Wikidata:Status updates/2018 10 15

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2018-10-15.

Events

• 8-12 October, Monterey: International Semantic Web Conference 2018, with lots of praise for Wikidata
• 11-12 October, Montreal: FORCE 2018 Conference, with sessions on Wikidata and Wikibase and Wikidata and WikiCite

Press, articles, blog posts

• Ontological Modelling in Wikidata, talk and slides by Markus Krötzsch
• Wikidata x ConedaKOR: A use case for digital art history (in German), on integrating Wikidata with an art history database
• From Spreadsheet to Wikidata with QuickStatements, by Charles Matthews on WMUK's blog

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• A new Wikidata game has been created to suggest corrections for some constraints violations. These corrections are learned from the Wikidata edit history.
• A new OpenRefine tutorial was published, showing how to use third-party reconciliable data sources to import data in Wikidata.
• A prototype for Mix'n'Match Version 2 is available for testing; it uses Wikibase.
• We have a new admin onboard, welcome Fuzheado!

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: depicted part, sail emblem, reference vocabulary
  • External identifiers: Museu Nacional ID, Sekolah Kita ID, War Memorials Online ID, ID of Inventory of the Archaeological and Paleontological Heritage of Catalonia, Women's Japan Basketball League ID, V.League ID, Japan Professional Basketball League ID, Elsevier journal ID, Norwegian Nationaltheatret actor ID, LUBW Protected Area No, SAGE journal ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: tribus, embodied energy, water footprint, storage capacity (ROM), Pixel resolution, Category for films in this language, annual number of weddings, biobased content weight percentage, topic's main Wikimedia WikiProject, recycled content weight percentage, taxa found, recycling code, attenuation coefficient, Kit manifacturer
  • External identifiers: Getty Iconography Authority ID, Springer journal ID, Espace prépas author ID, Australian Plant name Index identifier, Indiancine.ma film ID, Indiancine.ma person ID
• Query examples:
  • Age of receivers of Nobel Prize winners in Literature (source)
  • Places of birth of Nobel prizes winners per decade (source)
  • Things named after Ada Lovelace (source)

Development

• Help fixing the issues after data center switch (phab:T206743)
• Look at a regression in Lexeme code (not passing lemma language via URL) (phab:T205864)
• Make the ArticlePlaceholder use our API instead of wb_terms (phab:T195752)
• Improve sorting of forms, senses and glosses (phab:T176405, phab:T203002, phab:T203459)

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!