Hey folks :)
Here's your summary of what has been happening around Wikidata last week:
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Past: SmartData conference http://smartdata2015.dataversity.net/ - Paper: Reifying RDF: What Works Well With Wikidata? http://www.aidanhogan.com/docs/reification-wikidata-rdf-sparql.pdf
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata made it into the top 10 of the Land der Ideen competition http://www.land-der-ideen.de/ausgezeichnete-orte/voting-result \o/ This means we're part of the final public voting starting on 9th of September. Thanks everyone who voted and spread the word. - Flow is being tested on selected talk pages. - New tool: Get new Wikidata items (now or before a given timestamp) as HTML or PagePile https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/new_items.php - New tool: Find Wikidata items without an image around a location, then find free images on Flickr taken nearby. https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/check_flickr_geo.php?lat=52.208055555556&lon=0.1225&radius=1&doit=1 - EventZoom.net http://eventzoom.net extended with OpenStreetMap support, increasing the options for visualizing historical events from Wikidata.
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: Find A Grave cemetery ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2025, German cattle breed ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2024, Erdős number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2021, worldfootball.net ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2020, AllMovie artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2019
Development
- Soon the edit summary for edits through the API will also contain the automatic edit summary that you are used to for edits done through the website. The summary given by the API user will be appended to the automatic summary. (phabricator:T97247 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97247) - Addressed performance issues in usage tracking updates and had to delay the latest round of rollouts because of it - Fixed a bug where suggestions would show up twice in item and property selectors (phabricator:T109697 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109697) - Improved performance of the mw.wikibase.sitelink Lua method - More work done on Unit Selector widget - Started working on the ArticlePlaceholder extension https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/articleplaceholder/ - Made final changes so we can redirect mobile users to the mobile version by default - Evaluated the remaining steps to get the extension deployed that lets you do checks against 3rd party databases. Not much left it seems and we'll tackle that in one of the next sprints. Getting the new features deployed for the constraints checks will still take a bit longer. - More work on making the edit summaries in the watchlist on Wikipedia and co more meaningful
You can see all open tickets 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 - Help translate https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats or proofread pages in your own language! - Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers Lydia