Wikidata:Status updates/2020 03 16

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2020-03-16.

Discussions

• Closed request for comments: Wikidata:Wikidata to use data schemas to standardise data structure on a subject

Events

Note: Due to the ongoing COVID-19 situation, most meetups, including all those funded by Wikimedia Foundation grants, have been cancelled, or moved online, for the foreseeable future.

• Past: Wikidata workshop at the central library of Göttingen. Slides: connecting Wikidata and other databases (in German)
• Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Paris, March 20th, will take place online starting at 20:00 on IRC (freenode:wikidata-fr)
• Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #5, March 22
• Upcoming: Wikidata Wochenende in Ulm, June 12-14. Registration opens on April 1st. We're looking for mentors, workshop facilitators and project ideas
• Postponed:
  • Wikidata Days 2020 (July, Portugal) will be postponed (more information)
  • WikiCite Satellite Cologne 2020 (May, Germany) is postponed until "late 2020"
• Cancelled:
  • Wikimedia Hackathon (9-11 May, Tirana) is cancelled due to COVID-19.

Press, articles, blog posts

• People First: Wikimedia’s Response to COVID-19 - Update from Katherine Maher, Wikimedia Foundation CEO
• Wikimedia Foundation’s Knowledge Infrastructure with Grant Ingersoll, CTO of Wikimedia Foundation
• Improving Neural Named Entity Recognition with Gazetteers - "describes how to generate gazetteers from the Wikidata knowledge graph"
• Introduction to Wikidata video by Jason Evans and Aaron Morris, available both in English and in Welsh
• Video of the live Wikidata Querying, March 15th, by WikidataFacts

Tool of the week

• TabulistBot, a tool to generate and update tabular data on Commons, based on Wikidata SPARQL queries. Sample: earthquakes.tab

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• New help page: Suggesters and selectors
• All identifiers are now sorted mostly alphabetically according to the RfC regarding the sorting of identifiers, which remains open if you have improvement proposals. Feel free to comment here!
• Maximilian Klein applied for a project grant to merge and improve WHGI and Denelezh, tools that heavily rely on Wikidata to provide statistics about gender gap and biographical content in Wikimedia projects.
• QuickStatements change (4 March). QuickStatements is now executing "run in background" batches with the same priority as direct batches run from the browser. Background batches may now run many times faster than they previously did (discussion), when the WDQS updater can handle this.
• News and discussions about Structured Data on Commons SPARQL endpoint

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: historic county, corresponding HTML autocomplete attribute
  • External identifiers: Joconde Discovery ID, Joconde Genèse ID, Dictionnaire des femmes de l’ancienne France ID, Cell Ontology ID, Scilit work ID, NetBSD package, OpenBSD port, VR GameCritic ID, DAR ancestor ID, FandangoNow ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: descriptive solubility, Unicode character (item), Donations, endorsed by, countermeasure, Venue of the final, Tournament format, tilt
  • External identifiers: Social Blade YouTube channel ID, Dizionario di Filosofia ID, re:publica speaker ID, ACM Conference ID, HuijiWiki Wiki ID, ACM Journal ID, m3db.com film ID, m3db.com person ID, TripAdvisor ID 2
• Query examples:
  • Timeline of films about pandemics
  • World map of hospitals (source)
  • English and Scottish health trusts & boards (source)
  • Videogames nominated at the Pégases award (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject COVID-19
• Newest database reports: COVID-19 deaths

Development

• Add monolingual codes nrf-gg (Guernésiais), nrf-je (Jèrriais), thanks to Mbch331! (phab:T165648)
• Article Placeholder: make the entity field required (phab:T247478)
• Remove legacy Wikibase service containers (phab:T245865)
• Fix an error UnresolvedEntityRedirectException when viewing certain Wikidata item pages (phab:T243779)
• Fix an issue with new edit summaries not always showing what expected (phab:T246873)
• Federated properties: enable search with remote properties (wbsearchentities) (phab:T246349)
• showing the updated Wikipedia article after changing a value via Bridge (phab:T235208)
• research how to do reference rendering (phab:T244987)

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
• 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!