Hey folks :)
Here's your summary of what happened around Wikidata over the past week.
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- State of the Map US http://stateofthemap.us/ (OpenStreetMap's conference) in New York on 6-8 June - Wikimedia Hackathon 2015 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2015 in Lyon from 23-25 May. Some of the activities and outcomes: - Wikidata descriptions can be soon be edited in the Wikipedia iOS app. - A early preview of the primary SPARQL endpoint https://wdqs-beta.wmflabs.org/ for Wikidata has been created to query Wikidata. Remember that it is not stable and still beta. A short introduction to SPARQL https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata%27s_SPARQL_introduction_presentation.pdf can be found in Lucie's https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Frimelle slides. - If you are not familiar with SPARQL yet, a tool https://tools.wmflabs.org/ppp-sparql/ has been created by Tpt https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Tpt and Bene* https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Bene* to generate SPARQL queries from natural language questions. - To do SPARQL queries from the command line, a command line tool https://github.com/mariushoch/asparagus was crafted by Marius https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Hoo_man. - The special page to query for badges is within reach. - A feedback session on the architecture of Wikibase was held. - We got a cool presentation by Maxime about inventaire.io. - We figured out the next steps to make Wikidata more mobile friendly. - Pilot on the Hungarian Wikipedia https://twitter.com/JeanFred/status/602094565135425536 to show diagrams based on Wikidata in their articles on Spanish villages
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New command line tool for mapping SKOS to Wikidata http://inkdroid.org/journal/2015/05/20/skos-and-wikidata/ (video https://vimeo.com/128305641) - The Wikidata Visualization Challenge https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:%C3%96ppna_data_2015/Visualisering/T%C3%A4vling is ending soon. Please submit your entries. The Wikidata Menu Challenge https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Menu_Challenge is also ending soon. - The number of videos about Wikidata is growing and there is now a category on Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikidata_videos for these.
Did you know?
- Newest properties: lowest note https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1898, highest note https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1897, source website https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1896, Fauna Europaea ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1895, Danish urban area code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1894, OpenPlaques plaque identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1893, signatory https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1891, BNC identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1890, different from https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1889 - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProjects: WikiProject Elections https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Elections
Development
- Got early preview of the primary SPARQL endpoint for Wikidata live - The Graph extension is now live on Wikidata - Arbitrary access is rolled out on fawiki, hewiki and enwikivoyage now - Busy with the hackathon (see above)
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