Hey folks :)

Here's the summary of exciting things that have been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Blogs

Past: Editathon at MACBA
Past: Wikidata intro session for Wikipedians at Lokal K in Cologne
Upcoming: Wikidata editing at Wikimedia Germany in Berlin
Upcoming: Office hour on 31st of March (Topics include Freebase migration, dev update, admin inactivity criteria)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Freebase is going read-only at the end of the month and we expect an influx of new people. There is now an FAQ to answer their most common questions.
We now have (improved) landing pages for partners at d:Wikidata:Data donation and d:Wikidata:Data access. Could use some help with making them easier to read and more visual.
Lots of improvements around MixNMatch. It has a new catalog overview page. ~340K IDs have been matched so far with it and it now has an FAQ for institutions wanting to get their identifiers linked in Wikidata
There is a fancy new tool to help with patrolling edits on Wikidata
First screenshot of the primary sources tool that'll help with migrating data from Freebase and enriching it with references has been leaked ;-): 1 and 2
DBpedia converts Wikidata data to the DBpedia ontology
Another 3rd-party SPARQL endpoint has been set up for testing

Did you know?

Newest properties: art-name, posthumous name, temple name, courtesy name, school of, possible creator, forgery after, manner of, circle of, follower of, workshop of, attributed to, USDA plant identifier, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System identifier, LMI code, denkXweb identifier, place name sign
Newest WikiProjects: Municipalities of Germany
Newest gadgets: Image search supports the new "place name sign" property

Development

Fixed property suggestions on empty items
Updated database for property suggestions with newest correlations so you should get better suggestions
Updated various documentation
Continued working on RDF export (among other things a requirement for query functionality)
Polishing in the user interface

You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here.

Monthly Tasks

Hack on one of these.
Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
Help develop the next summary here!
Contribute to a Showcase item
Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

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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