Wikidata:Status updates/2019 10 14

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2019-10-14.

Events

• Upcoming: Monthly workshop in Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 17th
• Upcoming: Talk about connections between Wikidata, Wikipedia and OSM, Bordeaux, France, October 17th
• Upcoming: Monthly workshop in Paris, France, October 18th
• Upcoming: Wikidata goes Library, Talks and Workshops, Vienna, Austria, October 18th
• Upcoming: WikidataCon 2019 and side events: Wikibase workshop, iNaturalist workshop, October 24th to 27th, Berlin

Press, articles, blog posts

• My message to video game databases: We(kidata) come in peace, by Jean-Frédéric (the subject is broader than just video games)
• Lei (Nico) Zheng, et al. (2019) The Roles Bots Play in Wikipedia. Proceedings of the ACM: Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 3, Issue CSCW, Article 215 (November 2019), 20 pages. DOI: 10.1145/3359317 (also blog post).
• Lina M. Rojas-Barahona, et al. (2019) Spoken Conversational Search for General Knowledge. Proceedings of the 20th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue. ACL Anthology ID: W19-5914 + arXiv:1909.11980

Tool of the week

• ShowTalkLabels: with this script enabled, when a talk page is shown on your watchlist or similar pages, the label of the related entity is shown.

Other noteworthy stuff

• We now have d:Q70000000 (3,5-dimethyl-3H-pyrazole, chemical compound) and Lexeme:L200000 (spiritualistically, English adverb)
• Your feedback is welcome about Computer-aided tagging designs for Structured data for Commons
• The next office hour will take place on November 5th on Telegram (see full announcement)

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: fineness, identified in image by, name in hiero markup, graph radius, style of karate, name (image), code (image), folio(s)
  • External identifiers: PubPeer article ID, Turkish Football Federation Match ID, geograph.org.uk image ID, Q-Codes ID, Great Encyclopedia of Navarre ID, Three Decks people ID, Knesset Law ID, DynamoMania.com player ID, Beachsafe Beach Key, 247Sports ID, Internet Off-Broadway Database work ID, FutbolMe.com player ID, LibraryThing author ID, SMHI drainage basin ID, Turkish Football Federation Stadium ID, Publons publisher ID, ADL Hate Symbols Database ID, Turkish Football Federation Referee ID, EconBiz publication ID, ERIC publication ID, Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System Identifier, Pubs Galore ID, ForaDeJogo.net team ID, Ancient Tree Inventory ID, State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia museum ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: pathway annotation, number of games, contains functional group, contains chemical element, relative count, electron configuration, reason for preferred rank, creator's signature, Wikimedia revision-id, pdf page, capital social, Source of file, gained territory from
  • External identifiers: Soccerway referee ID, Eu-football.info referee ID, WorldReferee.com ID, Bluetooth Declaration ID, Bundle ID, Wolfram Language quantity ID, FantLab work ID, FantLab publisher ID, FantLab awar ID, FIG gymnast (no licence) identifier, Renaud Camus person ID, WorldFootball.net competition ID, academia.edu publication ID, Rijksmuseum Library ID, NARCIS researcher ID, Soccerbase team ID, 90minut.pl team ID, Transfermarkt.com match ID, Brazilian federal deputy ID, AAAS keyword ID, Kinématoscope, CanadaSoccer.com person ID
• Query examples:
  • Map of Scottish settlements linked to the average coordinates of Historic Scotland items within civil parishes - demonstrating the use of map lines to highlight possible data quality issues (source)
  • Bundesliga football results - exemplar of a report predicated mainly on statement qualifiers (source)
  • On which side of the road do cars drive? - demonstrating the use of geoshapes to fill a map (source)
  • Map of the embassies to Belgium (source)
  • Graph showing direct descendants of Prithwiraj Kapoor (source)
  • Nobel laureates by award type and gender (source)
• Newest database reports: Mersenne numbers

Development

• Abuse filter has been improved so saving an edit should be a bit faster now. (phab:T156095)
• A new Lua function is providing the site's global ID of the wiki where this function is used (phab:T194023)
• Wikidata Bridge: test data for the demo system (phab:T224834)
• Research regarding permissions/protection (phab:T231209)
• Investigate of the purging strategy (phab:T227758)
• Restyling of mobile termbox (phab:T223452)
• Adding "fewer languages" button at the end of the expanded list of "all entered languages" (phab:T232595)
• More work on reducing the resource loader modules
• More work on tainted references

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!