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!
• some visualizations:
  • Family tree of King Halo, race horse
  • Doctoral students of Gauss
  • Tributaries of the Danube
  • Children of Kronos
  • Influenced by Leibnitz
  • Graphs
  • Zika virus papers
• 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

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Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher

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