Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events
- Upcoming: July 3rd: UGent Wikidata and Wikibase Workshop 2019
- Upcoming: OSM TW x Wikidata TW Meetup, June 3rd, Taipei, Taiwan - Facebook event
- Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XVII in São Paulo, Brazil, July 11th
- Upcoming: Inventaire & OpenData Week 2019 in Wurzen, Germany, July 18th-25th
- State of the Map 2019: early bird tickets are available until July 7th. The program will include a Wikidata workshop
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Placing EveryPolitician on hold by MySociety ("it's clear that Wikidata should be the natural global home for this type of data")
- Celebrity Profiling by Matti Wiegmann et al.,
- Published in ArXiv:
- DocRED: A Large-Scale Document-Level Relation Extraction Dataset by Yuan Yao et al.
- ConTrOn: Continuously Trained Ontology based on Technical Data Sheets and Wikidata by Kobkaew Opasjumruskit et al.
- Wikidata as opportunity for special collections: the 20th Century Press Archives use case. Presentation at LIBER 2019 (LOD working group of the Association of European Research Libraries), by Joachim Neubert
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Wikibase community Telegram group has been recreated, here's the invitation link
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: LilyPond notation, target muscle, historical region, writing language, match interval, microarchitecture, literacy rate, era name, seconded by, moved by
- External identifiers: MELPA package ID, Nchdb asset ID, National Film Board of Canada director identifier, Fundamental.org Baptist Church ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts artist ID, Beatport artist ID, Bangladesh administrative division code (2017-), Djshop artist ID, NeoGeoSoft ID, New York City Neighborhood Tabulation area ID, NicoNicoPedia, NooSFere edition ID, ArtBrokerage artist ID, ATRF ID, Bebo profile ID, National Library of Aruba ID, BVLarramendi ID, Cameo ID, Charts in France artist ID, CIN ID, Dutch Charts artist ID, Equipboard artist ID, Facebook Gaming game ID, Gaana.com artist ID, Gambay ID, Heritage Gazetteer of Cyprus, Historical Archives of the European Union ID, hitparade.ch artist ID, Indian gallantry awardee ID, Juno Download artist ID, MangaSeek person ID, Metro topic ID, Moov artist ID, Murfie artist ID, Musicalics composer ID, Nederlandse Top 40 artist ID, NME artist ID, PCE Daisakusen ID, CUT code, Pro Football Hall of Fame ID, Repology project name, Rogerebert.com film ID, SA Flora ID, Syriac Biographical Dictionary ID, The DJ List artist ID, Who's Who of American Comic Books ID, SNBP ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: double major, Poster, Throwing handedness, Batting handedness, Institut-ID in der Unternehmensdatenbank der BaFin, Wolfram Language unit code, National Transportation Safety Board report, enemy of, PHI Latin Texts author ID, default description for instances
- External identifiers: ACNP journal ID, Personnel de l'administration préfectorale ID, Bursa Malaysia stock code, etrain.info station ID, Rupa Publications author ID, Pro Kabaddi League player ID, OYO Hotel ID, Anime Characters Database, IMFDB work ID, Australian Faunal Directory publication ID, Ident.Nr., Sverigetopplistan artist ID, Musiikkituottajat artist ID, Radio Courtoisie show ID, Biyografya ID
- Query examples:
- Architectural drawings depicting cathedrals in France (source)
- Newest database reports: education by country
- Newest properties:
- Development
- More work on preparing the technical setup for Wikidata Bridge development
- Implement Feature Flag for Wikidata Bridge (phab:T225935)
- Discuss the best way to connect template parameter to corresponding Wikidata property (phab:T224832)
- Improve the documentation for Wikibase sites setup (phab:T218282)
- Prepare the last steps for reading from new term store implementation (phab:T225603) according to the migration plan (phab:T221765)
- Fixed a bug and reduced significantly the amount of addUsagesForPage jobs in our jobs queue (phab:T205045)
- Removed feature flag for the bugfix for wbeditentity setting aliases to empty array (phab:T223305)
- Decreased EntityUsageTable addUsage batch size to 100 (phab:T225500)
- Configured query service lag for Wikidata maxlag (phab:T222193)
- Helped fixing an issue with moving files on Commons (phab:T226672)
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!