Hey folks :)
Here's the summary of what 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>
- IRC office hour (log
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2014-12-03>
)
- Wikidata for research - a grant proposal anyone can edit
<https://blog.wikimedia.de/2014/12/05/wikidata-for-research-a-grant-proposal-that-anyone-can-edit/>
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikimedia Commons now has access to the data on Wikidata
- Statements on properties are now live
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#statements_on_properties_are_live_.28.2Bdeletion_propagation.29>
- Sneak peek <https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/539891914922008577> at
a prototype for checking Wikidata's data against 3rd party databases
- The Game <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/> has a new mode:
alma mater
- Work is ongoing
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/wikidata> for a bot
job to tag thousands of objects in OpenStreetMap with the equivalent
Wikidata ID
- Resolver <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/resolver.php> finds
Wikidata items for a given identifier (VIAF, GND, IMDB, ...)
- English-Wikipedia now has a template, RedQ
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:RedQ>, which puts a Wikidata
link next to red links for subjects which have *no* Wikipedia article in
*any* language, This should prevent duplicate Wikidata items from being
created when an article is written, and assist Wikipedia editors to find
relevant facts and sources. Please copy it to other-language Wikipedias.
Did you know?
- Newest properties: working title
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1638>, undercarriage
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1637>
- Newest WikiProjects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProjects>: WikiProject
Wikidata for research
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Wikidata_for_research>
aims to integrate Wikidata more closely with research, and to this end, a
grant proposal is being drafted
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Wikidata_for_research>
.
Development
- Started work on units
- More work on evaluating options for querying
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/Indexing>
- Implemented Property DataType (for relationships between properties)
- Improvements to get by with fewer memcache request on clients
- Work on file-based cache of the SiteStore
- Work on improved label lookup performance
- Wrapping up work on usage tracking
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
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
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