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>
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- 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>