Hey folks :)
Here's your summary of all the good stuff that happened around Wikidata
over the last week.
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Had a great hackathon for GLAM and Wikidata in Amsterdam last weekend
<https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/glamdata>
- IRC office hour about structured data on Commons (logs
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2014-11-20>
)
- Building a periodic table using Wikidata
<http://lambdazen.blogspot.se/2014/11/building-periodic-table-using-wikidata.html>
- Lydia will be speaking at internetdagarna in Stockholm on Monday
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikimedia Commons will get Phase 2 on December 2nd
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-November/005011.html>
- The Sum of all Paintings <http://sum.bykr.org> - new app to nicely
display data related to artwork
- Institutions on Commons without an item on Wikidata
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/commonsedge/commons_institutions_without_wikidata_item.php>
- Wikidata descriptions being used to help clarify search results in the
Wikipedia mobile app
<https://twitter.com/aharoni/status/534292798430650369>
- WikidataTodo <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/> now shows you
tasks to be done on Wikidata related to a specific country as well
- VisualEditor coming as a beta feature
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#VisualEditor_coming_to_this_wiki_as_a_Beta_Feature>
- Statements on properties are getting closer to the finish line. You
could help figure out which properties to use for describing and
classifying properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Property_metadata>
.
Did you know?
- Newest properties: MarineTraffic Port ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1624>, MarineTraffic Ship ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1623>, drives on the
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1622>, detail map
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1621>, plaintiff
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1620>, date of official opening
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1619>, squad number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1618>, BBC Things identifer
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1617>, SIREN number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1616>, CLARA-ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1615>, History of Parliament ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1614>, IRC channel
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1613>, Commons Institution page
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1612>
Development
- When a page is deleted on a client (Wikipedia, etc) its sitelink is
now removed automatically from its Wikidata item
- Reworked the automatic precision detection for coordinates
- The long planned split of the code base into two independent Wikibase
Repo and Client extensions is getting closer pretty fast these weeks
- Made good progress on making the sitelinks section much more compact
and moving it into the right-hand sidebar
- While still reworking lots of details that slightly changed in
DataModel 2.0 we already started working on a possible DataModel 3.0
- More performance optimizations in the form of more advanced label
lookup implementations
- Implemented file-based cache of SiteStore to improve performance
- Bug fixes
- Updated the property suggester with new data! :)
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://old-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_items>
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers
Lydia
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Product Manager for Wikidata
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