Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events
- Registration for the Wikimedia Hackathon in Tirana (May 9-11) opened
- Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: getting started in Wikidata, labels, and aliases, 14 January. Agenda
- Press, articles, blog posts
- Report of Wiki Techstorm 2019 by Jsamwrites
- Aberdeen Plaques – Part Two: Visualisations, calculations, and analysis using wikidata by Ian Watt
- Overview of Wikidata gadgets and user scripts - slides from LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Meetings
- Wikipedia Rolls Out Our Research on Providing Semantic Information for Mathematical Formulae - this feature uses Wikidata
- Tool of the week
- Tabernacle creates a tabular view of a set of data items from a SPARQL query, PagePile list, or manual list of items. You can select which languages and properties to display. The tool lets you drag-and-drop statements from one item to another, and manually add or edit statements without leaving the page. Tabernacle is great for harmonizing a set of related items or identifying items that need their labels and descriptions translated.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- You can test a new feature highlighting mismatched references
- The next Weekly Summary (January 20) will be the issue #400. Please help us collecting interesting Wikidata-related facts around the number 400!
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: exonerated of, Commons category for ship name, heading, filename in archive
- External identifiers: Russian PFL player ID, J-GLOBAL ID, LaunchBox Games Database developer ID, LaunchBox Games Database game ID, Époques ID, openSUSE package, Ten-Bruggencatenummer, DLE RAE ID, NTIS accession number, PubAg ID, Games Database developer ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Beta Masaheft ID, ordered by, university of the third age, period of lactation, position, grape variety, merged into, distribution map of taxon
- External identifiers: Ogólnopolska Baza Kolejowa - stacja ID, Livelib.ru person ID, ScummVM wiki ID, Instituto Moreira Salles ID, Arcade PCB database game ID, Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology ID, eu-football team ID, Museen in OÖ ID, Voetbal International player ID, Museums in Salzburg (AT) ID, C64.COM ID, Museen in Burgenland (AT) ID, FlashScore.com team ID, Soccerdonna team ID, c64games.de ID, Museums in Austria Code, Canmore thesaurus ID, The Cutting Room Floor ID, NPDRIM record ID, EFIS person ID, coinop.org game ID, EFIS film ID, EFIS filmmaker ID, EFIS film festival ID, WeChangEd ID, marterl.at ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- More work on finishing the migration of wb_terms table
- Don’t check constraints on “Wikidata property example for media” statements (phab:T227865)
- Warn users that they're not nogged-in before performing restore or undo (phab:T234430, thanks to Matěj Suchánek)
- Remove edit link from Special:NewPages if page is not directly editable (phab:T240561, thanks to Matěj Suchánek)
- Introduce MwEraParser and improve i18n of dates BCE (phab:T140541, thanks to Matěj Suchánek)
- Bridge: show error dialog if the user isn't allowed to edit Wikidata (phab:T235154)
- Bridge: ask the user if the change is a fix or an update (phab:T237333)
- Enabled tainted references on test.wikidata.org
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!