Hey folks :)
Here's your summary of 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
- Sex and artists http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=278 - VIAF is Moving to Wikidata http://outgoing.typepad.com/outgoing/2015/03/moving-to-wikidata.html - Upcoming: IRC office hour on Tuesday https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-March/005668.html - Upcoming: Editathon in the pre-program of the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2015/Wikidata_Editathon
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The next steps for the header redesign and bugfixes are live https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-March/005703.html - New tool by Magnus that lets you add reference URLs with a single click https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/sourcery.html - An update from Freebase https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/freebase-discuss/EhROV7ZnLrk/discussion (which is going read-only on Tuesday!) - The tours https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tours are working again thanks to Bene* and Lucie - Effort to define a biomedical relationship ontology for Wikidata https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:ProteinBoxBot/2015_relations_ontology_sprint - Eventzoom.net https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-March/005706.html - displaying history from Wikidata on maps
Did you know?
- Newest properties: ABoK number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1806, Word Health Organisation International Nonproprietary Name https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1805, Danish National Filmography ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1804, Masaryk University person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1803, EMLO person identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1802, Commemorative plaque image https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1801, Wikimedia database name https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1800, Maltese Islands National Inventory of Cultural Property identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1799, ISO 639-5 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1798, International Standard Industrial Classification code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1796, Smithsonian American Art Museum: person/institution thesaurus id https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1795, bureau du patrimoine de Seine-Saint-Denis ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1794, format as a regular expression https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1793, category of associated people https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1792, category of people buried here https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1791, BioStor author identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1790, chief operating officer https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1789, DVN identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1788 - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProjects: Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_DNB - Newest gadgets: Image search can find photos for the new "commemorative plaque image https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1801" property - There is a SpecialPage to easily get to the Wikidata item for a given Wikipedia article https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ItemByTitle and another one to get to the Wikipedia article for a given Wikidata ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:GoToLinkedPage.
Development
- Deployed new code to Wikidata \o/ (and fixed a few issues that popped up) - Made good progress on RDF export (needed for example for queries) - Did more performance groundwork for arbitrary access - Students working on improved constraint reports and checking against 3rd party databases are making good progress - Looked into improving suggestions - Worked on making dispatching changes from Wikidata to Wikipedia and co more robust - Removed backwards compatibility from mw.wikibase.getEntity(), to be deployed April 7 and 8. See also here https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-February/005450.html . - Improved support for right-to-left languages, e.g. in the sitelinks view - Created a unit test framework for special pages
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 fix these items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:The_Game/Flagged_items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game. - 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 multi-lingual labels for the new properties listed above.
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers Lydia