Hey folks :)
Here's your weekly dose of Wikidata updates:
Discussions
- Do you want to see constraint violation reports and referencing
improved? Please provide input
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-October/004778.html>
.
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- IRC office hour about structured data on Commons (log
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2014/wikimedia-office.2014-10-16-18.00.log.html>
)
- hackathon around scholarly articles on Wikidata (etherpad with notes
<https://etherpad.mozilla.org/XKHt30NgcO>)
- Blog post about the meeting to discuss structured data on Commons in
Berlin
<http://blog.wikimedia.de/2014/10/14/transatlantic-work-on-structured-data-in-berlin/>
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Clusters of humans and species on Wikidata
<http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=232>
- New parameter in the template Property documentation: subject item;
see [this example edit
<https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Property_talk:P496&diff=164022076&oldid=163111143>]
for how to use it
- New tool: Linked Items
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/linked_items.php>. Returns
sorted, de-duped list of Q values from a Wikipedia page, or chunk of
wiki-text. Thank you, Magnus
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske>!
- Wikidata annotation tool is looking for feedback
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_annotation_tool/project_completion_report>
- Wikidata: A Free Collaborative Knowledgebase
<http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2014/10/178785-wikidata/fulltext#.VD67l7hTfME.twitter>
by Denny and Markus has been published. It gives a very nice non-technical
overview of Wikidata.
- Magnus re-wrote Wiki ShootMe <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikishootme/>
to now use Wikidata.
Did you know?
- Always wanted to know which topics have amazing articles on Wikimedia
projects across many languages? Here you go!
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/Badge_statistics>
- Newest properties: At the Circulating Library ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1564>, MacTutor id (biographies)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1563>, allmovie identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1562>, number of survivors
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1561>, given name version for
other gender <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1560>, name in
native language <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1559>, tempo
marking <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1558>, manifestation of
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1557>, zbMATH author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1556>, Executive Order number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1555>
Development
- Improvements to sitelink editing usability
- Released Wikibase DataModel 2.0
- Profiling and performance improvements in Wikibase and Wikibase
DataModel
- Implementing LabelLookup, which is needed to improve performance of
EntityId formatting. This will lead to improved item page loading times.
- Added new featured list and recommended article badges.
- Remove most usage of class aliases to be compatible with HHVM
(dependencies of bugzilla:71295
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71295>)
See current sprint items <http://sb.wmflabs.org/p/wikidata/> for what we’re
working on next.
You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1&list_id=151540&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org>
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515>
.
- 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>
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers
Lydia
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Product Manager for Wikidata
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