Wikidata:Status updates/2018 10 29

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2018-10-29.

Discussions

• New request for comments: Changes in email property, Datatype of P667
• Closed request for comments: Close-out of statements formerly using P794

Events

• Plenty of Wikidata 6th birthday events happen all around the world. You can check the Commons category and the hashtag #WikidataBirthday on social networks.
• Past: Wikimedia Technical Conference, October 22-25

Press, articles, blog posts

• WikibaseNYC conference explores the frontier of linked open data infrastructure &report on the Wikibase workshop that took place on September 19-21 in New Yor City
• Now Wikidata is 6, by Charles Matthews

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Proposal on on how to answer newcomers on help pages. Feel free to give feedback on the talk page.
• Fork-Awesome now ships with a Wikidata icon
• Presents from the community for the Wikidata 6th birthday:
  • Banner for Wikidata birthday events by KannanVM
  • Profiling Wikidata (announcement, documentation)
  • Birthday User Template for userpage
  • List of Wikidata & GLAM usecases, by Beat Eastermann
  • QuickStatements v2 now supports lexicographical data
  • DerDieDas, a game to practice German articles based on lexicographical data, by Auregann
  • CSV to QuickStatements now fully compatible with QuickStatements v2
  • Possibility to query Lexemes in the Query Service
  • Senses for lexicographical data
  • Beta feature: suggestions based on constraints
  • Dedicated Dashboard, another tool to improve the data quality in Wikidata, by Envlh
  • cookiecutter-toolforge, a template to easily create tools, by Lucas Werkmeister
  • WDFS: Mount Wikidata as a filesystem, by MichaelSchoenitzer
  • Wikidata Comparison Tool

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: carbon footprint, attenuation coefficient, compressive modulus of elasticity, recycling code, kit supplier, category for films in this language, stated in reference as, distributary, water footprint, applies to people, flexural strain at break, body pose or movement
  • External identifiers: APNI ID, Literaturaren Zubitegia ID, Getty Iconography Authority ID, Indiancine.ma film ID, Deezer show ID, Indiancine.ma person ID, Movies Anywhere ID, Japan PlayStation Store ID, WikiArt ID, Center for Biological Diversity ID, Brasiliana Iconográfica ID, Muck Rack journalist ID, Museum Universe Data File ID, Salons ID, Agoda hotel ID, Techopedia ID, Encyclopedia of Alabama ID, Internet Pinball Database ID, California Office of Historic Preservation ID, Encyclopedia of Appalachia ID, Handbook of Texas ID, Tennessee Encyclopedia ID, CanalPlan AC place ID, SeaLifeBase ID, Species at Risk public registry ID, d'Art d'Art ! ID, Hymenoptera Online taxon ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: ENADE IGC continuous, INEP IGC discrete, Digital representation of, Container title, Systematic Catalog of Culicidae ID, Plant Parasites of Europe ID, date of opening, uses capitalization for, phase, Trainer von Sportmannschaft, research site
  • External identifiers: New York Times short URL, ECOS ID, IGF entrant ID, Clé des langues ID, CMS ID, Hypericum MySpecies ID, ResearchGate author ID, Oiseaux.net ID, Missouri Botanical Garden ID, Steere Herbarium ID, Wild Herps ID, Sea Slug Forum ID, OSF Online ID, MNHN ID, Neotropical Birds ID, GRIN ID, Birds of America ID, Echinoid Directory ID, AFD ID, FEIS ID, New Zealand Birds Online ID, BirdLife Australia ID, NOAA Fisheries Species Directory ID, Espèces Envahissantes Outre-mer ID, AFAS author ID, Prosopomaths ID, ARD Mediathek ID, GT IBMA ID, Mantodea Species File ID, Coreoidea Species File ID, Cockroach Species File ID, Red List of South African Plants ID, Biographie vosgienne ID, Larousse ID, MoEML ID, Scoresway basketball person ID, Scoresway volleyball person ID, Scoresway ice hockey person ID, Scoresway rugby person ID, Scoresway baseball person ID, Polish Olympic Committee, GameFAQs platform ID, DCMOTO identifier, BirdLife International IBA ID, British Museum bioID, Discogs composition ID, Discogs track ID, NYC Building Identification Number (BIN), Cineuropa person ID, RIA Novosti reference, The Guardian article ID
• Query examples:
  • Number of properties by datatype, with a (random) example property (source)
  • Number of depicted subjects by gender (source)
  • People at Svensktöversättarlexikon missing a LIBRISXL authority record ordered by number of articles in Wikipedia (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: Wikidata:WikiProject Africa, Wikidata:WikiProject Open Government Data
• Newest database reports: indirect translation of lexemes

Development

• Several developers and members of the team attended to the Wikimedia Technical Conference
• Fix an issue with interwikilinks and connection between Wikidata and sister projects (phab:T208077, phab:T208124)
• Refactor Wikibase so that it can use alternative termbox views (phab:T206863)
• Pass the entity data on the client side (phab:T207462) and server side (phab:T207467)
• Investigate an error on some Wikidata pages (phab:T208142)

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!