Wikidata:Status updates/2019 08 05

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2019-07-29.

Events

• Upcoming: OSM TW x Wikidata Taipei Meetup, August 12nd - Facebook event
• Upcoming: Wikimania, 16-18 August in Stockholm. Full program, list of Wikidata-related sessions

Press, articles, blog posts

• Wikidata: From "an" Identifier to "the" Identifier, Theo van Veen , Information Technology and Libraries, 38(2), 72-81.
• Opening up Research Data in Film Studies by Using the Structured Knowledge Base Wikidata, Adelheid Heftberger et al, in "Digital Cultural Heritage", pp 401-410.
• Bridging the gap between linked open data-based recommender systems and distributed representations, Pierpaolo Basile, et al, Information Systems, Volume 86, December 2019, pp 1-8.
• OpenRefine Beginners Tutorial, video tutorial by Emmacarroll3 demonstrating how to import a dataset with OpenRefine.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• soweego version 1.0 is out: a machine learning system that links Wikidata to large-scale third-party catalogs
• New data type for EntitySchemas will be available on August 7th

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: location of the point of view, opinion joined by, date of the first one, date of the latest one, Mac OS type code, acknowledged
  • External identifiers: Acharts.co artist ID, Textile Connect publication ID, 08euro.Ru person ID, CUP2002.RU person ID, Euro04.Ru person ID, Gazeta.Ru Euro 2012 person ID, WorldCup10.Ru person ID, Hiking Project trail ID, Media Art Database console games ID, AMPAS collections film ID, AMPAS collections person ID, Douyin ID, School code of the Ministry of Education, Taiwan, AllTrails trail ID, Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America ID, PEPC park ID, Vidwan ID, Bureau des longitudes ID, ComingSoon.it film ID, Cleartrip Hotel ID, Mojarto artist ID, Rijksmonument complex ID, Goibibo Hotel ID, Acharts.co chart ID, ONF forest national ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: axis, Principal, Epigraph, contact area count, Cases consolidated, detail of painting, exonerated of, possibly reproduction of, Werke ohne Opuszahl, obituary of, significant place
  • External identifiers: Poincaré Papers person ID, Acharts album ID, Rollerstory.net skater ID, CHESNO politician ID, Nauka Ukrainy scientist ID, OhRanger.com ID, Wynk artist ID, Plus Music artist ID, WP Muzyka artist ID, Interia Muzyka artist ID, Empik author ID, merlin.pl author ID, The Top Tens ID, Raptekster.dk ID
• Query examples:
  • French female authors whose work is in the public domain (source)
  • Timeline of hypertext systems (source)
  • Megaliths in the Basque Country, color-coded by type (source)
  • Heavy metal bands from Finland with or without picture and date of the picture (source)
  • Types of GLAMs in Wikidata (source)

Development

• Fix logging for errors on wbcontentlanguages requests (phab:T228888)
• Add request information to request timeout errors (phab:T228885)
• Show an error message when saving fails on mobile termbox (phab:T222884)
• Add editing widget/input to client edit modal (phab:T226998)
• Show the current Wikidata value in the Bridge modal (phab:T226997)
• EntitySchema datatype (phab:T214884)
• Reduce the number of ResourceLoader modules that WikibaseClient register: (phab:T203696)
• Reduce text returned by EntityContent::getTextForFilters (phab:T226216)
• Fixed a bug with PHP Warning (phab:T229482)
• Fixing a bug about value pickers being broken (phab:T229604)
• Fixed BadMethodCallException wbgetentities when getting Lexeme subentities (phab:T223995)
• Investigate on Graphoid issues (phab:T229236)
• Fix issues on Wikidata Tours (phab:T214884)
• Make logging warning or info of not finding entity for revision configurable (phab:T229574)
• Fix Grafana Datamodel References dashboard (phab:T214894)
• Move "Wikidata item" link outside of "toolbox" sidebar to "other projects" sidebar (phab:T66315)

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!