*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.*
Discussions
- Closed request for adminship: Pintoch https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Pintoch, Addshore https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Addshore_2 (both successful) - New request for comments: Why do we have an item for dogs and another one for *Canis lupus familiaris*? https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Why_do_we_have_an_item_for_dogs_and_another_one_for_%27%27Canis_lupus_familiaris%27%27%3F
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events
- IRC office hour, on May 29th at 18:00 (UTC+2, Berlin time), on the IRC channel #wikimedia-office. Special topic: Lexemes on Wikidata
Press, articles, blog posts https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Paper on Cellosaurus https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5945021/, with mappings to Wikidata, by Amos Bairoch - Blog post from Galder Gonzalez announcing the Lexemes http://wikimedia.eus/2018/05/jcioqetik-171081era-informazio-lexikografikoa-igo-daiteke-jada-wikidatara/ (in Basque)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Ongoing: On 24 May, there was a significant outage affecting Wikidata and sister projects that use Wikidata. As a result, some features of are temporarily disabled: Wikidata's property suggester, Lua modules and parser functions calling by label instead of ID, search for the ArticlePlaceholder. We apologize for the inconvenience, we're working to get them back as soon as possible. For technical details, see: phab:T195520 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T195520 & Incident documentation/20180524-wikidata https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20180524-wikidata . - As announced last week https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#New_constraint_types, the “integer https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Property_constraints_portal/Integer” constraint type and the “separators https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4155” parameter for the “single value https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Property_constraints_portal/Single_value” and “single best value https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Property_constraints_portal/Single_best_value” constraint types are now supported in WikibaseQualityConstraints. - Lexicographical data is now available on Wikidata! Check the announcement https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Lexicographical_data#First_experiment_of_lexicographical_data_is_out for more details. Feel free to try adding words and give feedback - Structured Data on Commons has designs for displaying and using multilingual captions on the file page https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved/Feedback_requests/Multilingual_Captions_and_MediaInfo. Feedback is welcome on the talk page. - You can try the new Drag&Drop gadget developed by Yarl https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Drag'n'drop_gadget_rewrite_–_feedback_welcomed and give feedback - The European Commission announces a review https://www.communia-association.org/2018/05/10/database-directive-study-options-neutralising-sui-generis-right/ of the Database Directive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Database_Directive. - OpenRefine 3.0 beta https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/releases was released. You can get an overview of the new Wikidata-related features https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools/OpenRefine/Editing with tutorials and videos. - TextRazor https://www.textrazor.com/ (Q54365914 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q54365914) is a web service which analyses text and identifies the entities and concepts discussed, giving the corresponding Wikidata QIDs.
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: grammatical gender https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5185, conjugation class https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5186, word stem https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5187, Sandbox-Lexeme https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5188, Sandbox-Form https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5189, synonym https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5190, derived from https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5191, Wikidata property example for lexemes https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5192, Wikidata property example for forms https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5193, officialized by https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5194, Wikidata dataset import page https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5195, output method https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5196, IMDA rating https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5201, adapted by https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5202, topographic map https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5203, date of commercialization https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5204, stroke count https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5205, has conjugation class https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5206 - External identifiers: CIVICUS Monitor country entry https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5180, Relationship Science organization ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5181, JMA Seismic Intensity Database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5182, Eurohockey.com club ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5183, Daum Encyclopedia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5184, Melon song ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5197, ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5198, British Library system number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5199, eBird hotspot ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5200, BAG public space ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5207, BAG building ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5208 - New property proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: Vocalized form https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Vocalized_form, display technology https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/display_technology, compound of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/compound_of, Chromosome number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Chromosome_number, Vietnamese character reading pattern https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Vietnamese_character_reading_pattern, fanqie https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/fanqie, evokes https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/evokes, homograph lexeme https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/homograph_lexeme, homograph form https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/homograph_form, prime factor https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/prime_factor, classifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/classifier, Accomplice https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Accomplice, Slavic Alphabet https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Slavic_Alphabet, signum https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/signum - External identifiers: BMRB ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BMRB_ID, ICSC ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ICSC_ID, Baidu Baike ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Baidu_Baike_ID, Tree of Life Web Project ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Tree_of_Life_Web_Project_ID, Argentine biography deputy ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Argentine_biography_deputy_ID, B.R.A.H.M.S. ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/B.R.A.H.M.S._ID, Chromosome numbers of the flora of Germany database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Chromosome_numbers_of_the_flora_of_Germany_database_ID, Filmow ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Filmow_ID, Cité de la musique ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Cit%C3%A9_de_la_musique_ID, Giant Bomb ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Giant_Bomb_ID, OpenCorporates corporate grouping https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/OpenCorporates_corporate_grouping, Artists in Canada record number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Artists_in_Canada_record_number, RollDaBeats ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/RollDaBeats_ID, Songfacts ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Songfacts_ID, ARWU ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ARWU_ID - Properties not really used https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Edgars2007/Dormant_properties, created >3 months: - Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture control number (P4814) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4814, Amtrak station code (P4803) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4803, make-up artist (P4805) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4805, sets environment variable (P4809) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4809, Technical Element Score (P4815) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4815, Rugby Australia ID (P4799) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4799, TORA ID (P4820) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4820, Panoptikum identifier (P4818) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4818, Cour des comptes magistrate ID (P4821) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4821, La Poste personality ID (P4822) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4822 - Query examples: - Map of places of birth of Liverpool's football players https://query.wikidata.org/#%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FmurLabel%20%3Fcoordinates%20%3Ffoto%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP106%20wd%3AQ937857%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP54%20wd%3AQ1130849%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP19%20%3Fmur.%0A%20%20%3Fmur%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoordinates.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Ffoto.%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22pl%2C%20en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0A (source https://twitter.com/dziennikarz/status/1000433044161998850) - Areas of Malaysia states https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fstate_of_Malaysia%20%3Fstate_of_MalaysiaLabel%20%3Farea%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fstate_of_Malaysia%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ15063586.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fstate_of_Malaysia%20wdt%3AP2046%20%3Farea.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%28%3Farea%29%0ALIMIT%20100 (source https://twitter.com/sweemeng/status/999843265120628736) - People and the distance between their place of birth and place of death https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FplaceBirthLabel%20%3FplaceDeathLabel%20%3FcoordsBirth%20%3FcoordsDeath%20%3Fdistance%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP19%20%3FplaceBirth%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP20%20%3FplaceDeath%20.%0A%20%20%3FplaceBirth%20wdt%3AP625%20%3FcoordsBirth%20.%0A%20%20%3FplaceDeath%20wdt%3AP625%20%3FcoordsDeath%20.%0A%20%20BIND%20%28geof%3Adistance%28%3FcoordsBirth%2C%20%3FcoordsDeath%29%20AS%20%3Fdistance%29%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28%3Fdistance%20%3E%2019000%29%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fdistance%29 (source https://twitter.com/PoulpyWP/status/999724326327857155) - Grammatical cases of languages https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Flanguage%20%3FlanguageLabel%20%28GROUP_CONCAT%28%3FcaseLabel%3B%20separator%20%3D%20%22%2C%20%22%29%20AS%20%3Fcases%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Flanguage%20wdt%3AP2989%20%3Fcase.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Flanguage%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FlanguageLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fcase%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FcaseLabel.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Flanguage%20%3FlanguageLabel%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28COUNT%28%3Fcase%29%29 (source https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/999412738123292672)
Development
- Deployed and activate WikibaseLexeme on wikidata.org so you can now store the first lexicographical data on Wikidata (phab:T191457 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191457) - Fixing the encoding issues on labels of items linked on Lexemes ( phab:T195470 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T195470, phab:T195359 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T195359) - Fixed an issue that was preventing adding Forms and Lexemes in statements (phab:T195402 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T195402) - Suppressed the browser's autocomplete that covers WikibaseLexeme's suggestion on Special:NewLexeme (phab:T195383 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T195383, phab:T191526 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191526) - Worked on a bug about representation overwriting other representation with the same language code (phab:T193636 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193636) - Changed title of the field of a lemma language to make it less likely for people to add a translation as a second Lemma (phab:T193603 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193603) - Working on the RDF mapping of WikibaseLexeme (phab:T160260 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160260) - Working on implementing fulltext search for Lexemes (phab:T189739 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189739) - Working on showing Lemmas for linked Lexemes instead of just their ID on special pages like Special:AllPages (phab:T195382 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T195382) - Fixing issues that happened after dropping an index from the wb_terms table (phab:T194270 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194270, phab:T195642 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T195642, phab:T195611 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T195611) - Made constraint check result appear directly after adding a new statement (phab:T194247 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194247) - Working on looking up entities by external identifiers on Special:Search (phab:T99899 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T99899) - Added Docker image to Wikibase website (phab:T189936 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189936) - Added WikibaseImport script to Docker images to make it easier for people to start their own Wikibase install with some data imported from Wikidata (phab:T192080 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T192080)
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