Hey folks :)
Here's what's been happening around Wikidata over the last week:
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Wikimedia Grafana graphs of Wikidata profiling information http://addshore.com/2015/09/wikimedia-grafana-graphs-of-wikidata-profiling-information/ - Past: Wikimedia Science Conference (blog posts: Liberating Science Daily With, and To, Wikidata http://contentmine.org/2015/09/liberating-science-daily-with-and-to-wikidata/, Wikidata, Wikipedia, and #wikisci http://iphylo.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/wikidata-wikipedia-and-wikisci.html ) - Past: Wikidata workshop in Rennes https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Rencontres/Ouest#Atelier_:_d.C3.A9couverte_de_Wikidata.2C_samedi_5_septembre_.C3.A0_Rennes
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New date for the next Arbitrary access rollout https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Arbitrary_access has been set: 16th of September. - Support for units on Wikidata is coming on Wednesday (9th of September). - A new version of Kian https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-August/006967.html has been released - The Wikidata Game http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/ has got a new mode: Books without author. - A new IEG proposal needs your review and support https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/StrepHit:_Wikidata_Statements_Validation_via_References. You can also submit your own until the 29th of September. - >8K Fellows of the Royal Society have been added to mix’n’match https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/?mode=catalog_details&catalog=92 - You can have a look at the spiffy new mobile view https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2 - Want to work with the data in Wikidata? There is a new release of the Wikidata Toolkit https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-September/006999.html for you. - Your help is needed with the most important constraint violations https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Constraint_violations/Mandatory_constraints/Violations . - A new noticeboard has been created to help with classification issues: d:Wikidata:Classification noticeboard https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Classification_noticeboard
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Constraint_violations/All_properties: Artsy artist https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2042, National Gallery of Victoria artist identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2041, CITES Species+ ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2040
Development
- Worked on search on the mobile site - Started working on automatically linking identifiers without a gadget and the new datatype for identifiers - We have a new Special page to query badges (finally!) After the next update it will be at Special:PagesWithBadges on Wikipedia and others - Fixed some of the remaining known issues with unit support to make it ready for rollout on Wednesday - Continued with making it possible to show meaningful edit summaries in the watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and others - Made change dispatching faster (This is what makes Wikipedia and others aware of changes happening on Wikidata)
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