Hey folks :)
Here's what happened around Wikidata over the past week. Have a great week!
Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Koavf
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Koavf_2>
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Past: Wikipedia and Wikidata editathon (EditatónAlicia) in Mexico
- Past: Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland
- Past: Wikidata Editathon at the National Library of Wales
- Past: Ubuntu Conference, Paris
- Is Wikidata the new Rosetta Stone?
<http://blogs.cccb.org/lab/en/article_la-nova-pedra-de-rosetta/>
- WordLift 3.0: A brief semantic story – part 1
<http://blog.insideout.io/en/2015/11/wordlift-3-0-a-brief-semantic-story-part-1/>
- Workshop i Wikidata
<http://blogg.wikimedia.no/2015/11/24/workshop-i-wikidata/>
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Your help is needed with the most important constraint violations
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Constraint_violations/Mandatory_constraints/Violations>
.
- New daily report on Mix'n'match
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske/Mix%27n%27match_report>
- Daily updated list of people who's birthday is today
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/birthday_today>
- French Wikisource is using images from Wikidata for their author page
headers and more now (example
<https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/fr:Auteur:Henri_Mouhot>)
- New catalogs have been added to Mix'n'match
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match>
- A new author language game has been added to the Wikidata distributed
game <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/distributed>.
- Mix’n’match now creates a new, pre-filled Wikidata item when no
matching one can be found (by humans!), where possible
- Workflow sketch for the OA Signalling project
<https://github.com/wpoa/OA-signalling/issues/113>
- example of a Listeria list created from a SPARQL query
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Fnielsen/Autolist/DTU_employed>
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: Australian
Stratigraphic Units Database ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2367>, Roman agnomen
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2366>, Roman cognomen
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2365>, production code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2364>, NMHH film rating
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2363>, time to altitude
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2362>, online service
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2361>, intended public
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2360>, Roman nomen gentilicium
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2359>, Roman praenomen
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2358>, Classification of
Instructional Programs code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2357>, UNESCO endangered
language ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2355>, has list
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2354>, statistical unit
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2353>, applies to taxon
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2352>, number of graves
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2351>, Speedskatingbase.eu ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2350>, Stuttgart Database of
Scientific Illustrators ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2349>,
period <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2348>, YSO ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2347>, Elonet movie ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2346>, AGORHA event identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2345>, AGORHA work ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2344>, playing range image
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2343>, AGORHA
person/institution ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2342>, indigenous
to <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2341>, CESAR person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2340>, BoardGameGeek ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2339>, Musopen composer ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2338>, SFDb-identifier of group
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2337>, SFDb-identifier of
soundtrack <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2336>, SFDb-identifier
of company <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2335>, SFDb movie ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2334>, Norwegian organization
number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2333>, Dictionary of Art
Historians <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2332>
Development
- Worked on (and for now finished) a new, prettier layout for the
ArticlePlaceholder-generated pages
- Made improvements to page size by removing a lot of unneeded comments
in the HTML
- Worked more on putting identifiers into their own section and linking
them properly without a gadget
- Looked into making it possible to edit more languages without the
labellister gadget
- Worked on improving the ranking of search results on Special:Search
You can see all open tickets 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>
- Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats>
or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed
above.
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers
Lydia
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