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!