Hey everyone :)
Here's what happened around Wikidata over the past week. Hope you're having
a good weekend.
Discussions
- Successful request for oversight rights: Sjoerddebruin
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Wikimedia UK is organizing a Wikidata training session. You can sign
up here <https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Wikidata_training_2015>.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Talk pages on Wikidata can now be converted to use Flow. You can
request migrating your talk page at d:Wikidata:Flow
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Flow>.
- Mix-n-Match <https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match> got a bunch of new
catalogs for you to match up with Wikidata. Currently matching is happening
at about 500 items per day. Pretty sweet :)
- @happybirthdayauthors <https://twitter.com/happybdauthors> is a new
Twitter account posting reading suggestions based on Wikidata data.
- Arbitrary access
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Arbitrary_access> is rolling out
to a large number of wikis over the next two weeks.
- Duplicity <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/duplicity.php> can
help you match up unlinked Wikipedia articles to a Wikidata item.
Did you know?
- Newest properties: Erdős number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2021>,
worldfootball.net ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2020>, AllMovie artist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2019>, Teuchos ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2018>, isomeric SMILES
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2017>, Catalogus Professorum
Academiae Groninganae id
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2016>, Hansard
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2015>
Development
- Made some small changes to the style of the edit warning and sitelinks
so they are easier to notice and understand
- Added error messages for Special:GoToLinkedPage and
Special:ItemByTitle so you get a useful message in case no result is found
- The Entity Selector now displays alias in brackets behind label
- The number of entities loaded via the {{#property:…}} parser function
and via Lua will be reported in the “Parser profiling data” (which can be
found below a page preview or within the Html of a page)
- Prepared for next rounds of arbitrary access rollout
- Investigated growing lag of dispatching of changes to Wikipedia and
co. We'll need to investigate further and change things so the lag between
an edit on Wikidata and it being send to the Wikipedias and other projects
is not too high.
- Added the property ID to Special:ListProperties
- Moved two extensions (
Wikidata.org and WikimediaBadges) from Github to
Gerrit. More will follow.
- We'd like to drop a database table.
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-August/006847.html>
Discussion is ongoing.
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! :)
Cheers
Lydia
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Lydia Pintscher -
http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
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