Hey folks :)

Here's your summary of what's been happening around Wikidata over the past week. Enjoy!

Discussions

- RfC: Opting out of Global sysops 2 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Opting_out_of_Global_sysops_2

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

- Wikidata emerges as central element of GLAM-WIKI 2015 http://pro.europeana.eu/blogpost/wikidata-emerges-as-central-element-of-glam-wiki-2015 - ongoing: Coding DaVinci http://codingdavinci.de/

Other Noteworthy Stuff

- The question that started Wikidata has finally been answered! https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-April/005852.html Thank you Markus! ;-) - Wikimedia Sverige adapted two brochures about Wikidata, one for GLAMs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-GLAM_flyer_%28sv%29.pdf and one for researchers https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_for_researchers_flyer.pdf. - Bene* has been working on making Wikidata work nicely on mobile. You can check the current status on a demo system http://wikidata-mobile.wmflabs.org/w/index.php?title=Q117&mobileaction=toggle_view_mobile . - Amir could use your help with automatic transliteration of human names https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-April/005889.html - Commons-WD https://tools.wmflabs.org/wd-art/commons-wd/: a tool to edit Wikidata based on a Commons category - Various improvements to the Primary Sources Tool https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Primary_sources_tool including: - Edits made with it will now say so in the edit summary - It now uses the URL blacklist https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Primary_sources_tool/URL_blacklist to not suggest low-quality references - Caching issues were fixed

Did you know?

- Newest properties: Kiev street code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1854, blood type https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1853, Perry Index https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1852, input set https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1851, SSR Name ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1850, SSR WrittenForm ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1849, INPN Code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1848, Nasjonalbiblioteket photographer ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1847, distribution map https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1846, anti-virus alias https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1845, HathiTrust id https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1844, common name https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1843, Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1842, Swedish district code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1841, investigated by https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1840, US Federal Election Commission identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1839, PSS-archi ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1838, Gaoloumi ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1837, draft pick number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1836, GrassBase ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1832, electorate https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1831, owner of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1830, Roud Folk Song Index https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1829, IPI Code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1828, ISWC https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1827 - There are a number of user boxes https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Userboxes you can add to your user page to indicate interests and which wiki projects you belong to.

Development

- On Tuesday, we are deploying usage tracking (no arbitrary access yet) to Dutch Wikipedia and French Wikisource, and subscription tracking on Wikidata. There should be no noticeable changes for users. These are necessary steps towards enabling arbitrary access in clients. - Worked on making language fallback work in the suggester (when adding a new statement or searching for an item) - More work on RDF output and the query service - Added Special:RedirectEntity for redirecting items - Investigated and working to fix JS bug on items with “invalid” values ( phabricator:92975 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/92975) - Did work towards having entity ids in revision histories and in diffs linked with their label (like on watchlists or in the recentchanges)

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