Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: 1997kB
- Events
- Past: IRC office hour, July 16th (log)
- Upcoming: Wikidata Tainan Meetup in Taiwan, July 31st (Facebook event)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Reminder: because of a database switch, Wikidata will be read-only on July 30th, between 05:00AM-05:30 AM UTC (Phabricator task, help translate the banner)
- You can nominate tools for the Coolest Tool Award until July 29th
- Wikimania's draft program has been published
- User:Bodhisattwa joined CIS-A2K as Wikidata Advisor
- wbEntity config value to be dropped on July 24th - if you use it, please consider replacing it
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: Wolfram Language unit code, unabbreviated text, extracted from, imprimitur granted by, terms of service, surface gravity, lexeme, chassis, enemy of
- External identifiers: PharmGKB ID, Handball123 player ID, ACMI web ID, AtlasFor ID, Adventure Gamers ID, BIC of the Canary Islands ID, Russian organisation number, World Encyclopedia of Puppetry Arts ID, Anime Characters Database character ID, Anime Characters Database anime ID, ANZCTR ID, Arachne collection ID, Arachne object ID, Australian Suppliers Directory ID, Biyografya ID, Flemish Public Libraries ID, HCIS ID, Lebanese National Library ID, MPG ID, National Library of Luxembourg ID, National Library of Russia ID, National Pollutant Inventory ID, Penguin India author ID, Repertorium van ambtsdragers en ambtenaren id, Australian Educational Vocabulary ID, Syriaca work ID, TuttoCalciatori.Net coach ID, TuttoCalciatori.Net player ID, COURAGE ID, Documenta Catholica Omnia author ID, National Library of Iceland ID, NosDéputés.fr identifiant, Perseus author ID, The Latin Library author ID, TheTVDB episode ID, Colonial Frontier Massacres ID, HOV-ID, PBS Drug Code, AICS Chemical ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: image of bone or fossil record, (de)evolution method, WeChat Official Account, Dose, hat Mitglied, Variété de la forme, value group number, orientation, Digital audio workstation, title geographic ref, location of point of view
- External identifiers: misas.org Catholic church ID, identificador de arte público de Zaragoza, Taxonomicon ID, Wayback ID, Common Sense Media ID, FFR fencer ID, Australian Marine Algal Name Index ID, ABBBS Taxon ID, AFCD PFKID, Plant Breeders Rights Database AID, WaterNSW Rivers and Streams Site No., Lens ID, LezWatch.TV actor ID, LezWatch.TV show ID, Grand Canyon Trust ID, LezWatch.TV character ID, Bossu ID, Textile Connect publication ID
- Query examples:
- Number of living people who have walked on the Moon (source)
- Artworks depicting the Moon (source)
- People that have been on spaceflights operated by at least two different sovereign states, and their time in space (source)
- Temporal distribution of book editions in Swedish (source)
- How long after a UK general election that a political party has appointed a new leader, since 1945 (source)
- Newest database reports: family names in Ireland
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Fix a bug that was preventing to add multiple glosses (phab:T228080)
- Show number of senses and forms on page information for WikibaseLexeme entities (phab:T224844)
- Show number of statements and external identifiers on page information for Wikibase entities (phab:T224842))
- Track number of external identifiers on Wikidata over time (phab:T224129)
- Fix a few queries on Grafana (phab:T227788)
- Update the query host for Grafana (phab:T218710)
- Add support for "MediaInfo" as value for "allowed entity types"-constraint (phab:T224362)
- Data bridge: open a modal with edit link information (phab:T226996)
- Show the current Wikidata value in edit modal (phab:T226997)
- Extract data bridge parameters from edit links (phab:T226994)
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!