Hey folks :)
Here's what's been happening around Wikidata over the past week:
Discussions
- Should we have a Wikidata User Group https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata_Community_User_Group?
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Past: Thanks to everyone who participated in the Wikidata:Menu Challenge https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Menu_Challenge which made Wikidata shine at *A Taste of Stockholm*. The live results are still up at https://wikimedia-sverige.github.io/tastydata . - Upcoming: Donostia-San Sebastián Wikidata Editathon https://sites.google.com/site/donostiasansebastianenwikidata/ - Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata in Paris https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Ateliers_Wikidata - News about Wikidata FIST http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=319 - Review of the big interwiki link migration http://addshore.com/2015/06/review-of-the-big-interwiki-link-migration/ - Timeline of Christopher Lee films http://histropedia.com/blog/timeline-of-christopher-lee-films/ - Wikidata map - 19 months on http://addshore.com/2015/06/wikidata-map-19-months-on/ - A challenge was raised http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2015/06/wikidata-six-degrees-of-separation-of.html to calculate the degrees of separation to Kevin Bacon. Already one routine has been produced, the next step is to use live data so that we can work on reducing the number of intermediary steps.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- ViziData has been improved significantly https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-June/006365.html - Wikidata Visualization Challenge winners announced https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:%C3%96ppna_data_2015/Visualisering/T%C3%A4vling/Jury_comments: first prize to ViziData. - New paper: Peer-production system or collaborative ontology development effort: what is Wikidata? http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/377397/ - Jura1 posted some data around property usage on items about people https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jura1/People_charts - Tpt is interning at Google now to free up more content from Freebase for us. He's adding more data to the Primary Sources Tool https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Primary_sources_tool.
Did you know?
- Newest properties: street key https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1945, relief location map https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1944, location map https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1943, McCune-Reischauer romanization https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1942, conifers.org ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1940, Dyntaxa ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1939, Project Gutenberg ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1938, UN/LOCODE https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1937, Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1936, DBCS ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1935, Animator.ru ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1934, MobyGames ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1933, stated as https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1932, PGCH ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1931
Development
- Deployed arbitrary access on all Wikivoyage and Wikiquote projects and announced the next ones. See d:Wikidata:Arbitrary access https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Arbitrary_access for more. - More fine tuning on entity usage tracking (relevant for arbitrary access) - Fixed bug that sometimes allowed multiple properties to have the same label in a given language (phabricator:T102148 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T102148) - More work on automatically creating redirects when merging items - More code review of the Wikidata Quality extensions (improved constraint reports and checks against 3rd party databases). Starting to look good for a first deployment. - The sitelinks heading hierarchy changed and includes a “Site links” heading now that is only shown on mobile. This is a DOM change needed to make Wikidata work better on mobile. - Started working on having PHPCS coverage for the major Wikibase.git code base to find small code issues more easily - Prepared Wikibase.git for the DataModel 3.0 switch - Released Wikibase DataModel Serialization 1.4 - Released Wikibase Internal Serialization 1.4 - New releases of several DataValue components, including DataValues Number 0.5, DataValues JavaScript 0.7 and ValueView 0.14.5
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! - Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers Lydia