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Wikidata October 2018

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Weekly Summary #332

by Léa Lacroix

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions - Closed request for comments: P171 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/P171>, When multiple sources are cited for a fact, should IMDB be deleted as one of them when used <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/When_multiple_s…>, Findagrave removed as a source for information <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Findagrave_remo…>, How would you state the number of (rooms, restaurants, suites) in a hotel? <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/How_would_you_s…>, Updating References for External Data <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Updating_Refere…> Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events> - Past: IRC office hour <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/IRC_office_hour_2018-09-25>, September 25th - Past: Working in a World of (linked, semantic) Open Data <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bf43DivZ1nyMLjgS2pINPv3r3gB0llBy/view>. Keynote by User:MartinPoulter <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:MartinPoulter> at University of Stirling Life in Data Conference <http://www.thisiscodebase.com/event-listings/2018/9/27/life-in-data-confere…>, September 28th - Wikidata and Wikimedia workshop <http://www.cidoc2018.com/workshop/Make%20your%20museum%20more%20visible%20w…> (30 September) and session about data modeling <http://www.cidoc2018.com/session/Collection%20Documentation%20Modeling%20Wi…> (2 October) at the CIDOC 2018 Conference <http://www.cidoc2018.com/> of the International Council of Museums, Heraklion, Crete - There were three Wikidata-related presentations <https://github.com/Daniel-Mietchen/events/blob/master/ICEI2018.md> at the 10th International Conference on Ecological Informatics that took place on 23-28 September in Jena. - Upcoming: German-speaking WikiCon, October 3-5 in St Gallen (Switzerland). Several Wikidata-related talks and workshops in the programme <https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiCon_2018/Programm> . Press, articles, blog posts <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Property Path use in Wikidata Queries <http://kasei.us/archives/2018/09/28/wikidata_property_paths.html>, by Gregory Todd Williams Other Noteworthy Stuff - The templates Reasonator <https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/en:Template:Reasonator> and Scholia <https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/en:Template:Scholia> are available, for linking *from* en.Wikisource pages *to* representations of Wikidata items. - Wikidata considered unable to support hierarchical search in Structured Data for Commons <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Structured_data#Searching_C…>, see also thread <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2018-September/012495.html> . Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: - General datatypes: ENI number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5910>, inflection class <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5911>, has inflection class <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5913>, root <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5920>, creates lexeme type <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5923> - External identifiers: ASCE Historical Civil Engineering Landmark ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5904>, Comic Vine ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5905>, DxOMark ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5906>, Geheugen van de VU person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5908>, HKCAN ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5909>, Oqaasileriffik online dictionary ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5912>, IANA Root Zone Database ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5914>, Shazam track ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5915>, Spotify show ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5916>, Shazam artist ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5917>, Sprockhoff Number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5918>, Index of Historic Collectors and Dealers of Cubism ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5921>, ANZSRC FoR ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5922> - New property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal> to review: - General datatypes: applies to citizens of <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/applies_to_citizen…>, Plot continued in <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Plot_continued_in>, monument in the near <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/monument_in_the_ne…>, Sail emblem <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Sail_emblem>, São Paulo: os estrangeiros e a construção da cidade ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/S%C3%A3o_Paulo:_os…>, reference template for this work <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/reference_template…>, Wikipedia suggested article name <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wikipedia_suggeste…>, Personal title <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Personal_title>, stated in reference as <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/stated_in_referenc…>, reference vocabulary <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/reference_vocabula…>, OSM zoom level <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/OSM_zoom_level> - External identifiers: OpenStreetMap wiki ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/OpenStreetMap_wiki…>, Wiki Loves ZEOs ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Wiki_Loves_ZEOs_ID>, Geschützte Objekte in Ostbelgien <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Gesch%C3%BCtzte_Ob…>, ComiXology Creators <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ComiXology_Creators>, War Memorials Online ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/War_Memorials_Onli…>, NT Flora ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NT_Flora_ID>, Film Indonesia person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Film_Indonesia_per…>, Sekolah Kita ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Sekolah_Kita_ID>, Museu Nacional ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Museu_Nacional_ID>, Annuaire de la magistrature ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Annuaire_de_la_mag…> - Query examples: - Bounding boxes for a set of maps <https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20geo%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.opengis.n…> - Where were UK ambassadors educated? <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Wikidata%20entries%20for%20British%20amba…> (source <https://twitter.com/generalising/status/1046078306230120454>) - People who received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and were also in the NSDAP (Nazi party) <https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20WHERE%20%7B%0…> (source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1045658004627042306> ) Development - Fix a bug when the "language of Lemma" box doesn't appear after failed submit of Special:NewLexeme (phab:T194347 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194347>) - Fix the order of elements in Lexeme edit diffs (phab:T185481 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185481>) - Enable constraint checks for Lexemes and Forms (phab:T195828 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T195828>) - More work on editing Form Statements using API (phab:T194732 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194732>) - More work on a beta feature for suggestions based on constraints ( phab:T202712 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T202712>) 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/?filt…>. 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> - Suggested and open tasks <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contribute/Suggested_and_open_tasks> ! - 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> -- Léa Lacroix Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. 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