Hi everyone,
Here is the weekly summary with all the stuff leading up to christmas, now
with 100% more me after leaving Lydia to do these for a few weeks :)
Discussions[edit
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- Open RfAs: Petr Matas
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Petr_Matas>
- Closed RfAs: Jared Preston
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Jared_Preston>
(Successful)
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>[edit
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- Welcome Freebase!
- Freebase announcement
- Wikidata announcement
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Tool_for_adding_references_and_data_to_Wikidata>
- Wikiproject
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Freebase>
- Primary sources tool
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Primary_sources_tool>
- Heise
- Venturebeat
- Gigaom
- Wikidata for Research – presenting the team and a first sketch of the
workplan
Other Noteworthy Stuff[edit
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- New features! Language fallbacks, property data type and performance
improvements
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#new_code_deployed_-_language_fallbacks_and_property_datatype>
- New tree of life based on Wikidata data
Did you know?[edit
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- Newest properties: subproperty of
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1647>, mandatory qualifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1646>, NIST/CODATA ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1645>, EgliseInfo ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1644>
- Newest WikiProjects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProjects>: Freebase
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Freebase>, Sled dog
racing
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Sled_dog_racing>
- Showcase items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items>:
lion (Q140 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q140>)
Development[edit
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- ~=[,,_,,]:3
- Enabled other projects sidebar feature as default on Italian Wikipedia
- Deployed new code to Wikidata, including performance improvements,
language fallback, and property data type
- Fixed some small issues that popped up after deployment
- Ongoing work on performance improvements (batched label lookup)
- Ongoing work on the JavaScript widgets needed for the planned redesign
- Ongoing work on the WikibaseJavaScriptApi extension that was split
from the Wikibase code base
- Finished tree of life
- Some more work on support for units
- Closed/checked even more ‘testme’ bugs on Phabricator
- Wikidata Query has gotten a number of stability fixes. To increase
availability and performance we now have multiple instances of it with a
load balancer in front of it.
- The data for the entity suggester has been updated. Suggestions when
adding new statements should be even better now.
You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>
Monthly Tasks[edit
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- 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>
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