Hey folks :)
Here's your weekly dose of catching up with Wikidata.
Discussions
- Open RfAs: BlackBeast https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/BlackBeast
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Upcoming: Europeana Tech - Andrew Su gave a talk about crowd sourcing and citizen science for biology including Wikidata (slides http://www.slideshare.net/andrewsu/ucsd-dbmi-seminar-2015026) - Going to Wikimania? Apply for a scholarship https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships. - Internet Archive, Wikidata and Open Education http://teemuleinonen.fi/2015/02/02/internet-archives-wikidata-and-open-education/
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikibooks will get access to language links via Wikidata on February 24th. Coordination is happening at d:Wikidata:Wikibooks https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikibooks. - Roughly 17000 of the candidate articles that Google identified as potentially being about the same topic but lacking a language link have been merged. About 17500 are remaining and waiting for you to go through them via https://tools.wmflabs.org/yichengtry/ - Mix'n'Match got a face lift https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/ - Magnus says every day new images are added to over 1000 items \o/ - RStats client for Wikidata https://github.com/Ironholds/WikidataR - Reasonator https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?q=Q42&lang=fr now also supports biography texts in French
Did you know?
- Showcase items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items: Lucy (first name) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13365715
Development
- Did more work on Capiunto https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Capiunto to get it into a state where it can be deployed to Wikimedia sites. - Mourned Titan (phabricator:T88550 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88550) as its developers were bought up. Began evaluation for which graph database to use instead for a Wikidata query service (mw:Wikibase/Indexing https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/Indexing) - Further work on header section redesign - Tweaks to the sitelink section - Worked on making monolingual text datatype accept more languages - Finished showing the language when a language fallback is used - Started looking into fixing the existing Guided Tours after Guided Tours extension API changes - Worked on implementing Lua convenience functions for rendering arbitrary Snaks. This is useful for displaying references or qualifiers. ( phabricator:T76213 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76213)
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