Hey folks :)
Here's the summary of exciting things that have been happening around
Wikidata over the last week.
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Past: Editathon at MACBA
<https://twitter.com/CatalanMuseums/status/577103895278809088>
- Past: Wikidata intro session for Wikipedians at Lokal K in Cologne
- Upcoming: Wikidata editing at Wikimedia Germany in Berlin
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Berlin>
- Upcoming: Office hour on 31st of March
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-March/005668.html>
(Topics include Freebase migration, dev update, admin inactivity criteria)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Freebase is going read-only at the end of the month and we expect an
influx of new people. There is now an FAQ
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:FAQ/Freebase> to answer their most
common questions.
- We now have (improved) landing pages for partners at d:Wikidata:Data
donation <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Data_donation> and
d:Wikidata:Data
access <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Data_access>. Could use
some help with making them easier to read and more visual.
- Lots of improvements around MixNMatch
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match>. It has a new catalog overview
page
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/?mode=catalog_details&catalog=1>.
~340K IDs have been matched so far with it and it now has an FAQ for
institutions wanting to get their identifiers linked in Wikidata
- There is a fancy new tool to help with patrolling edits on Wikidata
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#New_patrol_tool>
- First screenshot of the primary sources tool
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Primary_sources_tool> that'll
help with migrating data from Freebase and enriching it with references has
been leaked ;-): 1
<https://twitter.com/tomayac/status/578663253712220160> and 2
<https://twitter.com/tomayac/status/578664074101288961>
- DBpedia converts Wikidata data to the DBpedia ontology
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-March/005612.html>
- Another 3rd-party SPARQL endpoint has been set up for testing
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-March/005683.html>
Did you know?
- Newest properties: art-name
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1787>, posthumous name
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1786>, temple name
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1785>, courtesy name
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1782>, school of
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1780>, possible creator
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1779>, forgery after
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1778>, manner of
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1777>, circle of
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1776>, follower of
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1775>, workshop of
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1774>, attributed to
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1773>, USDA plant identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1772>, Integrated Postsecondary
Education Data System identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1771>, LMI code
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1770>, denkXweb identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1769>, place name sign
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1766>
- Newest WikiProjects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProjects>: Municipalities of
Germany
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Municipalities_of_Germany>
- Newest gadgets: Image search <http://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/wdfist/>
supports the new "place name sign"
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1766> property
Development
- Fixed property suggestions on empty items
- Updated database for property suggestions with newest correlations so
you should get better suggestions
- Updated various documentation
- Continued working on RDF export (among other things a requirement for
query functionality)
- Polishing in the user interface
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!
Anything to add? Please share! :)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Categories>
Cheers
Lydia
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Product Manager for Wikidata
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