Wikidata:Status updates/2020 03 30

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2020-03-30.

Events

• Today: Edit tools for Wikidata, on-line workshop in Polish, access link, March 30, 17:00 GMT (7pm Warsaw time)
• Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #7, April 5
• Upcoming: Wikidata for beginners, April 1
• Upcoming: Wiki Workshop, researchers forum (fully remote), on April 21. More information, registration
• Upcoming: The Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference will take place fully remotely in July 2020. Call for submissions with remote formats is open until April 30th.
• Upcoming: the Wikidata Wochenende (previously in Ulm) will take place fully remote on June 12-14

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Video: How can Wikimedia projects help fight the pandemic, by Susanna Ånäs
• Investigating Software Usage in the Social Sciences: A Knowledge Graph Approach ("we linked the entities of the knowledge graph to other knowledge bases such as the Microsoft Academic Knowledge Graph, the Software Ontology, and Wikidata")
• Wikidata Queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and pandemic (free eBook)
• Video: Live SPARQL editing in French by Vigneron
• Video: Live editing in English by Ainali and Abbe98: Youtube, Twitch, Periscope, Facebook

Tool of the week

• IdentifierInput: when adding identifiers, it lets you paste the full URL, and extracts the ID part

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• About Wikidata dumps:
  • No second XML dump in March
  • RDF and JSON dumps generation is broken (no new dump since March 11th, fix in progress)
• Wikidata knowledge imbalance dashboard - Alpha release
• Internet Archive has launched a National Emergency Library and would like to work together with WikiCite
• wb_terms migration: a temporary table has been created, the current wb_terms table will be emptied on April 6th (more details)

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: generational suffix, LiverTox likelihood score, size designation, perpetrator, victim
  • External identifiers: IGCD game ID, Kickstarter project ID, Gram.pl game ID, Kooora/Goalzz player ID, RFI Musique artist ID, VideoGamer.com game ID, Nobel Laureate API ID, VGMRips system ID, VGMRips company ID, GameRevolution game ID, PIV Online ID, Movie Review Query Engine ID, VcBA ID, m3db.com film ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: Chinese Clinical Trial Registry identifier, donated to, number of hospitalized cases, number of home cases, ARK formatter, Filceolaire, viability on surface, entry receptor, birth rate
  • External identifiers: SAN archive producer ID, SAR ancestor ID, National Catalog of Hospitals ID, Pinakes copyist or possessor ID, Frankfurter Personenlexikon ID, Encyklopedia Solidarności ID, Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters author ID, identifiant Geneastar, Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters work ID, Women of Scotland ID, Women of Scotland subject ID, World Biographical Information System ID, COTREX trail ID, Natural Atlas ID, Apache Project ID, Amazon Prime Video ID, Archival Resource Key, UM-BBD compound ID, BitterDB Compound ID, FooDB compound ID, ModelSEED compound ID, Hopital.fr ID, BookBrainz publisher ID, Macdonald Dictionary ID, FHF hospital group ID, FHF establishment ID, Ameli ID, Pascal et Francis ID, Retronews ID, Elephind.com, What Do They Know organisation ID, Papers Past, Internetowy Polski Słownik Biograficzny ID, I-Revues ID, BDSP ID
• Query examples:
  • People born more than a year after one of their parents died
  • UK MPs who were born after their father's death (source)
  • National flags representing mountains (source)
  • Map of Umgebindehäuser (Upper Lusatian houses) (source)
  • Map of megaliths in Morbihan (Bretagne) (source)

Development

• Fix an issue with the Wikidata dumps (phab:T248612)
• Migrate to and read from new store for item terms (phab:T219123)
• Create wb_terms_no_longer_updated to ease the transition to the new tables
• Bridge: improve the rendering of references (phab:T238661)
• More work on editing references (phab:T240333)
• Continue setting up a test system to work on federated properties
• More research on suggesting references

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

• Create a scraper for Mix'n'match from the catalogue list.
• 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!