Hey folks :)
Here's what has been happening around Wikidata over the past week for you:
Discussions
- RfC on usage of Wikidata on German-language Wikipedia
<https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/Nutzung_von_Daten_aus_Wikidata_im_ANR>
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Past: Pigsonthewing and aude were at State of the Map US to talk about
Wikidata/OpenStreetMap cooperation and more
- Past: Lucie and Marius gave an intro to Wikidata at
Gulaschprogrammiernacht in Karlsruhe (slides
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_Workshop_-_GPN_2015.pdf>)
- Upcoming: Office hour on IRC on 19th
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-June/006376.html>
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The English-language Wikipedia has decided to deprecate Persondata
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28proposals%29/Archive_122#RfC:_Should_Persondata_template_be_deprecated_and_methodically_removed_from_articles.3F>
in favour of Wikidata.
- New tool by Magnus to make it easier to add references
<http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=310>
- The results are in for the Wikimedia Foundation's board election
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/05/board-election-results/>. One
name should sound familiar to you ;-)
- Addshore created new maps of the geocoordinates on Wikidata
<https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/606086887820955649>. More coming.
- Sylvain made an overview of the overlap in topics that the biggest
Wikipedias have <https://gist.github.com/Ash-Crow/ae1a3ae8318994afe45d>.
- Wikidata has passed German Wikipedia in number of items with images
(743850 dewp articles vs. 804885 items) - now only second to
English-language Wikipedia.
- Catalan Wikipedia is moving Taxon IDs to Wikidata.
- Zolo did a comparison
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Zolo/Wikipedia_content> of
English/French/German/Chinese and Cebuano Wikipedias in terms of main types
of articles. Biographies were compared by period, nationality and
occupation.
- Connectivity <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/Connectivity>
statistics were updated.
Did you know?
- Newest properties: DMS V <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1930>,
Clinvar Accession Number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1929>, Vaccine
Ontology ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1928>, VIOLIN ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1925>, vaccine for
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1924>, participating team
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1923>, first line
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1922>, URI pattern for RDF
resource <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1921>, Commonwealth
War Graves Commission burial ground identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1920>, Ministry of Education of
Chile school ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1919>
- Newest gadgets: Mark as patrolled
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-Mark_as_patrolled>
by User:Petr
Matas <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Petr_Matas>
Development
- Italian Wikipedia and all remaining Wikisource projects now have
arbitrary access. The rollout will continue. The schedule for the next
projects is at d:Wikidata:Arbitrary access
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Arbitrary_access>.
- The Content Translation tool now automatically connects translated
articles to Wikidata. (Thanks Content Translation developers!) Previously
translated but unconnected articles have been connected by a bot. (Thanks
Amir!)
- Code review of the extensions written by a team of students to improve
the constraint reports and make it possible to automatically check our data
against other databases. A first version will go live soon pending further
codereview and fixes.
- Two new methods have been added to the lua library provided by
Wikibase: wikibase.resolvePropertyId
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase_Client/Lua#mw.wikibase.resolvePropertyId>
and wikibase.entity:getBestStatements
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase_Client/Lua#mw.wikibase.entity:getBestStatements>
.
- Further work on making unserializable values editable in the UI (This
can happen for example if a property is deleted.)
- Made the Wikidata JSON dumps available on Labs in the standard dumps
location there (/public/dumps).
- Worked on automatically creating a redirect when merging items via the
API.
- Rewrote the script that generates a map image based on geocoordinates
in Wikidata. (Result see above.)
- Released Wikibase DataModel 3.0
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 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>
- Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats>
or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers
Lydia
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Lydia Pintscher -
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Product Manager for Wikidata
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