Great and thanks, Lydia, John and All!
Scott
On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Lydia Pintscher <
lydia.pintscher(a)wikimedia.de> wrote:
Hey folks :)
Here's your summary of what happened around Wikidata last week. Hope you
had a great weekend.
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Wikidata turned 2 on Wednesday!
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Second_Birthday> Have a look
at the notes from the community and development team and add your note.
Also don't forget to check out all the cool presents (a painting, speed
improvements, a huge load of unconnected articles that you can help connect
via the Wikidata Game, WikidataLDF, a recent changes visualisation)!
- Wikidata II <http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2014/10/30/wikidata-ii/>
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata is nominated for 2 Open Data Awards
<http://summit.theodi.org/awards/>! \o/ Magnus and Lydia will attend
the award ceremony next week. Keep your fingers crossed for us.
- Wikidata as the central hub for open life science data
<http://blog.wikimedia.de/2014/10/22/establishing-wikidata-as-the-central-hub-for-linked-open-life-science-data/>
- What is Wikipedia about?
<http://www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/showcase/608-what-is-wikipedia-about>
Great data viz based on Wikidata
- Super Lachaise <http://www.superlachaise.fr/>, a mobile app based on
Wikidata for a cemetery in Paris
- Random items without statements
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/no_statements.php>
- Tutorial: How to make a “descendants of” timeline using Wikidata
<http://www.histropedia.com/blog/how-to-make-a-descendants-of-timeline/>
- Updated statistics on the topics with most highly-rated articles on
Wikipedia <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/Badge_statistics>
Did you know?
- Less than 23% of @wikidata items have no statement. Down from ~53% a
year ago.
- Newest properties: deepest point
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1589>, Desa code of Indonesia
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1588>, Slovene Cultural
Heritage Register ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1587>, Catalan
object of cultural interest ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1586>, Municipality code of
Brazil <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1585>, Pleiades
identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1584>, MalaCards ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1583>, natural product of
taxon <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1582>, official blog
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1581>, University of
Barcelona authority ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1580>,
Beilstein
Registry Number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1579>, Gmelin
Number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1578>
Development
- Worked around memory corruption in zend PHP
- HHVM beta feature is enabled again for Wikidata
- Fixes for various breaking changes in mediawiki core
- Work on language fall backs for new serialization code
- Work on fixing XML dumps
- Work on making Special:Version correct again for Wikidata extensions
- Implemented LabelLookup to improve performance further
- Worked more on remaining tasks for simple queries
- Poked remaining tasks for statements on properties
- Further improvements to the usability and workflow of sitelink
editing
- Wrote browser tests for authority control gadget
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
- 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
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>
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers
Lydia, who is slightly jet-lagged after returning from a trip to California
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