, Hymnary instance ID, Getty Images ID, Amsterdam code
• Query examples:
  • Things depicted in the collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Ashmolean Museum (source)
  • Stradivari(us) instruments (source)
  • Rivers whose names in Spanish start with "Guad" (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Protected areas in Germany

Development

• Started development on Shape Expressions
• Termbox: show an expanded-by-default section for the user's preferred languages (phab:T211865)
• Provide visualization LUA usage on a dashboard (phab:T211768)
• Fixed issues with sense ID wrapping (phab:T210502)
• Background work to support the deployment of the next pieces for Structured Data on Commons

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!