Greetings,
Here is the weekly update from the Discovery department. Enjoy and feedback
is always welcome.
* Geoshapes service can now add shapes to the results of Wikidata queries.
[1] See graph example. [2] You now can build a graph by querying Wikidata.
* Wikipedia portal stats were updated on 30 June 2016 [3]
* Wikipedia Portal survey results emailed to Discovery and Staff email
lists (second running of survey question: how did you get to wikipedia.org?)
[4]
* Dan Garry presented a Discovery update at the monthly metrics meeting on
June 30. [5]
* Wikimania in Esino Lario, Italy ended and the Portal team offsite (Deb
and Jan) in Warsaw, Poland began
[1]
https://query.wikidata.org/
[2]
http://data.wmflabs.org/wiki/Template:World_from_Wikidata_and_OSM
[3]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546
[4]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136874
[5]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIlYR6ismCE&t=4m31s
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The full update, and archive of past updates, can be found on
Mediawiki.org:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates
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Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison - Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation