Wikidata:Status updates/2018 04 30

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2018-04-30.

Events

• Past:
  • Wikibase workshop in Antwerp, Belgium, April 23-25
    • Phabricator workboard
    • Wikibase registry
  • WikiWorkshop, a forum bringing together researchers exploring all aspects of the Wikimedia projects
  • Wikidata meetup in Zurich, Switzerland, April 25th
  • DDJ Monaco: Wikidata for digital Journalists; Open-Source-Treffen: SPARQL-Workshop, Munich, April 25 and 27
  • Daten in Wikidata einbringen (Bringing data into Wikidata) - Hands-on tutorial within the DINI KIM Workshop 2018
• Upcoming:
  • Wikidata workshop in Köln, Germany, on May 5th and 6th
  • Wikidata workshop in Vienna, Austria, on May 5th
  • Wikidata workshop in Pardubice, Czech Republic, on May 5th

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• New badge available for sitelinks: good list
• Sitelinks for the new Ingush Wikipedia (inhwiki) can be added
• Support for the second new Gorontalo Wikipedia (gorwiki) is here
• Articles of the third new Lingua Franca Nova Wikipedia (lfnwiki) may be connected
• A Wikidata Telegram group has been created by volunteers
• Constraint Summary script is showing the total amount of constraints reports on the top of an item page
• Contexto is a Wordpress plugin for displaying Wikidata info in a hovercard. See the demo here; you can also leave feedback to the developer
• Sixth months before Wikidata's sixth birthday: you can organize a local event

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: fault, member of the crew of, nature of statement
  • External identifiers: Logainm ID, IAFD film ID, Il mondo dei doppiatori ID, Réunion des musées nationaux ID, Swedish Literature Bank AuthorID, FIS speed skier ID, New Zealand Gazetteer place ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: crop, date of first attestation, place of first attestation, Wikidata property example for lexemes, Wikidata property example for forms, Wikidata property example for senses, false-friend, demonym (Lexeme), Allaboutjazz musician ID, homonym, paronym, streetViewUrl, constraint, WikiCFP eventID, WikiCFP conference series ID, Mascot of, program committee member, applies to name, values for this type, items for this type, Maintained by Wikiproject, Amateur Radio Callsign
  • External identifiers: Ontario public library ID, Italian School ID, TFRRS athlete ID, Linux Game Database properties, Swedish Literature Bank book ID, ICAA film catalogue ID, Stepwell Atlas ID, OnsOranje player ID, OnsOranje tournament ID, OnsOranje match ID
• Infrequently used properties created >3 months:
  • Historic Place Names of Wales ID (P4697), American Art Collaborative object ID (P4692), Arquivo Arq ID (P4694), Argentine deputy ID (P4693), HATVP person ID (P4703), Ent'revues ID (P4706), VOGRIPA ID (P4708), Rugby Canada ID (P4707), title page number (P4714), Conseil de Presse Luxembourg journalist ID (P4698)
• Query examples:
  • Timeline of Wikibase instances and WikidataCon events (federated query)
  • User-friendly list of news articles by Kim Wall, as linked from the German and English Wikipedia (based on work of fnielsen)
  • Places of birth of the European Parliament members (source)
  • Obelisks in Rome (source)
  • Artists from Cameroon and their places of birth (source)
  • Place of birth of people with an ORCID ID (source)
  • History of Milano metro stations on a map (source)
  • Number of versions, editions and translations by language of work (source)

Development

• More work on the internal API for Wikibase-Lexeme (phab:T190906)
• Fix some errors happening when editing Lexemes (phab:T192766, phab:T192264)
• Use language code validation for forms representations (phab:T193010, phab:T193011)
• Add badge for good lists to Wikidata (phab:T190976)
• Fix bugs regarding the thumbnails on media statements (phab:T192910, phab:T192601, phab:T192869)
• Investigate on dispatch lag problems (phab:T193349)
• Fix a bug on the watchlist on Wikipedia (phab:T192673)

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!