Hey everyone :)Happy holidays!Here's your summary of what's been happening around Wikidata over the past week.Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: 33C3
- Scaling OpenStreetMap with Wikidata knowledge
- Scraping data from Wikipedia using Wikidata
- Using cbimport to import Wikibase data to JSON documents
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Did you know?
- Newest properties: Belvedere artist ID, Calflora ID, basic unit of settlement code (Czech/Slovak), Google Play Store ID, Quora topic ID, end period, start period
- Query examples:
- List of heads of state by Erdős number (source)
- Airports named after people (source)
- Graves with no grave pictures of people buried in Norra Begravningsplatsen (source)
- Graves with grave pictures of people buried in Norra Begravningsplatsen (source)
- Solidays occurring today (source)
- Streets in Paris named after current countries (source)
- Streets in Paris named after battles (source)
- Wikipedia articles (in any language) of paintings by painter (source)
- Sovereign state flags with no red, white, or blue (source)
- Graph of number of compositions over age at first composition (source)
Development
- Worked more on the first entity type (Lexeme) for Wiktionary support
- Worked more on federation in order to allow using Wikidata items and properties to describe images on Commons in the future
- Fixed a bug with getLabelWithLang returning the wrong language (phabricator:T152241)
- Fixed an issue where some coordinate values displayed 60 seconds instead of rounding to 1 minute (phabricator:T153429)
- Adjusted language for simple English sitelinks (phabricator:T152915)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
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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