Well, https://angryloki.github.io/wikidata-graph-builder will change my life, this is amazing. Thank you AngryLoki and all the hundreds of layers of contributors which lead to a tool like this. Also Lydia et al, thanks for the hard work in keeping these updates going.best wishes,- mekOn Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 9:44 AM, Lydia Pintscher <Lydia.Pintscher@wikimedia.de> wrote:Hey everyone :)Here's your summary of what's been happening around Wikidata over the past week.Events/Press/Blogs
- Replicator: Wikidata import tool
- The Facebook of German Playwrights
- Language usage on Wikidata
- Past: FOSDEM (slides of talk by Lucie)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Please help us classify a bunch of edits to improve anti-vandalism tools on Wikidata
- Over 18000 people who made at least one edit over the last month!
- KasparBot is now removing all PersonData template usages from English Wikipedia. They added machine-readable information to articles.
- Wikiversity will get the first phase of Wikidata support (language links) on February 23rd.
- Upcoming deployments of new datatypes, In Other Projects Sidebar, Article Placeholder and more
- WD-FIST now supports SPARQL queries
Did you know?
- Newest properties: National Historic Sites of Canada ID
- Query example: horses, French sculptors by year of birth
- Newest external tools: Template:Complex constraint
- Newest database reports: Help:Wikimedia language codes/lists/all
- New feature/gadget requests: badge for templates using Wikidata
Development
- und, mis, mul and zxx will be supported language codes for monolingual text. More will come later.
- Working on adjusting the layout of the ArticlePlaceholder generated pages
- Final touches on making search work on mobile
- Finishing identifier datatype and section
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- 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(s), for the new properties listed above.
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers
Lydia--Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscherProduct Manager for WikidataWikimedia Deutschland e.V.Tempelhofer Ufer 23-2410963 BerlinWikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207._______________________________________________Wikidata mailing list_______________________________________________Wikidata mailing list