Wikidata:Status updates/2020 10 05

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2020-10-05.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Fuzheado

Events

• Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Professor Toby Hudson on Entity Explosion, a browser extension which allows you to get information about entities on the web page you’re visiting, 06 October. Agenda
• Upcoming: Wikidata & Wikibase office hour, October 27th at 17:00 CEST (15:00 GMT)
• Upcoming: plenty of events for the Wikidata birthday, check the calendar and feel free to organise one!

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• What does/doesn’t follow Benford’s law: An analysis of hundreds of sets of numbers from Wikidata.
• Video: How to create and edit items on Wikidata (in Spanish) - YouTube
• Video: Introduction to Wikidata and wikiprojects of interest to librarians (in Spanish) - YouTube

Tool of the week

• IllWill.js is a userscript that searches Wikidata for foreign-language sitelinks, to populate Template:ill and replace plain red links on other Wikimedia projects.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• omeka-s-wikidata is a new module for the open source GLAM collection management software Omeka, that allows cataloguers to use Wikidata as a vocabulary for persons, places, subjects, etc.

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: TDD number, twin town sign, character designer, Deutsche Bahn station code
  • External identifiers: Museen Dresden article ID, SSYK 2012 The Swedish Standard Classification of Occupations, LoC HABS/HAER/HALS place ID, Symptom Ontology ID, photoLondon ID, Syro-Malabar Catholic Church ID, Native Plants Database ID, Lower Sorbian place name ID, Les roses cultivées à l'Haÿ en 1902 ID, Maniadb album ID, USA Water Polo Hall of Fame ID, Présence Compositrices work ID, Regional Council of Tuscany ID, Indonesian prison database ID, Encyclopaedia Beliana ID, Twitter topics ID, Naver movie ID, Bollywood Hungama movie ID, BoardGameGeek family ID, London Stock Exchange company ID, Région Île-de-France ID, Slovník českých nakladatelství 1848-1949 person ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: Infobox based on, CompositionToday composers showcase ID, parallel street, World Factbook country code, port calls, described at Wikipedia page, erected by, PIM award ID, Stadtwiki Dresden article
  • External identifiers: Quebec Dams Directory ID, Doktori.hu ID, CompositionToday composer ID, Slovník českých nakladatelství 1848-1949 publishing house ID, ACER code, Dictionnaire biographique du fouriérisme ID, NSW State Archives and Records Authority ID, SwissLipids identifier, Scottish Brick History Brick & Tileworks ID, Minecraft UUID, Minecraft username, Science Museum Group ID, Kicker.de player ID (actual scheme), RNACentral ID, NPS people ID, Directory of Belgian Photographers-ID, Dresden Street ID, Spotify playlist ID
• Query examples:
  • Birthplace of people named Michael or any other variant of the name (Source)
  • Map of outdoor warning sirens, color-coded by manufacturer. A layer selector lets you toggle individual manufacturers on and off. Clicking a siren shows its make and model if available. - OSM/Wikidata query
  • Soviet cartoons in descending order of popularity in the world (Source)
  • List of ISO countries showing each country's synonyms, labels, etc. (Source)
  • Norwegian politicians who have been members of at least 3 parties (Source)
  • Streets in Leiden named after people/things (Source)
  • Maps of arts and humanities research grants funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council in UK between 2013-2019. Sorted by year, Sorted by budget (Source)
• Newest database reports:
  • EntitySchema directory - feedback welcome on the report talk page.

Development

• First pieces of the Query Builder are coming together and we are working towards making it generate the first dumb query
• Talking to people about their thoughts on checking Wikidata's data against other databases. If you're interested reach out to Mohammed.
• Got some first internal feedback for the REST API specification draft. We'll publish it for feedback in the next days.
• Fixing an issue with certain language codes no longer being available (phab:T264294)
• Working on making sure blocked bots don't waste Item IDs when trying to create new Items (phab:T232620)

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!