Hey folks :)
Here is the summary for what happened around Wikidata over the past two weeks. Sorry I couldn't send out a summary last week. Traveling and the developer summit messed with my schedule.
Discussions
- Successful request for adminship: Innocent bystander https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Innocent_bystander
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- The Reference Wars http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=378 - Teaching machines to make your life easier – quality work on Wikidata http://blog.wikimedia.de/2016/01/02/teaching-machines-to-make-your-life-easier-quality-work-on-wikidata/ - Wikidata references from Microdata http://addshore.com/2015/12/wikidata-references-from-microdata/ - Building applications around Wikidata (a beer example) http://addshore.com/2016/01/building-applications-around-wikidata-a-beer-example/ - From Freebase to Wikidata: the great migration http://www2016.ca/program/industry-track.html#from-freebase-to-wikidata-the-great-migration has been accepted for the industry track of WWW2016 - Gene Wiki and Wikidata: an overview of 2015 http://sulab.org/2016/01/gene-wiki-and-wikidata-an-overview-of-2015/ - Past: 32C3 in Hamburg - Past: Wikimedia Developer Summit https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit_2016
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning http://www.r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-1/ - The deadline for submissions for Wikimania has been extended to 17th. https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions Get your talk proposals in! - IUCN statuses https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P141 have been removed from taxoboxes in Czech Wikipedia in order to display sourced Wikidata data. Check it out with Comodo dragon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cs:Varan_komodsk%C3%BD, lion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cs:Lev, Siamese fighting fish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cs:Bojovnice_pestr%C3%A1 or any of almost 3,000 articles. - Migrating identifier properties to new identifier datatype https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-January/007951.html - Listeria lists can now show arbitrary SPARQL results https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikidata_list/doc - Mix'n'match https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/ has new catalogs like UNESCO's Atlas of languages in danger - Initial plans for MetaPipe, a collaborate metadata tool https://artturimatias.github.io/metapipe/
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: BugGuide ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2464, elibrary.ru organisation ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2463, member of the deme https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2462, ComLaw ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2461, Persons of Ancient Athens https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2460, IBU biathlete identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2459, Mackolik.com footballer ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2458, Australian National Shipwreck Database Shipwreck ID number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2457, dblp identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2456, Species Profile and Threats Database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2455, KNAW past member identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2454, nominee https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2453, GeoNames feature code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2452, MAME ROM https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2451, Encyclopædia Britannica contributor identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2450, Turkish Football Federation manager ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2449, Turkish Football Federation player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2448, transfermarkt manager id https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2447, transfermarkt footballer id https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2446, metasubclass of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2445, homoglyph https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2444, stage reached https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2443, conversion to standard unit https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2442, literal translation https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2441, transliteration https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2440, language https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2439, narrator https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2438, number of seasons https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2437, voltage https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2436, PORT person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2435, Panarctic Flora ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2434, gender of a scientific name of a genus https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2433, J. Paul Getty Museum artist id https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2432, Thyssen-Bornemisza artist id https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2431, takeoff roll https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2430, expected completeness https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2429, RePEc Short-ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2428, grid global research id https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2427, Xeno-canto species ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2426, service ribbon image https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2425, Berlin cultural heritage ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2424, FIE identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2423 - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects: Broadcasting https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Broadcasting - New feature/gadget requests: disambiguator tool https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2015/12#Disambiguator_tool_request, tool to move statements from one item to another https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2015/12#Tool_to_move_statements_fom_one_item_to_another_item
Development
- Attending the Wikimedia Developer Summit https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit_2016 - Are you a student looking for a thesis topic with impact? There might be some around Wikidata for you. Get in touch with Lydia https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lydia_Pintscher_%28WMDE%29 if interested. - More work on moving identifiers to their own section and having a separate datatype for them - Fixed the problem where you could add links to non-existing files on Commons (phabricator:T87263 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87263) - We're adding a "latest" link for the JSON dumps (phabricator:T72247 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T72247) - Fixed a bug in the monolingual text datatype when changing the language (phabricator:T95419 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T95419) - More work on making it possible to show all languages for a given item without the label lister gadget - Security review for the ArticlePlaceholder is done \o/ - References in the ArticlePlaceholder are now shown more similar to how they are shown in a regular article (at the bottom) - SPARQL queries display directly when link to query.wikidata.org is opened
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/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(s), for the new properties listed above.
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers Lydia