Hey folks :)
Here's your summary of what happened around Wikidata over the past week.
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- State of the Map US <http://stateofthemap.us/> (OpenStreetMap's
conference) in New York on 6-8 June
- Wikimedia Hackathon 2015
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2015> in Lyon from
23-25 May. Some of the activities and outcomes:
- Wikidata descriptions can be soon be edited in the Wikipedia iOS
app.
- A early preview of the primary SPARQL endpoint
<https://wdqs-beta.wmflabs.org/> for Wikidata has been created to
query Wikidata. Remember that it is not stable and still beta. A short
introduction to SPARQL
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata%27s_SPARQL_introduction_presentation.pdf>
can be found in Lucie's <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Frimelle>
slides.
- If you are not familiar with SPARQL yet, a tool
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/ppp-sparql/> has been created by Tpt
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Tpt> and Bene*
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Bene*> to generate SPARQL queries
from natural language questions.
- To do SPARQL queries from the command line, a command line tool
<https://github.com/mariushoch/asparagus> was crafted by Marius
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Hoo_man>.
- The special page to query for badges is within reach.
- A feedback session on the architecture of Wikibase was held.
- We got a cool presentation by Maxime about inventaire.io.
- We figured out the next steps to make Wikidata more mobile friendly.
- Pilot on the Hungarian Wikipedia
<https://twitter.com/JeanFred/status/602094565135425536> to show
diagrams based on Wikidata in their articles on Spanish villages
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New command line tool for mapping SKOS to Wikidata
<http://inkdroid.org/journal/2015/05/20/skos-and-wikidata/> (video
<https://vimeo.com/128305641>)
- The Wikidata Visualization Challenge
<https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:%C3%96ppna_data_2015/Visualisering/T%C3%A4vling>
is ending soon. Please submit your entries. The Wikidata Menu Challenge
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Menu_Challenge> is also ending
soon.
- The number of videos about Wikidata is growing and there is now a
category on Wikimedia Commons
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikidata_videos> for these.
Did you know?
- Newest properties: lowest note
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1898>, highest note
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1897>, source website
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1896>, Fauna Europaea ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1895>, Danish urban area code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1894>, OpenPlaques plaque
identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1893>, signatory
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1891>, BNC identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1890>, different from
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1889>
- Newest WikiProjects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProjects>: WikiProject
Elections <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Elections>
Development
- Got early preview of the primary SPARQL endpoint for Wikidata live
- The Graph extension is now live on Wikidata
- Arbitrary access is rolled out on fawiki, hewiki and enwikivoyage now
- Busy with the hackathon (see above)
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!
- Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers
Lydia
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Product Manager for Wikidata
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