Wikiskim is great! It's International Women's Day though, so maybe this link is better https://tools.wmflabs.org/hay/wdskim/index.php?prop=P170&item=Q232423&am...

On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Lydia Pintscher < lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de> wrote:

Hey folks :)

Here's your summary of what's been happening around Wikidata over the last week:

Discussions

• Open RfA: Haplology

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Haplology

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

• upcoming: Wikidata for Wikipedians at Lokal K in Köln in 17th of

March https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lokal_K/Kalender

• upcoming: Wikidata editathon in Berlin on 24th of March

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Berlin

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Help flesh out landing pages for partners

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Landing_pages_for_partners

• Update on the Wikidata query service progress

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-tech/2015-March/000740.html

• The automatic description API https://tools.wmflabs.org/autodesc/

can now generate infoboxes (currently, "person" and "artwork" on en.wp)

• Wikidata Skim

https://tools.wmflabs.org/hay/wdskim/index.php?prop=P170&item=Q167654&language=en&withimages=on gives you very simple query functionality

• Meet Kian, the first neural network to serve Wikidata

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-March/005537.html

Did you know?

• Newest properties: Information Center for Israeli Art artist

identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1736, Comedien.ch identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1735, oath of office date https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1734, Steam ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1733

• Showcase items

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items: Symphony No. 7 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q260957

Development

• Fixed edit buttons sometimes not showing up because of caching
• Added mailto to the allowed protocols in the URL data type
• Worked on updating the data model documentation
• Worked on client wiki subscription/notification mechanism
• Improved handling of scientific notation for quantity values
• Reworked a lot of code related to time parsing and formatting, e.g.

proper support for language independent parsing of YYYY-MM-DD ordered dates

• Continued working on the new Special:SetLabelDescriptionAliases

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!

Anything to add? Please share! :)

Cheers Lydia

-- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata

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