Hey everyone :)
Here's your summary of what happened around Wikidata last week.
Discussions
- Successful request for adminship: Lakokat
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Lakokat>
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Upcoming: Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland
<https://www.wikimedia.nl/project/wikimedia-conferentie-nederland>
- Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata
<https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Ateliers_Wikidata#Paris.2C_26.2F11.2F2015>
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Callisto <http://zone47.com/crotos/callisto/> - a tool that shows
places depicted in artworks
- Qwery.me <http://qwery.me/> - an experiment for a simplified query
service with SPARQL
- Whitepaper
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Flemish_art_collections,_Wikidata_and_Linked_Open_Data/Whitepaper>
exploring Wikidata for cultural institutions
- example query: real numbers with their approximate value
<https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20p%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20v%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fstatement%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20q%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fqualifier%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20rdfs%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2F01%2Frdf-schema%23%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20%3FnumberLabel%20%3Fvalue%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Fnumber%20%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ12916%20.%20%0A%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%3Fnumber%20%20wdt%3AP1181%20%3Fvalue%20.%0A%20%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20order%20by%20desc%28%3Fvalue%29>
- Pre-print: Centralizing content and distributing labor: a community
model for curating the very long tail of microbial genomes
<http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2015/11/12/031286>
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: constraint
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2302>, minimal lethal dose
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2300>, PPP GDP per capita
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2299>, NSDAP membership number
(1925–1945) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2298>, employment
by economic sector <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2297>, money
supply <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2296>, net profit
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2295>, current account balance
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2294>, genetic association
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2293>, consumption rate
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2292>
- Newest WikiProjects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>:
Education <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Education>
- Newest Database reports
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports>: Items without
claims by site
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/without_claims_by_site>
- Find Wikidata-only infoboxes in the Czech Wikipedia
<https://cs.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=insource%3A%2F%5C%7B%5C%7B%5BIi%5Dnfobox+-+osoba%5C%7D%5C%7D%2F&title=Speci%C3%A1ln%C3%AD%3AHled%C3%A1n%C3%AD&limit=60&offset=50&go=Run>
Development
- Added language fallback to Special:ConstraintReport
- Fixed a bug that prevented undoing edits via the api (
phabricator:T101694 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101694>)
- Worked more on moving identifiers into their own section and linking
them in the machine-readable export formats
- Worked on making search suggestions work on mobile
- Experimented with using icons instead of text for some of the actions
in an item
- Made a lot of progress on a good default layout for the
ArticlePlaceholder
- Nearly finished simultaneous editing of value and reference
- Improved browser tests and fixed issues with them
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.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
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Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.