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
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Lydia Pintscher -
http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
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