Hello everyone! Here is the latest weekly summary detailing all of the interesting things around Wikidata and the wider community.
Discussions - RfC: Speedy vs Regular deletion‎ <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Speedy_vs_Regular_deletion> - Closed RfAs: George.Edward.C <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/George.Edward.C> (successful) - Open RfAs: Petr Matas <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Petr_Matas_2> , Edoderoo <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Edoderoo> Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - The Wikidata for research <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:4R> proposal was submitted <http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13906> to the European Union on January 14. Congrats to Daniel for spearheading that huge effort. - Blog post about how Wikidata can change the way citizen scientists contribute <https://gee0ai0en0gee.wordpress.com/2015/01/15/wikidata-can-change-the-way-citizen-scientists-contribute/> - IRC office hour happened (log <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2015-01-16> ) - Blog posts about gender inequality index based on Wikidata data by Max <http://notconfusing.com/preliminary-results-from-wigi-the-wikipedia-gender-inequality-index/> and Magnus <http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=250> - MediaWiki Developer Summit <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Developer_Summit_2015> Other Noteworthy Stuff - The development plan <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Development_plan> has been updated and expanded - Official Wikipedia app <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/15/immersive-mobile-experience/> now uses Wikidata descriptions \o/ More to come! - Usage tracking will likely be deployed on February 2 on Wikidata. This will not be user-visible. It just means that pages using data from arbitrary items get updated/purged when the data changes. Arbitrary access <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Development_plan#Access_to_data_from_arbitrary_items> is being tested at Test Wikidata <https://test.wikidata.org/wiki/> and testwiki:Test Wiki <https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_Wiki>. An example is at testwiki:Kitten on arbitrary page <https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitten_on_arbitrary_page>. - Assigning items on Mix'n'match <https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match> will now make that change on Wikidata for you automatically Did you know? - Newest properties: IGESPAR identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1702>, SIPA identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1700>, SkyscraperPage building id <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1699> Development - Deployed new sitelinks interface design to Wikidata. It's not done yet but we're getting there. Tweaks are in progress. - Worked on redesign of header area - Fixed some bugs that popped up after deployment - Enabled usage tracking and arbitrary access on test.wikipedia.org and test.wikidata, and preparations for enabling it on Wikidata - Collecting Query examples <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibase/Indexing/Query_examples> for the new query functionality 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!
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