Heya folks :)
Here's your chance to catch up with all things Wikidata of the past week.
Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikisource will receive access to the data in Wikidata on February
25th. Planning is taking place at
Wikidata:Wikisource<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikisource>
.
- 1 week left to give initial input for the user interface
redesign<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:UI_redesign_input>
Did you know?
- Newest properties: impact
factor<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1169>
, Municipality code (
Denmark)<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1168>
, USB ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1167>, Home
world<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1165>
, Cardinality of the group <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1164>
, Internet media type
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1163>, Bluebook
abbreviation <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1162>, Z39.5
abbreviation <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1161>, ISO 4
abbreviation <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1160>,
CODEN<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1159>
, landing site <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1158>, US
Congress Bio identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1157>, Scopus
Source ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1156>, Scopus
Affiliation ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1155>,
Scopus
EID<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1154>
, Scopus Author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1153>, IPTC
Media Topic <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1152>, topic's main
portal <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1151>, Regensburg
Classification <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1150>, Library
of Congress Classification <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1149>
, neutron number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1148>
- Fun Fact: Wikidata has reached 30 million
statements<http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/stats.php>
Development
- Refactored the suggestions drop-downs when entering properties for
better performance
- Fixed a misdirected arrow in left-to-right languages
(
bugzilla:61308<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61308>
)
- Worked on an Apache redirect issue
(
bugzilla:54273<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54273>
)
- Found and started fixing an issue that asked users for additional
languages they don't want according to their Babel box
(
bugzilla:61446<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61446>
)
- Table-of-contents link to the statements section of an item was broken
- Kept poking TimeParsers
- Made WikibaseDatabase feature complete for use with WikibaseQueryEngine
- Work on caching javascript config variables in parser cache
- Investigate using ElasticSearch as term index backend to take some
load of the most-used database table
See current sprint
items<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=218716&reso…
for
what we’re working on next.
You can view the commits currently in review
here<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(+project:mediawiki/extensions/W…
and
the ones that have been merged
here<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(+project:mediawiki/extensions/W…
.
You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata
here<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1&list_id=1…
Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content
violation<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Constr…
for
the MedlinePlus ID (P604) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P604>
property
- Hack on one of
these<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer…
.
- Contribute to a Showcase
item<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase>
- Help develop the next summary
here!<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next>
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
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.