Here's your summary of what happened around Wikidata over the past week. Enjoy!

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Mbch331
• New request for comments: Notability policy overhaul
• Closed requests for comments: Conflict of Interest (no consensus), Speedy vs Regular deletion (stale)

Events/Press/Blogs

• A study has been published about how Wikidata can help significantly improve the quality of medical content on Wikipedia. This is why we do Wikidata! \o/
• MusicBrainz is migrating to Wikidata for Wikipedia links
• Past: Open Data for Academics - some media available on Wikimedia Commons.
• Upcoming: OuiShare Labs Camp in Paris
• Upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Lyon

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The Wikidata Visualization Challenge has started. You can enter your submission until June 1 (23:59 CEST).
• Denny has published a proposed breakdown of tasks for Wiktionary support incl mockups. Please read and comment.
• The Wikidata Menu Challenge has started and goes on to May 27. Add labels, images and pronunciation audio to a list of around 290 items to help show off the power of Wikidata at a food festival.
• Dynamic lists on Wikipedia based on Wikidata data
• The Frick Collection and the Brooklyn Museum both have their paintings on Wikidata now.
• The most distant known galaxy EGS-zs8-1 (Q19860435) has been discovered and added to Wikidata.
• Reasonator has been restyled, to work better on mobile devices. It also has an enhanced display on first names (exsample: Paul)
• Woah! Volcanos! (Help match the Smithonian's volcano identifiers with Wikidata) ;-)

Did you know?

• Newest properties: Smithsonian volcano identifier, cathedral, hair color, Declarator.org ID, Web Gallery of Art identifier, list of characters, measured by, income classification (Philippines), Vox-ATypI classification, after a work by, spacecraft

Development

• Access to data from arbitrary items is coming to the first wikis on Monday \o/ It'll be Dutch Wikipedia and French Wikisource.
• Sneak peek at the current state of development for showing constraint violations on statements
• Hovercards also show the target's label and ID now. (Try them by turning them on in the beta features section of your preferences.)
• Continued working on RDF export
• More work on making it possible to add a reference right away when adding a statement (and allowing the full statement incl references to be edited at the same time)
• Did more work to make usage tracking possible on multilingual wikis (namely Commons)

You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here.

Monthly Tasks

• Hack on one of these.
• Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
• Help develop the next summary here!
• Contribute to a Showcase item
• Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
• Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.

Anything to add? Please share! :)

Cheers
Lydia

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