Hey folks :)
Here's your summary of all the good things around Wikidata of the past week:
Discussions
- RfC: Reforming administrator inactivity criteria https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Reforming_administrator_inactivity_criteria
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Platypus - a speaking interface for Wikidata https://blog.wikimedia.de/2015/02/23/platypus-a-speaking-interface-for-wikidata/ - Past: Wikidata for Research meetup https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Wikidata_for_research/Meetups/2015-02-23-Berlin - Past: GLAMhack (two of the results: The Endless Story http://the-endless-story.divshot.io/ and a family tree https://tools.wmflabs.org/family/ancestors.php?q=Q7742&lang=en)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata reached 200,000,000 edits - Welcome Wikibooks! Wikibooks now gets its language links via Wikidata as well. - Vote for your favorite Wikimania submissions. Here are the Wikidata related ones. https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikidata - New release of the Wikidata Toolkit with lots of good stuff. https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-February/005493.html - There are now over 30,000 objects in OpenStreetMap tagged with a Wikidata ID. Can you add more? https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:wikidata - Want to see where we want infoboxes to go with Wikidata? Check out the infobox fromage on French Wikipedia. Have a look at the wiki text here. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reblochon
Did you know?
- Newest properties: Naturbase ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1732, Fach https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1731, AllMusic song ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1730, AllMusic album ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1729, AllMusic artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1728, Flora of North America ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1727, Florentine musea Inventario 1890 ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1726, beats per minute https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1725 - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProjects: Cheese https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Cheese, Filming Locations https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Filming_Locations - Showcase items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items: None this week. Yours next week? - You can listen to Wikidata (setting at the bottom) http://listen.hatnote.com/
Development
- Chaged a number of Lua modules (from deprecated function mw.wikibase.getEntity to mw.wikibase.getEntityObject) - Updated the json documentation - Always link to Wikidata on client pages that don’t have any langlinks. This affects users without JavaScript and logged out users, logged in users will still see the link item dialog. gerrit:168632 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/168632 - Fixes for the Wikibase qunit Jenkins job - Made Vagrant git-update also properly update Wikibase and dependencies - Fix for phabricator:T88254 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88254 (malformatted Wikidata entries appearing in Watchlist RSS feed in clients) - Final touches on new header design - Investigated how we can provide language fallback also in suggestions when search or adding new statements - More work on allowing additional languages in monolingual text datatype - Added missing backend piece for quantities with units. Now the remaining piece is the user interface. - Enabled Wikibase Client on Wikibooks
You can see all open bugs 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 fix these items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:The_Game/Flagged_items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game. - 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!
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers Lydia