Hey folks :)
Here's the summary of exciting things that have been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Past: Editathon at MACBA https://twitter.com/CatalanMuseums/status/577103895278809088 - Past: Wikidata intro session for Wikipedians at Lokal K in Cologne - Upcoming: Wikidata editing at Wikimedia Germany in Berlin https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Berlin - Upcoming: Office hour on 31st of March https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-March/005668.html (Topics include Freebase migration, dev update, admin inactivity criteria)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Freebase is going read-only at the end of the month and we expect an influx of new people. There is now an FAQ https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:FAQ/Freebase to answer their most common questions. - We now have (improved) landing pages for partners at d:Wikidata:Data donation https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Data_donation and d:Wikidata:Data access https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Data_access. Could use some help with making them easier to read and more visual. - Lots of improvements around MixNMatch https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match. It has a new catalog overview page https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/?mode=catalog_details&catalog=1. ~340K IDs have been matched so far with it and it now has an FAQ for institutions wanting to get their identifiers linked in Wikidata - There is a fancy new tool to help with patrolling edits on Wikidata https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#New_patrol_tool - First screenshot of the primary sources tool https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Primary_sources_tool that'll help with migrating data from Freebase and enriching it with references has been leaked ;-): 1 https://twitter.com/tomayac/status/578663253712220160 and 2 https://twitter.com/tomayac/status/578664074101288961 - DBpedia converts Wikidata data to the DBpedia ontology https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-March/005612.html - Another 3rd-party SPARQL endpoint has been set up for testing https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-March/005683.html
Did you know?
- Newest properties: art-name https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1787, posthumous name https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1786, temple name https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1785, courtesy name https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1782, school of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1780, possible creator https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1779, forgery after https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1778, manner of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1777, circle of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1776, follower of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1775, workshop of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1774, attributed to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1773, USDA plant identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1772, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1771, LMI code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1770, denkXweb identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1769, place name sign https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1766 - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProjects: Municipalities of Germany https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Municipalities_of_Germany - Newest gadgets: Image search http://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/wdfist/ supports the new "place name sign" https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1766 property
Development
- Fixed property suggestions on empty items - Updated database for property suggestions with newest correlations so you should get better suggestions - Updated various documentation - Continued working on RDF export (among other things a requirement for query functionality) - Polishing in the user interface
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! :) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Categories
Cheers Lydia