Hey folks :)
Here's your summary of what happened around Wikidata last week. Hope you had a great weekend.
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Wikidata turned 2 on Wednesday! https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Second_Birthday Have a look at the notes from the community and development team and add your note. Also don't forget to check out all the cool presents (a painting, speed improvements, a huge load of unconnected articles that you can help connect via the Wikidata Game, WikidataLDF, a recent changes visualisation)! - Wikidata II http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2014/10/30/wikidata-ii/
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata is nominated for 2 Open Data Awards http://summit.theodi.org/awards/! \o/ Magnus and Lydia will attend the award ceremony next week. Keep your fingers crossed for us. - Wikidata as the central hub for open life science data http://blog.wikimedia.de/2014/10/22/establishing-wikidata-as-the-central-hub-for-linked-open-life-science-data/ - What is Wikipedia about? http://www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/showcase/608-what-is-wikipedia-about Great data viz based on Wikidata - Super Lachaise http://www.superlachaise.fr/, a mobile app based on Wikidata for a cemetery in Paris - Random items without statements https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/no_statements.php - Tutorial: How to make a “descendants of” timeline using Wikidata http://www.histropedia.com/blog/how-to-make-a-descendants-of-timeline/ - Updated statistics on the topics with most highly-rated articles on Wikipedia https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/Badge_statistics
Did you know?
- Less than 23% of @wikidata items have no statement. Down from ~53% a year ago. - Newest properties: deepest point https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1589, Desa code of Indonesia https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1588, Slovene Cultural Heritage Register ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1587, Catalan object of cultural interest ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1586, Municipality code of Brazil https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1585, Pleiades identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1584, MalaCards ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1583, natural product of taxon https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1582, official blog https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1581, University of Barcelona authority ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1580, Beilstein Registry Number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1579, Gmelin Number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1578
Development
- Worked around memory corruption in zend PHP - HHVM beta feature is enabled again for Wikidata - Fixes for various breaking changes in mediawiki core - Work on language fall backs for new serialization code - Work on fixing XML dumps - Work on making Special:Version correct again for Wikidata extensions - Implemented LabelLookup to improve performance further - Worked more on remaining tasks for simple queries - Poked remaining tasks for statements on properties - Further improvements to the usability and workflow of sitelink editing - Wrote browser tests for authority control gadget
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
- 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 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
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers Lydia, who is slightly jet-lagged after returning from a trip to California