Wikidata:Status updates/2019 04 22

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2019-04-22.

Events

• Past: Editathon Where iNaturalist meets Wiki, on April 16th in Meise, Belgium
• Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Argentina, April 25th
• Upcoming; Wikidata workshop in Pardubice, Czech Republic

Press, articles, blog posts

• Association of Research Libraries White Paper on Wikidata: Opportunities and Recommendations
• Open-sourcing PyTorch-BigGraph for faster embeddings of extremely large graphs and the example of Wikidata, on AI Facebook blog
• OpenTapioca: Lightweight Entity Linking for Wikidata (paper by Antonin Delpeuch)
• Update on the Factgrid project with Wikibase and GND by Olaf Simons

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Plenty of documentation pages have been translated into Spanish: Wikidata in one page, Query Service in one page, a new data model example based on Marie Curie, and the flyer "Wikidata for developers". Thanks a lot to Mlemusrojas and the Wikidata group in Argentina!
• Depicts statements were due to arrive on Commons on April 23rd
• The Wikimedia URL Shortener is live and now included in the Query Service to create short links to queries or direct results (announcement)
• Reminder: the application phase for the WikidataCon is open until April 29th: if you want to attend to the conference, don't forget to participate!
• Wikidata Sign Languages Browser
• You can help by training ORES, the machine learning system, to better judge if edits are good or bad. We need another 7000 edits judged

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: number of sentences, Football Money League rank
  • External identifiers: National Wrestling Hall of Fame wrestler ID, MassBank Accession ID, CNV-SP ID, GruCultura ID, CEMDP ID, NGMDb Prod ID, MESH Concept ID, PRELIB organization ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: supported metadata, expansion, CatholicSaints.info ID, Musixmatch track ID, transfer speed, KeyWiki page ID, художник-мультипликатор, Number of polling stations, music video
  • External identifiers: The Atlas of African Frogs, Ming Qing Archive authority ID, Kinosozvezdie biography ID, RGALI ID, Referee.ru person ID, NSW Capital Conviction ID, Australian War Memorial ID, Flora of Australia (new) ID, Drobné památky ID, Identifiant IndieDB for video game, Whitney Museum of American Art ID, Archaeology Data Service person ID, CanLII ID, Justia Patents assignee ID, interwiki, Identifiant Mod DB for video game, OBIS ID, Alvin, FemBio ID
• Query examples:
  • All deaths in Game of Thrones (source)
  • Wikidata knows of at least 5263 buildings started before Notre Dame de Paris (query based on this discussion)
  • Timeline for the History of Telecommunications (source)
  • Graph of London Tube stations that are on at least three lines (source)
  • Map of churches in Sri Lanka (source)

Development

• Improved the external identifiers landscape (phab:T204440)
• Prepare process and announcement for the wb_terms migration to come
• Allow configuring WDQS UI without changes to files under version control (phab:T194179)
• Configure suggestion constraint level on Beta (phab:T221107)
• Graduate suggestions based on constraints beta feature out of beta features (phab:T209879)
• Editing of labels and descriptions on mobile (phab:T216987)
• Editing aliases on mobile (phab:T218690)

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!