Hey folks :)
Here's your summary of what's been happening around Wikidata over the past week.
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Wikipedia turned 15. Happy birthday, big sister! - Fifteen years ago , Wikipedia was a very different place: Magnus Manske https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/01/18/fifteen-years-wikipedia-magnus-manske/ - Wikipedia just turned 15 years old. Will it survive 15 more? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/01/15/wikipedia-just-turned-15-years-old-will-it-survive-15-more/ - Slides for talk by Lucie and Adam at the birthday party in NYC http://www.slideshare.net/frimelle/wikidata-at-wikipeda-day-15-2016-nyc - Doing research on Wikidata? Consider submitting to OpenSym http://www.opensym.org/os2016/call-for-papers/. - Past: ODI summit (video of talk "Making every human gene accessible and linkable" by Andra Waagmeester https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUET6isFLHg) - Past: StrepHit IEG kick-off (video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvfd_HmPOrc, slides http://www.slideshare.net/MarcoFossati/strephit-ieg-kickoff-seminar) - Upcoming: ORCID outreach meeting https://orcid.org/blog/2016/01/12/orcid-down-under-announcing-our-first-australian-outreach-meeting
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Module:Cycling race https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Module:Cycling_race generates a list of stages and winners for cycling races - Great use of the Listeria bot to create an artwork gallery https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Lockal/Paintings_by_Jacob_van_Ruisdael - Wikidata-lang https://github.com/inventaire/wikidata-lang - library to get language code from a Wikidata item for a language - Live-stream of Wikidata edits https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/rcvis.html by Magnus - Wikipedia tools for Google Spreadsheet https://github.com/tomayac/wikipedia-tools-for-google-spreadsheets now has a Wikidata function - Yair rand wrote a user script to experiment with how changes are shown in recent changes and watchlist https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Proposal_and_demo_script_for_watchlist_and_recent_changes_appearance
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: Theatricalia person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2469, Theatricalia theatre ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2468, Global Geoparks Network ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2467, judicial sentence https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2466, allcinema film identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2465
Development
- Students worked on new datatype to capture mathematical expressions ( phabricator:T67397 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T67397) - Updated property suggester data to give you more up-to-date suggestions when adding new statements - Pages in the module namespace now also get interwiki links ( phabricator:T123234 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123234) - Reduced number of resource loader modules to improve performance ( phabricator:T123233 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123233) - Started experimenting with showing an image in the header area ( phabricator:T119493 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119493) - Fixed a bug where the query text would be moved off the screen on the query service website (phabricator:T120196 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120196) - Worked on the remaining blocker for taking the in other projects sidebar out of beta. We need to link to the Commons category and not gallery for articles without frying the servers (phabricator:T94989 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T94989)
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