Hey folks :) Here's your summary of what happened around Wikidata last week. Enjoy!
Discussions - Successful request for adminship: Mbch331 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Mbch331> - Closed request for comments: Opting out of Global sysops 2 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Opting_out_of_Global_sysops_2> Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Using Wikidata to Improve the Medical Content on Wikipedia <http://blog.wikimedia.de/2015/05/18/using-wikidata-to-improve-the-medical-content-on-wikipedia/> - Past: Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pigsonthewing>) spoke about authority control in Wikidata (and sister projects) at the World Digital Library's Arab Peninsula Regional Group Symposium, organised in conjunction with the Qatar National Library, in Doha on 13 May. His slides, with an Arabic translation, will be online soon. - Past: Wikidata editing workshop at the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin - Past: Wikidata workshop for archivists of Catalan City of Justice - Upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Lyon Other Noteworthy Stuff - Elections for the board of the Wikimedia Foundation are ongoing. Wikidata should be well represented among the voters. Go and vote! <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/Board_elections/2015> - Wikidata won another award by Land der Ideen! <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-May/006112.html> \o/ Thank you everyone who is making Wikidata awesome! - Dutch Wikipedia and French Wikisource now have the arbitrary access feature <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Arbitrary_access>. Persian Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and Hebrew Wikipedia are following today. Italian Wikipedia and all remaining Wikisource projects are following on June 1st. - New manual for adding inventory numbers to paintings on Wikidata <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_sum_of_all_paintings/Add_inventory_numbers> - English Wikipedia is running a bot to add authority control templates to many articles that are filled completely from Wikidata. Italian Wikipedia is doing so as well. - Wikidata won an Open Data award last year. Nominations for this year are open now. <http://awards.theodi.org> Who should win this year? Did you know? - Newest properties: Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources entry <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1888>, vice-county <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1887> Development - Prepared for deployment of arbitrary access on more wikis - Graph extension will be enabled on Wikidata later today - Improvements to calendar handling - More work on RDF export for query service - Continued work on usage tracking and arbitrary access for multilingual wikis - Addshore investigated and started fixing abuse filter issues 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! - Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above. Anything to add? Please share! :) Cheers Lydia -- 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. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
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