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