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
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Lydia Pintscher -
http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
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