Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Udder balm
- CheckUser nomination: علاء
- Events
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #11, May 3
- Upcoming: Live editing of Wikidata, May 2 18:00 (UTC) YouTube, Facebook
- Tool of the week
- zotkat's exporter for Zotero (a software to manage bibliographic data) allows you to export bibliographies to the QuickStatements format. It is helpful to easily create bibliographical entries, especially as Zotero can read metadata about works from dozens of other websites, and can thus be used as intermediary.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata now includes more than seven million people (it has doubled since July 2017), also: project chat discussion
- Nobelprize.org has now redesigned its website so that Wikipedia can link to it easier using the Wikidata Property Nobel Laureate API ID (P8024) (more information)
- The use of Listeria to generate basic charts (pie, area, line, bar) with d:Template:Graph:Chart, see d:Template:Wikidata list#Charts
- Mohammed Sadat joined the Wikidata team as community communications manager for Wikidata and Wikibase
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: tournament format, dialect of computer language, located in the statistical territorial entity
- External identifiers: ModelSEED compound ID, UM-BBD compound ID, DLL Catalog author ID, DLL Catalog work ID, CPAN author ID, Fandango performer ID, Club Identifier Netherlands Handball Association, Forest Stewardship Council License Code, IDU theatre company ID, Internetowy Polski Słownik Biograficzny ID, Texas Historic Sites Atlas ID, Swedish Glaciers ID, Soccerdonna coach ID, Encyclopedia of České Budějovice ID, Il Sole 24 Ore ID, Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis ID, Moravian Lives ID, motorsportstats.com driver ID, motorsportstats.com series ID, motorsportstats.com venue ID, SAR ancestor ID, Ternopil Encyclopedia ID, Psocodea Species File ID, SkiMo Stats ID, National-Football-Teams.com club ID, re:publica speaker ID, Provenio ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: nerve origin, 法令番号, interpretation, DoME exhibition ID
- External identifiers: dbchgk, COVIDWHO ID, History Colorado ID, Maryland's National Register Properties ID, Epistemonikos ID, National Library of Israel J9U ID, Lexikon der Filmbegriffe ID, Dart thesis, DPE school code
- Query examples:
- Pairs of lakes named after a couple
- The longest river that feeds into another river (Source)
- Longest rivers that do not feed into a sea or ocean (Source)
- Map showing things in Wikidata that are located on or next to the River Thames (Source)
- Defining formulas of physical and other quantities (Source)
- TreeMap visualising the 12 times table (Source)
- Map of the "Leipzig University Villages" (Source)
- There are now more than 7 million people on Wikidata (Source)
- Recently published works on COVID-19 (Source)
- Welsh hospitals, health centres, doctors surgeries and temporary Covid19 hospitals (Source)
- Newest database reports: measures of gobbledygook
- Newest properties:
- Development
- More work on error screens for the Bridge
- Use updated data for the Bridge (phab:T240223)
- Display statements made with federated properties on item pages (phab:T246606)
- Automated references: normalizing data that the extractor gets out of HTML pages (phab:T249004)
- Create a distributed game so people can vet references easily (phab:T248997)
- Cleanup rows from wb_items_per_site (phab:T249613)
- Don't suggest initial uppercase in mobile termbox (phab:T241978)
- Have the focus on field when adding new element on Sense (phab:T203461)
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!