Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events
- Upcoming: Wikimedia hackathon in Prague, that will include many Wikidata-related sessions and projects, May 17-19
- Upcoming: UGent Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop 2019, by Julie Birkholz, 3 - 5 July 2019 Ghent, Belgium
- Upcoming: DC-2019 Hack Day on Wikidata, Wikibase, Application Profiles and FAIR data at DC19 in Seoul, South Korea 23rd - 26th September 2019, Hackathon by Tom Baker and Andra Waagmeester
- Upcoming: How does Wikimedia Solve the Problems of Biodiversity Informatics, Workshop in Leiden, the Netherlands, 20-25 October
- Press, articles, blog posts
- How to use a Wikidata full json dump, requirements, steps and script, by Aliakbar Akbaritabar
- New testing ground for Wikibase: A federal agency goes on an expedition in the Wiki universe, by Barbara Fischer and Jens ohlig
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities code, number of polling stations
- External identifiers: VTB United League player ID, Archaeology Data Service person ID, Watercolour World artist ID, Drobné památky ID, grwar.ru person ID, Whitney Museum of American Art artwork ID, Russia.tv actor profile ID, Justia Patents assignee ID, Kinosozvezdie biography ID, Musixmatch track ID, LNB Coach id, FragDenStaat public body ID, Orlando author ID, Paměť národa ID, Recreation.gov campground ID, tads.org Unique Identifier, CanLII ID, CineChile filmmaker ID, Heritage Gazetteer of Libya ID, RGALI ID, OBIS ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Xikao School ID, Xikao Repertoire ID, langue d'écriture, nominalised item for this sense, copyright clarification, WMI Code, archevêque, langue liturgique, date d'élévation, province ecclésiastique, diocèse suffragant, f-number, paroisse, prêtre, religieux, religieuse, diacre
- External identifiers: Victoria and Albert Museum name ID, Campendium ID, ROR ID, MEMORIA ID, Unified Social Credit Identifier, Prazdne Domy architect ID, Know Your Meme entry, Danskefilmstemmer.dk person ID, Harper's author ID, The Atlantic author ID, Character entry on LGBT fans deserve better database, Igromania ID, Pro-Football-Reference coach ID, Keybase username, RFGS person ID
- Query examples:
- Street signs in Rennes (source)
- Lines linking UK MPs' place of birth and their constituency with colour-coded layers for each political party (source)
- Map of birthplaces for Members of Scottisch Parliament born outside Scotland (source)
- Global map of dams and reservoirs (source)
- Lexemes language overlap tree map (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Limits of Wikidata
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Finish renaming WikibaseSchema to EntitySchema
- Investigate how to port Wikibase Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js (phab:T221638)
- Include a clear two step process in shex simple tool (phab:T221612)
- Fix the "edit visually" on the Query Service interface (phab:T222181)
- More work on wb_terms redesign (see documentation on phab:T221764)
- More work on mobile termbox
- Investigate on a bug found on wbeditentity not removing all aliases (phab:T203337)
- Getting ready for the Wikimedia hackathon
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!