Hi everyone,
In a change to the 2015 tradition (which broke 2014 tradition), here's the
weekly update being published by me. Here's the summary of everything
Wikidata over the past week and a thanks to Lydia for doing this for the
past few weeks :)
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>[edit
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- Asking ever bigger questions with Wikidata
- Wikidata4Research meetup in Berlin
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Wikidata_for_research/Meetups/2015-02-23-Berlin>
Other Noteworthy Stuff[edit
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- As announced Wikibooks is getting access to Wikidata for their
sitelinks on 24th. Coordination at d:Wikidata:Wikibooks
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikibooks>
- ViziData
- Update on data quality project
- Update on structured data for Commons
- Using mw.wikibase.getEntity in a Lua module?
- Number of visual artworks items by property (type, genre, creator...)
on Wikidata
Did you know?[edit
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- Newest properties: pinyin transliteration
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1721>, posthumous name
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1720>, temple name
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1719>, courtesy name
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1718>, SANDRE ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1717>, brand
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1716>
- Showcase items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items>
: Montblanc <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q761735>
Development
- Still looking for an awesome frontend developer to join the team
- Met with Nik and Stas from WMF in Berlin for a week to move query
functionality forward. Made good progress on evaluating backends and
languages
- Worked on RDF mapping/export
- Introduced mw.wikibase.renderSnak(s) for rendering arbitrary Snaks in
Lua. This can be used for rendering for example qualifiers or references.
- Made it so that links in the “other projects” sidebar are
alphabetically ordered
- Made the diff views for dates easier to read
- Continued work on the planned Wikibase View component
- Continued work on header redesign
- Worked on a new special page that lets you set label, description and
aliases in one page
- Fixed all browsertests to use new header section and adjusted them to
use phantomjs
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 fix these items
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:The_Game/Flagged_items> which
have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- d:Wikidata:Glossary
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Glossary> could
use some serious simplification to make it easier to understand. Can you
help?
- 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>
- Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats> or
proofread pages in your own language!