Hey folks :)
Here's your summary of what's been happening around Wikidata last week. I am a bit behind on schedule for the weekly summaries and would appreciate help with sending them out on time.
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Past: WikiCon in Dresden - Upcoming: office hour on IRC https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-September/007052.html
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The grant proposal "StrepHit: Wikidata Statements Validation via References https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/StrepHit:_Wikidata_Statements_Validation_via_References" is looking for endorsements - Wikidata and it's dumps are now described https://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikidatawiki/entities/dcatap.rdf according to the DCAT-AP standard. You can add your language by translating the general https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=tsint-dcatap&filter=%21translated&action=translate and the Wikidata specific messages https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/MediaWiki:DCAT.json. - A follow-up to the Wikidata for research proposal has begun to be drafted https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Wikidata_for_research/GIF_proposal by the University of Haifa and the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin - Community page https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service for the new SPARQL query service, including a subpage for interesting or illustrative queries https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/queries, and a board for suggestions https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/suggestions and discussions. - Wikibooks now has access to the data on Wikidata - English Wikipedia and a few more got arbitrary access https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Arbitrary_access - Mix'n'match https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/? got new catalogs including Open Library authors and AcademiaNet's excellent female authors - The LinkedWiki https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LinkedWiki extension now supports Wikidata (demo http://daap.eu/wiki/Demo_Wikidata )
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: FISA ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2091, Power of 10 athlete ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2090, Library of Congress JukeBox ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2089, CrunchBase organisation ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2088, CrunchBase person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2087, CDD Public ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2086, Nikkaji https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2085, ZINC ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2084, Leadscope ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2083, M.49 code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2082, BLDAM object ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2081, AcademiaNet https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2080, fabrication method https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2079, user manual link https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2078, pressure https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2077, temperature https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2076, speed of sound https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2075, internetmedicin.se ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2074, range https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2073, CDB Chemical ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2072, Mémoire des hommes https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2071, Fellow of the Royal Society https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2070, magnetic moment https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2069, thermal conductivity https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2068
Development
- Started writing default Lua modules for the Article Placeholder - Excluded the Topic namespace from Special:UnconnectedPages - Fixed a bug where an item link on normal wiki pages was sometimes prepended by a label (in a random language) - Worked on the remaining blockers for redirecting users on mobile devices to the mobile version of the site - Fixed an issue where people had login issues when trying to connect an article to an item on the client - Worked on removing some more places that don't have language fallback yet - Worked more on making meaningful edit summaries show up in the client watchlist and recent changes
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