Hey folks :)
Here's your summary of what's been happening around Wikidata over the past week. Enjoy!
Discussions
- Open request for adminship: HakanIST https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/HakanIST
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Past: Open Science Meetup http://www.meetup.com/Berlin-Open-Science-Meetup/events/228087017/, Berlin - Slides for "Wikidata for biomedical knowledge integration and curation" talk http://www.slideshare.net/goodb/2016-bd2k-bgoodwikidata - Wiki Workshop 2016 http://snap.stanford.edu/wikiworkshop2016/ could use some researchy Wikidata submissions
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- How much does a Wikipedia use Wikidata data? Stats are in the total entity usage flags graph here https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/wikidata-entity-usage-project (select project at the top left) - How many statements does the average item or property on Wikidata have? Here https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/wikidata-datamodel-statements are the stats. - What are the most viewed pages on Wikidata? https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/wikidata-top-page-views - We still need your help with classifying edits to build better anti-vandalism tools. We're halfway done by now. https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-January/008052.html - Andrew updated his maps https://twitter.com/generalising/status/694507683811069952 - We crossed edit 300,000,000! - Graph example: matrices https://angryloki.github.io/wikidata-graph-builder/?property=P279&item=Q44337&direction=reverse&iterations=7 - Taxonomy of WikiProject municipalities of Germany https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Municipalities_of_Germany/Taxonomy is completed. Feedback welcome. - Last call for comments on the new process for showcase items at d:User:Harmonia Amanda/Showcase items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Harmonia_Amanda/Showcase_items. Please review and comment on the associated talk page.
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: Box Office Mojo studio ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2531, Box Office Mojo franchise ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2530, ČSFD film ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2529, Richter magnitude scale https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2528, moment magnitude scale https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2527
Development
- Search now works on mobile - Groundwork for adding new entity types to move us forward with support for structured data on Commons. (Other entity types are Item and Property. We'll need Mediainfo for Commons.) - Daniel summarized upcoming changes for new datatypes https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-February/008140.html - Investigated further options for performance improvement ( phabricator:T125502 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125502) - Indexing labels in elastic properly (phabricator:T125500 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125500) - More work on cleaning up language codes (phabricator:T125063 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125063, phabricator:T124757 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124757)
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 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Categories