Hey folks :)
It's been a busy week. Here's the short version of it for you to catch up:
Discussions
- RfC: Quality is
measurable<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Q…
Events
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Announcing ToolScript <http://blog.magnusmanske.de/?p=189>. With
ToolScript <http://tools.wmflabs.org/toolscript/> can be used to get the
output of all Magnus' tools
- Feline mayors of the world or why Wikidata is
awesome<http://www.haykranen.nl/2014/04/03/feline-mayors-of-the-world-or-why-wikidata-is-awesome/>
- A Rijksmuseum <http://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?&q=190804>
representative
indicated what kind of
information<http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2014/04/wikidata-and-naval-history.html>
she
hopes Wikidata will deliver
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikiquote now gets its sitelinks via Wikidata. Welcome, Wikiquote!
Access to the other data will follow.
- Do you want automatic sidebar links to other Wikimedia projects
powered by Wikidata? Here you go:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-April/003690.html
Thanks
Tpt!
- Use Wikidata for internationalization on any
website!<http://google-opensource.blogspot.de/2014/04/qlabel-multilingual-content-without.html>
How
awesome is this? Very!
- Vote for some Wikidata talks for
Wikimania<https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikidata>
Did you know?
- Newest properties:
KulturNav-id<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1248>
, compression ratio <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1247>, patent
number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1246>, OmegaWiki Defined
Meaning <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1245>, phone
number<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1244>
, International Standard Recording
Code<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1243>
, Theatricalia play ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1242>, Swiss
Football Association Club
Number<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1241>
, Danish Bibliometric Research Indicator
level<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1240>
,ISFDB publisher ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1239>, Swedish
Football Association ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1238>, Box
Office Mojo film ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1237>, Parsons
code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1236>, ISFDB series
ID<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1235>
, ISFDB publication ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1234>, ISFDB
author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1233>, Linguist list
code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1232>, NARA online
catalogue <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1231>
Development
- Still looking for an awesome
intern.<http://wikimedia.de/wiki/Working_student_Wikidata_(f/m)> Do
you know someone who'd fit?
- Bene* continued working hard on making “badges” (the “featured” and
“good article” stars) in Wikidata a reality
- Finishing touches for Statements on properties
- Worked on better error messages when parsing failed
- Updated the translations to use much easier to manage JSON files for
each language
- Made a list of hard to understand messages that should be reworded
- Implemented a usable interface for Special:SimpleQuery
- Closed a backdoor that let you change the property of a snak via the
API, sorry guys
- Continuous refactoring and improving of the code base that defines
what Wikidata and the Wikibase extensions are
- Kept Wikidata up to date with the typography update
- Started to redesign the Wikibase page on
mediawiki.org<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase>
- Investigated if standard spam prevention features of MediaWiki work as
they should on Wikidata (Result: mostly yes but some fixes/tweaks are
needed.)
- Released version 1.0 of the Diff
extension.<http://www.bn2vs.com/blog/2014/04/10/diff-1-0-released/>
See current sprint
items<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=218716&reso…
for
what we’re working on next.
You can view the commits currently in review
here<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(+project:mediawiki/extensions/W…
and
the ones that have been merged
here<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(+project:mediawiki/extensions/W…
.
You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata
here<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1&list_id=1…
Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content
violation<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Constr…
for
the movement (P135) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P135>
property
- Hack on one of
these<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer…
.
- 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>
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.
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