Hi everyone,
Since Lydia is currently travelling for a few weeks, I'm filling in for her so without further ado, here is the latest updates of all things Wikidata!
Discussions
- Discussion about Atheism https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Atheism and the religion property. - Discussion about the Verifiability of data https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Wikidata:Verifiability as a policy.
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Upcoming: Wikimania. There will be several talks and workshops related to Wikidata. Say hi at the "Ask Us Anything" session for Wikidata if you're there.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A new database report https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Recently_deceased_at_Wikipedia lists people categorized as dead in Wikipedia, but lacking Property:P570 (date of death) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P570. It's updated several times during the day. There are about 20 to 30 new entries each day. There is currently some backlog from the Arabic, Marathi, and Thai Wikipedias. Items updated first in Wikidata wont appear in the report. They are listed directly in Wikidata's recent deaths report https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Recent_deaths.
Did you know?
- Newest properties: RSL editions https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1973, Open Hub ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1972, number of children https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1971, MovieMeter movie identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1970, MovieMeter director ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1969
Development[edit https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Status_updates/2015_07_04&action=edit§ion=5 ]
- Adam wrote a blog post on the improvement of the data after one year and GeneaWiki http://addshore.com/2015/07/barack-obama-geneawiki-1-year-later/ - After the next deployment, Special:ItemDisambiguation will match aliases and be case insensitive. - Improved details of matches in the entity suggester (wbsearchentities api module) - Deployed the WikibaseQuality and WikibaseQualityConstraints extensions https://test.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ConstraintReport to test.wikidata.org - Fixed the layout of long qualifier names - JSON dumps are now automatically copied to labs
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