Hey folks :)
Here's what's been happening around Wikidata over the past week:
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Past: Ateliers Wikidata https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Ateliers_Wikidata - Upcoming: Wikimania. There will be several talks and workshops related to Wikidata. Say hi at the "Ask Us Anything" session for Wikidata if you're there. - Reductionism http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=324
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Which geographic areas do different Wikipedias cover? How does it compare to Wikidata? Markus has a beautiful answer https://ddll.inf.tu-dresden.de/web/Wikidata/Maps-06-2015/en - Wikiproject Molecular Biology and AskPlatypus are shortlisted for the OpenData Award http://awards.theodi.org/2015-shortlist/ \o/ This is the award Wikidata won last year. - Paper on vandalism on Wikidata https://www.uni-weimar.de/medien/webis/publications/papers/stein_2015g.pdf. Lydia is in touch with them to figure out how to best use the insights for us. - Reasonator https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/ got some updates: it is now using external ID formatter URLs, has monolingual string support and better social network links
Did you know?
- Newest properties: number of children https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1971, MovieMeter movie identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1970, MovieMeter director ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1969, Foursquare venue ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1968, BoxRec ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1967, Biblioteca Nacional de Chile catalogue number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1966, sortkey https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1964, properties for this type https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1963, patron https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1962, Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1961, Google Scholar ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1960, Dutch Senate person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1959, Trismegistos ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1958, Wikisource index page https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1957 - Newest External tools https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools/External_tools: Wikidata Compare https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools/External_tools#Wikidata_Compare - Showcase items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items: none. Yours next week?
Development
- Jonas joined the team and Adam is back https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-June/006543.html \o/ - Deployed arbitrary access to ruwiki and cswiki - Machine readable versions (in various formats) of Wikibase entities will be advertised in their page heads as alternate link. ( phabricator:T96298 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96298) - Fixed property label on item pages not scrolling anymore ( phabricator:T94588 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T94588) - More work on getting the Wikibase Quality extensions ready for release. The part doing constraint violation checks should go to test.wikidata.org next week. The part doing checks against 3rd party databases will still take a bit longer but is also shaping up nicely. - Made it possible to create items even when another user is mass-creating items (phabricator:T103796 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103796) - Bene* worked more on making Wikidata work nicely on mobile - Fixed weird issue with cursor jumping around in sitelink input field ( phabricator:T103489 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103489) - Fixed an issue where it was not possible to edit a statement after you removed its only reference (phabricator:T103603 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103603) - Lydia will be traveling for much of July. Expect her to be a bit less responsive during that time.
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 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
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers Lydia