Hey folks :)
Here's this week's summary of what has been happening around Wikidata. Enjoy!
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- upcoming: State of the Map US http://stateofthemap.us - Visualizing history with automated event maps http://blog.wikimedia.de/2015/05/30/visualizing-history-with-automated-event-maps/
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Final hours to make your vote count https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/Board_elections/2015 in the WMF board election - Now we have Bogenschiessen (Q20000000) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20000000 and P1900 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1900 - Wikidata stats https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/stats.php have been updated - Over 100 timeline of famous painters by Histropedia http://histropedia.com/blog/timelines-of-famous-painters-portal-page/ - WD-FIST https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/wdfist/index.html?#top can now take a manual item list and limit its search to JPEGs - Traveling this summer? Find items needing pictures around you with WikiShootMe https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikishootme/
Did you know?
- Newest properties: altered regulation leads to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1918, posttranslational modification association with https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1917, gene substitution association with https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1916, gene inversion association with https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1915, gene insertion association with https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1914, gene duplication association with https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1913, deletion association with https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1912, increased expression in https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1911, decreased expression in https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1910, side effect https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1909, Commonwealth War Graves Commission person identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1908, Australian Dictionary of Biography identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1907, office held by head of state https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1906, FundRef registry name https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1905, Volcanic explosivity index https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1903, Spotify artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1902, BALaT person/organisation id https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1901, EAGLE id https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1900, Librivox author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1899
Development
- Recovering from hackathon - Prepared rollout of usage tracking and arbitrary access to more wikis - Testing of the query service - Fixed styling issues with entity selector - Worked more on Capiunto to make it easier to create good infoboxes - Worked on making broken values editable to fix them (this for example happens when a property is deleted but some values are left over) - Made entity id an optional parameter in mw.wikibase.label and mw.wikibase.description lua methods. (default to use connected item)
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 labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers Lydia