Wikidata:Status updates/2019 04 08

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2019-04-08.

Discussions

• Closed request for adminship: Stanglavine (welcome onboard!)
• New request for comments: Countries, subdivisions, and disputed territories
• Closed request for comments: Talk pages consultation 2019

Events

• Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, April 9th at 16:30 UTC (18:30 in Berlin)
• Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, April 14th in Wikibär
• Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, April 19th
• Upcoming: The Celtic Knot Conference, dedicated to languages on the Wikimedia projects, will take place in Cornwall on July 4-5. Call for submissions is now open

Press, articles, blog posts

• Using Wikidata’s entities and ontology to measure how much attention content receives, by Conrad Lee on Parse.ly

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• [Breaking change] Empty containers in JSON outputs will be serialized as empty object "{}"
• [Breaking change] A new status of constraint will be enabled, causing some changes in the WikibaseQualityConstraints constraint checking API
• The Wikimedia URL shortener will be launched on 11 April; see Wikidata:URLShortener. It will not be immediately incorporated into the Query Service but the feature is planned.
• The Library of the African Studies Centre in Leiden compiled an experimental web dossier which combines the components of a classical ASCL web dossier with features offered by Wikidata.
• The gender gap tool Delenezh is online again and now hosted by Wikimedia France
• New tool: Related Properties, exploring Wikidata properties by the similarity of their use (see blog post by Envlh)
• Property statistics on Wikiprojects: sum of all paintings, video games

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: stroke order, CHVRS Classification, Classification RCQ, musical quotation or excerpt
  • External identifiers: Democracy Club Election ID, Martindale-Hubbell profile, Sumo Reference ID, ETS Designated Institution code, Periscope pscp.tv, BHCL ID, Baden-Württemberg protected area ID, Rxivist author ID, Rxivist preprint ID, Springboks Rugby Player ID, Utpictura18 artwork ID, Le Vif tag ID, Pro-Linux.de DBApp ID, Libregamewiki ID, MARGS ID, theatre-contemporain.net ID, FIS telemark skier ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: Arcade system, Audio system, IANA time zone identifier, has sequenced genome, WMF short URL, translated to (language translation)
  • External identifiers: OpenEdition books ID, OpenEdition ID, MassBank Accession ID, identyfikator sztuki w e-teatr.pl, identifiant GameFAQs d'un jeu, CIN ID, New York City Neighborhood Tabulation area ID, Alexander Turnbull Library Name ID, Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG cards ID, DCMI metadata term, CroRec ID, Radio Courtoisie program ID, Russia.tv actor profile ID, LNB Coach id, Sachsen Schutzgebiete-ID, Dictionnaire des Vendéens ID, Trainline ID
• Query examples:
  • Public art in London (source)
  • Software titles that have their own mascot (source)
  • Wikipedia articles using a transgender person’s deadname in the title (source)
  • Entities linked to a 3d model (source)
  • Graph of parties at the Feb 1974 general election in the UK (source)
• Newest database reports: first names of Italians

Development

• More work on documenting and preparing the announcement for the Wikidata External Landscape dashboard (phab:T204440)
• Improved the documentation of WMDE analytic documents (phab:T219844)
• Set up translatable schema edit summaries using the FormatAutocomments hook (phab:T218893)
• Improved right-to-left support on schema pages (phab:T219298)
• Protected schemas against imports (phab:T218181) and page moves (phab:T219313) and disabled the useless “move” and “create” protections for them (phab:T219980)
• Improved schema edit conflict detection to allow merging of non-conflicting edits (phab:T218300, phab:T219173)
• Improved the Extension:WikibaseSchema documentation on mediawiki.org (phab:T219979)
• Fixed a bug on Lexicographical Data when editing existing grammatical features (phab:T219318)
• Increased musical notation datatype string length limit to 1500 characters (phab:T218767)
• Got ready for the last steps of new constraint level for suggestions (phab:T204439)
• More work on allowing editing of mobile termbox fields (phab:T216987)
• Let term value fields grow with their content (phab:T220185)
• More work on migrating away from wb_terms

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!