Hey folks :)
Here's your summary of what's been happening around Wikidata over the past
week. Enjoy!
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Past: Europeana Tech
- Wir lieben Freie Software
<http://blog.wikimedia.de/2015/02/14/wir-lieben-freie-software/>
- Mapping resources using open knowledge: starting with books!
<http://blog.inventaire.io/post/110540440753/mapping-resources-using-open-knowledge-starting>
- New recommendations outline ways to strengthen Europeana’s future
relationship with Wikimedia
<http://pro.europeana.eu/pro-blog/-/blogs/new-recommendations-outline-ways-to-strengthen-europeana%E2%80%99s-future-relationship-with-wikimedia>
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Spiffy new project building on top of Wikidata: inventaire.io. Check
out this example entry <https://inventaire.io/entity/wd:Q535>!
- You will now see when a language fallback for a label is used on an
item or property. The language name will be shown next to it.
- Automatic descriptions for Wikidata items by Magnus
<http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=265>
- The templates for adding badges (good article, featured article, etc)
to articles on Wikipedia in the sidebar are getting removed from articles
rapidly in favor of getting that information from Wikidata \o/ German
Wikipedia even deleted those templates already. English Wikipedia seems to
be getting close.
Did you know?
- Newest properties: Journalisted ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1714>, Biography at the
Bundestag of Germany
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1713>, Metacritic
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1712>
- Newest WikiProjects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProjects>: Identical Twins
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Identical_Twins>
Development
- <3
- We are hiring! Passionate about Wikidata and know your way around Java
Script and co? Apply!
<https://www.wikimedia.de/wiki/Software_Developer_Frontend_Development>
- We'll spend the next week working with Nik and Stas from WMF to move
queries forward in Berlin
- Worked on implementing a Lua interface for arbitrary Snak rendering.
This can be used to render eg. qualifiers or references in Wikipedia
infoboxes.
- Did groundwork for Lua convenience functions that render data in the
user’s interface language, rather than the content language (for
multilingual wikis, like Commons or Wikidata only)
- Did further work on making the Lua interface code nicer and share code
with the parser functions
- Removed input method selector in the sitelink input as it was hiding
the actual input and not very useful there
- Fixed some issues in diff views showing new data instead of old data
- Created a few scripts to make it easier for 3rd parties to install
Wikibase
- Fixed icinga notification that tests if dispatch lag gets high
- Investigated several issues regarding storage of time values and
started fixing them
- Fixed editing of qualifiers
- Fixed most browser tests after introduction of new header design
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
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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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Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.