Wikidata:Status updates/2018 10 22

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2018-10-22.

Discussions

• New request for comments: Adopt a username policy

Events

• A Wikidata workshop will be led by Shani Evenstein, in collaboration with Wikimedia Israel & and the Israel Internet Association, on 18th & 25th of October in Tel Aviv. The first meeting will be dedicated to an introduction and adding information to WD, and the second meeting will focus on querying & SPARQL.
• An Introduction to Wikidata by Harmonia Amanda, an Introduction to Wikibase by Sandra Müllrick and a Wikicite workshop by Miriam Redi at the Wiki Techstorm in the Dutch National Library in the Hague on the 26th & 27th of October
• Many events to celebrate Wikidata's birthday around the world. You can check the full list and the map to find one near you

Press, articles, blog posts

• Die vergessene fünfte Partnerstadt (German), Der Landbote, October 18, 2018. Press article about the discoverage of Winterthur's sister city Ontario thanks to Wikidata, which only became official in Ontario in the year 1982, while it got forgotten in Winterthur.
• Semantische Suchabfragen mit der Linked Open Data Cloud generieren (German), on SocietyByte
• La documentation d’expositions sur Wikidata (French) by Shonagon

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• A program to train new Wikidata trainers (in German) will be run in November 2018 in Berlin, Cologne and Vienna. Registration is open until October 28th.
• A new academic course featuring Wikidata opened on October 15th at Tel Aviv University. The elective is called "From Web 2.0 to Web 3.0, from Wikipedia to Wikidata" and it's the 1st for-credit course in the world to focus on Wikidata! The course is available to all undergraduate students at TAU, from all disciplines, and is led by educator & Wikimedian Shani Evenstein.
• Lexicographical data can now be queried with the Query Service
• Lexicographical Data now includes Senses
• A beta feature for entity suggestions based on constraints
• Planned RDF ontology prefix change for RDF exports and dumps
• You can still help ORES to be smarter in detecting vandalism. Take a few minutes to check some edits
• Change on QuickStatements: all your new QuickStatements batch job edits will now be done under your own account, rather than QuickStatementsBot (thanks to Lucas)
• Wikidata Image Positions, showing the relative position of depicted elements within the images of items (example, documentation)

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: Medierådet rating, translation, synonym, antonym, troponym of, false friend, Wikidata property example for senses, classifier, Sandbox-Sense, derived from sense, annual number of weddings
  • External identifiers: CPPAP ID, RBF athlete ID, Europe PlayStation Store ID, Encyclopedia Virginia ID, Springer journal ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: compressive modulus of elasticity, Best result in tournament, satisfaction rate, league system, ratified by, place of disappearance, exact synonym, measured to, measured from, measured include, measured exclude, measured at, usage example, Coordinates in WKT, flexural strain at break
  • External identifiers: Brasiliana Iconográfica ID, North America Microsoft Store ID, Facebook post ID, Movies Anywhere ID, Center for Biological Diversity ID, Muck Rack journalist ID, Museum Universe Data File identification number, Salons ID, Agoda hotel ID, Techopedia ID, Internet Pinball Database ID, Handbook of Texas ID, Encyclopedia of Alabama ID
• Query examples:
  • Map of lines and stations of the Amsterdam metro (source)
  • Workplaces of society portrait painter Philip de Laszlo, traced on a map (source)
  • What other relationships do people have with their spouses? (source)
  • Signatures of French-speaking female authors (source)
  • Underground lines of London (source)

Development

• JSON-LD is now on beta
• Work on a issue impacting edit tags for admins (phab:T207313)
• Turn on Senses for Lexicographical data

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!