Wikidata:Status updates/2018 02 26

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2018-02-26.

Events/Press/Blogs

• Upcoming: IMLD-ODD 2018 Wikidata India Edit-a-thon, February 21st to March 3rd
• Upcoming: presentation of the paper "Knowledge Graphs and Pluralism on Wikidata", February 27th, Luxembourg
• Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Hyderabad, India, March 2nd

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Stewards election is running until February 28th
• Structured data on Commons ontology discussion continues until March 1st.
• Decision about the licensing of Lexeme namespace
• It's been possible for a while (but not previously reported here) to include Wikidata IDs in Wikivoyage listings, like this example edit.
• Q50000000 was created on February 23rd.
• You can give feedback about this newsletter
• Constraint checks will be integrated in the interface of Wikidata

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: conscription number, recognition sequence, cutting site of restriction enzyme, RFE symbol, isoschizomer, neoschizomer, number of records, P4877, symbolizes, segmental innervation
  • External identifiers: AtariAge identifier, Atari Legend identifier, Atarimania identifier, BMI Work ID, Charity Navigator ID, Amazon author page, REBASE Enzyme Number, Hispania Nostra Red List of Endangered Heritage ID, Operabase ID, GEPRIS project ID, GEPRIS organization ID, GEPRIS person ID, World Rugby Women's Sevens Series player ID, FFR Sevens player ID, Maison d'écrivain ID
• Query examples:
  • Actors who have starred in at least three Oscar Best Picture-nominated films in the same year (Inspired by this Vulture article)
  • Items in the part of the Getty AAT thesaurus (P1014) below costume accessory (Q1065579) where the upward relationship in the thesaurus cannot as yet be 'explained' by our existing subclass (P279) relations (thread1;thread2;thread3)
  • Where were people who went to space born? (source)
  • National flags featuring the Union Jack as a canton (the top inner corner of a flag) (source)
  • Number of mass shootings by country since 1990 (source)
• Newest database reports: sleds, sleighs and sledges

Development

• Make it possible to link to Lexemes and Statements (phab:T1854997)
• Disabling senses for the first release of Lexemes (phab:T186995)
• Caching for constraints check

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

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!