Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events
- Role of Wikimedia in the era of Open Science, Barcelona, April 16th (slides of Andy Mabbett's keynote)
- Wikidata meetup in Berlin, April 20th. Please sign up if you want to attend (the meetup takes place in the venue of the Wikimedia Conference)
- Wikidata workshop in Paris, April 20th
- Wikidata for science workshop in Paris, April 23rd
- Wikidata meetup in Zürich, April 25th
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- GLAM wiki Conference (November 2018 in Tel Aviv): you can now apply for a scholarship. You can still make submissions for the program until end of April.
- Lua function to get Wikibase entity by site link: mw.wikibase.getEntityIdForTitle (thanks Tpt!) (ticket)
- Wikidata:FactGrid#Problems and more, a brief status report of the FactGrid Project on Friday 13, April 2018
- Should OpenStreetMap use Wikibase to store data on tags? (Discussion on OSM wiki)
- Prop explorer UI can now be translated using Tool Translate.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: talk show guest, GHS hazard pictogram, GHS hazard statement, GHS precautionary statement, number of abstentions, number of spoilt votes, number of blank votes, International Classification for Standards, towards, supervisory board member
- External identifiers: Researchmap ID, Animated Knots ID, Filmweb.pl film ID, Filmweb.pl person ID, National Library of Korea Identifier (KRNLK), Lambiek Comiclopedia ID, AmphibiaWeb Species ID, Plants of the World online ID, FOGIS ID, Authorea author ID, Rosetta Code ID, Church of Sweden ID, Harvard designation, UMAC ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: French standard sizes for oil paintings, operating temperature, non-operating temperature, reference value, ILI ID, Portable Game Notation, SNOMED CT identifier, Mercalli intensity, fault type, fault, areas affected
- External identifiers: IRMNG taxon ID, e-teatr.pl ID, World of Physics identifier, Kunstenpunt people, DOAB publisher ID, aviation-safety.net ID, IAFD company ID, JAAF ID, Athletics Canada ID, Russian Athletics ID, Polish Athletics Federation ID, Römpp online ID, Pschyrembel Online ID, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy ID, ISC event, USGS-ANSS event page, HanCinema drama, ARRS race ID, hpip
- Barely used properties created >3 months:
- National Film Board of Canada movie ID (P4606), AUSNUT 2011–13 Food Group ID (P4618), squadron embarked (P4624), trophy awarded (P4622), EK number (P4627), premiere type (P4634), identity of object in context (P4626), photosphere image (P4640), FoodEx2 code (P4637), Estonian Football Association team ID (P4639)
- Query examples:
- Longest chain of mutual murders (source)
- 6 couples killed each other (source)
- All things named after Leonardo da Vinci (source)
- German municipality pairs with the name pattern -ing/-ingen (source)
- Timeline of early silent movies produced before 1900 (source)
- French citizens with at least 5 Wikipedia pages but not in French (source)
- Newest database reports: family names by soundex, définitions de ville
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Disable Senses in the API for the initial version of the WikibaseLexeme extension (phab:T187198)
- Create a new data type to allow linking to Forms (phab:T165579)
- Fix a bug happening when editing a Form (phab:T187215)
- Enforce permission checks when editing Lexeme (phab:T189480)
- Make not possible to remove the last lemma (phab:T189185)
- Make not possible to move a Lexeme (phab:T189481)
- Implement “Units” constraint (phab:T164372)
- More work on the possibility to pick an item's parent in Lua (phab:T179155)
- Show a thumbnail for image/video/audio properties in statements (phab:T46727)
- Add “no bounds” constraint (phab:T170610)
- Make the “difference within range” constraint not requiring “item requires claim” constraint (phab:T185480)
- New Lua function to test for validity of Wikidata entity IDs (phab:T143970)
- Include checksums in dumps (phab:T190457)
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!