Wikidata:Status updates/2020 07 06

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2020-07-06.

Events

• Past: Wikidata Parliament of Ghana contest launch (replay)
• Upcoming: Biohackathon 2020 Barcelona 2020 November 9th - 13th The accepted wikidata related proposal: Knowledge graphs and wikidata subsetting
• Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #20, July 12
• Upcoming: Celtic Knot conference, July 9-10, including several sessions about Wikidata, a Wikidata helpdesk

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Why Ariadne uses Getty AAT over Wikidata
• Video: LIVE Wikidata editing #10 - YouTube

Tool of the week

• Ptable displays the periodic table automatically extracted from information provided by Wikidata; it also provides a check that all the elements are there with some basic properties. Additional pages provide charts of the nuclides under different criteria such as half-life. Each element or nuclide is linked to its Wikidata item for more information or to edit if necessary.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Abstract Wikipedia was approved.
• OpenRefine 3.4 beta 2 was released.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: Open Data portal, theorised by, DOI formatter, set in environment, academic appointment
  • External identifiers: House Divided ID, thefreedictionary medical term ID, People's Representative Council of Indonesia ID, Grove Art Online ID, Supreme Court of Sweden case number, KBpedia ID, Swedish Environmental Protection Agency OBJECTID, Oxford Bibliographies ID, Swiss Timber Bridges ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: taxon synonym string, PM20 subject code, PM20 geo code, number of downloads, Interactive element, course, Zoning symbol, vanDerWaalsConstant, has pattern
  • External identifiers: AlloCiné theater ID, Cistercian Biography Online ID, Pitchfork artist ID, Archive Of Our Own tag, Austrian encyclopedia of music online, Swiss Tunnel ID, ANZSRC 2020 FoR ID, CPJF ID, TripAdvisor ID 2, Wien Kulturgut: Kunstwerke im öffentlichen Raum ID, public transport stop, Homebrew formula name, Offizielle Deutsche Charts song ID, British Museum object ID, ToS;DR service numerical identifier, code EHESS d'une commune, IAPH code, ProtonDB video game ID
• Query examples:
  • France has a new Prime Minister: see the list of all ministers in French history (very long scroll). If you want to know more, see this notebook
  • Open data portals in Wikidata (using the newly created property Open Data portal (P8402))
  • Objects that are named after people on Wikidata (Source)

Development

• More work on the consistent design system (Phabricator board)
• More work on decoupling the different Wikibase extensions from each other
  • Proposal to stop registering WikibaseLib as a separate extension
• Polishing the first step of Federation (using Wikidata's Properties in another Wikibase installation) (incl. preventing users from selecting a federated property with a non-supported data type (phab:T252012) and preventing users from accessing Special:NewProperty when federation is enabled (phab:T255576) and viewing a list of all properties when federation is enabled (phab:T246339))
• Continuing research and interviews around the topic of making it easier to access Wikidata's data for programmers
• Doing first testing of mockups and prototypes of the first version of the Query Builder - coding can start soon
• Convert a few properties from string to external identifier: Linguasphere code (P1396), KOATUU identifier (P1077) and ISIN (P946)

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
• 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!