Hey everyone :)
Here's what's been happening around Wikidata over the past week. Hope you have a good week ahead of you.
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Past: code.talks (slides on migrating Freebase to Wikidata https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1B27T8SWWNYgZyPllGZl2dNqZhxFoZkKQJFzHsrcRj5w/edit#slide=id.i0 ) - Past: Wikidata:Mobilizing Open Cultural Data (videos https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIry9pjMR9lc1pKRRETgko5-MEC8sxjkW, slides http://slides.com/susannaanas/wikidata-yle#/) - Upcoming: Wikidata's 3rd birthday. We will have a party and you should come! (announcement https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-September/007300.html, program and other details https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Third_Birthday/Party, IMPORTANT: sign up so we know how many people to expect https://www.eventbrite.de/e/wikidatas-3-geburtstag-wikidatas-3rd-birthday-registration-18899772729 )
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- There are now almost 5000 articles in Czech Wikipedia which include an infobox without parameters, only with data from Wikidata. - Input request about editing Wikidata from clients like Wikipedia https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-September/007299.html - Freebase to Wikidata: results of Tpt's internship have been published https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-October/007319.html - Articles without a Wikidata item can now be filtered by category tree. (example for chemists on enwiki https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/duplicity.php?cat=Chemists&mode=list&wiki=enwiki ) - Wikidata:Units https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Units attempts to list available units and properties they can be used with - Constraint reports https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Constraint_violations/Summary can now check if units are within a user defined list https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:Constraint:Units: e.g. report for mass (P2067) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Constraint_violations/P2067 - WikiProject Economics https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Economics needs more participants to organize all the new properties.
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: Georgian national system of romanization https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2126, Hepburn romanization https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2125, membership https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2124, YerelNet village ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2123, prize money https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2121, radius https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2120, vapor pressure https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2119, kinematic viscosity https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2118, combustion enthalpy https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2117, vaporization enthalpy https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2116, NDF-RT ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2115, half-life https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2114, sublimation temperature https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2113, wing area https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2112, power output https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2109, Kunstindex Danmark artwork https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2108, decomposition point https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2107, RXNO Ontology https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2106, size of team at finish https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2105, size of team at start https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2103, boiling point https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2102, melting point https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2101
Development
- Changed the default RDF flavor to include all statements ( phabricator:T101837 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101837) - Started to work on creating new articles from scratch from the article placeholder - Continued work on the Lua libraries of the default Article Placeholder layout - Started the research on client editing with an input page https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Client_editing_input - More work on making the mobile view fit for being enabled per default for mobile users - Changed our JavaScript coding style to be more in line with MediaWiki core’s - In edit mode, the label is now displayed for units instead of a URL - Added a new “YearMonthDay” date parser that supports many edge cases where all other date parsers fail - More work on passing full edit summaries to the client wikis.
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