Wikidata:Status updates/2019 02 25

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2019-02-25.

Discussions

• New request for comments: d:Wikidata:Requests for comment/Talk pages consultation 2019 (feel free to add more sub-sections)

Events

• Past: Wikidata hackathon in Ulm with Open Knowledge Foundation. Video of the presentation of the projects (in German)
• Running until March 2nd: International Mother Language Day edit-a-thon
• Upcoming: Wikidata and the Diversity of Knowledge workshop in Graz, Austria, on March 3rd
• Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, March 12th
• Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, March 15th
• Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikipedia workshop in Aberdeen, Scotland, on March 19th

Press, articles, blog posts

• Inside the Alexa-Friendly World of Wikidata, by Tom Simonite on Wired
• Align BNF's video games and Wikidata with Dataiku DSS (in French) by Envel Le Hir

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• If you're using Wikidata's data dumps, you may want to give feedback on a potential change about when those dumps are generated (ticket)
• Some games and tools developed during the Wikidata hackathon in Ulm:
  • Card game generator
  • Multiplayer game Guess the (German) Politician
  • Telegram bot @WikidataMisfitBot, sending pictures with one wrong label
  • WikiProjekt offeneregister.de
• If you're developing new tools or hear about new tools, please add them to Wikidata:Tools so other people can find them :)

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: expression of, provisional house number in the Czech Republic, has role in modeling, observed in, has phenotype, type of front suspension, type of rear suspension
  • External identifiers: AICTE Permanent ID, DOGC ID, DoBIH Number, ScaleNet ID, WhoSampled artist ID, Business Registry code (Estonia), ISO 639-3 Change Request ID, Lokalhistoriewiki article, Crew united person ID, Fondation Maeght artist ID, data.gouv.fr dataset ID, V.League men's player ID, V.League women's player ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: Total assists in career, Total points in career, Career plus-minus rating, Penalty minutes in career, Total power play goals in career, Total power play assists in career, Total shots in career, MeSH Descriptor, Former street name
  • External identifiers: NZ On Screen person ID, NZ On Screen work ID, Brazilian Electoral Unit ID, Catálogo de Patrimonio Cultural de Castilla-La Mancha ID, PCAD firm ID, Inventário dos Monumentos RJ ID, SICRIS researcher ID, Physics History Network ID, Sachsen-Anhalt Schutzgebiete-ID, Amis du Louvre ID, Nationation Wrestling Hall of Fame d'un lutteur, Brillant Wiki ID, Official Charts artist ID, Nationation Wrestling Hall of Fame d'une équipe universitaire, Dimensions.guide ID, SensaCine movie ID, SensaCine series ID, Bilibili channel ID
• Query examples:
  • Women having a good or featured article on Russian Wikipedia but no article on French Wikipedia (source)
  • Timeline of Renaissance humanists (source)
  • Map of cities from the Hanseatic League (source)
  • Image gallery of musicians who have a software title named after them (source)
  • Frequency of first letter in Breton words in Wikidata (source)
  • Items about buildings with coordinates and at least one sitelink, but no image (source)

Development

• Updated some icons with the new WikimediaUI icon set (phab:T209259)
• Fixed an issue that was causing occasional failures when creating new Items (phab:T194299)
• Investigated Wikidata Tours not loading correctly (phab:T215919)
• Adjusted spacing between Sense ID, bar and Gloss (phab:T215502)
• Fixing a long time issue with introducing new data types in production (phab:T216728)
• Fixing docs for backup of wikibase container images (phab:T214941)
• Making undo, rollback and restore work on schema content pages (phab:T214399)
• Improving edit summaries for schema content pages (phab:T213724)
• Tightening up the process for editing "identifying information" for Schemas (phab:T214466)

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!