Hey folks :)
Here's your update on what has been happening around Wikidata last week. Enjoy!
Discussions
- Closed RfAs: Eurodyne https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Eurodyne (unsuccessful) - Open RfAs: BlackBeast https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/BlackBeast
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Past: MediaWiki Developer Summit https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Developer_Summit_2015 - Past: FOSDEM http://fosdem.org - Upcoming: ArtBytes hackathon https://www.eventbrite.com/e/artbytes-3-hackathon-tickets-15166279751
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- ATOM feeds for changes in Wikidata Query results. Define your own to keep an eye on changes in specific topics https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/wdq_feed.php - Overview of the number of visual artworks items on Wikidata by creator (>5 items) http://www.zone47.com/crotos/creators.php - The Wikidata Free Image Search Tool https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/wdfist/ can now also search Commons (not just follow language links)
Did you know?
- Newest properties: British Museum person-institution https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1711, Sächsische Biografie https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1710, equivalent class https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1709, LfDS object ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1708, DAAO identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1707 - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProjects: Authority control https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Authority_control
Development
- Fixed diffs not showing old ranks, qualifiers and references on the left side (phabricator:T87096 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87096) - Worked on several date and time related issues, like incorrect padding of the year to 11 instead of 16 digits (phabricator:T87764 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87764) - Further work on header section redesign (phabricator:T75654 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T75654) - Started redesign of statements section (phabricator:T87316 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87316) - Introduced a hint showing the language when a language fallback is used on an item or property (phabricator:T85105 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85105) - Working on splitting a Wikibase View component out of the Wikibase Repo code base - Currently testing how PHPCS and PHPMD can help raising Wikibase’ code quality - Released Wikibase DataModelSerialization 1.3 https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModelSerialization#130-2015-01-28 with language fallback support
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!
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers Lydia