Wikidata:Status updates/2018 06 18

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2018-06-18.

Discussions

• New request for comments: Clarifying rights and responsibilities of Property Creators

Events

• Wikibase meetup on June 17-19 in Berlin
• Past: Wikidata Lab VIII in São Paulo
  • Images, metadata, and gamification of Wikidata by Magnus Manske (video, slides)
  • Discovering and modeling knowledge in Wikidata by Andrew Lih (video, slides)
• Past: Wikidata Zurich Datathon on June 16 materials

Press, articles, blog posts

• WDAqua: Question Answering over Wikidata, by Dennis Diefenbach
• CyTargetLinker app update: A flexible solution for network extension in Cytoscape, showing citation data in Cytoscape, by Martina Summer-Kutmon et al.
• Harnessing the power of structured data: a Wikidata workshop, report of the Wikidata workshop day and Wikidata presence at EuropeanaTech 2018 last May in Rotterdam, Europeana Blog.
• The new This Month in GLAM newsletter has, as always, a lot of Wikidata-related news!
• Making Wikidata fit as a linking hub for knowledge organization systems. Lightning talk at ELAG 2018 in Prague by Jneubert

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The program of Wikimania 2018 in Cape Town is out, and here's a summary of all the Wikidata-related sessions
• If you're building a tool using the wb_terms database table, please give us input about it

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: type locality (biology), SPARQL endpoint, display technology, property scope, jockey, attested in, publication in which this taxon name was established, revival or touring version of, United Kingdom railway station category
  • External identifiers: Redump.org ID, Taratata artist ID, NRJ artist ID, Akout ID, Church of Norway building ID, Lafonoteca artist ID, Party Number (Taiwan), Companies House officer ID, Webb-site person ID, AntWeb ID, Webb-site organization ID, France Culture person ID, B.R.A.H.M.S. work ID, DLCM ID, LONSEA people ID, Dictionary of Scottish Architects ID, Drouot artist ID, Protected Buildings Register in Finland ID, Kino-teatr.ua film ID, Kino-teatr.ua person ID, Protected Buildings Register in Finland Building ID, BioStor work ID, Swedish Signaturer.se ID, César Award film ID, César Award person ID, IUF member ID, Museo del Prado artist ID, Swedish National Archive ID, Swedish Academy member ID, fernsehserien.de ID, ARMB member ID, OCLC work ID, OpenDOAR ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: runner-up, laps completed, load limit, abgeordnetenwatch.de ID for German politicians, API endpoint, type of water, ranking order, JMA Seismic Intensity Scale
  • External identifiers: Rom Galil settlement ID, Or Movement settlement ID, Bérose ID, AFI person ID, Google News ID, Legaseriea.it ID, Silentera.com movie ID, PC Engine Software Bible identifier, CAGE code, Printemps des poètes ID, Poetry Foundation ID, Poets.org ID, Playmates ID, SGJP Online ID, Laut.de ID, Amphibian Species of World ID, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction ID, BNB person ID, MobyGames group ID, Operone composer ID, Operone opera ID, Encyclopædia Universalis author ID, YouTube Gaming game ID, National Gallery of Canada artist ID, GAMECIP platform ID, GAMECIP media format ID, Operissimo artist ID, British Council writer ID, IBDOF ID, Entomologists of the World ID, ASMP member ID, Académie des beaux-arts member ID, Dictionnaire critique des historiens de l’art ID, Académie des sciences d'outre-mer ID, Artcyclopedia ID, École normale alumnus ID, BIU Santé ID, Étonnants voyageurs ID, hoopla, Medicina ID, Akadem person ID, IGN video game ID, National Academy of Sciences ID, EGROKN ID
• Low use properties, created >3 months ago:

  FAPESP institution ID (P4597), title page number (P4714), symbolizes (P4878), World Rugby Women's Sevens Series player ID (P4879), FFR Sevens player ID (P4880), AFL Tables coach ID (P4885), AFL Tables umpire ID (P4888), ACE work ID (P4894), Patrons de France ID (P4891), segmental innervation (P4882)

• Query examples:
  • Artworks and rooms of The Louvre museum shown in the latest Beyoncé video (source)
  • Goalscorers for the 2018 FIFA World Cup (source)
  • Female dancers and choregraphs having a picture and a Wikipedia article in English but not in French (source)
  • Nudes with cats (source)
  • Museums in Italy colored by number of Wikipedia articles (source)
  • Countries and their official languages, ISO codes and Wikimedia language codes (source)
• Newest database reports: number of sitelinks to new WMF projects

Development

• Prototype for mobile termbox
• Moving away from wb_terms table
• Continued work on making WikibaseLexeme compatible with Wikibase clients (T195615)
• Error handling and usability for entering lemmas was improved (T196342, T197453)
• Lexemes no longer randomly pop up in rdf dumps (T194627)

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!