Hey folks :)
Here are the important things that happened around Wikidata over the last
week.
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Upcoming: Office hour on IRC on Friday
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-January/005222.html>.
You should come :)
- Past: London Wikidata Meetup 2
- We had a meetup with nine people:
- set up Wikidata:WikiProject UK and Ireland
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_UK_and_Ireland>
(sound recording of meeting available)
- Upcoming: Open Data Day, 21st February 2015
- For generic wiki, see International Open Data Day
<http://wiki.opendataday.org/2015/City_Events>
- Open Data Camp UK <http://odcamp.org.uk/posts/>, Saturday/Sunday
21st/22nd February 2015
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- We just crossed 14000 active users (over the last month). Thank you
all!
Did you know?
- Newest properties: Gray's Anatomy 1918 subject
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1698>, Total valid votes
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1697>, inverse of
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1696>, NLP identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1695>
- Newest WikiProjects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProjects>: Food
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Food>, UK and Ireland
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_UK_and_Ireland>,
Suisse <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Suisse>
- Newest gadgets: ExportClaims
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Petr_Matas/ExportClaims.js>, *Mark
as patrolled* from list of changes
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Petr_Matas/Mark_as_patrolled.js>
Development
- The sitelink section has been reworked. This will go live on Wikidata
on Tuesday. The sitelinks will then be slimmer and they will appear in a
sidebar on the right side if there is enough space.
- More performance improvements when parsing an item page, ~%15 faster
for some pages :)
- Titan was selected as the graph DB to implement a Wikidata query
service running in production
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-tech/2015-January/000706.html>
- Fixed adding links to
ru.wikinews.org which was broken by its change
to HTTPS-only
- Worked on redesigning the header area (label, description, alias,
in-other-languages box)
- Polished d:Wikidata:Data access
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Data_access> and d:Wikidata:Database
download <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_download>.
Could still use some more work though if you have time.
- Enabled PHP_CodeSniffer with Mediawiki rules and some additional ones
to make us aware of more code issues
- We no longer log some common 404 errors in the exception log
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.
- 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>
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers
Lydia
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Lydia Pintscher -
http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager for Wikidata
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