Wikidata:Status updates/2021 09 20

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2021-09-20.

Events

• Upcoming:
  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Bionomia and maintaining Wikidata synchrony with David Shorthouse (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada). [1], Sep 21st.
  • Lightning Talk: Wikidata in your Civic Tech project | Summit 2021 - YouTube
• Ongoing:
  • The Creative Commons Global Summit and Hack4OpenGLAM hackathon take place from September 20 until 24 (fully online). Several sessions and projects are related to Wikidata and/or Wikibase (see schedule search).
• Past:
  • Data Quality Days:
    • Periodic editathons as a way to improve data quality on Wikidata: an experiment in Italy - YouTube
    • Bringing Czech authority files into 21st century: Integration with Wikidata - YouTube

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Videos
  • Mapping the Scottish Reformation - using Wikidata, Wikipedia's sister project - YouTube
  • OpenSym 2021: WDProp: Web Application to Analyse Multilingual Aspects of Wikidata Properties - YouTube
  • Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #53 (user scripts and gadgets that can help you edit) - YouTube

Tool of the week

• User:Inductiveload/scripts/ShowQsAndPs shows the Q and P IDs on Items.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• OpenRefine has started development of features for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons. Sign up here if you want to receive occasional updates on a Wikimedia talk page of your choice.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: created for, Candomblé nation, NZTCS conservation status, Mexican video game rating category
  • External identifiers: INAPP author ID, TBDB ID, Enciclopedia dello Sport ID, INAPP work ID, Fondation du patrimoine ID, Endemia.nc animal taxon ID, Gry-Online game ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (first edition) ID, Encyclopaedia of Islam (third edition) ID, Festivaletteratura person ID, Every Noise at Once ID, Spotify show episode ID, Online Begraafplaatsen cemetery ID, Bing entity ID, TermCymru ID, NZTCS ID, Online Begraafplaatsen person ID, UK Renewable Energy Planning Database ID, ICCD ID - Santuari Cristiani, Naver Post member ID, Swedish Food Agency food ID, Dictionary of Old Norse Prose ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: relevant date for copyright, issuing agency, Hardy's Guide to Marine Gastropods ID, main subject for, type host taxon, has thematic relation, location of lexeme usage, ODOT county code, illustrative content
  • External identifiers: e-Maapõu locality ID, Grand dictionnaire terminologique ID, Google Fonts ID, Kallías, Owler company ID, Vietherb species ID, Vietherb metabolite ID, Allrugby, SLSP editions ID, Issuu ID, XXI Secolo ID, Journées européennes du patrimoine ID, Peoples.ru ID, musik-sammler.de artist ID, HJP ID, NVE reservoir ID, Biografija.ru ID, Madrean Discovery Expeditions Flora Database ID, Madrean Discovery Expeditions Fauna Database ID, IRIS Tuscany IDs, Joshua Project people group ID, Flipboard ID, Washington Rare Plant Field Guide (2021- Version) ID, Gente di Tuscia ID, Poetsgate poem ID, AdoroCinema person ID, Zenodo Communities ID, National Union Catalog ID
• Query examples:
  • Biological taxa named after (metal (and other) music bands
  • Works by Dante Alighieri (1265 - September 13/14, 1321)
  • Cumulative page views for candidates in Czech parliamentary election 2021, split by party (Source)

Development

• The new Streaming Updater for Wikidata Query Service will be in production 18 Oct 2021
• Working on changing the way sitelinks to Wikimedia Commons are created from Item data; now using topic's main category (P910) and category related to list (P1754) before Commons category (P373) (T232927)
• Continuing the work on the Mismatch Finder. This week we focused on the remaining groundwork for showing the first mismatches for review.
• Continuing to work on improvements to the underlying system of how edits are propagated from Wikidata to the other Wikimedia projects.
• Implemented two improvements for constraints: the “distinct values” constraint type now supports the “separator” parameter (phab:T277855) and we no longer check qualifiers on some unusual™ properties (phab:T235292)
• Adding tags to some of the remaining UI edits that didn't get them yet for edits on Lexemes (phab:T290950)
• Making it possible to add tags to some remaining Lexeme API modules (phab:T290951)
• Fixed a bug in the Query Builder where it didn't show labels when opening an existing visual query from a shared link (phab:T280684)
• Made the Query Builder more visible in the Query Service UI (phab:T280229)

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
• 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!