Wikidata:Status updates/2018 07 16

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2018-07-16.

Events

• Wikimania and Hackathon 2018, in Cape Town, South Africa, 18-22 July. See also the page listing the Wikidata-related events

Press, articles, blog posts

• The EU NanoSafety Cluster as Linked Data visualized with Scholia in the EU NanoSafety Cluster Newsletter
• Converting any SPARQL endpoint to an OpenAPI, blog post about using grlc to convert the WDQS to an OpenAPI service
• Wikidata on Azure, blog post series about hosting Wikidata data in Azure cloud
• Wikibase workshop in Berlin
• Research showcase about the ArticlePlaceholder
• Keine Schwalben: Schauspielernde Fussballspieler in Wikidata

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• New tool: Wikidata Cradle, by Magnus Manske, to create new items by filling a form. You can build your own forms.
• Ordia (the tool to search for Lexemes and Forms) now displays a graph of grammatical features
• The Wikidata Lexeme form tool got support for more languages and expanded support for the existing ones.
• Global preferences are now available on all Wikimedia wikis
• item Q 55 555 555 was created

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: grants academic degree, model year code
  • External identifiers: Inventory of French sanctuaries ID, BIA PSY person ID, House of Representatives of Morocco ID, My Heritage Surname ID, Logicielsmoto identifier, USNPL ID, SGJP Online ID, TasteAtlas ID, Conseil constitutionnel ID, Guide to Pharmacology Target ID, RHE doctor ID, RHE professor ID, AE member ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: horizontal depth, correct form, Mormon Literature and Creative Arts Database Works, Young's modulus, Billed height, Billed weight, Billed from, IPHAN ID, Ultimate tensile strength, Brenda Tissue Ontology ID, Belgian Heritage in Brazil ID, derived from language(s), description of glyph, Unicode block, mode of derivation, word with diacritical signs, rhyme, artist-info exhibition ID, invasive to, number of platform faces, state of conservation, Yield strengh, Hardness
  • External identifiers: OSM node ID, NATO Stock Number, EDIT16 IDs, GameSpot ID, SMS Power identifier, RPO ID, Split the Rock ID, Base de datos de premiados ID, legabasket.it player ID, Les voix de la poésie ID, Poetry in Voice ID, BD Gest' ID, Médicos históricos ID, Doroszewski Online ID, Boijmans work ID, RISM ID, WorldCat Registry ID, Poetry Society of America ID, LRB ID, WikiArt ID, MAPS ID, archINFORM ID (Personen und Körperschaften), DEFA-Filmdatenbank-ID, Enciclopèdia de l'Esport Català
• Query examples:
  • Map of birthplaces of football players at 2018 FIFA World Cup
  • People born furthest from their place of education (source)
  • Timeline of discontinued Google products (based on source)
  • Paintings depicting the Bastille Day (source)

Development

• Worked on persistent storage for Senses on Lexemes - started by giving them a stable ID (phabricator:T198033)
• Adding "mis" language code to the list of language code options on Special:NewLexeme (phabricator:T194771)
• Made the Items used for Language, Lexical Category and Grammatical Feature show up on Special:WhatLinksHere (phabricator:T195302)
• When adding a new Form the spelling variant is now filled out automatically based on the Lemma's (phabricator:195708)

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!

Anything to add? Please share! :)