Hey everyone :)
Here's your summary of what happened around Wikidata over the past week.
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Ongoing: Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Perth, Australia and Indonesia https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Wikidata_Tour_Down_Under by Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pigsonthewing). Also social meetups.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Ambrosiani created a map of museums in Sweden http://aron.ambrosiani.se/museums/, colored after what information is available on Wikidata (source code https://github.com/Ambrosiani/museums-wikidata) - Dormant string properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Dormant_properties wake-up effort in progress - We have a new page to discuss and coordinate data partnerships and imports https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Partnerships_and_data_imports - WikiProject Medicine has a new page related to information about Zika https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Medicine/Zika - Magnus hacked up a Knowledge Engine, to discover information cross-project https://tools.wmflabs.org/magnustools/ke.html - WDFIST https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/wdfist/index.html is the first of Magnus' tool to let you convert WDQ to SPARQL with one click - Autolist https://tools.wmflabs.org/autolist/ now supports SPARQL - Mix'n'match https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match has new catalogs: WomenWriters and UNESCO Global Geopark Network - A new datatype for mathematical expressions is now available https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties?datatype=math - Wikidata Toolkit 0.6.0 has been released https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-February/008169.html - Hay created a new property browser https://tools.wmflabs.org/hay/propbrowse/ - Analysis of how lifespans change over time, using Wikidata data for people with enwp article https://public.tableau.com/profile/danosirra#%21/vizhome/ProfileofpeoplefeaturedonWikipedia/ProfileofpeopleonWikipedia
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: Sandbox-Mathematical expression https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2535, defining formula https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2534, WomenWriters ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2533, lowest atmospheric pressure https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2532
Development
- Work on first prototype for Commons support - specifically by making it possible to have more entity types than just Item and Property ( phabricator:T125822 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125822) - UI performance work (loading time of entities, things should be faster when editing statements) (phabricator:T125391 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125391, phabricator:T125503 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125503) - Work on properly linking identifiers - Removed a bunch of language codes from monolingual text ( phabricator:T125063 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125063) - Work on RDF export of mathematical expression datatype ( phabricator:T126349 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126349) - Fixed a bug where the uniqueness of label+description wasn't checked properly (phabricator:T121395 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121395 ) - Moved the repository for WikidataBuildResources from Github to gerrit ( phabricator:T111173 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111173) - Made search work properly on mobile (phabricator:T85368 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85368) - Released Wikibase DataModel 5.0 (phabricator:T125636 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125636)
You can see all open tickets 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 - Help translate https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats or proofread pages in your own language! - Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers Lydia