Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.
Discussions
- Closed requests for adminship: Hazard-SJ
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Hazard-SJ_3>,
Gnoeee
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Gnoeee>,
Wagino 20100516
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Wagino_20100516_2>
(all successful)
- New request for comments: How (un)important is preserving the historic
character of an item? <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Talk:Q5098204>
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>
- Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #26
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Meetup_#26>,
August 23
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Video: Editing Wikidata with information from Son jarocho (in
Spanish). YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-n_QrWPECo>
Tool of the week
- Entity Explosion
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Entity_Explosion>: a new
multilingual Chrome browser extension. "Taking the power of Wikidata with
me wherever I go across the web!". Uses API calls to the Wikidata Query
Service to match the URL you are browsing on to a Wikidata item, and then
displays data and links to other sites about the same entity. (Video
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/File:Entity_Explosion_introduction.ogv>)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata Bridge v1 will be deployed on Catalan Wikipedia on August 18th
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2020-August/014199.html>
- New description and screenshots for the Simple Query Builder project
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Improve_the_workflows_for_queries_and_lists/Simple_query_Builder>,
feedback welcome
- Help:Dataset sizing <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Dataset_sizing>
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
- General datatypes: alternative form
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8530>
- External identifiers: Henrik Ibsen writings ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8518>, RKD thesaurus ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8519>, TCLF ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8520>, Sculptures and cities
database ID for sculptures
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8521>, Manioc book ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8522>, Presence
compositrices ID of composer
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8523>, Offizielle Deutsche
Charts song ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8524>, ToS;DR
service numerical identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8525>, Have I Been Pwned
breach ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8526>, Unsplash
User ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8527>, EIB project ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8528>, ANZSRC 2020 FoR ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8529>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to review:
- General datatypes: latest start date
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/latest_start_date>,
earliest end date
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/earliest_end_date>,
Number of votes after transferring
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Number_of_votes_after_transferring>,
map URL
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/map_URL>, type
of archaeological site
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/type_of_archaeological_site>,
record number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/record_number>,
front and back matter
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/front_and_back_matter>
- External identifiers:
Sports-Reference.com college football school
ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Sports-Reference.com_college_football_school_ID>,
Panteono de
edukado.net
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Panteono_de_edukado.net>,
LSG local body code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/LSG_local_body_code>,
MobyGames attribute ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MobyGames_attribute_ID>,
Dictionary of Occupational Titles ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dictionary_of_Occupational_Titles_ID>,
Frauen in Bewegung 1848–1938
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Frauen_in_Bewegung_1848%E2%80%931938>,
Anais do Museu Paulista article ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Anais_do_Museu_Paulista_article_ID>,
Dictionary of Occupational Titles Code (fourth edition, revised)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dictionary_of_Occupational_Titles_Code_(fourth_edition,_revised)>,
Proballers player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Proballers_player_ID>,
Linked Open Data Cloud identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Linked_Open_Data_Cloud_identifier>,
Chrome Webstore extension ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Chrome_Webstore_extension_ID>,
CTHS publication ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CTHS_publication_ID>,
LBS Physical ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/LBS_Physical_ID>,
GBIF occurence ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GBIF_occurence_ID>
- Query examples:
- Largest collections of Picasso content <https://w.wiki/ZEW> (Source
<https://twitter.com/TrinkerMedia/status/1292864560169472001>).
The National
Gallery of Art <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q214867> holds the most
with 303 objects
- Bubble chart of snooker world champions <https://w.wiki/Zit> (Source
<https://twitter.com/piecesofuk/status/1295311630604140544>)
- Map of streets in Tillydrone named after WW2 military leaders
<https://w.wiki/Zex> (Source
<https://twitter.com/watty62/status/1294932396371042304>)
Development
- Fixed a bug where a length limit for strings seems to have reverted
itself back from 1500 to its default 400 (phabricator:T259440
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T259440>)
- Fixed a bug that Wikibase is not always adding &redirect=no in
situations when MediaWiki usually does (phabricator:T255387
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T255387>)
- Wrapping up the initial work on the design system so it is ready for
use in the first new feature (Query Builder)
- Fixed the serialization of statements on Forms and Senses not
containing the datatype (phabricator:T249206
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T249206>)
- Wrapping up work on the first version of Federated Properties so that
other Wikibase installations can use Wikidata's Properties instead of
having to maintain their own
- Worked on ensuring the data from the linked data interface at
Special:EntityData is always up to date after an edit has been made (
phabricator:T128486 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128486>)
- Enabling clients to use Lua to request labels, descriptions and
aliases in some (often minority) languages even when they are not content
languages (phabricator:T259340
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T259340>, phabricator:T260118
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260118>)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>. If you
want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority>.
Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed
above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview>
- Contribute to a Showcase item
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Showcase_items>
.
- Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats>
or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge> across
Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next>
--
Mohammed Sadat
*Community Communications Manager for Wikidata/Wikibase*
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de