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
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Product Manager for Wikidata
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