Hey folks :)
Here's your summary of what's been happening around Wikidata over the last
week.
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Sex and artists <http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=278>
- VIAF is Moving to Wikidata
<http://outgoing.typepad.com/outgoing/2015/03/moving-to-wikidata.html>
- Upcoming: IRC office hour on Tuesday
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-March/005668.html>
- Upcoming: Editathon in the pre-program of the Wikimedia Conference in
Berlin
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2015/Wikidata_Editathon>
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The next steps for the header redesign and bugfixes are live
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-March/005703.html>
- New tool by Magnus that lets you add reference URLs with a single click
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/sourcery.html>
- An update from Freebase
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/freebase-discuss/EhROV7ZnLrk/discussion>
(which is going read-only on Tuesday!)
- The tours <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tours> are working
again thanks to Bene* and Lucie
- Effort to define a biomedical relationship ontology for Wikidata
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:ProteinBoxBot/2015_relations_ontology_sprint>
-
Eventzoom.net
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-March/005706.html>
- displaying history from Wikidata on maps
Did you know?
- Newest properties: ABoK number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1806>, Word Health Organisation
International Nonproprietary Name
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1805>, Danish National
Filmography ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1804>, Masaryk
University person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1803>, EMLO
person identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1802>,
Commemorative
plaque image <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1801>, Wikimedia
database name <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1800>, Maltese
Islands National Inventory of Cultural Property identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1799>, ISO 639-5
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1798>, International Standard
Industrial Classification code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1796>, Smithsonian American Art
Museum: person/institution thesaurus id
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1795>, bureau du patrimoine de
Seine-Saint-Denis ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1794>, format
as a regular expression
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1793>, category
of associated people
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1792>, category
of people buried here
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1791>, BioStor
author identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1790>, chief
operating officer <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1789>, DVN
identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1788>
- Newest WikiProjects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProjects>: Dictionary of
National Biography (DNB)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_DNB>
- Newest gadgets: Image search can find photos for the new "commemorative
plaque image <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1801>" property
- There is a SpecialPage to easily get to the Wikidata item for a given
Wikipedia article <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ItemByTitle>
and another one to get to the Wikipedia article for a given Wikidata ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:GoToLinkedPage>.
Development
- Deployed new code to Wikidata \o/ (and fixed a few issues that popped
up)
- Made good progress on RDF export (needed for example for queries)
- Did more performance groundwork for arbitrary access
- Students working on improved constraint reports and checking against
3rd party databases are making good progress
- Looked into improving suggestions
- Worked on making dispatching changes from Wikidata to Wikipedia and co
more robust
- Removed backwards compatibility from mw.wikibase.getEntity(), to be
deployed April 7 and 8. See also here
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-February/005450.html>
.
- Improved support for right-to-left languages, e.g. in the sitelinks
view
- Created a unit test framework for special pages
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>
- Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats>
or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add multi-lingual labels for the new properties listed above.
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers
Lydia
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Lydia Pintscher -
http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
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