Hey folks :)
Here's your summary for what happened around Wikidata over the past week.
Sorry for sending it late. I spent some much needed time with friends over
a long weekend in Barcelona.
Have a great week and keep rocking!
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Past: Semantic Web Application and Tools 4 Life Science
<http://www.swat4ls.org/>
- notes
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dSgm90SbQBpHqEMa17t5zQL0PB2waIKD3LKTPPknmcY/edit>
- example queries
<https://bitbucket.org/sulab/wikidatasparqlexamples/src>
- a few images <https://twitter.com/bgood/status/673872975024816128>
- Ongoing: Wikidata for Beginners session at DISH 2015, Rotterdam
<http://www.dish2015.nl/programme/improvisation-session/day-2-lose-control-gain-influence/>,
8 December 2015
- Upcoming: Wikidata pour la science
<http://www.meetup.com/SemanticCampParis/events/227054374/?eventId=227054374>
- Upcoming: Workshop on "Wikidata as a platform for biocuration" at
Biocuration 2016
<http://www.isb-sib.ch/events/biocuration2016/workshops#WS6>
- Slides for talk "Building the sum of all human citations"
<http://www.slideshare.net/dartar/building-the-sum-of-all-human-citations>
- Op-ed in Signpost
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-12-02/Op-ed>
(Lydia is working on a piece to address some of the points)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Closing in towards 1 million links between Commons categories and
Wikidata article-type items
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Closing_in_towards_1_million_links_between_Commons_categories_and_Wikidata_article-type_items>
-- 8,000 more by next week?
- Help labeling edits to improve the vandalism detection on Wikidata
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Edit_labels>
- Open Science Prize <https://www.openscienceprize.org/> is looking for
cool ideas for Open Data and health. How about something awesome with
Wikidata?
- The Individual Engagement Grant for StrepHit
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/StrepHit:_Wikidata_Statements_Validation_via_References>
has been accepted
- Are you between 13 and 17? Join us for Google Code-in
<https://codein.withgoogle.com> and do some Wikidata tasks with Wikimedia
- We want your feedback on how to improve the process of showcasing
Wikidata's best content
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-December/007751.html>
- I dreamed of a perfect database
<https://newrepublic.com/article/124425/dreamed-perfect-database> -
Wikidata? ;-)
- Histropedia timeline of National Library of Wales
<http://histropedia.com/timeline/lhblyhhr091/NLW-Collections>
- Wikinews, Wikispecies and MediaWiki now have access to the data on
Wikidata. Do awesome things with it, sisters! Meta will follow on 15th.
- Map of narrative locations in Denmark
<https://fnielsen.github.io/littar/>
- Experimental REST API for Wikidata <http://queryr.wmflabs.org/about/>
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: deprecated in
version <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2379>, issued by
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2378>, MediaWiki hooks used
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2377>, superpartner of
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2376>, has superpartner
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2375>, natural abundance
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2374>, Genius artist ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2373>, ODIS ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2372>, FAO risk status
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2371>, conversion to SI base
unit <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2370>, Soccerway player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2369>, Sandbox-Property
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2368>
- Newest Database reports: WikiProject Movies/new films
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Movies/new_films>
- Showcase items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items>:
Bertus Aafjes <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q353003>
Development
- Polished the patch that adds icons to the item pages (for actions like
edit, remove etc) and makes them cleaner. This will go live later today.
- Worked more on a separate section for identifiers
- Started working on the sorting of statements on the ArticlePlaceholder
pages
- Made it possible to use unknown language, no linguistic content and
more as languages for the monolingual text datatype
- Experimented more with improvements to the ranking on Special:Search
- Worked on showing more languages in the in other languages box than
the ones defined in your babel boxes
- Small improvements to recent changes/watchlist integration on
Wikipedia and co
- Worked on making it possible to create a redirect over a deleted item
- Worked on PHP7 support
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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