Hey folks :)
It's been a busy week. Here's the short version of it for you to catch up:
Discussions
- RfC: Quality is measurablehttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Quality_is_measurable
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogshttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Announcing ToolScript http://blog.magnusmanske.de/?p=189. With ToolScript http://tools.wmflabs.org/toolscript/ can be used to get the output of all Magnus' tools - Feline mayors of the world or why Wikidata is awesomehttp://www.haykranen.nl/2014/04/03/feline-mayors-of-the-world-or-why-wikidata-is-awesome/ - A Rijksmuseum http://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?&q=190804 representative indicated what kind of informationhttp://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2014/04/wikidata-and-naval-history.html she hopes Wikidata will deliver
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikiquote now gets its sitelinks via Wikidata. Welcome, Wikiquote! Access to the other data will follow. - Do you want automatic sidebar links to other Wikimedia projects powered by Wikidata? Here you go: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-April/003690.html Thanks Tpt! - Use Wikidata for internationalization on any website!http://google-opensource.blogspot.de/2014/04/qlabel-multilingual-content-without.html How awesome is this? Very! - Vote for some Wikidata talks for Wikimaniahttps://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikidata
Did you know?
- Newest properties: KulturNav-idhttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1248 , compression ratio https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1247, patent number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1246, OmegaWiki Defined Meaning https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1245, phone numberhttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1244 , International Standard Recording Codehttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1243 , Theatricalia play ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1242, Swiss Football Association Club Numberhttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1241 , Danish Bibliometric Research Indicator levelhttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1240 ,ISFDB publisher ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1239, Swedish Football Association ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1238, Box Office Mojo film ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1237, Parsons code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1236, ISFDB series IDhttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1235 , ISFDB publication ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1234, ISFDB author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1233, Linguist list code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1232, NARA online catalogue https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1231
Development
- Still looking for an awesome intern.http://wikimedia.de/wiki/Working_student_Wikidata_(f/m) Do you know someone who'd fit? - Bene* continued working hard on making “badges” (the “featured” and “good article” stars) in Wikidata a reality - Finishing touches for Statements on properties - Worked on better error messages when parsing failed - Updated the translations to use much easier to manage JSON files for each language - Made a list of hard to understand messages that should be reworded - Implemented a usable interface for Special:SimpleQuery - Closed a backdoor that let you change the property of a snak via the API, sorry guys - Continuous refactoring and improving of the code base that defines what Wikidata and the Wikibase extensions are - Kept Wikidata up to date with the typography update - Started to redesign the Wikibase page on mediawiki.orghttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase - Investigated if standard spam prevention features of MediaWiki work as they should on Wikidata (Result: mostly yes but some fixes/tweaks are needed.) - Released version 1.0 of the Diff extension.http://www.bn2vs.com/blog/2014/04/10/diff-1-0-released/
See current sprint itemshttps://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=218716&resolution=---&resolution=LATER&resolution=DUPLICATE&emailtype1=substring&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&bug_status=ASSIGNED&email1=wikidata for what we’re working on next.
You can view the commits currently in review herehttps://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(+project:mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/Diff+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/DataValues+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseSolr+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/Ask+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseQuery+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseDatabase+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseQueryEngine+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseDataModel+)+status:open,n,z and the ones that have been merged herehttps://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(+project:mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/Diff+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/DataValues+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseSolr+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/Ask+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseQuery+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseDatabase+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseQueryEngine+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseDataModel+)+status:merged,n,z .
You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata herehttps://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
- Fix a format or content violationhttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Constraint_violations/P135 for the movement (P135) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P135 property - Hack on one of thesehttps://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 develop the next summary here!https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next - Contribute to a Showcase itemhttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers Lydia