Discussions

• New request for comments: Non-free content

Events

• Past: Wikidata IRC office hour, on April 9th (read the log)
• Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, April 19th
• Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XIV, April 25th in São Paulo, Brazil

Press, articles, blog posts

• Wikidata at work on tcworld.info
• Searching News Articles Using an Event Knowledge Graph Leveraged by Wikidata (pdf) (search engine demonstration)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• New tool: qwikidata, a Python package to process Wikidata entities and dumps
• New dashboard: visualisations of external identifiers on Wikidata
• Several Wikidata-related projects will be funded by WMF Project Grants
• The page Wikidata:Wikimania 2019 is here to help you coordinating with other people regarding your submissions for Wikimania 2019. The opening of submissions is planned for late April.
• Reminder: you can apply to participate to the WikidataCon 2019 before April 29th

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: first attested from, Wikidata property example for media, musical motif
  • External identifiers: French public service directory ID, Placar UOL Eleições ID, Memórias da Ditadura ID, Desaparecidos Políticos ID, OpenEdition book ID, OpenEdition Books author ID, WoRMS source ID, e-teatr.pl play ID, MESH Term ID, EUNIS ID for habitats, Motorsports Hall of Fame of America ID, Alexander Turnbull Library Name ID, IANA timezone ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: Recognition, recognized by, not recognized by, jurisdiction status, job title, military unit size, business partner, microarchitecture, Video system, Mesh Qualifier ID, cache l1-l2-l3, text features, Software development model, Dimore Storiche Italiane ID, SIUSA ID, FTP server
  • External identifiers: Shanghai Library person ID, Shanghai Library place ID, IMTL.org id, CNV-SP ID, MyNeta.info political party ID, GruCultura ID, CEMDP ID, identifiant Projet de recherche en littérature de langue bretonne, SportSport.ba player ID, SportSport.ba club ID, SportSport.ba news ID, Heritage Gazetteer of Libya, FoodOn ID, Finnish Trade Register ID
• Query examples:
  • Gender balance of art prizes and Gender balance of literary awards (source)
  • Images used on more than one item about a person (source)
  • Map of public libraries in Wales coloured by county (source)
  • Artworks by street artist Invader in Versailles (source)
  • American Sign Language signs for the letters of the English alphabet
  • French Sign Language signs for the letters of the French alphabet

Development

• Added Sámi monolingual language codes sia (Akkala), sjk (Kemi) and sjt (Ter), thanks to Jon Harald Søby (phab:T217521)
• Moving forward with enabling constraints suggestions for everyone and remove beta feature (phab:T220609)
• Fixing an issue with displaying mapframes for geocoordinate on client (phab:T220122)
• Make it impossible to set the same content in the same language for label and description (phab:T212869)
• Catch Exceptions where the entity can not be serialized due to being too big (phab:T217741)
• Fix the order of value suggestions based on constraint (phab:T220587)
• Add links on entity suggestions from constraint definitions (phab:T207363)
• Increase musical notation datatype string length limit to 1500 characters (phab:T218767)
• More work on making the new mobile termbox editable (phab:T216987)
• More work on migrating away from wb_terms

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

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
• Suggested and open tasks!
• 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!