Wikidata:Status updates/2019 06 17
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This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2019-06-17.
Discussions
[edit]- New request for comments: Unifying GO activities and enzyme articles
- Upcoming: ld4-Wikidata Affinity Group call on June 18th
- Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Paris, France, on June 21st
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Wellington, New Zealand, on June 22nd
- EventKG - the Hub of Event Knowledge on the Web - and Biographical Timeline Generation - Simon Gottschalk, Elena Demidova (in ArXiv)
- Assessing The Factual Accuracy of Generated Text Ben Goodrich, et al. (in ArXiv)
- Enriching Bibliographic Data by Combining String Matching and the Wikidata Knowledge Graph to Improve the Measurement of International Research Collaboration Xuan Nguyen, et al. (in ArXiv)
- Treasured Manuscript collection gets the Wikidata Treatment, on the National Library of Wales' blog
- On the road to joint embedding with Wikidata lexemes? by Finn Årup Nielsen
- Wikipedia and Wikidata user contributions as part of Wikipedia for Peace at Europride Vienna 2019
Other Noteworthy Stuff
[edit]- Wikidata-Toolkit 0.10.0 was released
- New Grafana board: number of edits per namespace
Did you know?
[edit]- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: title in HTML, title in LaTeX, student organization of, emergency services, average speed
- External identifiers: Pro Football Reference coach ID, Keybase username, Elhuyar Dictionary ID, TV Tropes identifier, ITF tournament ID, Campendium ID, Malaysia company number, abART person ID, abART document ID, abART exhibition ID, abART group ID, abART institution ID, DR.dk topic ID, ABA League ID, Biographical Dictionary Of Iowa ID, CCDC Number, Coco Game List ID, Dimensions grant ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: text of verse, literary motif, scribe.amanuensis or copyist.illuminator, distribution format, phosphorylates, RogerEbert.com film ID, literacy rate, Retrosheets ID
- External identifiers: 7digital United Kingdom artist ID, Metacritic person ID, Nacionālā enciklopēdija, IMVDb artist ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts artist ID, Charts in France artist ID, VG-lista artist ID, Beatport artist ID, Djshop artist ID, Gaana.com artist ID, Juno Download artist ID, Moov artist ID, Murfie artist ID, Napster artist ID, Qobuz artist ID, YouTube Music channel ID, Bebo profile ID, Steam profile ID, Pandora artist ID, SNBP ID, Fundamental.org Baptist Church ID, EMIS codes for Pakistani provinces, RIAA artist ID, Gambay ID, Facebook Gaming game ID, Cameo ID, Amburger database ID, BVLarramendi, Equipboard artist ID
- Query examples:
- Table of counts of distinct MPs, legislative terms and per constituency P39s for UK parliamentary constituencies, with links to per constituency reports (source)
- Reverse taxon names of 100 mosquitoes (source)
- Five-letter words beginning with "f", from wikidata's lexeme collection (source)
- Péniches in Lyon
- Lexemes ordered according to compound parts (source)
- Airports named after a person, color-coded by gender (source)
- Timeline of the Chief Mousers of 10 Downing Street, with photographs when available
- Newest WikiProjects: European Colonialism
Development
[edit]- Grafana now tracks the number of edits per namespace (phab:T218901) and the EntitySchemas on the entity by type board (phab:T216835)
- Fixed a bug Special:MobileDiff for an EntitySchema Revision (phab:T224545)
- Make possible to edit items via wbeditentity when they have same label and description, if the edit is about making them different (phab:T222621)
- Fix a bug on ArticlePlaceholder hook on SpecialSearch (phab:T207235)
- Add CC0 License overlay popup on termbox editing (phab:T221835)
- More maintainance on the WDCM dashboards T214586 (phab:T217997)
- Maintain the WDCM Biases Dashboard to make it fully client-side dependent
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
[edit]- 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!