Hey folks :)
Here is all the important stuff that happened around Wikidata over the last
week for you:
Discussions
- Closed RfAs: Petr Matas
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Petr_Matas_2>
(unsuccessful), Edoderoo
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Edoderoo>
(successful)
- Open RfAs: Eurodyne
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Eurodyne>
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Upcoming: MediaWiki Developer Summit
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Developer_Summit_2015>
- Upcoming: FOSDEM <http://fosdem.org>
- Upcoming: Wikidata for research meetup in February in Paris and Berlin
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Wikidata_for_research/Meetups>
- Past: Meetup in Cambridge
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Cambridge/25>
- Brainstorming for Wikimania talks related to Wikidata is happening at
phabricator:T87334 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87334> and you
can apply for a scholarship
<https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships>
- Wikidata - a year in numbers
<http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.de/2015/01/wikidata-year-in-numbers.html>
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Want to help out mapping
schema.org and Wikidata properties? There is
now a ticket for coordination
<https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/280>.
- The new Content Translation
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/20/try-content-translation/> tool
uses Wikidata data to suggest the correct article to link to when
translating a Wikipedia article to another language
- Using GNOME Shell? There is a Wikidata search provider
<https://github.com/6ahodir/wikidata-search-provider> for you.
Did you know?
- Newest properties: award shared with
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1706>, native label
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1705>, pollenizer
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1704>, pollination
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1703>
- You can influence the languages shown in the "in other languages box"
by adding a bable box to your user page like here
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lydia_Pintscher_%28WMDE%29>.
Development
- More work on header section redesign
- Released Wikibase DataModel 2.5
<https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModel/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES.md#version-250-2014-01-20>
- Broke and fixed JSON dumps - sorry!
- Implemented entity change subscription service
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
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Lydia Pintscher -
http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
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