Hey everyone,
Here is the latest summary of everything happening around Wikidata!
Read the summary in your language at < https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/201...
Discussions
- A question from an intern https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#What_do_you_wish_you_had_known_when_you_first_started_using_and.2For_contributing_to_Wikidata.3F
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Open Hack Day https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fringe/Open_Data_Hack, 5th and 6th of July, London
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata got 10 times easier to use with the entity suggester http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-July/004148.html - Lydia needs your help with some selfies http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-June/004146.html (already uploaded ones are at c:Category:Wikidata selfies https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikidata_selfies) - Wikidata the Game has a new game: occupation http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/#mode=occupation - As part of the Outreach Program for Women d:User:User:Thepwnco https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:User:Thepwnco is continuing improving all help pages to help new users understand Wikidata better. At the same time w:User:Discoveranjali https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Discoveranjali is helping with social media outreach and creating presentations workshops about Wikidata.
Did you know?
- Newest properties: replaced by structure https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1398, State Catalogue of Geographical Names (Russia) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1397, Linguasphere code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1396, NCI ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1395,Glottolog code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1394, proxy https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1393, ComicBookDB ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1392, Index Fungorum ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1391
Development
- Upcoming API change (wblinktitle) http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-July/004190.html - Deployed entity suggester. - More work on redirects. They are taking shape. Done with much of the groundwork. We've seen the first one! :D - Continued work on user interface redesign mockups - Monolingual text datatype is also taking shape but needs more user interface love to make it intuitive. - Investigated making Wikidata.org its own client so you can for example get access to better Lua functions for access to an item's label on a discussion page. Outcome: Should be possible but needs some more work. - Fixed bugs
See current sprint items http://sb.wmflabs.org/p/wikidata/ for what we’re working on next.
You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1&list_id=151540&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content violation https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Constraint_violations/P850 for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P850 property - Hack on one of these https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515 . - Help fix these items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:The_Game/Flagged_items which has 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