*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over
the last week.*
Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: Stanglavine
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Stanglavine>
(welcome onboard!)
- New request for comments: Countries, subdivisions, and disputed
territories
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Countries,_subdivisions,_and_disputed_territories>
- Closed request for comments: Talk pages consultation 2019
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Talk_pages_consultation_2019>
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>
- Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, April 9th at 16:30 UTC (18:30 in
Berlin)
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Wikidata+IRC+office+hour&iso=20190409T1630&p1=%3A&ah=1>
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Berlin/2019-04-14>, April
14th in Wikibär
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Paris>, April 19th
- Upcoming: The Celtic Knot Conference
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2019>, dedicated
to languages on the Wikimedia projects, will take place in Cornwall on July
4-5. Call for submissions is now open
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Richard_Nevell_(WMUK)/Sandbox>
Press, articles, blog posts
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Using Wikidata’s entities and ontology to measure how much attention
content receives
<https://blog.parse.ly/post/8414/among-atts-entertainment-assets-game-of-thrones-gets-the-most-attention-heres-we-used-wikidatas-entities-and-ontology-to-find-that-out/>,
by Conrad Lee on Parse.ly
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [Breaking change] Empty containers in JSON outputs will be serialized
as empty object "{}"
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-April/012891.html>
- [Breaking change] A new status of constraint will be enabled
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-April/012910.html>,
causing some changes in the WikibaseQualityConstraints constraint
checking API
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-April/012911.html>
- The Wikimedia URL shortener will be launched on 11 April; see
Wikidata:URLShortener
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:URLShortener>.
It will not be immediately incorporated into the Query Service but the
feature is planned.
- The Library of the African Studies Centre in Leiden compiled an
experimental
web dossier
<https://www.ascleiden.nl/content/webdossiers/southern-african-women-writers>
which combines the components of a classical ASCL web dossier with features
offered by Wikidata.
- The gender gap tool Delenezh <https://www.denelezh.org/> is online
again and now hosted by Wikimedia France
- New tool: Related Properties <https://tools.dicare.org/properties/>,
exploring Wikidata properties by the similarity of their use (see blog
post
<https://www.lehir.net/exploring-wikidata-properties-by-the-similarity-of-their-use/>
by Envlh <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Envlh>)
- Property statistics on Wikiprojects: sum of all paintings
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_sum_of_all_paintings/Property_statistics>,
video games
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Video_games/Statistics/Platform>
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>:
- General datatypes: stroke order
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6655>, CHVRS Classification
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6657>, Classification RCQ
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6658>, musical quotation or
excerpt <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6670>
- External identifiers: Democracy Club Election ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6649>, Martindale-Hubbell
profile <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6650>, Sumo
Reference ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6652>, ETS
Designated Institution code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6653>, Periscope pscp.tv
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6654>, BHCL ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6656>, Baden-Württemberg
protected area ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6659>, Rxivist
author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6660>, Rxivist
preprint ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6661>, Springboks
Rugby Player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6662>,
Utpictura18
artwork ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6663>, Le Vif tag
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6664>, Pro-Linux.de DBApp
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6665>, Libregamewiki ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6666>, MARGS ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6667>,
theatre-contemporain.net
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6668>, FIS telemark skier
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6669>
- New property proposals
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal>
to review:
- General datatypes: Arcade system
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Arcade_system>,
Audio system
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Audio_system>,
IANA time zone identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IANA_time_zone_identifier>,
has sequenced genome
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/has_sequenced_genome>,
WMF short URL
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WMF_short_URL>,
translated to (language translation)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/translated_to_(language_translation)>
- External identifiers: OpenEdition books ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/OpenEdition_books_ID>,
OpenEdition ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/OpenEdition_ID>,
MassBank Accession ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MassBank_Accession_ID>,
identyfikator sztuki w e-teatr.pl
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identyfikator_sztuki_w_e-teatr.pl>,
identifiant GameFAQs d'un jeu
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/identifiant_GameFAQs_d%27un_jeu>,
CIN ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CIN_ID>, New
York City Neighborhood Tabulation area ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/New_York_City_Neighborhood_Tabulation_area_ID>,
Alexander Turnbull Library Name ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Alexander_Turnbull_Library_Name_ID>,
Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG cards ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Yu-Gi-Oh!_TCG_cards_ID>,
DCMI metadata term
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/DCMI_metadata_term>,
CroRec ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CroRec_ID>,
Radio
Courtoisie program ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Radio_Courtoisie_program_ID>,
Russia.tv actor profile ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Russia.tv_actor_profile_ID>,
LNB Coach id
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/LNB_Coach_id>,
Sachsen Schutzgebiete-ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Sachsen_Schutzgebiete-ID>,
Dictionnaire des Vendéens ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dictionnaire_des_Vend%C3%A9ens_ID>,
Trainline ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Trainline_ID>
- Query examples:
- Public art in London
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23Map%20of%20public%20art%20in%20London%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fimage%20%3Fcoor%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP136%20wd%3AQ557141%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP131%20%3Fsub0%20.%20%3Fsub0%20%28wdt%3AP131%29%2a%20wd%3AQ23939248%3B%0A%20%20%0A%09OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoor%20%7D%0A%09OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20%7D%20%20%0A%09SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%20%7D%20%0A%7D>
(source
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wikipedia:WikiProject_Public_Art/London/Wikidata>
)
- Software titles that have their own mascot
<https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fmascot%20%3FmascotLabel%20%3Fimage%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20%28wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%29%20wd%3AQ7397%3B%0A%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP822%20%3Fmascot.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fmascot%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage.%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D>
(source <https://twitter.com/WikiDigi/status/1113045383989538817>)
- Wikipedia articles using a transgender person’s deadname in the
title
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Wikipedia%20articles%20and%20other%20wiki%20pages%20using%20a%20transgender%20person%E2%80%99s%20deadname%20in%20the%20title%0A%23%20%28this%20query%20only%20checks%20the%20given%20name%20of%20a%20person%29%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Farticle%20%3Ftitle%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20transgender%20or%20non-binary%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP21%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ17884%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20deadnames%20are%20any%20names%20with%20an%20end%20time%20qualifier%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP735%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP735%2Fwdt%3AP1705%20%3Fdeadname%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP582%20%3FdeadnameEndTime%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%23%20find%20articles%20%28any%20project%2C%20not%20just%20Wikipedias%29%20containing%20the%20deadname%0A%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fitem%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20schema%3Aname%20%3Ftitle.%0A%20%20FILTER%28CONTAINS%28%3Ftitle%2C%20%3Fdeadname%29%29%0A%20%20%23%20remove%20articles%20that%20actually%20use%20the%20new%20name%2C%20but%20it%E2%80%99s%20a%20variant%20of%20the%20deadname%20%28e.%E2%80%AFg.%20Andrej%20%E2%86%92%20Andreja%29%20so%20they%20contain%20the%20deadname%20as%20well%0A%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP735%20%3FnameStatement.%0A%20%20%20%20MINUS%20%7B%20%3FnameStatement%20pq%3AP582%20%3FnameEndTime.%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%3FnameStatement%20ps%3AP735%2Fwdt%3AP1705%20%3Fname.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28CONTAINS%28%3Fname%2C%20%3Fdeadname%29%20%26%26%20CONTAINS%28%3Ftitle%2C%20%3Fname%29%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Farticle>
(source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1114567064381997056>
)
- Entities linked to a 3d model
<https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3F3dmodel%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP4896%20%3F3dmodel.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%0A>
(source <https://twitter.com/njanakiev/status/1113778253515362306>)
- Graph of parties at the Feb 1974 general election in the UK
<https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fparty1%20%3Fparty1Label%20%3Frgb%20(count(DISTINCT(%3Fitem))%20as%20%3Fcount)%20%0A%7B%0A%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP39%20%3FpositionStatement%20.%20%3FpositionStatement%20ps%3AP39%20%3Fterm%20.%20%3Fterm%20wdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ16707842%20.%0A%20%3FpositionStatement%20ps%3AP39%20%3Fterm%20.%20%0A%20%3FpositionStatement%20pq%3AP768%20%3Fconstituency%20.%20%0A%20%3FpositionStatement%20pq%3AP2715%20wd%3AQ119524%20.%20%20%20%20%20%23%20relevant%20general%20election%0A%20%3FpositionStatement%20pq%3AP4100%20%3Fparty%20.%20%0A%20%0A%20BIND(IF(%3Fparty%20%3D%20wd%3AQ6467393%2C%20wd%3AQ9630%20%2C%20%3Fparty)%20AS%20%3Fparty1)%20.%0A%20optional%20%7B%20%3Fparty1%20wdt%3AP465%20%3Frgb%20%7D%20.%20%23%20colour%20if%20known%0A%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20'en'%20%7D%0A%7D%20group%20by%20%3Fparty1%20%3Fparty1Label%20%3Frgb%20order%20by%20desc(%3Fcount)%0A%23defaultView%3ABubbleChart>
(source <https://twitter.com/generalising/status/1115011583284060160>)
- Newest database reports: first names of Italians
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Italy/lists/first_name>
Development
- More work on documenting and preparing the announcement for the
Wikidata External Landscape dashboard (phab:T204440
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204440>)
- Improved the documentation of WMDE analytic documents (phab:T219844
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219844>)
- Set up translatable schema edit summaries using the FormatAutocomments
hook (phab:T218893 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218893>)
- Improved right-to-left support on schema pages (phab:T219298
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219298>)
- Protected schemas against imports (phab:T218181
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218181>) and page moves (phab:T219313
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219313>) and disabled the useless
“move” and “create” protections for them (phab:T219980
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219980>)
- Improved schema edit conflict detection to allow merging of
non-conflicting edits (phab:T218300
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218300>, phab:T219173
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219173>)
- Improved the Extension:WikibaseSchema documentation on
mediawiki.org (
phab:T219979 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219979>)
- Fixed a bug on Lexicographical Data when editing existing grammatical
features (phab:T219318 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219318>)
- Increased musical notation datatype string length limit to 1500
characters (phab:T218767 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218767>)
- Got ready for the last steps of new constraint level for suggestions (
phab:T204439 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204439>)
- More work on allowing editing of mobile termbox fields (phab:T216987
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216987>)
- Let term value fields grow with their content (phab:T220185
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220185>)
- More work on migrating away from wb_terms
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikidata_wb_terms_trailblazing/>
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>
- 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.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.