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
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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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