Wikidata:Status updates/2020 01 06

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2020-01-06.

Events

• New: you can Wikidata-related events in the calendar of Wikimedia Space
• Upcoming: next Wikidata office hour, January 22nd, 18:00 (UTC+1), on the Wikidata Telegram channel
• Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Grenoble, France, January 16th

Tool of the week

• Resolver allows you to quickly find an item based on a property+value string pair. It is especially useful for checking whether an external identifier such as a VIAF ID (P214) or Getty AAT ID (P1014) is already in use in Wikidata.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: copyright status as a creator, serving temperature, egg incubation period, member of military unit
  • External identifiers: ZX81 Collection publisher ID, ZX81 Collection ID, DAF ID, Computer Emuzone game ID, console music history ID, Czech cohesion region ID, Czech territorial region ID, deviantArt person ID, EEPS ID, garaph.info game ID, garaph.info group ID, IDFA film ID, Lithuanian Football Encyclopedia player ID, Microworld ID, Mille Anni di Scienza in Italia ID, Movie Walker person ID, Natural Product Atlas ID, NES Cart Database ID, NIPS Proceedings author ID, Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging, Nonfiction ID, portable music history ID, Prague territorial district ID, Projekt Gutenberg-DE ID, PS photographer ID, ScreenScraper company ID, ScreenScraper game ID, ScreenScraper platform ID, SPIE profile ID, The Video Games Museum system ID, Tubi movie ID, Tubi series ID, VBProfiles person ID, Archives Portal Europe ID, DES ID, Bob ID, Australian National Maritime Museum object ID, Australian National Maritime Museum person ID, PersonalData.IO ID, Atlas Obscura identifier, The Digital Local Culture Encyclopedia of Korea ID, The Good Old Days ID, RationalWiki ID, SSNE person ID, AdoroCinema film ID, Museum of Modern Art exhibition ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: literary form, HASC, Stairway To Hell ID, number of reviews or ratings, armament used, equipment used
  • External identifiers: bauhaus.community, LaunchBox Games Database game ID, OpenBibArt ID, LaunchBox Games Database developer ID, Saregama artist ID, openSUSE package, LaunchBox Games Database publisher ID, Orthodox Wiki ID, Wien Geschichte Wiki ID, What is the Apple IIGS? ID, BookBrainz work ID, NMVW id, David Wojnarowicz Knowledge Base ID, FandangoNow ID, CPCWiki ID, Sarvavijnanakosam ID, Punjabipedia ID, Open Churches ID, Apple IIGS France ID
• Query examples:
  • Horses sorted by age of death (source)
  • Affiliates of the USA organization Peace Action (source)
  • 100 random paintings related to Haarlem (source)
  • Timeline of adaptations of Little Women and actresses who played Jo's character (source)
  • Indian people whose work is entering public domain in 2020 (source)

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!