Hey everyone :)
Here's your summary of what happened around Wikidata last week.
Discussions
- Successful request for adminship: Lakokat https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Lakokat
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Upcoming: Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland https://www.wikimedia.nl/project/wikimedia-conferentie-nederland - Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Ateliers_Wikidata#Paris.2C_26.2F11.2F2015
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Callisto http://zone47.com/crotos/callisto/ - a tool that shows places depicted in artworks - Qwery.me http://qwery.me/ - an experiment for a simplified query service with SPARQL - Whitepaper https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Flemish_art_collections,_Wikidata_and_Linked_Open_Data/Whitepaper exploring Wikidata for cultural institutions - example query: real numbers with their approximate value https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20p%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20v%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fstatement%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20q%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fqualifier%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20rdfs%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2F01%2Frdf-schema%23%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20%3FnumberLabel%20%3Fvalue%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Fnumber%20%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ12916%20.%20%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%3Fnumber%20%20wdt%3AP1181%20%3Fvalue%20.%0A%20%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20order%20by%20desc%28%3Fvalue%29 - Pre-print: Centralizing content and distributing labor: a community model for curating the very long tail of microbial genomes http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2015/11/12/031286
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: constraint https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2302, minimal lethal dose https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2300, PPP GDP per capita https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2299, NSDAP membership number (1925–1945) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2298, employment by economic sector https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2297, money supply https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2296, net profit https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2295, current account balance https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2294, genetic association https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2293, consumption rate https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2292 - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects: Education https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Education - Newest Database reports https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports: Items without claims by site https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/without_claims_by_site - Find Wikidata-only infoboxes in the Czech Wikipedia https://cs.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=insource%3A%2F%5C%7B%5C%7B%5BIi%5Dnfobox+-+osoba%5C%7D%5C%7D%2F&title=Speci%C3%A1ln%C3%AD%3AHled%C3%A1n%C3%AD&limit=60&offset=50&go=Run
Development
- Added language fallback to Special:ConstraintReport - Fixed a bug that prevented undoing edits via the api ( phabricator:T101694 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101694) - Worked more on moving identifiers into their own section and linking them in the machine-readable export formats - Worked on making search suggestions work on mobile - Experimented with using icons instead of text for some of the actions in an item - Made a lot of progress on a good default layout for the ArticlePlaceholder - Nearly finished simultaneous editing of value and reference - Improved browser tests and fixed issues with them
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