Hey folks :)

Here's your summary of what happened around Wikidata over the past 2 weeks. Enjoy!

Discussions

- Provide your input on article placeholders https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Article_placeholder_input based on Wikidata - new RfC: CoI editing https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Conflict_of_Interest - Anonymous artists https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_Visual_arts#Anonymous_works at wiki project visual arts

Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage

- We need to start talking about scaling Wikidata over the next months and years: Scaling Wikidata: success means making the pie bigger http://blog.wikimedia.de/2015/01/03/scaling-wikidata-success-means-making-the-pie-bigger/ - The next big step for Wikidata—forming a hub for researchers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-12-31/News_and_notes - wikidata4research4all http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2014/12/21/wd4r4a/ - There was a well-attended Wikidata meetup at 31C3 http://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/wiki/Session:Wikidata:_The_free_knowledge_base

Other Noteworthy Stuff

- Wikidata Query https://wdq.wmflabs.org/ now runs on multiple, load-balanced, self-restarting servers. Thanks to Yuvi for the help. - Vandals suck. Don't know how to help us fight them? Here are two pages to get you started: Wikidata:Vandalism https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Vandalism and Wikidata:Abuse filter https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Abuse_filter. - The Wikidata BEACON generator https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/beacon.php was updated by Magnus. It now uses all properties with “formatter URL”, so always up-to-date with target URLs. It is faster, too. - Number of visual artworks on Wikidata by institution http://www.zone47.com/crotos/collections.php

Did you know?

- Newest properties: Terminologia Histologica (TH) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1694, Terminologia Embryologica (TE) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1693, ICD-9-CM https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1692, operations and procedures key (OPS) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1691, ICD-10-PCS https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1690, central government debt as a percent of GDP https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1689, AniDB identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1688, main property https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1687, awarded for work https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1686, Pokémon browser number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1685, inscription https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1684, quote https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1683, subtitle https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1680, BBC Your Paintings artwork identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1679, has vertex figure https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1678, index case of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1677, number suspected https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1676, number probable https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1675, number confirmed https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1674, general formula https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1673, this taxon is source of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1672, Route number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1671, LAC identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1670, CONA https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1669, ATCvet https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1668, TGN https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1667, Chess Club ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1666, Chess Games ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1665, Cycling Database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1664, ProCyclingStats ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1663, DOI Prefix https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1662, Alexa rank https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1661, has index case https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1660, related property https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1659, number of faces https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1658, MPAA film rating https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1657, unveiled by https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1656, station number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1655, wing configuration https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1654, TERYT municipality code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1653, referee https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1652, YouTube video identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1651, BBF identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1650, Korean Movie Database ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1649, Dictionary of Welsh Biography ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1648 - Showcase items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items: Iggy Azalea https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2748803, Helsinki https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1757

Development

- Happy new year! :) It'll be a great one for Wikidata! - Have you filed bugs in the past? Awesome! It'd be super helpful if you have a look at your old bugs and see if they are still relevant. You can find them at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/authored/ (make sure you're logged in on Phabricator)

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

Anything to add? Please share! :)

Cheers Lydia