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>