Wikidata:Status updates/2019 08 19

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2019-08-19.

Discussions

• New request for comments: Improved instructions for translation admin

Events

• Current: Wikimania in Stockholm and hackathon, August 14 to 18. Check out the list of all Wikidata-related events. Each session page should include notes, slides and streaming if available.

Tool of the week

• In this new section, you can share your favourite tool with the other Wikidata users. You can add some suggestions here.
• NameGuzzler allows you to automatically add an identical label or alias into many languages (for example, the name of a person or a place). You can define your own custom list of languages that you want to add.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• There is now a Wikiquote page for Wikidata
• ISA is a new tool to easily add structured data to Commons files, including from mobile
• You can help improve the vandalism detection by completing a set of labels for ORES
• QuickStatements won the Coolest Tool Award, category "editor", during the first ceremony at Wikimania 2019
• New Wikidata-related projects developed during the Wikimania hackathon:
  • Documentation translation sprint: several people translated Wikidata help pages in their own language. Feel free to continue the efforts to make Wikidata more accessible!
  • Item creation helpers helps create similar items, and link them together, with a simple form. Example with skating competitions

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: manner of inhumane treatment, cases consolidated, typically sells, noun class, does not have effect, substitute director/manager, school class
  • External identifiers: Empik author ID, WP Muzyka artist ID, Interia Muzyka artist ID, The Top Tens ID, merlin.pl author ID, Plus Music artist ID, Kinsky–Halm Catalogue, Raptekster.dk ID, Acharts.co song ID, FGrHist ID, register of real estate NKP, Hacker News User ID, shmup.com ID, TA2 ID, Gaana.com album ID, XING profile ID, Cinestaan film ID, Cinestaan person ID, job ID in Service d'Information sur les Etudes et les Professions, Planespotters.net aircraft ID, PLIA ID, IBP 4-letter bird species alpha code, EPW author ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: graph radius, Belgian Species List ID, amino acid (start, end) position, ordeal by, protected region scheme, image revision-id, region within image, access restriction status, georeferencing data, number of processor threads, part number, CPUID, based on tabular data, Siddham script name, Number of active electronic terminals
  • External identifiers: OpenWeatherMap city ID, Scribd Publication ID, moly.hu azonosító, Hungarian Movie Database film ID, Lyrics007 artist ID, jog.fm artist ID, Hype Machine artist ID, Liber Liber author ID, Dizionario biografico dei Friulani ID, Just Hear It artist ID, Lyrics Translations artist ID, LINE BLOG user ID, Digitalt Museum ID, MTV UK artist ID, MTV Germany artist ID, MTV Polska artist ID, Vox FM artist ID, Allcinema person ID, Eiga.com person ID, Eiga.com movie ID, GoodRx, BEACON ID
• Query examples:
  • Books in Bengali Wikisource that are validated (source)
  • Flightless birds of New Zealand (source)
  • Islands in Germany (source)
  • Clandestine center of detention and torture in Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina (source)
  • Same-sex married couples where neither partner has a sexual orientation (source)
• Schema examples:
  • Danish numerals
  • Danish hyphenation

Development

• Fix an issue with the pop up of Wikidata Tours (phab:T223999)
• Call WikibaseLexeme API with baserevid parameter from the UI (phab:T217245)
• Fix a bug with CheckConstraintsJob (phab:T227450)
• Fix a bug with wbgetentities when getting Lexeme subentities (phab:T223995)
• Add editing widget/input to client edit modal: (phab:T226998)
• Add tags parameter to Wikibase APIs that edit entities: (phab:T229917)
• More work on the the production Termbox service
• tidying up our browser test suite (phab:T229910)
• adding browser tests for basic editing (phab:T230187)

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!