Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Dimon2711
• Closed request for adminship: Esteban16, welcome onboard!

Events

• Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, on March 12th
• Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, on March 15th
• Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikipedia workshop in Aberdeen, Scotland, on March 19th
• Upcoming: GLAM and Wikidata in National Library, Bern (Switzerland), on March 28th (in German and French).
• Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop for GLAM in Lausanne (Switzerland), on March 29th (in French).
• Upcoming: Where iNaturalist meets Wiki (Invasive plants) April 16th, Meise, Belgium
• Upcoming: How does Wikimedia Solve the Problems of Biodiversity Informatics? Biodivesity Next (Leiden, the Netherlands), October 19th-25th 2019

Press, articles, blog posts

• Combining AI and Human Judgment to Build Knowledge about Art on a Global Scale by Andrew Lih
• Data Quality Management in Wikidata – Workshop write-up, by Cristina Sarasua, Claudia Müller-Birn, and Mariam Farda-Sarbas
• Museum Collections on Wikipedia: Opening Up to Open Data Initiatives by Elena Villaespesa and Trilce Navarrete

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Client wikis calling geocoordinate statements from Wikidata using mw.wikibase.entity:formatStatements or the #statements parser function will now have it displayed using a Kartographer <maplink> if available. In case of bug or question, feel free to ask in phab:T210926. Thanks to Tpt for the change!
• A Google Summer of Code/Outreachy project seeks to add structure to the Commons app. Photographers will be able to pick Wikidata items that are depicted by the picture they upload.
• Suggestions based on constraints can be enabled for all users

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: key performance indicator, inscription mentions, taxa especially protected in area, number of words, collective noun for animals, Cook Partisan Voting Index, league system, endowment, highest break, maximum temperature record, OSM zoom level, hyperonym
  • External identifiers: Dimensions.guide ID, National Wrestling Hall of Fame University Team ID, Official Charts artist ID, Saxony-Anhalt protected area ID, AiF dossier ID, Google Play Movies & TV id, Brilliant Wiki ID, Musenor artwork ID, Indonesian Cultural Heritage Registration System ID, Florida Historical Marker List ID, ProQuest document ID, Klexikon-Article-ID, Libraries & Information Centers in the Czech Republic ID, Académie de Rouen member ID, Art Fund artwork ID, Cour des comptes report ID, MutualArt artist ID, National Book Foundation author ID, National Book Foundation book ID, Deportation Database transport ID, Dutch Instrument Makers ID, Lucerna person ID, Scripts.com script, Directorio Legislativo ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: located in the constituency, feed-in tariff, General Material Designation, CDEC ID, Family progenitor, solar irradiance
  • External identifiers: film-documentaire.fr author ID, theatre-contemporain.net ID, SNISB ID, Rheinland-Pfalz Schutzgebiete-ID, Zagat, Zomato, Libreflix ID, JMdictDB ID, Bibliography of the History of the Czech Lands ID, EmacsWiki ID, FFS athlete ID, FSkate.ru skater ID, Plant Illustrations artist ID, FaroeSoccer coach ID, FaroeSoccer player ID
• Deleted properties:
• Query examples:
  • Calendar of Saints' feast days and other calendar queries
  • A bunch of new GLAM-related queries including image gallery of the most notable libraries and map of museums colour-coded by type.
  • the number of songs in Wikidata named after days of the week by day
  • Map of preserved Concorde aircrafts
  • Timeline of video games having at least 42 Wikipedia sitelinks (source)
  • Timeline of Microscopists (source)
  • Map of all the libraries in the world present on Wikidata (source)
  • People with songs named after them (source)
  • Animals most frequently depicted in artworks (source)
  • Field of work of the Austrian scientists with an Orcid ID (source)
  • Women from Africa sorted by number of sitelinks (source)

Development

• Work page to get the Schema Text by subpage syntax (phab:T214383)
• Set up a page to set label, description and aliases for Schema (phab:T215392, phab:T217313)
• Remove edit tab from Schema pages (phab:T215394)
• Disable possibility to enter duplicate aliases for the same Schema (phab:T217634, phab:T217749)
• Add ULS, Babel and CLDR support on wikidata-shex.wmflabs.org (phab:T216146)
• Add the option to restore Schemas! (phab:T214915)
• Undo edit on Schemas through API (phab:T217250)
• Multilingual support on Special:NewSchema (phab:T216154)
• Work on Termbox SSR integration (phab:T214679)
• Provide meta tags for lexemes (phab:T206414)
• Make Quickstatements work out of the box in wikibase docker image (phab:T205606)
• Disabling RDF for Media Info (phab:T213483)
• Add tooltips for statements linking to a lexeme form (phab:T205279)
• Allowing multiple wikibase DBs access (phab:T214557)
• Add baserevid to WikibaseLexeme API (phab:T217243)

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!