Hey folks :)
Here's your overview of what was important around Wikidata this week:
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Wikidata at Wikimania 2014 in London
<http://blog.wikimedia.de/2014/08/19/wikidata-at-wikimania-2014-in-london/>
- "Growing items"
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Lounge/Growing_items> by
User:Micru <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Micru>, an essay about
modelling concepts and understanding items
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The new Main page will go live early next week! See the announcement
at Project chat
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Project_chat#The_new_Main_page_is_coming.21>
for
more details and to leave any last comments
- It will be possible to show the badges like "Featured Article" stored
on Wikidata in the sidebar of the clients (Wikipedia, Wikisource, ...)
starting Tuesday. Wikipedia will follow on Thursday.
- Starting Tuesday we will deploy a new beta feature
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Other_projects_sidebar> on
the clients. It will allow you to show links to other sister projects in
the sidebar based on the links in Wikidata.
- Planning for structured data support for Commons is starting to pick
up speed. Get involved:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/multimedia/2014-August/000774.html
Also
maybe attend the office hour?
Did you know?
- Newest properties: list of monuments
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1456>, list of works
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1455>, legal form
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1454>, catholic.ru ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1453>, motto
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1451>, Sandbox Monolingual text
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1450>, nickname
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1449>, official name
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1448>, Sports Reference ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1447>, people missing
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1446>, fictional universe
described in <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1445>
- Newest WikiProjects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProjects>: Wikidata:WikiProject
Structured Data for Commons
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Structured_Data_for_Commons>
Development
- Deployed lots of new features
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-August/004413.html>
like
badges, access to language links for Wikinews and Wikidata, the monolingual
text data type and redirects!
- Working hard on making the new UI a reality, mainly refactoring the UI
widgets right now. Covers a lot of ground and will take some time.
- More work on HHVM issues that need to be fixed before Wikidata can
switch to it.
See current sprint items <http://sb.wmflabs.org/p/wikidata/> for what we’re
working on next.
You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1&list_id=151540&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org>
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515>
.
- Help fix these items
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:The_Game/Flagged_items> which
have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- 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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