Wikidata:Status updates/2018 05 21

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2018-05-21.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Addshore, Pintoch
• New request for comments: How to manage software versions, Improving Wikidata documentation for different types of user
• Closed request for comments: Privacy and Living People

Events

• Past: Europeana Tech Conference (including a lot of Wikidata workshops and discussions)
• Past: Wikimedia Hackathon 2018, 18-20 May in Barcelona
  • Check the hashtag #wmhack on Twitter to see what has been worked on regarding Wikidata
  • List of the projects that have been demoed during the showcase
• Next Wikidata IRC office hour: May 29th at 18:00 (UTC+2, Berlin time) on the channel #wikimedia-office

Press, articles, blog posts

• A look back at the first Federated-Wikibase-Workshop
• Martin Poulter gave a TEDxBathUniversity talk about Wikidata
• The Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools (JROST) has been launched; Wikidata is represented by the Wikimedia Foundation
• "Translating a blog post into structured data" Martin Poulter, the Bodleian Digital Library blog

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• A bunch of new constraint types were recently added
• We have deprecated units used for this property (P2237). Please update any tool which uses this property to use the new API before it gets deleted.
• EditGroups is a new tool that lets you review, discuss and revert entire edit groups made by various tools.
• PictureThis! Is a new tool integrated to WikiShootMe! that allows you to choose an item and upload a picture of it

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: IGAC rating, KAVI rating, established from medical condition, vehicles per capita (1000), applies to name, Wikipedia glossary entry
  • External identifiers: Chinese Political Elites Database ID, amateur radio callsign, Bugs! album ID, Bugs! artist ID, Cinema Project (Israel) ID, Dictionary of Swedish Translators ID, e-MEC entry, Ester ID, Israel Film Fund ID, KKBOX album ID, KKBOX artist ID, Norwegian war sailor register ship-ID, OnsOranje match ID, OnsOranje player ID, The New Fund for Cinema and Television (Israel) ID, Thesaurus For Graphic Materials ID, Trustpilot company ID, OnsOranje tournament ID, Odnoklassniki profile ID, Flanders Arts Institute organisation ID, Norsk pop- og rockleksikon ID, Norwegian historical lexicon ID, Norwegian fjord catalog ID, Rockipedia album ID, Rockipedia artist ID, Rockipedia area ID, Rockipedia label ID, Univ-droit jurist ID, KIT Linked Open Numbers ID, Victorian Heritage Register ID, FloraCatalana ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: animal water well, World Rugby Ranking, Schulsprengel, dedicated object, conjugation class, word stem, visible by means of, Production website, software version of, Japanese pitch accent, reading pattern of kanji, has conjugation class, stroke count, radical, grade of kanji, Party coalition, Naturdenkmal ID, ISO 3950 code, software version, software developer
  • External identifiers: Eurohockey.com club ID, Namuwiki, Daum Encyclopedia, Melon song ID, Sistema de Información Cultural, African Studies Thesaurus ID, nwhl.zone player ID, YouPorn ID, Pornhub ID, NWSL player ID, eBird hotspot ID, British Library system number, Flickr tag, Sveriges Dödbok, BAG Openbare ruimte ID, BAG Pand ID, SpectraBase Compound ID, Carnegie Hall event ID, Carnegie Hall work ID, Armenian National Academy of Sciences ID, Armenian Cinema ID, Armenian Parliamentary ID, National Gallery of Armenia work ID, Spyur ID, OlimpBase Women's Chess Olympiad player ID, GONIAT author ID, GONIAT taxon ID, GONIAT paper ID, GONIAT place ID
• Dormant properties created >3 months:
  • USA Rugby player ID (P4778), MYmovies name ID (P4785), CiNii author ID (articles) (P4787), Who's Who UK ID (P4789), uses data storage type (P4788), Basketball-Reference.com NBL player ID (P4796), Basketball-Reference.com referee ID (P4795), PARES ID (P4813), BWSA ID (P4811), LoC and MARC vocabularies ID (P4801)
• Query examples:
  • Most populous first-level country subdivisions without legislatures (source)
  • Prisoners of Conscience by place of birth (source)
  • Photos of railway stations from Latvia and Estonia (source)
  • Map of items near me that have a label in Catalan but not in French (source)
  • Places of residence of accused Scottish witches (source)
  • Poets whose fathers were lawyers (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: Sustainable Development, Wikipedia Sources
• Newest database reports: list of English Wikipedia outline articles, US states

Development

• Hackathon!
• Work on adding “integer” constraint (phab:T167989)
• Fix a bug expanding the references with a constraint violation (phab:T193669)
• Add a "mis" code language to enable uncoded languages in Wikibase Lexeme (phab:T194754)
• Improve the different language fields in the interface of editing a Lexeme (phab:T191504)
• Finish work to edit Forms via the web API (phab:T190906)
• Include special Lexeme IDs (phab:T187060)

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!