Hey folks :)
Here is your weekly summary of all things Wikidata.
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Wikimania \o/ It was amazing and Wikidata all over the place. Wikidata's true potential is starting to show. - Guided tours and Wikidata: How to explain a complex project and encourage new editors http://blog.wikimedia.de/2014/08/09/guided-tours-and-wikidata-how-to-explain-a-complex-project-and-encourage-new-editors/
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Editing Wikidata directly from Wikipedia http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-August/004263.html - Histropedia http://www.histropedia.com/ now uses Wikidata to build timelines - Slides and videos of first Wikidata talks at Wikimania online: 1 https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/How_to_use_Wikidata:_Things_to_make_and_do_with_30_million_statements 2 https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Wikidata_Toolkit:_A_Java_library_for_working_with_Wikidata 3 http://new.livestream.com/wikimania/friday2014 (more slides and videos will follow)) - First prototype screenshot https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/498048920308969472 of asking questions to Wikipedia mobile readers (similar to Wikidata the Game) - Userboxes https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Userboxes
Did you know?
- Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProjects: WikiProject Interesting Content https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Interesting_Content , WikiProject sum of all paintings https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_sum_of_all_paintings
Development
- Attended Wikimania and Socrates - Worked on rewriting the sitelinks part of the user interface to make it ready for the new user interface design - Discussed Wikidata, structured data on Commons and a ton of other things with many people at Wikimania
See current sprint items http://sb.wmflabs.org/p/wikidata/ for what we’re working on next.
You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1&list_id=151540&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 . - 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
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers Lydia