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
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Lydia Pintscher -
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Product Manager for Wikidata
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