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"2016 – A busy year for Gene Wiki and WikiData"

by Pine W

This was encouraging to read. Forwarding for others who may be interested: http://sulab.org/2016/12/2016-a-busy-year-for-gene-wiki-and-wikidata/ Pine

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Weekly summary #242

by Léa Lacroix

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Discussions - Open requests for adminship: יונה בנדלאק <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrat…>, Pyb <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrat…> Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events>/ Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Next IRC office hour on January 5th <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-December/010136.html> - Past: we were at 33c3 <https://events.ccc.de/congress/2016/wiki/Session:Wikidata_query_and_visuali…> - Scaling OpenStreetMap with Wikidata knowledge <https://www.mapbox.com/blog/scaling-openstreetmap-wikidata-knowledge/> - 2016 – A busy year for Gene Wiki and WikiData <http://sulab.org/2016/12/2016-a-busy-year-for-gene-wiki-and-wikidata/> Other Noteworthy Stuff - Wikidata and the celebrity deaths of 2016 on Buzzfeed <https://www.buzzfeed.com/katiehasty/song-ends-melody-lingers-in-2016?utm_te…> - Welsh Wikipedia has some 16,000 lists regularly maintained from Wikidata <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cy:Arbennig:Contributions/ListeriaBot> Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: INSEE arrondissement code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3423>, INSEE countries and foreign territories code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3422> - Query examples: - Filtered timeline of Spotify artists <http://www.histropedia.com/showcase/wikidata-viewer.html?query=SELECT%20?pe…> - Paintings of the Eiffel Tower by Robert Delaunay <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%2…> (source <https://twitter.com/PoulpyWP/status/814065889658241024>) - Ratio of “famous” (≥25 sitelinks) people’s deaths since 2000 <https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Ratio%20of%20famous%20people%E2%80%99s%20…> (source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/814075781957746689>) - Things with coordinates on globes other than Earth <https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FglobeLabel…> (source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/814106864203993088>) - Newest WikiProjects <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>: US Virgin Islands <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_US_Virgin_Islands> - Newest external tools: "Descriptioner" - Tool to add descriptions batchwise <http://tools.wmflabs.org/pltools/descriptioner/> - Newest database reports: Popular items without claims <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Popular_items_witho…>, Portuguese-language films without articles in Portuguese <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pt:Wikip%C3%A9dia:Wikidata/Filmes_em_l%C3%ADn…> Development - When a {{#statements:…}} property couldn't be resolved, a tracking category will be added (phab:T50799 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T50799>) - Rewrote Special:NewItem <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:NewItem> and all other Special:New… pages to use OOUI error handling (phab:T150205 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150205>) - Getting ready the basic Lexeme prototype (phab:T146662 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146662>) - Continued work on federation basics (phab:T149580 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149580>) - Release version 1.0.0 of the DataTypes <https://github.com/wmde/DataTypes> component - Enjoying the holidays and getting ready for this year's challenges. Hope you do to :) You can see all open tickets 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 develop the next summary here! <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next> - 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 pages in your own language! - Help merge identical items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge> across Wikimedia projects. - 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> - proposals needing attention <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Attention_needed> -- Léa Lacroix Community Communication Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.

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