Hello everyone!
Here is the latest weekly summary detailing all of the interesting things around Wikidata and the wider community.
Discussions
- RfC: Speedy vs Regular deletion https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Speedy_vs_Regular_deletion - Closed RfAs: George.Edward.C https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/George.Edward.C (successful) - Open RfAs: Petr Matas https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Petr_Matas_2 , Edoderoo https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Edoderoo
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- The Wikidata for research https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:4R proposal was submitted http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13906 to the European Union on January 14. Congrats to Daniel for spearheading that huge effort. - Blog post about how Wikidata can change the way citizen scientists contribute https://gee0ai0en0gee.wordpress.com/2015/01/15/wikidata-can-change-the-way-citizen-scientists-contribute/ - IRC office hour happened (log https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2015-01-16 ) - Blog posts about gender inequality index based on Wikidata data by Max http://notconfusing.com/preliminary-results-from-wigi-the-wikipedia-gender-inequality-index/ and Magnus http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=250 - MediaWiki Developer Summit https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Developer_Summit_2015
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The development plan https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Development_plan has been updated and expanded - Official Wikipedia app https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/15/immersive-mobile-experience/ now uses Wikidata descriptions \o/ More to come! - Usage tracking will likely be deployed on February 2 on Wikidata. This will not be user-visible. It just means that pages using data from arbitrary items get updated/purged when the data changes. Arbitrary access https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Development_plan#Access_to_data_from_arbitrary_items is being tested at Test Wikidata https://test.wikidata.org/wiki/ and testwiki:Test Wiki https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_Wiki. An example is at testwiki:Kitten on arbitrary page https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitten_on_arbitrary_page. - Assigning items on Mix'n'match https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match will now make that change on Wikidata for you automatically
Did you know?
- Newest properties: IGESPAR identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1702, SIPA identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1700, SkyscraperPage building id https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1699
Development
- Deployed new sitelinks interface design to Wikidata. It's not done yet but we're getting there. Tweaks are in progress. - Worked on redesign of header area - Fixed some bugs that popped up after deployment - Enabled usage tracking and arbitrary access on test.wikipedia.org and test.wikidata, and preparations for enabling it on Wikidata - Collecting Query examples https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibase/Indexing/Query_examples for the new query functionality
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!