Wikidata:Status updates/2020 08 17

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2020-08-17.

Discussions

• Closed requests for adminship: Hazard-SJ, Gnoeee, Wagino 20100516 (all successful)
• New request for comments: How (un)important is preserving the historic character of an item?

Events

• Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #26, August 23

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Video: Editing Wikidata with information from Son jarocho (in Spanish). YouTube

Tool of the week

• Entity Explosion: a new multilingual Chrome browser extension. "Taking the power of Wikidata with me wherever I go across the web!". Uses API calls to the Wikidata Query Service to match the URL you are browsing on to a Wikidata item, and then displays data and links to other sites about the same entity. (Video)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikidata Bridge v1 will be deployed on Catalan Wikipedia on August 18th
• New description and screenshots for the Simple Query Builder project, feedback welcome
• Help:Dataset sizing

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: alternative form
  • External identifiers: Henrik Ibsen writings ID, RKD thesaurus ID, TCLF ID, Sculptures and cities database ID for sculptures, Manioc book ID, Presence compositrices ID of composer, Offizielle Deutsche Charts song ID, ToS;DR service numerical identifier, Have I Been Pwned breach ID, Unsplash User ID, EIB project ID, ANZSRC 2020 FoR ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: latest start date, earliest end date, Number of votes after transferring, map URL, type of archaeological site, record number, front and back matter
  • External identifiers: Sports-Reference.com college football school ID, Panteono de edukado.net, LSG local body code, MobyGames attribute ID, Dictionary of Occupational Titles ID, Frauen in Bewegung 1848–1938, Anais do Museu Paulista article ID, Dictionary of Occupational Titles Code (fourth edition, revised), Proballers player ID, Linked Open Data Cloud identifier, Chrome Webstore extension ID, CTHS publication ID, LBS Physical ID, GBIF occurence ID
• Query examples:
  • Largest collections of Picasso content (Source). The National Gallery of Art holds the most with 303 objects
  • Bubble chart of snooker world champions (Source)
  • Map of streets in Tillydrone named after WW2 military leaders (Source)

Development

• Fixed a bug where a length limit for strings seems to have reverted itself back from 1500 to its default 400 (phabricator:T259440)
• Fixed a bug that Wikibase is not always adding &redirect=no in situations when MediaWiki usually does (phabricator:T255387)
• Wrapping up the initial work on the design system so it is ready for use in the first new feature (Query Builder)
• Fixed the serialization of statements on Forms and Senses not containing the datatype (phabricator:T249206)
• Wrapping up work on the first version of Federated Properties so that other Wikibase installations can use Wikidata's Properties instead of having to maintain their own
• Worked on ensuring the data from the linked data interface at Special:EntityData is always up to date after an edit has been made (phabricator:T128486)
• Enabling clients to use Lua to request labels, descriptions and aliases in some (often minority) languages even when they are not content languages (phabricator:T259340, phabricator:T260118)

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!