[Wikidata] weekly summary #173

Hey folks :) Here's your summary of what's been happening around Wikidata over the past week. Enjoy and have a great week! Discussions - New request for comments: Merging relationship properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Merging_relationship_properties> Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Removing use of Mediawiki’s API ‘rawmode’ in Wikibase <http://addshore.com/2015/08/removing-use-of-mediawikis-api-rawmode-in-wikibase/> Other Noteworthy Stuff - New page: Wikidata:OpenStreetMap <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:OpenStreetMap> to facilitate cooperation with our colleagues at OpenStreetMap - Inventaire now shows links to ProjectGutenberg ebooks based on Wikidata data (example <https://inventaire.io/entity/wd:Q326467>) - First version of units is ready for testing <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#First_version_for_units_is_ready_for_testing.21> Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: ResearchGate ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2038>, GitHub username <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2037>, African Plant Database <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2036>, LinkedIn personal profile <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2035>, Project Gutenberg ebook ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2034>, Category for pictures taken with camera <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2033>, work period end <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2032>, work period start <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2031>, NASA biographical ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2030>, Dictionary of Ulster Biography ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2029>, United States Armed Forces service number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2028>, Colour Index International constitution ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2027>, Avibase ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2026> - Newest WikiProjects <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>: Reasoning <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Reasoning> - Newest gadgets: List of missing pairs queries <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Yamaha5/List_of_missingpairs_querys>, DuplicateReferences <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#New_gadget:_DuplicateReferences.js> - Newest External tools <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Tools/External_tools>: Commons:Database reports/Cameras <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Database_reports/Cameras> Development - Lucie posted a sneak-peek <https://twitter.com/lucielinde/status/635822277054083073> of her work on the article placeholder extension <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ArticlePlaceholder> - Optimized Wikidata for viewing on mobile devices. <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#mobile_improvements_going_live_soon> You will be redirected to m.wikidata.org automatically when using a mobile device soon the same way it already happens on Wikipedia. (Editing will only be possible via the special pages!) - Started working on a page to track how much Wikidata's data is used on each Wikimedia project <https://tools.wmflabs.org/audetools/wikidata-stats/> - API breaking change coming soon <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Addshore/API_Break_September_2015> - API custom summary will no longer override the autocomment ( phabricator:T97247 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97247>) - Paging and sorting has been added to Special:ListProperties and it now also shows the IDs of the properties - Worked more on making the edit summaries on the client more meaningful and readable - Introduced a limit of 250 different entities that can be used on a page in the client via arbitrary access. The limit does not apply to convenience functions in lua, such as mw.wikibase.label which use a TermLookup instead of loading a full entity to get labels. ( phabricator:T93885 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T93885>) - Properties are now linked in the diff view (phabricator:T105411 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T105411>) - Ricordisamoa made several improvements to special pages (eg phabricator:T68744 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T68744>, phabricator:T48248 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T48248>, phabricator:T86647 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T86647>) - Fixed a bug that made aliases too prominent in entity selectors ( phabricator:T110021 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110021>) - Fixed a bug that made entries show up twice in the entity selector ( phabricator:T109697 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109697>) - Started working on a special page to list all pages on a wiki with a certain badge - Fixed remaining blockers for first rollout of unit support - Bene worked on a new feature for DuckDuckGo <https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-spice/pull/1991> to show instant results from Wikidata on their site 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 -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.