Hey folks :)

Here's your summary of what's been happening around Wikidata over the past week. Enjoy and have a great week!

Discussions

- New request for comments: Merging relationship properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Merging_relationship_properties

Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage

- Removing use of Mediawiki’s API ‘rawmode’ in Wikibase http://addshore.com/2015/08/removing-use-of-mediawikis-api-rawmode-in-wikibase/

Other Noteworthy Stuff

- New page: Wikidata:OpenStreetMap https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:OpenStreetMap to facilitate cooperation with our colleagues at OpenStreetMap - Inventaire now shows links to ProjectGutenberg ebooks based on Wikidata data (example https://inventaire.io/entity/wd:Q326467) - First version of units is ready for testing https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#First_version_for_units_is_ready_for_testing.21

Did you know?

- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: ResearchGate ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2038, GitHub username https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2037, African Plant Database https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2036, LinkedIn personal profile https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2035, Project Gutenberg ebook ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2034, Category for pictures taken with camera https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2033, work period end https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2032, work period start https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2031, NASA biographical ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2030, Dictionary of Ulster Biography ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2029, United States Armed Forces service number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2028, Colour Index International constitution ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2027, Avibase ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2026 - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects: Reasoning https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Reasoning - Newest gadgets: List of missing pairs queries https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Yamaha5/List_of_missingpairs_querys, DuplicateReferences https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#New_gadget:_DuplicateReferences.js - Newest External tools https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Tools/External_tools: Commons:Database reports/Cameras https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Database_reports/Cameras

Development

- Lucie posted a sneak-peek https://twitter.com/lucielinde/status/635822277054083073 of her work on the article placeholder extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ArticlePlaceholder - Optimized Wikidata for viewing on mobile devices. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#mobile_improvements_going_live_soon You will be redirected to m.wikidata.org automatically when using a mobile device soon the same way it already happens on Wikipedia. (Editing will only be possible via the special pages!) - Started working on a page to track how much Wikidata's data is used on each Wikimedia project https://tools.wmflabs.org/audetools/wikidata-stats/ - API breaking change coming soon https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Addshore/API_Break_September_2015 - API custom summary will no longer override the autocomment ( phabricator:T97247 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97247) - Paging and sorting has been added to Special:ListProperties and it now also shows the IDs of the properties - Worked more on making the edit summaries on the client more meaningful and readable - Introduced a limit of 250 different entities that can be used on a page in the client via arbitrary access. The limit does not apply to convenience functions in lua, such as mw.wikibase.label which use a TermLookup instead of loading a full entity to get labels. ( phabricator:T93885 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T93885) - Properties are now linked in the diff view (phabricator:T105411 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T105411) - Ricordisamoa made several improvements to special pages (eg phabricator:T68744 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T68744, phabricator:T48248 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T48248, phabricator:T86647 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T86647) - Fixed a bug that made aliases too prominent in entity selectors ( phabricator:T110021 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110021) - Fixed a bug that made entries show up twice in the entity selector ( phabricator:T109697 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109697) - Started working on a special page to list all pages on a wiki with a certain badge - Fixed remaining blockers for first rollout of unit support - Bene worked on a new feature for DuckDuckGo https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-spice/pull/1991 to show instant results from Wikidata on their site

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