Hi everyone,
Here is the (belated right now) weekly summary of everything Wikidata!
Discussions[edit https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Status_updates/2015_07_18&action=edit§ion=1 ]
- Open request for adminship: Nikki https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Nikki
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Right now: Wikimania https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Magnus made some new tools: - list of scientists on Wikidata born after 1950 with no image, grouped by employer https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/static/scientists_without_image_by_employer.html. Check your university! - list of scientists on Wikidata born after 1950 with no ORCID iD, grouped by employer https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/static/scientists_without_orcid_by_employer.html#Q35794. Ditto! - an InfoBitt replacement https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/619211793496473600 - a tool you can use to match up Wikipedia articles without an item https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/duplicity.php to either an existing item or a create a new one if none exists - plus Mix'N'Match got new datasets you can help match up with Wikidata - CPDL ID (P2000) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2000 was created. - Some presentations at WikiMania related to Wikidata have detailed slides online: - WikiProject Sum of All Paintings https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Sum_of_all_paintings - Templates are dead! Long live templates! https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Templates_are_dead!_Long_live_templates!, technical presentation on the function and future of template syntax - Future of structured documents: VisualEditor, Citations and Wikidata, oh my! https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Future_of_structured_documents:_VisualEditor,_Citations_and_Wikidata,_oh_my!
Did you know?
- Newest properties: CPDL ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2000, UNESCO language status https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1999, UCI code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1998, Facebook Places ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1997, parliament.uk bio link https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1996, medical specialty https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1995, AllMusic composition ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1994, TeX string https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1993, Plazi ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1992, LPSN URL https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1991, species kept https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1990, Encyclopaedia Metallum artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1989,Delarge ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1988 - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects : Linguistics https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Linguistics
Development
- Attending Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City right now, meeting awesome people that already use or want to know everything about Wikidata. - After the next deployment, redirects will be automatically created when merging items. - Special:UnconnectedPages can now be queried via the query API, thanks to Ladsgroup. - Migrating away from an older serializer to the DataModel Serialization component. - Worked on a new time parser that can parse formats like M/D/Y, Y M D and so on. - Fixed a bug where a value could not be edited when save failed. - Made the snak type, badge and rank selectors position themselves after resizing the browser window and introduced a possibility to collapse the sitelinks sections. - Worked on a change in editing to be able to edit a statement and it’s references in one step.
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 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