Hey folks :)
Here is all the important stuff that happened around Wikidata over the last week for you:
Discussions
- Closed RfAs: Petr Matas https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Petr_Matas_2 (unsuccessful), Edoderoo https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Edoderoo (successful) - Open RfAs: Eurodyne https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Eurodyne
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Upcoming: MediaWiki Developer Summit https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Developer_Summit_2015 - Upcoming: FOSDEM http://fosdem.org - Upcoming: Wikidata for research meetup in February in Paris and Berlin https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Wikidata_for_research/Meetups - Past: Meetup in Cambridge https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Cambridge/25 - Brainstorming for Wikimania talks related to Wikidata is happening at phabricator:T87334 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87334 and you can apply for a scholarship https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships - Wikidata - a year in numbers http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.de/2015/01/wikidata-year-in-numbers.html
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Want to help out mapping schema.org and Wikidata properties? There is now a ticket for coordination https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/280. - The new Content Translation https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/20/try-content-translation/ tool uses Wikidata data to suggest the correct article to link to when translating a Wikipedia article to another language - Using GNOME Shell? There is a Wikidata search provider https://github.com/6ahodir/wikidata-search-provider for you.
Did you know?
- Newest properties: award shared with https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1706, native label https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1705, pollenizer https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1704, pollination https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1703 - You can influence the languages shown in the "in other languages box" by adding a bable box to your user page like here https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lydia_Pintscher_%28WMDE%29.
Development
- More work on header section redesign - Released Wikibase DataModel 2.5 https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModel/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES.md#version-250-2014-01-20 - Broke and fixed JSON dumps - sorry! - Implemented entity change subscription service
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