Hey everyone :)

Here's your summary of what's been happening around Wikidata over the past week:

Discussions

• New request for comments: Reforming the property creation process

Events/Press/Blogs

• Past: Color History with the Smithsonian!
• Past: Accessibility Edit-a-Thon at the DC Public Library
• Past: Admin meetup of the German-language Wikipedia
• Automatic Extraction of Knowledge from Biomedical literature
• Identifying problematic statements in Wikidata via multi-level modeling theory
• Wikidata as a semantic framework for the Gene Wiki initiative
• Adding disclosures to Wikidata with Bioclipse

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Dutch language Wikipedia has a consistently low number of articles unconnected to Wikidata: Duplicity statistics for nlwiki
• MusicBrainz now uses Wikidata to fetch images for their entities
• The query service is now linked in the sidebar
• Mix'n'match has new catalogs among them TED speakers
• Maarten made some reports to make it easier to connect paintings on Wikidata with images on Wikimedia Commons

Did you know?

• Newest properties: BBFC rating, German tax authority ID, ISO 9362 SWIFT/BIC code, DNF person ID, PASE ID, MetroLyrics ID, MEK ID, Companies House ID, Site of Special Scientific Interest (England) ID, ISO 15924 numeric code, Hungarian company ID, SHOWA ID, formatterURL for Wikidata ID, World Heritage criteria (2005), TED talk ID, TED topic ID, TED speaker ID
• Query examples: distribution of public art by place

Development

• The query service now has Ctrl+enter as a shortcut to run a query
• Started working on improving input for geocoordinates and dates (changing the advanced settings)
• Worked on database performance improvements for the client (Wikipedia and co) (phabricator:T125838)
• Experimenting with arbitrary access for Wikimedia Commons on http://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org
• Converted more identifiers from string datatype to identifier datatype
• Worked on improved localization of dates that are very far in the past or future (phabricator:T127820)
• Fixed undo actions going through abuse filter (phabricator:T126861)
• Fixed issues in the query service with Internet Explorer 11
• Improved query service display on small screens
• Improved autocompletion in the query service
• Fixed a bug with an add button for qualifiers being shown when it shouldn't (phabricator:T128317)
• Further work on Wikimedia Commons support (Special Pages, API)
• You can now add a default view to a query like here. This then shows the defined view (map, table, image grid) when executing the query.

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

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

Product Manager for Wikidata

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