Wikidata:Status updates/2019 07 15

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2019-07-15.

Events

• Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, Tuesday, July 16th, at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time), on the #wikimedia-office channel
• Upcoming: Next LD4-Wikidata Affinity Group Meeting on July 16th
• Upcoming: Structured Data on Commons IRC office hour for "other statements" on 18 July, 17:00-18:00 UTC on the #wikimedia-office channel
• Upcoming: The Wikidata Menu Challenge - Wikimania 2019 edition starts July 16 and goes on until August 11.

Press, articles, blog posts

• An International Knowledge Base for all Heritage Institutions by Giovanna Fontenelle and Beat Estermann on SocietyByte
• How to estimate completeness of classes in Wikidata by Michael Luggen et. al. on SocietyByte
• Videos of the presentations given during the Wikidata + OSM workshop in London

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Structured Data on Commons: RDF output for MediaInfo is now available (example)
• Edits with the tag #suggestededit-add 1.0 come from the suggested edit feature on Wikipedia's Android app: see the FAQ for more information
• Property number 7000: DigitalNZ ID is live. This data aggregator has over 30 million records. The proposal was the first from Ambrosia10, a New Zealand editor.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: IMFDB work ID, Pro Kabaddi League player ID, RBF amateur boxer ID, National Transportation Safety Board report ID, Epitafier.se ID, magazine in BitArkivo.org, iTunes movie collection ID, Musisque Deoque author ID, DigitalNZ ID, PharmGKB ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: Perseus ID, TuttoCalciatori.Net player ID, TuttoCalciatori.Net coach ID, Typing discipline, video game mod, Arachne collection ID, NOTAM, begin and end of covered period ; covered period, periphrasis, Kerala state school code, The Latin Library author ID, type code, FEC campaign committee id, Documenta Catholica Omnia author ID, Ex æquo with, EU Publication office ID, Supreme Court docket number
  • External identifiers: National Library of Luxembourg ID, Lebanese National Library ID, National Library of Morocco ID, National Library of Iceland ID, Syriaca person ID, Syriaca work ID, Flemish Public Libraries ID, National Library of Russia ID, National Library of Chile ID, ACMI ID, Australian Suppliers Directory ID, Hazardous Chemical Information System ID, ANZCTR ID, National Pollutant Inventory ID, AICS Chemical ID, PBS Manufacturer ID, PBS Drug Code, BIC of the Canary Islands ID, Arachne object ID, Gotlands museum, Indian Super League player ID, Premier Badminton League player ID, Colonial Frontier Massacres ID, TheTVDB episode ID, Album of the Year artist ID, Album of the Year album ID, HOV-ID, Nosdéputés.fr identifiant, TikTok username, NosSénateurs.fr identifiant, eBay username, Jaxsta profile ID, Jaxsta release ID, Jaxsta recording ID, Musixmatch writer ID
• Query examples:
  • places in Canada with no English label
  • Languages having the most usage examples in Wikidata's lexicographical data (source)
  • Map of places of residence of accused witches in Scotland, colour-coded by gender (source)
  • Symphonies written by Camille Saint-Saëns (source)

Development

• Create docker image for wdqs version 0.3.2 (phab:T226939)
• Fix an issue with JSON output lacking qualifier hashes (phab:T227207)
• Track number of links to schema pages (phab:T218903)
• Disable Wikidata sitelinks in ProofreadPage namespaces (thanks to Matěj Suchánek) (phab:T227201)
• Fix a cache issue with the language of the "check entities against this schema" link (phab:T224594)
• Add EntitySchema extension to wikibase-docker bundle image (phab:T226152)
• Enable JSON-LD support for Wikidata (phab:T220696)
• Add baserevid to WikibaseLexeme API module (phab:T225073)
• Extracting (and logging) Data Bridge parameters from edit links (phab:T226994)
• Opening a modal with edit this link information (phab:T226996)
• Showing the current Wikidata value in edit modal (phab:T226997)
• Disabling interactive elements while saving on mobile termbox (phab:T222886)

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!