Hey folks :)
Here's your summary of what's been happening around Wikidata over the past
week. Enjoy!
Discussions
- Open request for adminship: HakanIST
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/HakanIST>
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Past: Open Science Meetup
<http://www.meetup.com/Berlin-Open-Science-Meetup/events/228087017/>,
Berlin
- Slides for "Wikidata for biomedical knowledge integration and
curation" talk <http://www.slideshare.net/goodb/2016-bd2k-bgoodwikidata>
- Wiki Workshop 2016 <http://snap.stanford.edu/wikiworkshop2016/> could
use some researchy Wikidata submissions
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- How much does a Wikipedia use Wikidata data? Stats are in the total
entity usage flags graph here
<https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/wikidata-entity-usage-project>
(select project at the top left)
- How many statements does the average item or property on Wikidata
have? Here
<https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/wikidata-datamodel-statements>
are the stats.
- What are the most viewed pages on Wikidata?
<https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/wikidata-top-page-views>
- We still need your help with classifying edits to build better
anti-vandalism tools. We're halfway done by now.
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-January/008052.html>
- Andrew updated his maps
<https://twitter.com/generalising/status/694507683811069952>
- We crossed edit 300,000,000!
- Graph example: matrices
<https://angryloki.github.io/wikidata-graph-builder/?property=P279&item=Q44337&direction=reverse&iterations=7>
- Taxonomy of WikiProject municipalities of Germany
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Municipalities_of_Germany/Taxonomy>
is completed. Feedback welcome.
- Last call for comments on the new process for showcase items at
d:User:Harmonia
Amanda/Showcase items
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Harmonia_Amanda/Showcase_items>.
Please review and comment on the associated talk page.
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: Box Office Mojo
studio ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2531>, Box Office
Mojo franchise ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2530>, ČSFD
film ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2529>, Richter
magnitude scale <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2528>, moment
magnitude scale <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2527>
Development
- Search now works on mobile
- Groundwork for adding new entity types to move us forward with support
for structured data on Commons. (Other entity types are Item and Property.
We'll need Mediainfo for Commons.)
- Daniel summarized upcoming changes for new datatypes
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-February/008140.html>
- Investigated further options for performance improvement (
phabricator:T125502 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125502>)
- Indexing labels in elastic properly (phabricator:T125500
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125500>)
- More work on cleaning up language codes (phabricator:T125063
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125063>, phabricator:T124757
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124757>)
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
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Categories>
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