Hey folks :)

Here's your summary of what happened around Wikidata last week:

Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage

- Running Wikidata queries on scientific publications http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=245 - Finding ORCID identifiers used in Wikidata & Wikipedia http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/finding-orcid-wikidata-wikipedia/ - past: Wikidata workshop in NYC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC

Other Noteworthy Stuff

- Ancient philosopher communities visualized based on Wikidata data http://projetjourdain.org/network/index.html

Did you know?

- Newest properties: departure transaction https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1643, acquisition transaction https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1642, port https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1641, curator https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1640, pendant of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1639 - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProjects: WikiProject Music https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Music

Development

- More work on making it possible to query Wikidata data ( mw:Wikibase/Indexing https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/Indexing) - Further improvements to performance on the clients (Wikipedia etc) - Fixed and improved JSON dump creation process - Finishing touches on new sitelinks section - Worked more on supporting quantities with units - first basic version is making good progress - Unprotected Q183 (Germany) again (had to be protected to ensure site availability) - Improved performance for page views on Wikidata (no longer accessing actual entity data blob, when page is available from parser cache) - Moved issues from github to phabricator and closed/checked bugs marked for testing

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