Discussions

Open RfAs: BlackBeast

Events/Press/Blogs

Upcoming: Europeana Tech
Andrew Su gave a talk about crowd sourcing and citizen science for biology including Wikidata (slides)
Going to Wikimania? Apply for a scholarship.
Internet Archive, Wikidata and Open Education

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Wikibooks will get access to language links via Wikidata on February 24th. Coordination is happening at d:Wikidata:Wikibooks.
Roughly 17000 of the candidate articles that Google identified as potentially being about the same topic but lacking a language link have been merged. About 17500 are remaining and waiting for you to go through them via https://tools.wmflabs.org/yichengtry/
Mix'n'Match got a face lift
Magnus says every day new images are added to over 1000 items \o/
RStats client for Wikidata
Reasonator now also supports biography texts in French

Did you know?

Showcase items: Lucy (first name)

Development

Did more work on Capiunto to get it into a state where it can be deployed to Wikimedia sites.
Mourned Titan (phabricator:T88550) as its developers were bought up. Began evaluation for which graph database to use instead for a Wikidata query service (mw:Wikibase/Indexing)
Further work on header section redesign
Tweaks to the sitelink section
Worked on making monolingual text datatype accept more languages
Finished showing the language when a language fallback is used
Started looking into fixing the existing Guided Tours after Guided Tours extension API changes
Worked on implementing Lua convenience functions for rendering arbitrary Snaks. This is useful for displaying references or qualifiers. (phabricator:T76213)

You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here

Monthly Tasks

Hack on one of these.
Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
Help develop the next summary here!
Contribute to a Showcase item
Help translate 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

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