Wikidata:Status updates/2019 10 28

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2019-10-28.

Happy birthday, Wikidata!

• Today, on October 29th, it’s Wikidata’s 7th birthday. Time to reflect and celebrate and to look forward to see where we are going from here. Message from the Wikidata development team
• You can also write a birthday message or add a present to the list

Events

• Past: Several sessions at Wikidata goes Library, Vienna, Vienna Public Libraries (Q1020347) (18 October):
  • Wikidata is amazing, talk by Jean-Fred
  • Uses of Wikidata and Wikibase in France, talk by Nicolas Vigneron
  • Using Wikidata for Video Game Research, talk by Tracy Hoffmann
  • Wikidata based extended search queries, talk by Christian Erlinger (Q67173261)
• Past: WikidataCon 2019 in Berlin. You can see the videos of the sessions and the list of slides and notes, also from the program. Among them, here are few suggestions of sessions to watch:
  • Glimpse over Wikidata & Wikidata and languages (Lydia Pintscher)
  • Birthday presents demo (various people presenting new tools and features)
  • WikidataCon awards ceremony (Birgit Müller & Liam Wyatt)
  • New usages of Wikidata to support underserved language communities (Lucie-Aimée Kaffee)
  • Overview of the data import process (Navino Evans)
  • A lot of interesting tools and projects presented during the two lightning talks sessions
• Upcoming: plenty of events taking place for Wikidata's seventh birthday! In London on 29th, in Cape Town on 31st, a datathon organized in India, in Barcelona on November 13th, etc.

Press, articles, blog posts

• Analysis of Urban Information of Colombia on Wikidata, 2nd CATAÏ Workshop, Bogota, Colombia, 23-24 October 2019 (Preprint)
• Wikidata as a FAIR knowledge graph for the life sciences (preprint in Biorxiv)

Tool of the week

• MachtSinn is a game to easily add Senses to Lexemes, based on suggestions from Items labels. It helps improving the data about languages in Wikidata.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Open request for oversight permission: -revi
• OpenRefine 3.3 beta was released
• The Community Wishlist Survey 2020 from Wikimedia Foundation started. This year, it is focused on small projects and Wikidata-related wishes will not be included.
• You can help expanding the list of databases, encyclopedias, etc. which could be added to Mix'n'match. Can be used for property creation too.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: graph diameter, orientation, URN formatter, iFixit Repairability Score, key col, variety of form, source of file, grammatical aspect
  • External identifiers: CanadaSoccer.com person ID, FlashScore.com match ID, Publons journals/conferences ID, Eu-football.info coach ID, Genetics Home Reference Conditions ID, Soccerbase referee ID, Edvard Munch's correspondance person ID, Broadway Photographs person ID, MOHW HospID, iNaturalist place ID, National Marine Biological Library authority ID, Neliti Journal ID, Online Cenotaph ID, dp.ru person ID, ifixit ID, ICP license ID, Brazilian federal deputy ID, CinemaRx person ID, Kinematoscope - Film director, Kinematoscope - Writer, Kinematoscope - Literary work, BDFutbol team ID, Stathletics ID, teams.by team ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: religion or world view, Comorbidity, CMF identifier, masculine form, feminine form, XML namespace, Commons category for the interior of the item, statement is regarded as spoiler for, menu items
  • External identifiers: Austrian Parliament 1848 – 1918 ID, Eu-football.info match ID, playmarkerstats.com match ID, Soccerway match ID, Jeugdliteratuur ID, Fussballdaten.de team ID, Van Wijngaarden quarry ID, NZPCN ID, Women Film Pioneers ID, ACL Anthology article ID, Ovrtur Biography ID, Golden ID, Ben Yehuda author ID, Estonian biographical database ID, startrek.com Database ID, Chinese Professional Baseball League player ID, Software Preservation Society game ID
• Query examples:
  • Tree map of members of the 16th Lok Sabha, grouped by state represented (source)
  • Pictures of animals with female grammatical gender in German but male grammatical gender in French (source)
  • Map of bus stops in Biscay (source)
  • Tree graph of doctoral advisors going backward from Abhijit Banerjee (source)

Development

• Wikidata Bridge: Create progressive disabled version of save button (phab:T235055)
• Save original revision data in store (phab:T235052)
• Add interface for tracking/logging (phab:T236233)
• Make app change button attributes depending on state of store (phab:T235056)
• More work on reducing the resource loader modules
• More work on tainted references

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!