Hey folks :)

Here's the summary of what's been happening around Wikidata over the past week. If you are working on something interesting or have seen someone else do something cool please do not hesitate to add it to the next weekly summary via the link in the last section of this email. Discussions

- Open request for adminship: Lakokat https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Lakokat

Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage

- Wikidata/Wikibase Json Dump Reader http://www.bn2vs.com/blog/2015/11/08/wikidata-wikibase-json-dump-reader/ - Wikidata project to tackle language barriers in scientific reserach http://factor-tech.com/big-data/20486-wikidata-project-to-tackle-language-barriers-in-scientific-research/ - Semantic Cities http://cii.oii.ox.ac.uk/2015/11/05/semantic-cities/ - Q167545: Wikidata celebrated its third birthday http://blog.wikimedia.de/2015/11/05/q167545-wikidata-celebrated-its-third-birthday/ - Slides from talk at UCSD on "Open biomedical knowledge using crowdsourcing and citizenscience" http://www.slideshare.net/andrewsu/open-biomedical-knowledge-using-crowdsourcing-and-citizen-science - Past: semwebpro (slides http://slides.com/raphaellelapotre/deck#/) - Past: ODI Summit - Past: MozFest (etherpad https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/Data-is-beautiful-whats-Wikidata) - Upcoming: WikiConference Seoul http://con2015.wikimedia.kr

Other Noteworthy Stuff https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_Birthday_Illustration_II.jpg Highlights of 3 years of Wikidata by Madgalena Wiegner

- List of Wikipedia articles without an image where Wikidata has one https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/wp_no_image/index.html - Want to use data from Wikidata to enrich data in your own application? S wrote a good start. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Presenting_Wikidata_knowledge - Commons misconceptions and how to avoid them http://schoolofdata.org/handbook/courses/common-misconceptions/ by School of Data

Did you know?

- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: charted in https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2291, Danish parish code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2290, venous drainage https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2289, lymphatic drainage https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2288, CRIStin ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2287, arterial supply https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2286, periapsis date https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2285, price https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2284, uses https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2283, Groeningemuseum work PID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2282, iTunes album ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2281, Austrian Parliament ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2280, ambitus https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2279, Member of the Hellenic Parliament ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2278, Magdeburger Biographisches Lexikon https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2277, UEFA player code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2276, World Health Organisation International Nonproprietary Name https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2275, Heidelberg Academy for Sciences and Humanities member ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2273, Hederich article https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2272 - Ever noticed ranks https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Ranking?

Development

- Worked on the tests for the ArticlePlaceholder - Finished the create article button for the ArticlePlaceholder page - From Monday on a bzip2 compressed version of the beta Wikidata TTL dumps will be published along the gzip one - Getting close to make it possible to add the main value of a statement and its reference at the same time - Worked on adding a new section to item and property pages for identifiers - Did backend work for making identifiers useful in our machine-readable outputs (by actually linking them instead of just giving the identifier string) - more work needed - Fixed a bug where dates would have English months on non-English wikis (phabricator:T116503 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116503) - Fixed a bug when editing labels on mobile (phabricator:T117184 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117184) - Worked more on making search work on mobile - Worked on a fix for a visual glitch in the table of content on mobile (the box is bigger than its content)

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