Hey folks :)
Greetings from Mexico! Getting ready for Wikimania. Here's 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
- Past: Slides on Primary Sources Tool https://twitter.com/tomayac/status/616953989641469952 and Wikidata introduction (in Spanish) http://de.slideshare.net/cristinasarasua/introduccion-a-wikidata-dss-wikidata-editathon for the Donostia-San Sebastián Wikidata Editathon https://sites.google.com/site/donostiasansebastianenwikidata/ - Past: Presentation about Wikidata https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ULFFPmIaKtq6fgU_5JNK6AfWSRyJUsDy_QsBf2-m0EE/edit?pli=1#slide=id.p at the Axel Springer Hack Day 2015 - Upcoming: Wikimania
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikiresearch https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter looked into the coverage of the moon by geotags in Wikidata https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/615430029615480833 - Wikiresearch https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter published a visualization of the relationship between nationality and occupation based on Wikidata's data https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/615455859733327872 - Which zoo has polar bears? Wikidata attempts to answer the question here https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?q=Q33609&lang=en. Work in progress.
Did you know?
- Newest properties: MCN code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1987, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1986, Anime News Network anime ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1985, Anime News Network manga ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1984, Anime News Network company ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1983, Anime News Network person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1982, FSK film rating https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1981, PolSys ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1980, Righteous Among The Nations ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1979, USDA NDB number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1978, lesarchivesduspectacle ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1977, INEGI locality identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1976
Development
- The Wikidata Quality extension (constraint reports per item) was deployed. You can now use Special:ConstraintReport https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ConstraintReport to see the result for different items. This is for example the constraint report for the item cat (Q142) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ConstraintReport/Q146. - 8 million additional statements from Freebase were made available through the Primary sources tool https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Primary_sources_tool - Moving towards having a single edit button to edit references along with the value they belong to. - Bene continued working on phasing out the deprecated Entity superclass and making more entity types possible. - More work on phasing out a deprecated serializer implementation we still use in certain places. - Further work on the new RDF export. - PHPCS is now used on each change in Wikibase to ensure the code fulfils certain code quality standards.
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 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