Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Past
- HackaLOD Online: Estimating the interest of art relationships with Wikidata - YouTube
- Ongoing
- Upcoming
Tool of the week
Other Noteworthy Stuff
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- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: type of lens, oral history at, official map URL
- External identifiers: The Criterion Collection film ID, Lexikon der österreichischen Provenienzforschung ID, Apple TV movie ID, Canadian Music Centre Composer Showcase ID, causesanti.va ID, Muziekencyclopedie ID, North Carolina session law, #SOSBrutalism ID, Online Archive of California finding aid ID, Museums in Styria ID, Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts person ID, SOR bird ID, ToateAnimalele ID, Polo bibliografico della ricerca entity ID, Polo bibliografico della ricerca author ID, OSDN project, Scholasticon person ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: music for work, in sense, academic calendar type
- External identifiers: Romanistenlexikon ID, Buzer.de law identification, senato.archivioluce.it person ID, Apple TV show ID, Apple TV episode ID, Australian Music Centre work ID, fondoambiente.it ID, Unified book number, GLEI ELF, RBF event ID, Poetsgate poet ID, Badkartan.se ID, Book Owners Online person ID, ifixit device ID, Price One Penny Author ID, Price One Penny Publisher ID, Price One Penny Work ID, Medical Institution Code, AlternativeTo software ID, RoBasketballFed IDs, Online Coins of the Roman Empire ID, bathingWaterIdentifier, Enciclopedia della Matematica ID
- Query examples:
- Newest database reports: Doctor Who episodes (new series)
Development
- Designing and planning for the first version of a tool to
compare Wikidata's data against other databases and find mismatches that
might need fixing
- Looking into unit conversion for the Commons Query Service (phab:T281468)
- Improving RDF export performance problems for very large Items (phab:T281272)
- Fixed entity suggestions not showing all Items defined in that Property's constraint (phab:T280650)
- Removed edit buttons that had reappeared on old revisions of Items where they shouldn't be (phab:T281587)
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
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