Hey folks :)
Here's your summary of what's been happening around Wikidata over the past
week.
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Wikipedia turned 15. Happy birthday, big sister!
- Fifteen years ago , Wikipedia was a very different place: Magnus
Manske
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/01/18/fifteen-years-wikipedia-magnus-manske/>
- Wikipedia just turned 15 years old. Will it survive 15 more?
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/01/15/wikipedia-just-turned-15-years-old-will-it-survive-15-more/>
- Slides for talk by Lucie and Adam at the birthday party in NYC
<http://www.slideshare.net/frimelle/wikidata-at-wikipeda-day-15-2016-nyc>
- Doing research on Wikidata? Consider submitting to OpenSym
<http://www.opensym.org/os2016/call-for-papers/>.
- Past: ODI summit (video of talk "Making every human gene accessible
and linkable" by Andra Waagmeester
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUET6isFLHg>)
- Past: StrepHit IEG kick-off (video
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvfd_HmPOrc>, slides
<http://www.slideshare.net/MarcoFossati/strephit-ieg-kickoff-seminar>)
- Upcoming: ORCID outreach meeting
<https://orcid.org/blog/2016/01/12/orcid-down-under-announcing-our-first-australian-outreach-meeting>
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Module:Cycling race <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Module:Cycling_race>
generates a list of stages and winners for cycling races
- Great use of the Listeria bot to create an artwork gallery
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Lockal/Paintings_by_Jacob_van_Ruisdael>
- Wikidata-lang <https://github.com/inventaire/wikidata-lang> - library
to get language code from a Wikidata item for a language
- Live-stream of Wikidata edits
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/rcvis.html> by Magnus
- Wikipedia tools for Google Spreadsheet
<https://github.com/tomayac/wikipedia-tools-for-google-spreadsheets> now
has a Wikidata function
- Yair rand wrote a user script to experiment with how changes are shown
in recent changes and watchlist
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Proposal_and_demo_script_for_watchlist_and_recent_changes_appearance>
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: Theatricalia
person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2469>, Theatricalia
theatre ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2468>, Global
Geoparks Network ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2467>, judicial
sentence <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2466>, allcinema film
identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2465>
Development
- Students worked on new datatype to capture mathematical expressions (
phabricator:T67397 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T67397>)
- Updated property suggester data to give you more up-to-date
suggestions when adding new statements
- Pages in the module namespace now also get interwiki links (
phabricator:T123234 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123234>)
- Reduced number of resource loader modules to improve performance (
phabricator:T123233 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123233>)
- Started experimenting with showing an image in the header area (
phabricator:T119493 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119493>)
- Fixed a bug where the query text would be moved off the screen on the
query service website (phabricator:T120196
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120196>)
- Worked on the remaining blocker for taking the in other projects
sidebar out of beta. We need to link to the Commons category and not
gallery for articles without frying the servers (phabricator:T94989
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T94989>)
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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Product Manager for Wikidata
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