Hey folks :)
Here's your weekly serving of Wikidata news. Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
Discussions
- Discussion over property creation
guidelines<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Clarifyin…
- Open RfA:
JurgenNL<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions…
Events
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Lydia will give an update on Wikidata at the WMF Metrics and
Activities
meeting<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings/…
- Indian Parliamentarians'
Label-a-thon<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/E…
is
taking place to add labels for all members of the Lok Sabha.
- In May, edit-a-thons hounouring Adrianne
Wadewitz<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16438247> are
taking place to add more gender related information to Wikidata.
- Wikidata office hour on May 19th at 17:00 UTC.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Time and geocoordinates have been reworked and need some testing at
test.wikidata.org. Found issues? Let Lydia know.
Did you know?
- Newest properties: coordinates of the point of
view<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1259>
, Rotten Tomatoes ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1258>, depicts
Iconclass representation
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1257>, Iconclass
notation <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1256>, Helveticarchives
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1255>, Slovenska biografija
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1254>, BCU
Ecrivainsvd<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1253>
, AUSTLANG code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1252>, ABS ASCL
code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1251>
Development
- Worked on making it possible to use languages not supported by
MediaWiki in Wikidata
- We now also display statements with "no value" or "unknown value"
on
the client (when using the parser function or Lua)
- Created another maintenance script to fix data integrity issues
- Finishing touches on the first version of the new entity suggester
- Simple queries are starting to work (If you want to see a demo attend
the WMF Metrics and Activities meeting)
- Worked more on making error messages localizable
- Released Wikibase DataModel
0.7.4<https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModel/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTE…
See current sprint
items<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=218716&reso…
for
what we’re working on next.
You can view the commits currently in review
here<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(+project:mediawiki/extensions/W…
and
the ones that have been merged
here<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(+project:mediawiki/extensions/W…
.
You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata
here<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1&list_id=1…
Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content
violation<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Constr…
for
the academic degree (P512) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P512>
property
- Hack on one of
these<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer…
.
- Help develop the next summary
here!<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next>
- Contribute to a Showcase
item<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase>
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers
Lydia
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Lydia Pintscher -
http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
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