Wikidata:Status updates/2020 01 20

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2020-01-20.

Events

• Past: Wikidata OpenRefine Workshop in Prague (Q1085)
• Upcoming: next Wikidata office hour, January 22nd, at 17:00 UTC (18:00 UTC+1), on the Wikidata Telegram channel. Topics: presenting the roadmap for 2020 and some news from the development team

Tool of the week

• The Wikidata Card Game Generator generates printable cards based on a topic (eg chemical elements) and some statements of the item.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• New gadget added to Preferences, "Show UnpatrolledEdits" (see discussion): it shows if the last edit to the item has not been patrolled
• Pywikibot deprecates Python 2 support. Any scripts running via Python 2 should be migrated soon, see more at [1]
• The next Weekly Summary (January 27) will be the issue #400. Please help us collecting interesting Wikidata-related facts around the number 400!

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: none
  • External identifiers: National September 11 Memorial ID, BeWeb person ID, BeWeb entity ID, BeWeb family ID, Apple IIGS France ID, bauhaus.community ID, CEEB K-12 school code, D-MSX ID, Decine21 person ID, dovidka.com.ua person ID, Games Database publisher ID, Games Database system ID, ICD-11 (foundation), kino-teatr.ru person ID, LaunchBox Games Database platform ID, LaunchBox Games Database publisher ID, Macintosh Garden game ID, Macintosh Repository ID, Open Churches ID, OpenBibArt ID, textove.com artist ID, textove.com song ID, Electronic library Ukrainica ID, article in French Vikidia, OrthodoxWiki ID (English), Punjabipedia ID, Sarvavijnanakosam ID, article in Italian Vikidia, BookBrainz work ID, CPCWiki ID, UCUM code, VGMPF ID, article in Spanish Vikidia, What is the Apple IIGS? ID, article in English Vikidia, LiverTox ID, NMVW id, article in Basque Vikidia, Authenticus ID, Instituto Moreira Salles ID, Livelib.ru person ID, Nederlands Fotomuseum photographer ID, Polish Nationwide Railway Database - station ID, Saregama artist ID, ScummVM wiki ID, article in Armenian Vikidia, Vienna History Wiki ID, article in German Vikidia, Joconde object type ID, MarketScreener business leaders ID, Beta maṣāḥǝft ID, DigitaltMuseum ID, Frick Art Reference Library artist file ID, Panoptikum podcast episode ID, Joconde location ID, Identifier for a resource held by the Smithsonian Institution
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: local to a language context, category for files created with program, Used with verb, Commons postcards category, Indonesian intangible cultural heritage, IP address or range, Commons map category V2, necessary property for class, 8-bits ID
  • External identifiers: CoBiS author ID, The Cover Project game ID, Analysis & Policy Observatory node ID, Analysis & Policy Observatory term ID, Swedish School Registry ID, Eurogamer ID, VR GameCritic ID, GameStar ID, Media Art Database ID, IGCD game ID, GameTDB game ID, identifier HAL for article, Diccionari del cinema a Catalunya ID, VGMRips composer ID, Historical Marker Database ID
• Query examples:
  • Contributors to Jacob Heyblocqs vriendenboek and their occupations (source)
  • Number of Co-Authors by Country using ORCID to identify the "searched author" (source)

Development

• More work on wb_terms table migration: information about property terms is no longer updated and removed from wb_terms table.
• Add "wikibase-statementsection-identifiers i18n message key to Wikibase (phab:T240356)
• Stop using $wgUser in Wikibase (phab:T241947)
• Document possible configuration options for Wikibase Repository and Wikibase Client installations (phab:T165973)
• Document Wikibase Usage Aspects (phab:T236772)
• Document Wikibase tables (phab:T124603)
• Wikidata Bridge: add the RadioButton to the component library (phab:T239799)
• Showing error dialogs if users can’t edit on the repo wiki (phab:T235154)
• Tainted references: work on keeping the warning visible when users cancel an edit

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!