Hey folks :)
Here's a short summary of last week. Enjoy your weekend!
Events
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Lydia gave a first demo of simple queries and other cool stuff at the WMF
Metrics and Activities
Meeting<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings/…
- ongoing this weekend: Youth Science Hack Day where a team is working
on a Wikidata powered quiz app
- upcoming: Data Science Day
- upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Zurich
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Helen and Anjali join Wikidata as Outreach Program for Women
interns<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-April/00375…
Did you know?
- Newest properties: coordinates of the point of
view<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1259>
, Rotten Tomatoes ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1258>, depicts
Iconclass representation
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1257>, Iconclass
notation <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1256>, Helveticarchives
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1255>, Slovenska biografija
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1254>, BCU
Ecrivainsvd<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1253>
, AUSTLANG code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1252>, ABS ASCL
code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1251>
Development
- Got simple queries in shape for a first demo at the WMF Metrics and
Activities Meeting
- Cleaned up constraints checks and input validation
- Worked on requirements for the user interface redesign
- Started work on monolingual text datatype
See current sprint
items<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=218716&reso…
for
what we’re working on next.
You can view the commits currently in review
here<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(+project:mediawiki/extensions/W…
and
the ones that have been merged
here<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(+project:mediawiki/extensions/W…
.
You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata
here<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1&list_id=1…
Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content
violation<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Constr…
for
the academic degree (P512) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P512>
property
- Hack on one of
these<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer…
.
- 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
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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
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.