Wikiskim is great! It's International Women's Day though, so maybe this link is better https://tools.wmflabs.org/hay/wdskim/index.php?prop=P170&item=Q232423&am...
On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Lydia Pintscher < lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de> wrote:
Hey folks :)
Here's your summary of what's been happening around Wikidata over the last week:
Discussions
- Open RfA: Haplology
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Haplology
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- upcoming: Wikidata for Wikipedians at Lokal K in Köln in 17th of
March https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lokal_K/Kalender
- upcoming: Wikidata editathon in Berlin on 24th of March
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Berlin
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Help flesh out landing pages for partners
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Landing_pages_for_partners
- Update on the Wikidata query service progress
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-tech/2015-March/000740.html
- The automatic description API https://tools.wmflabs.org/autodesc/
can now generate infoboxes (currently, "person" and "artwork" on en.wp)
- Wikidata Skim
https://tools.wmflabs.org/hay/wdskim/index.php?prop=P170&item=Q167654&language=en&withimages=on gives you very simple query functionality
- Meet Kian, the first neural network to serve Wikidata
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-March/005537.html
Did you know?
- Newest properties: Information Center for Israeli Art artist
identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1736, Comedien.ch identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1735, oath of office date https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1734, Steam ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1733
- Showcase items
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items: Symphony No. 7 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q260957
Development
- Fixed edit buttons sometimes not showing up because of caching
- Added mailto to the allowed protocols in the URL data type
- Worked on updating the data model documentation
- Worked on client wiki subscription/notification mechanism
- Improved handling of scientific notation for quantity values
- Reworked a lot of code related to time parsing and formatting, e.g.
proper support for language independent parsing of YYYY-MM-DD ordered dates
- Continued working on the new Special:SetLabelDescriptionAliases
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
-- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata
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