Hey folks :)
Here's your weekly dose of catching up with Wikidata.
Discussions
- Open RfAs: BlackBeast
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/BlackBeast>
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Upcoming: Europeana Tech
- Andrew Su gave a talk about crowd sourcing and citizen science for
biology including Wikidata (slides
<http://www.slideshare.net/andrewsu/ucsd-dbmi-seminar-2015026>)
- Going to Wikimania? Apply for a scholarship
<https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships>.
- Internet Archive, Wikidata and Open Education
<http://teemuleinonen.fi/2015/02/02/internet-archives-wikidata-and-open-education/>
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikibooks will get access to language links via Wikidata on February
24th. Coordination is happening at d:Wikidata:Wikibooks
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikibooks>.
- Roughly 17000 of the candidate articles that Google identified as
potentially being about the same topic but lacking a language link have
been merged. About 17500 are remaining and waiting for you to go through
them via
https://tools.wmflabs.org/yichengtry/
- Mix'n'Match got a face lift <https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/>
- Magnus says every day new images are added to over 1000 items \o/
- RStats client for Wikidata <https://github.com/Ironholds/WikidataR>
- Reasonator <https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?q=Q42&lang=fr> now
also supports biography texts in French
Did you know?
- Showcase items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items>:
Lucy (first name) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13365715>
Development
- Did more work on Capiunto
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Capiunto> to get it into a
state where it can be deployed to Wikimedia sites.
- Mourned Titan (phabricator:T88550
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88550>) as its developers were
bought up. Began evaluation for which graph database to use instead for a
Wikidata query service (mw:Wikibase/Indexing
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/Indexing>)
- Further work on header section redesign
- Tweaks to the sitelink section
- Worked on making monolingual text datatype accept more languages
- Finished showing the language when a language fallback is used
- Started looking into fixing the existing Guided Tours after Guided
Tours extension API changes
- Worked on implementing Lua convenience functions for rendering
arbitrary Snaks. This is useful for displaying references or qualifiers. (
phabricator:T76213 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76213>)
You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/R8GRzX1eH0tb/#R>.
- 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_items>
- Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats>
or proofread pages in your own language!
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers
Lydia
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Lydia Pintscher -
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Product Manager for Wikidata
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