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
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Product Manager for Wikidata
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