Hey folks :)
I am finally back from my month of traveling and slowly fighting through my backlogs. If you're waiting for something urgent from me please poke me otherwise I'll get to it over the next days.
Below are the weekly summaries for the last two weeks.
Cheers and hugs Lydia
Discussions
- Successful request for adminship: Nikki https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Nikki - Open request for oversightership: Sjoerddebruin https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Oversight/Sjoerddebruin - Closed request for comments: Administrative divisions and populated places https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Administative_divisions_and_populated_places, Given names and surnames https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/How_to_deal_with_given_names_and_surnames
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Wikidata, coming soon to a menu near you! https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/07/21/wikidata-tastydata/ - Past: Wikimania
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Upload of 4.2M new statements https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#News_about_Freebase_migration from Freebase https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Freebase in the Primary Sources tool https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Primary_sources_tool.
Did you know?
- Newest properties: NALT id https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2004, Instagram username https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2003, Twitter username https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2002, Revised Romanisation https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2001, CPDL ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2000, UNESCO language status https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1999, UCI code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1998, Facebook Places ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1997
Development
- Continued migrating away from an older serializer to the DataModel Serialization component. - Released Wikibase DataModel Serialization 1.7.0 - Depreacting the parameter ungroupedlist in the api modules GetClaims and GetEntities - Tweaking the sitelink input - Changing the display of item selector results
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 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.
Discussions
- Open requests for Oversight: Sjoerddebruin https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Oversight/Sjoerddebruin - Enable Flow on Wikidata? https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Flow
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Early version of a reconcile API for Wikidata by Magnus https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-reconcile/ - PagePile: a new tool by Magnus http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=332 - Mix-n-Match https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/ got a number of new catalogs and now shows a thin red line in front of a catalog that does not yet have a property on Wikidata - 1.700 biographical items without gender, but with image. Go go go! https://tools.wmflabs.org/autolist/?language=en&project=wikipedia&category=&depth=12&wdq=claim%5B31%3A5%5D%20and%20claim%5B18%5D%20and%20noclaim%5B21%5D&statementlist=&run=Run&mode_manual=or&mode_cat=or&mode_wdq=not&mode_find=or&chunk_size=10000 - Interested in art movements? Check out this https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Visual_arts/Item_structure/Art_movements
Did you know?
- Newest properties: MoMA artwork id https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2014, Facebook ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2013, cuisine https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2012, Cooper-Hewitt Person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2011, Exif make https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2010, Exif model https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2009, IPNI publication ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2008, ZooBank publication ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2007, ZooBank author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2006, Catalogus Professorum Halensis https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2005, NALT id https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2004 - Showcase items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items: László Krasznahorkai (Q512062) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q512062
Development
- Minor fixes to property edit mode - Some fixes for the cucumber test errors - Released Wikibase DataModel 4.0 - Released Wikibase DataModel Services 1.0 - Continued work to migrate away from old serializers in Wikibase Lib to those in WikibaseDataModelSerialization. - Working on scripts for importing entities from another Wikibase instance (e.g. Wikidata), so that development instances can have some sample data. - Fixed the counting of references - Changed style of the Entitytermsview inputs - Entity Selector displays alias in brackets behind label
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 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! :)