Hey everyone,
Here is the latest summary of everything happening around Wikidata!
Read the summary in your language at <
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/20…
Discussions
- A question from an intern
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#What_do_you_wish_you_had_known_when_you_first_started_using_and.2For_contributing_to_Wikidata.3F
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Open Hack Day
<https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fringe/Open_Data_Hack>, 5th
and 6th of July, London
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata got 10 times easier to use with the entity suggester
<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-July/004148.html
- Lydia needs your help with some selfies
<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-June/004146.html
(already
uploaded ones are at c:Category:Wikidata selfies
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikidata_selfies>)
- Wikidata the Game has a new game: occupation
<http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/#mode=occupation
- As part of the Outreach Program for Women
d:User:User:Thepwnco
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:User:Thepwnco> is continuing
improving all help pages to help new users understand Wikidata better. At
the same time w:User:Discoveranjali
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Discoveranjali> is helping with
social media outreach and creating presentations workshops about Wikidata.
Did you know?
- Newest properties: replaced by structure
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1398>, State Catalogue of
Geographical Names (Russia)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1397>, Linguasphere code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1396>, NCI ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1395>,Glottolog code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1394>, proxy
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1393>, ComicBookDB ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1392>, Index Fungorum ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1391
Development
- Upcoming API change (wblinktitle)
<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-July/004190.html
- Deployed entity suggester.
- More work on redirects. They are taking shape. Done with much of the
groundwork. We've seen the first one! :D
- Continued work on user interface redesign mockups
- Monolingual text datatype is also taking shape but needs more user
interface love to make it intuitive.
- Investigated making
Wikidata.org its own client so you can for example
get access to better Lua functions for access to an item's label on a
discussion page. Outcome: Should be possible but needs some more work.
- Fixed bugs
See current sprint items <http://sb.wmflabs.org/p/wikidata/> for what we’re
working on next.
You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1&list_id=151540&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org
Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Constraint_violations/P850
for
the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P850> property
- Hack on one of these
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515
.
- Help fix these items
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:The_Game/Flagged_items> which
has 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