Hey folks :)
Here are the important things that happened around Wikidata over the last week.
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Upcoming: Office hour on IRC on Friday https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-January/005222.html. You should come :) - Past: London Wikidata Meetup 2 - We had a meetup with nine people: - set up Wikidata:WikiProject UK and Ireland https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_UK_and_Ireland (sound recording of meeting available) - Upcoming: Open Data Day, 21st February 2015 - For generic wiki, see International Open Data Day http://wiki.opendataday.org/2015/City_Events - Open Data Camp UK http://odcamp.org.uk/posts/, Saturday/Sunday 21st/22nd February 2015
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- We just crossed 14000 active users (over the last month). Thank you all!
Did you know?
- Newest properties: Gray's Anatomy 1918 subject https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1698, Total valid votes https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1697, inverse of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1696, NLP identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1695 - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProjects: Food https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Food, UK and Ireland https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_UK_and_Ireland, Suisse https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Suisse - Newest gadgets: ExportClaims https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Petr_Matas/ExportClaims.js, *Mark as patrolled* from list of changes https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Petr_Matas/Mark_as_patrolled.js
Development
- The sitelink section has been reworked. This will go live on Wikidata on Tuesday. The sitelinks will then be slimmer and they will appear in a sidebar on the right side if there is enough space. - More performance improvements when parsing an item page, ~%15 faster for some pages :) - Titan was selected as the graph DB to implement a Wikidata query service running in production https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-tech/2015-January/000706.html - Fixed adding links to ru.wikinews.org which was broken by its change to HTTPS-only - Worked on redesigning the header area (label, description, alias, in-other-languages box) - Polished d:Wikidata:Data access https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Data_access and d:Wikidata:Database download https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_download. Could still use some more work though if you have time. - Enabled PHP_CodeSniffer with Mediawiki rules and some additional ones to make us aware of more code issues - We no longer log some common 404 errors in the exception log
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
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers Lydia