Hey folks :)
Here's your short summary of what's been happening around Wikidata over the
past week.
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- How many female scientists are there on Wikipedia? This time with
SPARQL!
<http://ashtree.eu/wordpress/mais-combien-y-a-t-il-de-femmes-scientifiques-sur-wikipedia-this-time-with-sparql/>
(French)
- Wikidata Enpoint SPARQL and the paintings of Goya Wikidata's SPARQL
endpoint and the paintings of Goya
<http://zone47.com/dozo/wikidata-enpoint-sparql-et-les-peintures-de-goya>
(French)
- Upcoming: 3rd Birthday \o/ (Please don't forget to register
<https://www.eventbrite.de/e/wikidatas-3-geburtstag-wikidatas-3rd-birthday-registration-18899772729>
if you're coming to the party.)
- More wrapups of Wikiconference USA including slides: [1]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-October/007355.html>,
[2]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-October/007358.html>
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Magnus overhauled the Wikidata Game!
<http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=362> Sweeeeeet! Now includes one
where you can match an author and a publication
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/distributed/#game=9>. And it
has stats
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/distributed/#mode=stats>.
- Mix'n'match got skyscrapers to match up
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/?mode=catalog_details&catalog=106>
for you.
- Sitelinks and P569
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jura1/sitelinks_and_P569> compares
various Wikipedias by the proportion of items with date of birth (
Property:P569 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P569>)
- Catalan Wikipedia match up all of their articles to items on Wikidata
<https://twitter.com/AmicalWikimedia/status/655022833140154368>.
Congrats!
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: periapsis
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2244>, apoapsis
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2243>, Florentine musea
catalogue ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2242>, reason for
deprecation <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2241>
Development
- Worked on adding auto-completion for item and property prefixes to the
SPARQL query editor (so you can search by label when entering a query)
- Wrote maintenance script for changing some properties from datatype
string to upcoming datatype identifier
- More work on birthday present
- More work on the article placeholder to get it ready for a first demo
- Prepared patch for also publishing JSON dumps with bzip2 compression
- Further improved edit summaries we show on Wikipedia etc
- Prepared for giving Wikispecies, Meta and Mediawiki access to the
sitelinks on Wikidata on 20. of October
You can see all open tickets 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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