Hey folks :)
Here's the summary of the last week around Wikidata. Enjoy!
Discussions
- Open RfA: Aldnonymous https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Aldnonymous - RfC: Review of "change datatype to monolingual" actions for some properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Review_of_%22change_datatype_to_monolingual%22_actions_for_some_properties, Adopt Help:Classification as an official help page https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Adopt_Help:Classification_as_an_official_help_page
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Redirects on Wikidata http://addshore.com/2015/04/redirects-on-wikidata/
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Tool by Magnus to find wrong nationalities on Wikidata https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/wrong_nationality.html - Where am I? https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/whereami.html (figuring out your location based on geocoordinates in Wikidata) - Map of French national parks https://jsfiddle.net/EdouardHue/yudh3139/4/embedded/result/ - Histropedia published 5 query generator spreadsheets https://drive.google.com/templates?q=wikidata - Wikimedia's monthly GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) newsletter now includes a Wikidata report. The draft for the first edition, covering April https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2015/Contents/Wikidata_report, may be edited and your contributions will be welcome.
Did you know?
- Newest properties: Baseball-Reference.com minor league player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1826, Baseball-Reference.com major league player ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1825, road number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1824, BAnQ ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1823, DSH object ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1822, Open Food Facts food category slug https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1821, Open Food Facts food additive slug https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1820, genealogics.org personID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1819, Kaiserhof ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1818, addressee https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1817, National Portrait Gallery (London) person identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1816, RSL book's identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1815, name in kana https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1814
Development
- Made label, description and aliases special pages easier to use - Bene* created a new Special:ListProperties special page to list properties by data type - Expanded our set of automated browser tests - Made language fallbacks work in more situations and more consistently. In particular, the entity selector now uses language fallback. This should benefit especially people who want to use Wikidata in a variant such as en-gb. - Continued work on the planned DataModel 3.0 release - Continued discussing and documenting future calendar model support - Continued work on our RDF generator - Continued work on usage tracking for labels on multilingual sites - Addshore worked on various issues regarding redirects - Addshore worked on a special page to turn an item into a redirect - Work on showing entity labels in edit summaries on history pages - Implemented change dispatching based on the new usage tracking mechanism - Fixed issue with page deletions on some Wikipedias not being reported to Wikidata - More work on straightening out date formatting and parsing - Fixed handling of scientific notation for quantity values - Term box: fixed bug causing stale info to be show, and another bug causing babel languages to be ignored sometimes. - Implemented access to other arbitrary items via the #property parser function - Bene* implemented check to make sure two properties can not have the same alias only differing in capitalization - Bene* worked on improving the mobile version
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! - Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers Lydia