Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: Pintoch, Addshore (both successful)
- New request for comments: Why do we have an item for dogs and another one for Canis lupus familiaris?
- Events
- IRC office hour, on May 29th at 18:00 (UTC+2, Berlin time), on the IRC channel #wikimedia-office. Special topic: Lexemes on Wikidata
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Paper on Cellosaurus, with mappings to Wikidata, by Amos Bairoch
- Blog post from Galder Gonzalez announcing the Lexemes (in Basque)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Ongoing: On 24 May, there was a significant outage affecting Wikidata and sister projects that use Wikidata. As a result, some features of are temporarily disabled: Wikidata's property suggester, Lua modules and parser functions calling by label instead of ID, search for the ArticlePlaceholder. We apologize for the inconvenience, we're working to get them back as soon as possible. For technical details, see: phab:T195520 & Incident documentation/20180524-wikidata.
- As announced last week, the “integer” constraint type and the “separators” parameter for the “single value” and “single best value” constraint types are now supported in WikibaseQualityConstraints.
- Lexicographical data is now available on Wikidata! Check the announcement for more details. Feel free to try adding words and give feedback
- Structured Data on Commons has designs for displaying and using multilingual captions on the file page. Feedback is welcome on the talk page.
- You can try the new Drag&Drop gadget developed by Yarl and give feedback
- The European Commission announces a review of the Database Directive.
- OpenRefine 3.0 beta was released. You can get an overview of the new Wikidata-related features with tutorials and videos.
- TextRazor is a web service which analyses text and identifies the entities and concepts discussed, giving the corresponding Wikidata QIDs.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: grammatical gender, conjugation class, word stem, Sandbox-Lexeme, Sandbox-Form, synonym, derived from, Wikidata property example for lexemes, Wikidata property example for forms, officialized by, Wikidata dataset import page, output method, IMDA rating, adapted by, topographic map, date of commercialization, stroke count, has conjugation class
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Vocalized form, display technology, compound of, Chromosome number, Vietnamese character reading pattern, fanqie, evokes, homograph lexeme, homograph form, prime factor, classifier, Accomplice, Slavic Alphabet, signum
- External identifiers: BMRB ID, ICSC ID, Baidu Baike ID, Tree of Life Web Project ID, Argentine biography deputy ID, B.R.A.H.M.S. ID, Chromosome numbers of the flora of Germany database ID, Filmow ID, Cité de la musique ID, Giant Bomb ID, OpenCorporates corporate grouping, Artists in Canada record number, RollDaBeats ID, Songfacts ID, ARWU ID
- Properties not really used, created >3 months:
- Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture control number (P4814), Amtrak station code (P4803), make-up artist (P4805), sets environment variable (P4809), Technical Element Score (P4815), Rugby Australia ID (P4799), TORA ID (P4820), Panoptikum identifier (P4818), Cour des comptes magistrate ID (P4821), La Poste personality ID (P4822)
- Query examples:
- Development
- Deployed and activate WikibaseLexeme on wikidata.org so you can now store the first lexicographical data on Wikidata (phab:T191457)
- Fixing the encoding issues on labels of items linked on Lexemes (phab:T195470, phab:T195359)
- Fixed an issue that was preventing adding Forms and Lexemes in statements (phab:T195402)
- Suppressed the browser's autocomplete that covers WikibaseLexeme's suggestion on Special:NewLexeme (phab:T195383, phab:T191526)
- Worked on a bug about representation overwriting other representation with the same language code (phab:T193636)
- Changed title of the field of a lemma language to make it less likely for people to add a translation as a second Lemma (phab:T193603)
- Working on the RDF mapping of WikibaseLexeme (phab:T160260)
- Working on implementing fulltext search for Lexemes (phab:T189739)
- Working on showing Lemmas for linked Lexemes instead of just their ID on special pages like Special:AllPages (phab:T195382)
- Fixing issues that happened after dropping an index from the wb_terms table (phab:T194270, phab:T195642, phab:T195611)
- Made constraint check result appear directly after adding a new statement (phab:T194247)
- Working on looking up entities by external identifiers on Special:Search (phab:T99899)
- Added Docker image to Wikibase website (phab:T189936)
- Added WikibaseImport script to Docker images to make it easier for people to start their own Wikibase install with some data imported from Wikidata (phab:T192080)
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!