Wikidata:Status updates/2016 11 19

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-11-19.

Discussions

• New request for comments: How to make new languages enabled on Wikidata

Events/Press/Blogs

• Problematizing and Addressing the Article as Concept Assumption in Wikipedia (Q27827559)
• schema.org, Wikidata, Knowledge Graph: strands of the modern semantic web by Dan Scott

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Parlement & Politiek ID (P1749) has been completed in Mix'n'match. Over 5000 politicians from the Netherlands (and also Belgium) now have a link to this resource
• Two policies about abandoned tools on Tool Labs are currently voted on
• The Community Wishlist Survey is now closed and the vote phase will start on November 28. Here's the category for Wikidata
• Data import hub and Data import guide: feel free to give feedbacks on these documents!

Did you know?

• Newest properties: musipedia tune ID, Adult Film Database person ID, WHO international non-proprietary names ID, designed to carry, National Library of Greece ID, PermID, HKMDb person ID, RxNorm CUI, Vote Smart ID, legislation.gov.uk ID, significant person, Kvikmyndir person ID, Kvikmyndir film ID, World Surf League ID, Encyclopedia of Surfing ID
• Query examples:
  • Occupations of women, with French female-form labels (source, database report)
  • Documents with most signatories (source)
  • Filming locations of James Bond films (source)
  • United States National Historic Landmarks not actually located in the United States (source)
  • Items with VIAF, but no P31/279 (source)
• Newest database reports: List of Italian language films without articles in Italian Wikipedia

Development

• Unit conversion has been rolled out for the first dimension for a short while now.
• Undo diffs now utilize language fallbacks for property and item labels (gerrit:315291). Thanks to Matěj Suchánek!
• Reworked database schema for Cognate (the extension that will do automatic interwiki links for Wiktionary). It is still waiting for security review before it can be deployed.
• Worked more on basic version of Lexeme entity type
• Fixed a bug where the links on action=info were wrong (phabricator:T149598)
• Getting close to finishing the groundwork for Federation so that in the future you'll be able to use Wikidata's items and properties to describe files on Commons.
• Added Innu-aimun as a language for monolingual text values (phabricator:T151129)
• Worked on linking to Wikipedia articles in the statements on an ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T113955)
• ArticlePlaceholder got a button to translate articles via the ContentTranslation extension (phabricator:T124036)
• Prepared a bot to fix quantity values after the recent changes to precisions (phabricator:T142087)
• Did user interviews for use cases and workflows on Commons
• Analyzed more Listeria queries in order to figure out steps forward for easier query writing

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Monthly Tasks

• Hack on one of these.
• Help write the next summary here!
• Contribute to a Showcase item
• Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention