Wikidata:Status updates/2018 08 13

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2018-08-13.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Bencemac

Press, articles, blog posts

• Celtic Knot 2018 – How can Wikidata support minority language Wikipedias, by Delphine Dallison
• The rise of Wikidata as a linked data source, by Karen Smith-Yoshimura on the OCLC Research blog
• A global collection of astrolabes in linked open data, by Martin Poulter, University of Oxford. With the Museum of the History of Science which is part of the university, Martin is exploring a possible "Sum of all Astrolabes" project. This post is to promote the idea to researchers and GLAM staff.
• Where do Mayors Come From: Querying Wikidata with Python and SPARQL, by Nikolai Janakiev

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• list of badged items without claims has a new format
• Sitelinks for the new Santali Wikipedia (satwiki) can be added. Links to the new Chinese Wikiversity (zhwikiversity) can be made
• The logs of (anonymized) SPARQL queries are now available
• wikidata-edit now supports 'somevalue' and 'novalue' claims and qualifiers
• thus, wikidata-cli now also supports 'somevalue' and 'novalue' claims and qualifiers
• During Wikimania 2018, 25 people attended to a workshop about Lexicographical data. The results of this experience and the related tickets are summarized here.
• New admin: Bovlb. Welcome on board!

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: station category, located in the ecclesiastical territorial entity, fatigue limit, type of water supply, pitting resistance equivalent number, Vietnamese reading
  • External identifiers: U-Multirank university ID, TCI destination ID, Chercheurs d'Asie ID, Trove newspaper ID, archINFORM keyword ID, DOLF ID, Split This Rock poet ID, OpenMath ID, chieseitaliane ID, legabasket.it ID, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade ID, Aosdána ID, CNT ID, Comédie-Française ID, Evene ID, LOA ID, FFF author ID, FFF character ID, Marvel character ID, National Cartoonists Society author ID, Global Invasive Species Database ID, WSO Online ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: Prisoner count, relative to, Railway traffic side, code DGAC, Membro della squadra nazionale, linear thermal expansion coefficient, glass transition temperature, heat deflection temperature, compressive strength, bulk modulus, flexural modulus, flexural strength, shear modulus, shear strength, tear resistance, abrasion resistance, Vicat softening point, thermal diffusivity, chemical resistance, permeation, electrical resistivity, relative permittivity, relative permeability, dissipation factor, magnetic ordering, noun for other gender, combines lexemes, form is subject of, Airline Accounting Code, dummy value, identifier
  • External identifiers: iTunes music video ID, New Zealand Business Number, Brasseur ID, football.it female player ID, Gynopedia place ID, MuIS collection ID, CNL ID, RSL ID, LARB ID, Canal Académie ID, World Rugby Women's World Cup player ID, New Zealand Book Council ID, ANZL ID, Carthalia ID, TRBC, Theatrum ID, VGMdb product ID, Amphi-Theatrum ID, Persons of Indian Studies ID, National Humanities Medal ID, Expedia hotel ID, anime AniDB ID, creator AniDB ID, character AniDB ID, SR Nummer, identifiant Inventaire et Documentation du Patrimoine Culturel du Maroc, Exoplanet Data Explorer ID, Morse code, Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia ID, NASA Exoplanet Archive ID, France Musique ID, Académie française ID, Académie de Mâcon member ID, Académie de Montpellier member ID, Académie de Versailles member ID, Invasive Species Compendium Datasheet ID, MusicBrainz release ID, Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame ID, Cartooning for Peace ID, Savoirs ENS ID, Diffusion ENS ID, Quais du polar ID
• Deleted properties: USGS-ANSS event page (P5089), Projeto Excelências ID (P2731)
• Query examples:
  • Topics for which the English Wikipedia wikilinks to the University of Virginia but the corresponding Wikidata entry does not
  • Map of institutions where Canadian citizens got their PhD
  • Space probes that have their own Twitter accounts (source)
  • Newspapers in Wikidata with a recorded place of publication (source)
  • Countries whose capital city can be spelled out only using letters from the country's name (source)
  • Amara taxons and their Wikispecies link (source)
  • Things related to open access to research in Japan (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: Humanitarian Wikidata

Development

• More work on merging Lexemes (phab:T198105)
• Possibility to add statements to just created Forms (phab:T201389)
• Provide useful HTML title for Lexemes (phab:T195386)
• Remove a Sense (phab:T196283)
• View a referenced Sense (phab:T196264)
• Edit summaries for Senses (phab:T196290)

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!