Hey folks :)
I am finally back from my month of traveling and slowly fighting through my
backlogs. If you're waiting for something urgent from me please poke me
otherwise I'll get to it over the next days.
Below are the weekly summaries for the last two weeks.
Cheers and hugs
Lydia
Discussions
- Successful request for adminship: Nikki
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Nikki>
- Open request for oversightership: Sjoerddebruin
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Oversight/Sjoerddebruin>
- Closed request for comments: Administrative divisions and populated
places
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Administative_divisions_and_populated_places>,
Given names and surnames
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/How_to_deal_with_given_names_and_surnames>
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Wikidata, coming soon to a menu near you!
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/07/21/wikidata-tastydata/>
- Past: Wikimania
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Upload of 4.2M new statements
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#News_about_Freebase_migration>
from Freebase <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Freebase> in
the Primary
Sources tool
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Primary_sources_tool>.
Did you know?
- Newest properties: NALT id
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2004>, Instagram username
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2003>, Twitter username
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2002>, Revised Romanisation
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2001>, CPDL ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2000>, UNESCO language status
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1999>, UCI code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1998>, Facebook Places ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1997>
Development
- Continued migrating away from an older serializer to the DataModel
Serialization component.
- Released Wikibase DataModel Serialization 1.7.0
- Depreacting the parameter ungroupedlist in the api modules GetClaims
and GetEntities
- Tweaking the sitelink input
- Changing the display of item selector results
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 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!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed
above.
Discussions
- Open requests for Oversight: Sjoerddebruin
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Oversight/Sjoerddebruin>
- Enable Flow on Wikidata?
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Flow>
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Early version of a reconcile API for Wikidata by Magnus
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-reconcile/>
- PagePile: a new tool by Magnus
<http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=332>
- Mix-n-Match <https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/> got a number of
new catalogs and now shows a thin red line in front of a catalog that does
not yet have a property on Wikidata
- 1.700 biographical items without gender, but with image. Go go go!
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/autolist/?language=en&project=wikipedia&category=&depth=12&wdq=claim%5B31%3A5%5D%20and%20claim%5B18%5D%20and%20noclaim%5B21%5D&statementlist=&run=Run&mode_manual=or&mode_cat=or&mode_wdq=not&mode_find=or&chunk_size=10000>
- Interested in art movements? Check out this
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Visual_arts/Item_structure/Art_movements>
Did you know?
- Newest properties: MoMA artwork id
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2014>, Facebook ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2013>, cuisine
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2012>, Cooper-Hewitt Person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2011>, Exif make
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2010>, Exif model
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2009>, IPNI publication ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2008>, ZooBank publication ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2007>, ZooBank author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2006>, Catalogus Professorum
Halensis <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2005>, NALT id
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2004>
- Showcase items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items>:
László Krasznahorkai (Q512062) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q512062>
Development
- Minor fixes to property edit mode
- Some fixes for the cucumber test errors
- Released Wikibase DataModel 4.0
- Released Wikibase DataModel Services 1.0
- Continued work to migrate away from old serializers in Wikibase Lib to
those in WikibaseDataModelSerialization.
- Working on scripts for importing entities from another Wikibase
instance (e.g. Wikidata), so that development instances can have some
sample data.
- Fixed the counting of references
- Changed style of the Entitytermsview inputs
- Entity Selector displays alias in brackets behind label
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 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!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed
above.
Anything to add? Please share! :)
--
Lydia Pintscher -
http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
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Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.