Blogs

State of the Map US (OpenStreetMap's conference) in New York on 6-8 June
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 for Wikidata has been created to query Wikidata. Remember that it is not stable and still beta. A short introduction to SPARQL can be found in Lucie's slides.
- If you are not familiar with SPARQL yet, a tool has been created by Tpt and Bene* to generate SPARQL queries from natural language questions.
- To do SPARQL queries from the command line, a command line tool was crafted by Marius.
- 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 to show diagrams based on Wikidata in their articles on Spanish villages

Other Noteworthy Stuff

New command line tool for mapping SKOS to Wikidata (video)
The Wikidata Visualization Challenge is ending soon. Please submit your entries. The Wikidata Menu Challenge is also ending soon.
The number of videos about Wikidata is growing and there is now a category on Wikimedia Commons for these.

Did you know?

Newest properties: lowest note, highest note, source website, Fauna Europaea ID, Danish urban area code, OpenPlaques plaque identifier, signatory, BNC identifier, different from
Newest WikiProjects: 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.

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!
Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

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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