Wikidata:Status updates/2019 03 04

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2019-03-04.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Esteban16
• Closed request for comments: 2018 administrator policy update

Events

• Upcoming: WikiConNL in Utrecht (Netherlands), on March 8-9th (in Dutch and English)
• Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, on March 12th
• Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, on March 15th
• Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikipedia workshop in Aberdeen, Scotland, on March 19th
• Upcoming: GLAM and Wikidata in National Library, Bern (Switzerland), on March 28th (in German and French).
• Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop for GLAM in Lausanne (Switzerland), on March 29th (in French).

Press, articles, blog posts

• Matching BnF and Wikidata video games using Dataiku DSS (in English) by Envel Le Hir

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Congratulations to Siobhan Leachman (d:User:Ambrosia10), awarded the "Companion of the Auckland War Memorial Museum" medal for her volunteer work, including contributions to Wikidata: [1].
• You can now try Shape Expressions on a test system
• Creative Commons has a proposal for tool development with Wikidata's copyright metadata for the 2019 edition of Google Summer of Code. Interested student developers are invited to apply.
• Tpt's Wikidata history query service stores and allows querying metadata about Wikidata's edit history
• A new beta version of the Daty Wikidata Editor has been released, check out the changelog. You can also show your endorsement to the project over here.
• Scholarship application phase for Wikimania 2019 is now open until March 15th. The call for track leaders is also open.
• OpenRefine 3.2 beta was released, with a collection of new features and bug fixes, many of which improve the Wikidata integration.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: multi-channel network, Stack Exchange site, total shots in career, total points in career, total assists in career, penalty minutes in career, career plus-minus rating, preferred pronoun
  • External identifiers: BHL part ID, Gateway to Research Project ID, Yandex.Music genre ID, Yandex.Music label ID, Catálogo de Patrimonio Cultural de Castilla-La Mancha ID, Inventário dos Monumentos RJ ID, NZ On Screen person ID, NZ On Screen work ID, Pacific Coast Architecture Database firm ID, Physics History Network ID, Twitter user ID, identifier of games on Queerly Represent Me, Brazilian Electoral Unit ID, SICRIS researcher ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: Location specifics, Mountain chain, temperature record, stroke order, Höchstes Break, Dutch Instrument Makers ID, Lucerna person ID, Endowment, Guggenheim fellows ID, Downloads page, is a synonym of taxon name
  • External identifiers: Académie de Rouen member ID, Sistem Registrasi Nasional Cagar Budaya ID, Musenor ID, ProQuest document ID, Florida Historical Marker List ID, Klexikon-Article-ID, Federal-State Cooperative System ID, identifikátor v Adresáři knihoven a informačních institucí v ČR, Cour des comptes report ID, Directorio Legislativo ID, Deportation Database transport-ID, Art Fund ID, Scripts.com script, National Book Foundation author ID, National Book Foundation book ID, DFD-ID, Mutual Art artist ID, a-tremasov.ru biography ID, Project Drawdown solution ID, Paintings by Salvador Dalí ID, HCA Red List of Endangered Crafts ID, flgr-results.ru athlete ID, Resident Advisor artist ID, Resident Advisor record label ID, ACA ID
• Query examples:
  • Average distance between a French museum and its hosted artists' place of birth (source)
  • Persons with a surname that matches the past participle form of a Danish verb (source)
  • Town halls of communes bordering Paris (source)
  • Literary awards with 0–2 recipients (source)
  • Female Howard medical grads before 1900 (source)
  • items including the property "preferred pronoun" (source)
  • Map of tram service in Ulm (source)

Development

• Added monolingual language code tlb (Tobelo), thanks User:Mbch331! (T216798, will be deployed next week)
• Integrating the termbox with Wikibase (phab:T214679)
• Viewing historic revisions and fetching the termbox data from Special:EntityData (phab:T210615)
• Fixing emoji breaking the termbox (phab:T217244)
• Renamed special pages under Wikibase to avoid confusion with Schemas special pages (phab:T216719)
• Removed unsupported php 7 constant in production, causing a notice and potential undefined behavior ([[phab:T217241
• Investigated wb_term normalization solution (phab:T215902)
• Fix for outdated cached WB datatypes on client-side (phab:T216728 (blocks enabling new datatypes, e.g. phab:T216730))
• Allowing access to wikibase entities from multiple (wikibase) databases (phab:T214557)
• Allowing to return a proper API error on 'wbformatvalue' action (phab:T207479)
• Providing open-graph title and discretion meta-tags for lexemes (phab:T206414)
• Allowing quickstatements to work out-of-the-box in wikibase-quickstatments docker image (phab:T205606)
• Implementing “undo” for Schemass (phab:T214914, making it work via the API (phab:T217250)
• Implementing “restore” for Schemas (phab:T214915)
• Adding created and edited Schemas to the watchlist according to the user’s preferences (phab:T213725)
• Splitting edit parts on Schemas (phab:T215395, phab:T215393, phab:T215392, phab:T215394)
• Improving support for multilingual edit comments in MediaWiki (phab:T215637)

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!