Hey folks :)
Here's your summary for what happened around Wikidata over the past week. Sorry for sending it late. I spent some much needed time with friends over a long weekend in Barcelona. Have a great week and keep rocking!
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Past: Semantic Web Application and Tools 4 Life Science http://www.swat4ls.org/ - notes https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dSgm90SbQBpHqEMa17t5zQL0PB2waIKD3LKTPPknmcY/edit - example queries https://bitbucket.org/sulab/wikidatasparqlexamples/src - a few images https://twitter.com/bgood/status/673872975024816128 - Ongoing: Wikidata for Beginners session at DISH 2015, Rotterdam http://www.dish2015.nl/programme/improvisation-session/day-2-lose-control-gain-influence/, 8 December 2015 - Upcoming: Wikidata pour la science http://www.meetup.com/SemanticCampParis/events/227054374/?eventId=227054374 - Upcoming: Workshop on "Wikidata as a platform for biocuration" at Biocuration 2016 http://www.isb-sib.ch/events/biocuration2016/workshops#WS6 - Slides for talk "Building the sum of all human citations" http://www.slideshare.net/dartar/building-the-sum-of-all-human-citations - Op-ed in Signpost https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-12-02/Op-ed (Lydia is working on a piece to address some of the points)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Closing in towards 1 million links between Commons categories and Wikidata article-type items https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Closing_in_towards_1_million_links_between_Commons_categories_and_Wikidata_article-type_items -- 8,000 more by next week? - Help labeling edits to improve the vandalism detection on Wikidata https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Edit_labels - Open Science Prize https://www.openscienceprize.org/ is looking for cool ideas for Open Data and health. How about something awesome with Wikidata? - The Individual Engagement Grant for StrepHit https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/StrepHit:_Wikidata_Statements_Validation_via_References has been accepted - Are you between 13 and 17? Join us for Google Code-in https://codein.withgoogle.com and do some Wikidata tasks with Wikimedia - We want your feedback on how to improve the process of showcasing Wikidata's best content https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-December/007751.html - I dreamed of a perfect database https://newrepublic.com/article/124425/dreamed-perfect-database - Wikidata? ;-) - Histropedia timeline of National Library of Wales http://histropedia.com/timeline/lhblyhhr091/NLW-Collections - Wikinews, Wikispecies and MediaWiki now have access to the data on Wikidata. Do awesome things with it, sisters! Meta will follow on 15th. - Map of narrative locations in Denmark https://fnielsen.github.io/littar/ - Experimental REST API for Wikidata http://queryr.wmflabs.org/about/
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: deprecated in version https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2379, issued by https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2378, MediaWiki hooks used https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2377, superpartner of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2376, has superpartner https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2375, natural abundance https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2374, Genius artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2373, ODIS ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2372, FAO risk status https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2371, conversion to SI base unit https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2370, Soccerway player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2369, Sandbox-Property https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2368 - Newest Database reports: WikiProject Movies/new films https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Movies/new_films - Showcase items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items: Bertus Aafjes https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q353003
Development
- Polished the patch that adds icons to the item pages (for actions like edit, remove etc) and makes them cleaner. This will go live later today. - Worked more on a separate section for identifiers - Started working on the sorting of statements on the ArticlePlaceholder pages - Made it possible to use unknown language, no linguistic content and more as languages for the monolingual text datatype - Experimented more with improvements to the ranking on Special:Search - Worked on showing more languages in the in other languages box than the ones defined in your babel boxes - Small improvements to recent changes/watchlist integration on Wikipedia and co - Worked on making it possible to create a redirect over a deleted item - Worked on PHP7 support
You can see all open tickets 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 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(s), for the new properties listed above.
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers Lydia