Hey folks :) Here is your weekly summary of all things Wikidata.
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Wikimania \o/ It was amazing and Wikidata all over the place. Wikidata's true potential is starting to show. - Guided tours and Wikidata: How to explain a complex project and encourage new editors <http://blog.wikimedia.de/2014/08/09/guided-tours-and-wikidata-how-to-explain-a-complex-project-and-encourage-new-editors/> Other Noteworthy Stuff - Editing Wikidata directly from Wikipedia <http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-August/004263.html> - Histropedia <http://www.histropedia.com/> now uses Wikidata to build timelines - Slides and videos of first Wikidata talks at Wikimania online: 1 <https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/How_to_use_Wikidata:_Things_to_make_and_do_with_30_million_statements> 2 <https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Wikidata_Toolkit:_A_Java_library_for_working_with_Wikidata> 3 <http://new.livestream.com/wikimania/friday2014> (more slides and videos will follow)) - First prototype screenshot <https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/498048920308969472> of asking questions to Wikipedia mobile readers (similar to Wikidata the Game) - Userboxes <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Userboxes> Did you know? - Newest WikiProjects <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProjects>: WikiProject Interesting Content <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Interesting_Content> , WikiProject sum of all paintings <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_sum_of_all_paintings> Development - Attended Wikimania and Socrates - Worked on rewriting the sitelinks part of the user interface to make it ready for the new user interface design - Discussed Wikidata, structured data on Commons and a ton of other things with many people at Wikimania See current sprint items <http://sb.wmflabs.org/p/wikidata/> for what we’re working on next. You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1&list_id=151540&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org> Monthly Tasks - Hack on one of these <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515> . - 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> 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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