Hey folks :)
Here's your summary of what's been happening around Wikidata last week. I
am a bit behind on schedule for the weekly summaries and would appreciate
help with sending them out on time.
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Past: WikiCon in Dresden
- Upcoming: office hour on IRC
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-September/007052.html>
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The grant proposal "StrepHit: Wikidata Statements Validation via
References
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/StrepHit:_Wikidata_Statements_Validation_via_References>"
is looking for endorsements
- Wikidata and it's dumps are now described
<https://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikidatawiki/entities/dcatap.rdf> according
to the DCAT-AP standard. You can add your language by translating the
general
<https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=tsint-dcatap&filter=%21translated&action=translate>
and the Wikidata specific messages
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/MediaWiki:DCAT.json>.
- A follow-up to the Wikidata for research proposal has begun to be
drafted
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Wikidata_for_research/GIF_proposal>
by the University of Haifa and the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
- Community page
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service> for the
new SPARQL query service, including a subpage for interesting or
illustrative queries
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/queries>,
and a board for suggestions
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/suggestions>
and discussions.
- Wikibooks now has access to the data on Wikidata
- English Wikipedia and a few more got arbitrary access
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Arbitrary_access>
- Mix'n'match <https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/?> got new catalogs
including Open Library authors and AcademiaNet's excellent female authors
- The LinkedWiki <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LinkedWiki>
extension now supports Wikidata (demo <http://daap.eu/wiki/Demo_Wikidata>
)
Did you know?
- Newest properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: FISA ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2091>, Power of 10 athlete ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2090>, Library of Congress
JukeBox ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2089>, CrunchBase
organisation ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2088>, CrunchBase
person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2087>, CDD Public ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2086>, Nikkaji
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2085>, ZINC ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2084>, Leadscope ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2083>, M.49 code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2082>, BLDAM object ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2081>, AcademiaNet
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2080>, fabrication method
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2079>, user manual link
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2078>, pressure
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2077>, temperature
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2076>, speed of sound
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2075>, internetmedicin.se ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2074>, range
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2073>, CDB Chemical ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2072>, Mémoire des hommes
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2071>, Fellow of the Royal
Society <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2070>, magnetic moment
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2069>, thermal conductivity
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2068>
Development
- Started writing default Lua modules for the Article Placeholder
- Excluded the Topic namespace from Special:UnconnectedPages
- Fixed a bug where an item link on normal wiki pages was sometimes
prepended by a label (in a random language)
- Worked on the remaining blockers for redirecting users on mobile
devices to the mobile version of the site
- Fixed an issue where people had login issues when trying to connect an
article to an item on the client
- Worked on removing some more places that don't have language fallback
yet
- Worked more on making meaningful edit summaries show up in the client
watchlist and recent changes
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
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Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.