Wikidata:Status updates/2017 11 27

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-11-27.

Discussions

• New request for comments: start time / end time vs. publication date of 1st / last episode
• Proposal to add some order and structure to the various bibliographic corpora we currently have in Wikidata (mailing list post)

Events/Press/Blogs

• Past: IRC office hour about Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons. You can read the log on meta.
• Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Prague, December 1st
• Well structured political data for the whole world: impossible utopia, or Wikidata at its best?
• Spatial-based Topic Modelling using Wikidata Knowledge Base (in Wikidata as Q43662744)
• Cleaning BNF identifier in Wikidata by Envlh (in French)
• Monitoring changes to Wikidata pages of your interest by Egon Willighagen

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Sandra is co-ordinating an inventory of crucial volunteer tools for Wikimedia Commons, GLAM, and structured data in general. You can provide input and prioritize your favorite tools in this Google spreadsheet.
• Q43649390 is an item about our concept of "QID"s
• OpenRefine 2.8 was released. Adding columns from Wikidata and importing Wikitables is now possible.

Did you know?

• Newest properties: type foundry, Accademia della Crusca ID, first appearance, USGHOF athlete ID, Kulturelles Erbe Köln object ID, Städel Museum artist ID, Berlinische Galerie artist ID, Tidal video ID, Tidal track ID, Tidal album ID, Tidal artist ID, HTML entity, Norwegian historical register of persons ID, Merchant Category Code, SS KL Auschwitz Garrison ID, West Australian Football League player ID, Wikidata project, BPH journal ID, SNCZI-IPE reservoir ID, BTO five-letter code, awarded for period, electoral district number, Art Museum of Estonia artwork ID, Art Museum of Estonia artist ID, Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame ID, Basketball-Reference.com WNBA ID, National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame ID, IJF ID, SNCZI-IPE dam ID, Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame ID, FAI ID, Canada Games ID, ICRC PoW ID, RA Collections ID, mountain range, Everyone Remembered ID, CNRS research group ID, ARLIMA ID
• Query examples:
  • People who were Time Person of the Year in two consecutive years (source)
  • Fictional characters “said to be the same as” other fictional characters from the same fictional universe (source)
  • Map of places of birth of deceased sociologists (source)
  • Map of libraries in India (source)
  • Train and subway stations in Basque Country (source)
• Newest WikiProjects:
• Newest database reports: Decameron editions and translations

Development

• Result views in the Wikidata Query Service UI can now be configured with options (phabricator:T155973, Special:Diff/580233265/596922582)
• Worked more on introducing the concept of sub.entities in the APIs in order to make edits to Forms persistent
• Worked on edit summaries for edits to Forms

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

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!