Wikidata:Status updates/2020 07 20

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2020-07-20.

Discussions

• New request for comments: General semi protection for all property pages

Events

• Upcoming: The First Wikidata Workshop: Second Call for Papers. Papers due: August 10, 2020 | Workshop date: October 29, 2020
• Upcoming: next Wikidata office hour, July 21st at 16:00 UTC (18:00 CEST) in the Wikidata Telegram group. Query Service special with guests from WMF Search Team.
• Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XXIV: Posicionamento digital relativo with Ederporto - July 23 17:00 UTC (14:00 BRT). In this technical training, we'll study the possibilities and functionalities of relative digital positioning in images and do practical activities on this topic using historical photographs of the city of São Paulo. The event will be held in Portuguese. Join us!
• Upcoming video: July 21 - Wikipedia Weekly Network - Entity Schemas and Shape Expressions (ShEx) Facebook YouTube
• Upcoming video: July 25 - Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #13 Facebook YouTube
• Upcoming: Kidok-Workshop, online workshop about church building data. In German, non-native users welcome. Currently looking for a date in the upcoming week and people to help!
• Upcoming video: Beyond Wikipedia - Knowledge that even a computer can understand. July 22, 2020 at 17:00 UTC. In this talk, Zbyszko Papierski will present Wikidata Query Service as one way that developers can interact with Wikidata.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities botany pilot using Wikidata QIDs
• Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #11 Facebook, YouTube
• Video: Wikispore Day, including an interview of Denny Vrandečić about Abstract Wikipedia at 34'00
• Video: Merging elements on Wikidata (in Italian) - YouTube
• Video: Wikibase Ecosystem - taking Wikidata further (by Lydia Pintscher), YouTube

Tool of the week

• User:Frettie/consistency_check_add.js check consistency and add missing relations of a Wikidata object like father/son...

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Breaking change: removing special pageterms behavior on repo wikis, use entityterms instead (relevant for people using pageterms submodule of the query API module on Wikibase repository wikis)

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: version control system, interactive elements, course, peak bagging classification, public transport stop, descriptive solubility, applies if regular expression matches, energy consumption per transaction, content partnership category, Van Der Waals Constant a, Van Der Waals Constant b
  • External identifiers: Spanish Olympic Committee athlete ID, EHESS ID of a French commune, OpenHistoricalMap relation ID, IAPH code, Knot Atlas identifier, Knotinfo identifier, Swiss Tunnel ID, Wien Kulturgut: Kunstwerke im öffentlichen Raum ID, Österreichisches Musiklexikon Online ID, Swedish Riksdag document ID, Artprice artist ID, AnyDecentMusic album ID, SAH Archipedia architect ID, Personendatenbank Germania Sacra ID, Cistercian Biography Online ID, Digital Library of the Caribbean ID, Homebrew formula name, Our Campaigns candidate ID, UK Research and Innovation person ID, Unique Street Reference Number, Benerail station ID, Churches in Limburg, Vmusic.bg artist ID, US Quaternary Fault ID, ASCRG 2016 ID, ANZSOC 2011 ID, ANZSCO 2013 ID, Political Graveyard politician ID, SAH Archipedia building ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: BTI Status Index, BTI Governance Index, lyricsmule, number of majors offered, nationality (cultural identity), image of view, web interface software
  • External identifiers: Native Plants Database ID, Český hudební slovník osob a institucí ID, OpenCritic critic ID, DATAtourisme ID, ASCCEG 2019 ID, AHECC 2017 ID, ANZSIC 2006 ID, Unsplash User ID, South Africa EMIS code, Denkmaldatenbank Thurgau ID, HLTV Player ID, HLTV Team ID, SÚKL code, Nomenclature de tous les noms de rosiers, Science Fiction Awards Database author id, Fototeka person ID, Henrik Ibsen skrifter ID
• Query examples:
  • Painters in Wikidata with the surname Ruiz (Source)
  • Cities with female mayor (Source)
  • MPs in the current UK parliament with identified mythical ancestors (Source)
  • Indian subcontinent rail lines (Source)
  • List of countries by age of the head of government (Source)
  • Cities of the United States between 100,000 and 600,000 inhabitants with the counties and states they are located in (Source)

• Newest database reports: list of 1000, 2000 (without statements) and 10000 (filtered) random items

Development

• More work on the consistent design system
• More work on decoupling the different Wikibase extensions from each other to make development easier:
  • load WikibaseClient through the JSON file (phab:T257435),
  • decoupling Client from Lib/Repo in the JavaScript code (phab:T256054),
  • reduce the uses of Repo classes (phab:T255885, phab:T255882)
  • Move all the special pages (phab:T257444), API modules (phab:T257443) and hooks (phab:T257445) from the PHP entry point to the JSON file
  • Merge the registration of WikibaseLib into the Repo and Client extensions (phab:T257432) and merge WikibaseView into Repo (phab:T258043)
• Prepare the first development phase for the Simple Query Builder
• Reference game: run a scraper, work on a dashboard that will gives an overview of the potential references that have already been judged in the game
• Fix a bug related to maximum limit of search results (phab:T256885)
• Resolve some configuration issues regarding Entity Sources (phab:T254315)
• Federated Properties:
  • Changes to special pages that interact with both items/properties when federation is enabled (phab:T246886)
  • Changes to Special:ListDatatypes when federation is enabled (phab:T255581)
• Add new monolingual language codes: mic (Miꞌkmaq), gil (Kiribati)

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!