Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Discussions
- Closed requests for adminship: Hazard-SJ <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Hazard-SJ_3>, Gnoeee <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Gnoeee>, Wagino 20100516 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Wagino_20100516_2> (all successful) - New request for comments: How (un)important is preserving the historic character of an item? <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Talk:Q5098204> Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events> - Upcoming: Online Wikidata editathon in Swedish #26 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Swedish_online_editathon#Meetup_#26>, August 23 Press, articles, blog posts, videos <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Video: Editing Wikidata with information from Son jarocho (in Spanish). YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-n_QrWPECo> Tool of the week - Entity Explosion <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata: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 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/File:Entity_Explosion_introduction.ogv>) Other Noteworthy Stuff - Wikidata Bridge v1 will be deployed on Catalan Wikipedia on August 18th <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2020-August/014199.html> - New description and screenshots for the Simple Query Builder project <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Improve_the_workflows_for_queries_and_lists/Simple_query_Builder>, feedback welcome - Help:Dataset sizing <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Dataset_sizing> Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: - General datatypes: alternative form <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8530> - External identifiers: Henrik Ibsen writings ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8518>, RKD thesaurus ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8519>, TCLF ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8520>, Sculptures and cities database ID for sculptures <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8521>, Manioc book ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8522>, Presence compositrices ID of composer <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8523>, Offizielle Deutsche Charts song ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8524>, ToS;DR service numerical identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8525>, Have I Been Pwned breach ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8526>, Unsplash User ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8527>, EIB project ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8528>, ANZSRC 2020 FoR ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8529> - New property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal> to review: - General datatypes: latest start date <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/latest_start_date>, earliest end date <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/earliest_end_date>, Number of votes after transferring <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Number_of_votes_after_transferring>, map URL <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/map_URL>, type of archaeological site <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/type_of_archaeological_site>, record number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/record_number>, front and back matter <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/front_and_back_matter> - External identifiers: Sports-Reference.com college football school ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Sports-Reference.com_college_football_school_ID>, Panteono de edukado.net <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Panteono_de_edukado.net>, LSG local body code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/LSG_local_body_code>, MobyGames attribute ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/MobyGames_attribute_ID>, Dictionary of Occupational Titles ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dictionary_of_Occupational_Titles_ID>, Frauen in Bewegung 1848–1938 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Frauen_in_Bewegung_1848%E2%80%931938>, Anais do Museu Paulista article ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Anais_do_Museu_Paulista_article_ID>, Dictionary of Occupational Titles Code (fourth edition, revised) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Dictionary_of_Occupational_Titles_Code_(fourth_edition,_revised)>, Proballers player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Proballers_player_ID>, Linked Open Data Cloud identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Linked_Open_Data_Cloud_identifier>, Chrome Webstore extension ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Chrome_Webstore_extension_ID>, CTHS publication ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/CTHS_publication_ID>, LBS Physical ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/LBS_Physical_ID>, GBIF occurence ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/GBIF_occurence_ID> - Query examples: - Largest collections of Picasso content <https://w.wiki/ZEW> (Source <https://twitter.com/TrinkerMedia/status/1292864560169472001>). The National Gallery of Art <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q214867> holds the most with 303 objects - Bubble chart of snooker world champions <https://w.wiki/Zit> (Source <https://twitter.com/piecesofuk/status/1295311630604140544>) - Map of streets in Tillydrone named after WW2 military leaders <https://w.wiki/Zex> (Source <https://twitter.com/watty62/status/1294932396371042304>) Development - Fixed a bug where a length limit for strings seems to have reverted itself back from 1500 to its default 400 (phabricator:T259440 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T259440>) - Fixed a bug that Wikibase is not always adding &redirect=no in situations when MediaWiki usually does (phabricator:T255387 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/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 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/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 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/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 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T259340>, phabricator:T260118 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260118>) You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority>. Monthly Tasks - Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above. - Comment on property proposals: all open proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview> - Contribute to a Showcase item <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Showcase_items> . - Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats> or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language! - Help merge identical items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge> across Wikimedia projects. - Help write the next summary! <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next> -- Mohammed Sadat *Community Communications Manager for Wikidata/Wikibase* Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. 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