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>
- Ongoing: 32C3 <https://events.ccc.de/congress/2015/wiki/>
- Upcoming: Wikimedia Developer Summit
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit_2016>
- Upcoming: StrepHit IEG project kick-off seminar
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-December/007898.html>
- Upcoming: Office hour on IRC
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-December/007918.html>
- Upcoming: FOSDEM <https://fosdem.org> (Lucie will give a talk about
the ArticlePlaceholder extension)
- Registration and scholarship applications for the Wikimedia Hackathon
in Israel are open
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2015-December/001314.html>
- Don't forget your talk submissions for Wikimania 2016
<https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions>. Lydia
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lydia_Pintscher_%28WMDE%29> can help
if needed.
- Getting CAS registry numbers out of WikiData
<http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.de/2015/12/new-edition-getting-cas-registry.html>
- The quality of SMILES strings in Wikidata
<http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.de/2015/12/the-quality-of-smiles-strings-in.html>
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Paper: Wikidata: A platform for data integration and dissemination for
the life sciences and beyond
<http://www.swat4ls.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/SWAT4LS_2015_paper_38.pdf>
- The Wikidata for Research proposal has now been published in a journal
<http://rio.pensoft.net/articles.php?journal_name=rio&id=7573>
- New tool to turn string claims to monolingual claims
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/pltools/addlingue/>
- Johl built a card game about German politicians using Wikidata
<http://blog.johl.io/blog/2015/12/23/bundestagsquartett/>
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: number of awards
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2422>, Prosopographia Attica
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2421>, Structurae person ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2418>, stage classification
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2417>, sports disciplines
competed in <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2416>, personal best
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2415>, substrate of
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2414>
Development
- Some small bugfixes and tweaks.
- Enjoying the holidays and editing on Wikidata. Hope you are too :)
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
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.