Wikidata:Status updates/2018 05 14

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2018-05-14.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Adminor

Events

• Past: GLAM forum in Yerevan, Armenia, 10-12 May 2018
  • slides for 'What is Wikidata: How can GLAMs work with Wikidata?' presentation by Andy Mabbett
  • A Wikidata workshop was given by Liam Wyatt and appeared at the national Armenian television
• Wikidata workshop day at GLAMwiki conference in Rotterdam, May 14th
• Wikidata workshop in Paris, May 18th
• Next Wikidata IRC office hour: May 29th at 18:00 (UTC+2, Berlin time) on the channel #wikimedia-office

Press, articles, blog posts

• Wikidata: a platform for your library’s linked open data by Stacy Allison-Cassin & Dan Scott, in the journal Code4Lib (also posted on Reddit)
• Enriching Reconciled Data with OpenRefine, by Karen Hwang

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• New feature for the Query Service: check the location of the browser
• New monolingual code available: shy (Shawiya)
• You can have a look at the draft for the RDF mapping of Wikibase Lexeme

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: item for this sense, season of club or team, Möllendorff transliteration, geographic center, coastline
  • External identifiers: none
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: IGAC rating, taxon described in publication, jockey, Norsk fjordkatalog-ID, Wikidata:Dataset Imports, toponym
  • External identifiers: Bugs! artist ID, Bugs! album ID, KKBOX artist ID, KKBOX album ID, Norsk pop- og rockleksikon ID, Odnoklassniki profile ID, Kunstenpunt organisations, Rockipedia artist ID, Rockipedia album ID, Rockipedia label ID, Rockipedia area ID, Norsk historisk leksikon ID, Univ-droit jurist ID, Relationship Science profile ID, D&B Hoovers company profile, Victorian Heritage Register ID, CIVICUS Monitor country entry, FloraCatalana ID
• Underused properties created >3 months:
  • Songwriters Hall of Fame ID (P4757), V Live channel ID (P4756), MONA ID (P4758), Harvard botanical journal ID (P4754), Images d'Art artwork ID (P4761), has boundary (P4777), lot number (P4775), Arcade artwork ID (P4764), biological phase (P4774), crates.io ID (P4763)
• Query examples:
  • Museums near you (source)
  • Places near you that are the subject of publications (source)
  • Map of libraries in Wales (source)
  • Map of schools in Italy (source)
  • List of TeX/LaTeX commands for special characters (source)
  • Largest first-level country subdivisions (i.e. larger than 400,000 km²) (source)

Development

• Fix the bug where changes in the watchlist and Recent Changes on Wikipedia should have been shown but were not (phab:T192673)
• Clarify error message for the merge API (phab:T180296)
• Add violation type to restrict which entity types a property can be used (phab:T164744)
• Added a constraint to blacklist values for a property (phab:T183092)
• Fix a bug showing the wrong alias in the edit summary when editing an alias (phab:T190492)
• Fix some bugs related to displaying thumbnails in statements (phab:T193880, phab:T192667, phab:T193499)
• Continue looking into dispatch issues (phab:T194602)
• Working on adding an integer constraint (phab:T167989)
• Preparing to deploy WikibaseLexeme extension on Wikimedia cluster (phab:T168260)
• Making sure that the form ID counter is preserved when clearing the lexeme via the API (phab:T192264)
• Applying the same validation to the language code of the Lemma and the representation (phab:T191504)

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!