Il 05/04/2015 17:18, John Lewis ha scritto:
Hi everyone,
Here is the latest update of everything going on around Wikidata!
Discussions
- Closed RfC: Reforming administrator inactivity criteria https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Reforming_administrator_inactivity_criteria
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- WikiArabia http://arabia.wikimedia.tn/index.php?title=Main_Page takes place in Monastir, Tunisia, 3-5 April
- The GLAM-WIKI 2015 http://www.glamwiki.nl/ conference in The Hague (10-12 April) features several presentations and tutorials about Wikidata for/with cultural institutions.
- The Library world will use Wikidata http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2015/04/viaf-move-over-wikipedia-for-wikidata.html to link its information to any and all Wikipedias. No longer English only, but every Wikipedia will be exposed in this way.
- Freebase, SEO and Wikidata http://infobib.de/2015/04/01/seo-freebase-und-wikidata/
Hmm... German?
- Office hour on IRC covering overall status/development, Freebase and admin inactivity criteria RfC. You can read the log https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2015/wikimedia-office.2015-03-31-16.00.log.html.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Magnus wrote a short tour of Wikidata's tool ecosystem https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/tour.html#slide.3D0.
- A first version of the Primary Sources Tool has been released https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-April/005724.html. It'll help with migrating Freebase data and more.
- Italian Wikipedia's quality festival https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Festival_della_qualit%C3%A0/Aprile_2015 is focusing on interwiki links and Wikidata this month. Help them out?
- Lots of new databases have been added to Mix n Match https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/.
- Screenshots of the current state of new constraint reports and checks against 3rd party databases have been posted. https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/582545229884063744
Did you know?
- Newest properties: choreographer https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1809, senat.fr ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1808, Great Aragonese Encyclopedia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1807
Development
- Wikidata development started 3 years ago https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/583220841711845376. <3 to everyone who is a part of it.
- Went through all the feedback we got for improving watchlist integration on Wikipedia and co and posted our assesment https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Watchlist_integration_improvement_input#First_iteration_on_feedback_by_dev_team
- Put the infrastructure for creating Turtle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_%28syntax%29-Beta dumps in place. All new Wikidata dumps will be in https://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikidatawiki/entities/ from Monday on (the old * directory will be kept around and receive new json dumps for backwards compatibility).
- Reduced size of entities pages by removing no longer needed data (to make the UI faster).
- Fixed bug that sometimes caused dates and other types of values to be cut short when quickly saving. (phabricator:T92831 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92831)
- Fixed issues with setting focus after clicking edit.
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!
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