Hey everyone :)
Here's your summary of what happened around Wikidata over the past week.
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Ongoing: Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Perth, Australia and
Indonesia <https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Wikidata_Tour_Down_Under> by
Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pigsonthewing>). Also social meetups.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Ambrosiani created a map of museums in Sweden
<http://aron.ambrosiani.se/museums/>, colored after what information is
available on Wikidata (source code
<https://github.com/Ambrosiani/museums-wikidata>)
- Dormant string properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Dormant_properties>
wake-up effort in progress
- We have a new page to discuss and coordinate data partnerships and
imports
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Partnerships_and_data_imports>
- WikiProject Medicine has a new page related to information about Zika
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Medicine/Zika>
- Magnus hacked up a Knowledge Engine, to discover information
cross-project <https://tools.wmflabs.org/magnustools/ke.html>
- WDFIST <https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/wdfist/index.html> is the first
of Magnus' tool to let you convert WDQ to SPARQL with one click
- Autolist <https://tools.wmflabs.org/autolist/> now supports SPARQL
- Mix'n'match <https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match> has new catalogs:
WomenWriters and UNESCO Global Geopark Network
- A new datatype for mathematical expressions is now available
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties?datatype=math>
- Wikidata Toolkit 0.6.0 has been released
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-February/008169.html>
- Hay created a new property browser
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/hay/propbrowse/>
- Analysis of how lifespans change over time, using Wikidata data for
people with enwp article
<https://public.tableau.com/profile/danosirra#%21/vizhome/ProfileofpeoplefeaturedonWikipedia/ProfileofpeopleonWikipedia>
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: Sandbox-Mathematical
expression <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2535>, defining
formula <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2534>, WomenWriters ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2533>, lowest atmospheric
pressure <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2532>
Development
- Work on first prototype for Commons support - specifically by making
it possible to have more entity types than just Item and Property (
phabricator:T125822 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125822>)
- UI performance work (loading time of entities, things should be faster
when editing statements) (phabricator:T125391
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125391>, phabricator:T125503
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125503>)
- Work on properly linking identifiers
- Removed a bunch of language codes from monolingual text (
phabricator:T125063 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125063>)
- Work on RDF export of mathematical expression datatype (
phabricator:T126349 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126349>)
- Fixed a bug where the uniqueness of label+description wasn't checked
properly (phabricator:T121395 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121395>
)
- Moved the repository for WikidataBuildResources from Github to gerrit (
phabricator:T111173 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111173>)
- Made search work properly on mobile (phabricator:T85368
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85368>)
- Released Wikibase DataModel 5.0 (phabricator:T125636
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125636>)
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
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Lydia Pintscher -
http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
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10963 Berlin
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