Wikidata:Status updates/2018 08 27

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2018-08-27.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Abián
• New request for comments: Adding short code for cryptocurrencies

Events

• September 8, Zurich: Wikidata Zurich Hackathon a hacking event to code with and for Wikidata.
• Wikidata IRC office hour: September 25th, from 18:00 to 19:00 (UTC+2, Berlin time), on the channel #wikimedia-office
• October 23, Berlin: Workshop on how to use Wikidata in research contexts
• October 26/27, The Hague: Wiki Techstorm

Press, articles, blog posts

• Underwater Basket Weaving: Russian Writers and Their Professions According to Wikidata, by Galina Ryazanskaya, Alena Shchevyeva and Maria Suvorova
• Strategic inclusion of library data from Sweden into Wikidata (in Swedish), by Axel Pettersson
• Old but gold, three articles by Denny about design decisions that were made for Wikidata: Restricting the world, On truth and lies, A categorical imperative?

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Structured Data on Commons: A draft specification for using Depicts statements on Commons is up for community feedback.
• It's possible to add somevalue and novalue using QuickStatements, and to use the tool on test.wikidata.org as well.
• More properties can be searched using haswbstatement. This includes all properties with "external identifier", "string", "item", "property", "lexeme", "form" and "sense" datatypes, except published in (P1433) and cites (P2860). In addition you may make queries without a specified value.
• The page creation and edit rate limit imposed in April will be removed in the next days. However, users who are not bots or administrators are throttled to 90 edits per minute (which was set up on all Wikimedia wikis in May).
• These new languages are now supported for monolingual text strings: mid, mnw, gmy, rar, haz, uga. The language doesn't show up in the suggester, but you can save the statement and it will be stored properly.
• Reminder: Wikidata's sixth birthday happens in two months. It's time to think about organizing a meetup with your local community, or preparing a gift (see the list of presents last year).
• Lexicographical data: you can now try Senses on beta
• 25% of the labeling campaign to improve the vandalism detection on Wikidata has been done. Please help by reviewing a few edits!

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: dummy value, airline accounting code, shear strength, sample, force, abrasion resistance, requires grammatical feature, Academia.edu profile URL
  • External identifiers: BND ID, Fandango movie ID, IDPCM ID, Bibliopoche author ID, Indian Railways station code, Invasive Species Compendium Datasheet ID, Transport Canada LID, La Lorraine des écrivains writer ID, Tasmanian Heritage Register ID, LARB author ID, Recours au poème ID, Revues Littéraires ID, IMEC ID, Tor.com author ID, 2006 Commonwealth Games athlete ID, TPA person ID, PAM ID, National Medal of Arts winner ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: ISO 15919 transliteration, U.P.C. Company Prefix, value is more specific than, peak position on chart, number of weeks on chart, Pietre della Memoria ID, editor-in-chief, image of interior, Osservatorio culturale del Cantone Ticino ID, periphrasis, OSI Model layer
  • External identifiers: Cineuropa movie id, Partis d'Arcadie ID, WSJP ID, Voetbalstats ID, Angelicum ID, PUSC ID, BasketballBundesliga ID, GreekBasketLeague ID, BSL ID, BSN ID, PLK ID, Historic Hotels of America ID, Historic Hotels Worldwide ID, Morse code, MPC body ID, Open Exoplanet Catalogue ID, KERIS School info, FBref ID, Pacific Coast Architecture Database person ID, Syndikat ID, CWA ID, NDB identifier, Petit Futé ID, DAV ID, ÖAV ID, SAC ID, PZS ID, ABMC ID, The Park Database ID, IMA ID, Directorio de Museos y Colecciones de España ID, Pakistan Railways station code, RBU athlete ID, RBU coach ID, Historic Hotels of Europe ID, Animator.ru person ID, Moviepilot.de film ID, CoinMarketCap cryptocurrency ID, Television Academy Foundation interviewee ID, Academia topic ID
• Deleted properties: Heritage Building in Finland ID (P4237), patron (P1962)
• Query examples:
  • Map of libraries in Austria (source)
  • Countries ranked by number of Wikidata-known people born there whose English version of the given name starts with Q or X (source)
  • List of Windows games released this year (source)
  • Countries with most citizens on Wikidata whose given name starts with X or Q (source)
  • People entered in the Dictionary of Welsh Biography by gender and birth location (source)
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Invasive Species

Development

• More work on merging Lexemes
• More work on data types and edit summary for Senses
• Improve qualifier suggestions using constraint definition (phab:T201288)
• Improve constraint property item suggestions for property constraint values (phab:T199672)
• Remove ratelimit from Wikidata for some groups again (phab:T198396)

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!