Heya folks :)
Here's your summary of what happened around Wikidata this week.
The wiki version is at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2013_03_22
= Development =
* Rolled out new code on
wikidata.org. The new stuff you probably care about is:
** Improved references. They can now have multiple lines. This should
make references much more useful. You can now have one reference with
for example values for each of the properties "book", "author",
"page"
to describe one source.
** Fixed the prev/next links in diff view
(
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45821)
**
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel now lets
you filter by language and entity type
* Widget to add language links on the Wikipedias directly: added
setting to enable/disable it per wiki and made it available for
logged-in users only
* Widget to add language links on the Wikipedias directly: improved
layout / size
* Made it so that the “edit links” link on Wikipedia is also shown
when the corresponding item only has a link to this one language and
no other languages
* Submitted improved Apache config patch to make
wikidata.org always
redirect to
www.wikidata.org, which is awaiting code review and
deployment.
* Improved the script that is responsible for taking Wikidata changes
to the Wikipedias
* Added a few ways to better debug the script responsible for taking
Wikidata changes to the Wikipedias. This should help with
investigating why some changes take way to long to show up on the
Wikipedias.
* Started work on automatically adding edited items to the user’s
watchlist (according to preferences)
* Finished script for rebuilding search keys, so we can finally get
case insensitive matches in a lot of places
* Support for multi-line references in diff view
* Selenium tests for inclusion syntax
* Improved parser function (that will be used to access Wikidata data
on the Wikipedias) to accept property ID or label
* Increased isolation of data model component to increase clarity and
visibility of bad dependencies
* Worked on schema access in the SQLStore (of the query component)
You can follow our commits at
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(status:open+project:mediawiki/extension…
and view the subset awaiting review at
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions…
You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata at
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1&list_id=151540&am…
= Discussions/Press/Blogs =
* Denny had a look at some data about Wikidata:
http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/03/19/some-data-on-wikidata/
= Events =
see
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events
* 3rd Media Web Symposium 2013
* Wikidata trifft Archäologie
* SMWCon Spring NYC
= Other Noteworthy Stuff =
* Join us for the Amsterdam and Wikimania hackathon and Wikimania:
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Amsterdam_.2B_Wikimania_…
* Too many items with the same label and no description?
http://toolserver.org/~magnus/wd_terminator.php helps you hunt them
all down and clean them up. Also check out the top 1000:
http://toolserver.org/~magnus/wd_terminator.php?list
* Interested in the distribution of books by genre on Wikidata and
similar things? WikidataStats can help:
http://toolserver.org/~magnus/ts2/wdstats/?q={%22r%22:[{%22p%22:31,%22i%22:…
*
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Bot
needs input from more people
* Detailed list of bots:
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Bots_by_function
* Collecting information about creating a bot:
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Creating_a_bot
* We’ve crossed Q8000000
= Did you know? =
* When you edit a statement there is a little wheel in front of the
text field. This lets you choose between “custom value”, “unknown
value” and “no value”. “No value” means that we know that the given
property has no value, e.g. Elizabeth I of England had no spouse.
“Unknown value” means that the property has a value, but it is unknown
which one -- e.g. Pope Linus most certainly had a year of birth, but
it is unknown to us.
= Open Tasks for You =
* Hack on one of
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&am…
* Still looking for the right way to contribute for you? Have a look
at
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contribute
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers
Lydia
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