Hey folks :)

Here's your summary of what's been happening around Wikidata over the past week. Enjoy!

Discussions

Open request for adminship: HakanIST

Events/Press/Blogs

Past: Open Science Meetup, Berlin
Slides for "Wikidata for biomedical knowledge integration and curation" talk
Wiki Workshop 2016 could use some researchy Wikidata submissions

Other Noteworthy Stuff

How much does a Wikipedia use Wikidata data? Stats are in the total entity usage flags graph here (select project at the top left)
How many statements does the average item or property on Wikidata have? Here are the stats.
What are the most viewed pages on Wikidata?
We still need your help with classifying edits to build better anti-vandalism tools. We're halfway done by now.
Andrew updated his maps
We crossed edit 300,000,000!
Graph example: matrices
Taxonomy of WikiProject municipalities of Germany is completed. Feedback welcome.
Last call for comments on the new process for showcase items at d:User:Harmonia Amanda/Showcase items. Please review and comment on the associated talk page.

Did you know?

Newest properties: Box Office Mojo studio ID, Box Office Mojo franchise ID, ČSFD film ID, Richter magnitude scale, moment magnitude scale

Development

Search now works on mobile
Groundwork for adding new entity types to move us forward with support for structured data on Commons. (Other entity types are Item and Property. We'll need Mediainfo for Commons.)
Daniel summarized upcoming changes for new datatypes
Investigated further options for performance improvement (phabricator:T125502)
Indexing labels in elastic properly (phabricator:T125500)
More work on cleaning up language codes (phabricator:T125063, phabricator:T124757)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Monthly Tasks

Hack on one of these.
Help develop the next summary here!
Contribute to a Showcase item
Help translate 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

Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher

Product Manager for Wikidata

Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.

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10963 Berlin

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