Hey folks :)
Greetings from Mexico! Getting ready for Wikimania.
Here's what happened around Wikidata over the last week:
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Past: Slides on Primary Sources Tool
<https://twitter.com/tomayac/status/616953989641469952> and Wikidata
introduction (in Spanish)
<http://de.slideshare.net/cristinasarasua/introduccion-a-wikidata-dss-wikidata-editathon>
for the Donostia-San Sebastián Wikidata Editathon
<https://sites.google.com/site/donostiasansebastianenwikidata/>
- Past: Presentation about Wikidata
<https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ULFFPmIaKtq6fgU_5JNK6AfWSRyJUsDy_QsBf2-m0EE/edit?pli=1#slide=id.p>
at the Axel Springer Hack Day 2015
- Upcoming: Wikimania
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikiresearch <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter>
looked into the coverage of the moon by geotags in Wikidata
<https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/615430029615480833>
- Wikiresearch <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter>
published a visualization of the relationship between nationality and
occupation based on Wikidata's data
<https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/615455859733327872>
- Which zoo has polar bears? Wikidata attempts to answer the question
here <https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?q=Q33609&lang=en>. Work in
progress.
Did you know?
- Newest properties: MCN code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1987>, Dizionario Biografico
degli Italiani <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1986>, Anime
News Network anime ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1985>, Anime
News Network manga ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1984>, Anime
News Network company ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1983>, Anime
News Network person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1982>, FSK
film rating <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1981>, PolSys ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1980>, Righteous Among The
Nations ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1979>, USDA NDB
number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1978>,
lesarchivesduspectacle
ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1977>, INEGI locality
identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1976>
Development
- The Wikidata Quality extension (constraint reports per item) was
deployed. You can now use Special:ConstraintReport
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ConstraintReport> to see the
result for different items. This is for example the constraint report
for the item cat (Q142)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ConstraintReport/Q146>.
- 8 million additional statements from Freebase were made available
through the Primary sources tool
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Primary_sources_tool>
- Moving towards having a single edit button to edit references along
with the value they belong to.
- Bene continued working on phasing out the deprecated Entity superclass
and making more entity types possible.
- More work on phasing out a deprecated serializer implementation we
still use in certain places.
- Further work on the new RDF export.
- PHPCS is now used on each change in Wikibase to ensure the code
fulfils certain code quality standards.
You can see all open bugs 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>
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
www.wikimedia.de
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