Hey folks :)
Here's what has been happening around Wikidata over the past week for you: Discussions
- RfC on usage of Wikidata on German-language Wikipedia https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/Nutzung_von_Daten_aus_Wikidata_im_ANR
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Past: Pigsonthewing and aude were at State of the Map US to talk about Wikidata/OpenStreetMap cooperation and more - Past: Lucie and Marius gave an intro to Wikidata at Gulaschprogrammiernacht in Karlsruhe (slides https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_Workshop_-_GPN_2015.pdf) - Upcoming: Office hour on IRC on 19th https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-June/006376.html
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The English-language Wikipedia has decided to deprecate Persondata https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28proposals%29/Archive_122#RfC:_Should_Persondata_template_be_deprecated_and_methodically_removed_from_articles.3F in favour of Wikidata. - New tool by Magnus to make it easier to add references http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=310 - The results are in for the Wikimedia Foundation's board election https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/05/board-election-results/. One name should sound familiar to you ;-) - Addshore created new maps of the geocoordinates on Wikidata https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/606086887820955649. More coming. - Sylvain made an overview of the overlap in topics that the biggest Wikipedias have https://gist.github.com/Ash-Crow/ae1a3ae8318994afe45d. - Wikidata has passed German Wikipedia in number of items with images (743850 dewp articles vs. 804885 items) - now only second to English-language Wikipedia. - Catalan Wikipedia is moving Taxon IDs to Wikidata. - Zolo did a comparison https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Zolo/Wikipedia_content of English/French/German/Chinese and Cebuano Wikipedias in terms of main types of articles. Biographies were compared by period, nationality and occupation. - Connectivity https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/Connectivity statistics were updated.
Did you know?
- Newest properties: DMS V https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1930, Clinvar Accession Number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1929, Vaccine Ontology ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1928, VIOLIN ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1925, vaccine for https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1924, participating team https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1923, first line https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1922, URI pattern for RDF resource https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1921, Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1920, Ministry of Education of Chile school ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1919 - Newest gadgets: Mark as patrolled https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-Mark_as_patrolled by User:Petr Matas https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Petr_Matas
Development
- Italian Wikipedia and all remaining Wikisource projects now have arbitrary access. The rollout will continue. The schedule for the next projects is at d:Wikidata:Arbitrary access https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Arbitrary_access. - The Content Translation tool now automatically connects translated articles to Wikidata. (Thanks Content Translation developers!) Previously translated but unconnected articles have been connected by a bot. (Thanks Amir!) - Code review of the extensions written by a team of students to improve the constraint reports and make it possible to automatically check our data against other databases. A first version will go live soon pending further codereview and fixes. - Two new methods have been added to the lua library provided by Wikibase: wikibase.resolvePropertyId https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase_Client/Lua#mw.wikibase.resolvePropertyId and wikibase.entity:getBestStatements https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase_Client/Lua#mw.wikibase.entity:getBestStatements . - Further work on making unserializable values editable in the UI (This can happen for example if a property is deleted.) - Made the Wikidata JSON dumps available on Labs in the standard dumps location there (/public/dumps). - Worked on automatically creating a redirect when merging items via the API. - Rewrote the script that generates a map image based on geocoordinates in Wikidata. (Result see above.) - Released Wikibase DataModel 3.0
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! - Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers Lydia