Hey folks :) Here's your weekly dose of catching up with Wikidata.
Discussions - Open RfAs: BlackBeast <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/BlackBeast> Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Upcoming: Europeana Tech - Andrew Su gave a talk about crowd sourcing and citizen science for biology including Wikidata (slides <http://www.slideshare.net/andrewsu/ucsd-dbmi-seminar-2015026>) - Going to Wikimania? Apply for a scholarship <https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships>. - Internet Archive, Wikidata and Open Education <http://teemuleinonen.fi/2015/02/02/internet-archives-wikidata-and-open-education/> Other Noteworthy Stuff - Wikibooks will get access to language links via Wikidata on February 24th. Coordination is happening at d:Wikidata:Wikibooks <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikibooks>. - Roughly 17000 of the candidate articles that Google identified as potentially being about the same topic but lacking a language link have been merged. About 17500 are remaining and waiting for you to go through them via https://tools.wmflabs.org/yichengtry/ - Mix'n'Match got a face lift <https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/> - Magnus says every day new images are added to over 1000 items \o/ - RStats client for Wikidata <https://github.com/Ironholds/WikidataR> - Reasonator <https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?q=Q42&lang=fr> now also supports biography texts in French Did you know? - Showcase items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items>: Lucy (first name) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13365715> Development - Did more work on Capiunto <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Capiunto> to get it into a state where it can be deployed to Wikimedia sites. - Mourned Titan (phabricator:T88550 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88550>) as its developers were bought up. Began evaluation for which graph database to use instead for a Wikidata query service (mw:Wikibase/Indexing <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/Indexing>) - Further work on header section redesign - Tweaks to the sitelink section - Worked on making monolingual text datatype accept more languages - Finished showing the language when a language fallback is used - Started looking into fixing the existing Guided Tours after Guided Tours extension API changes - Worked on implementing Lua convenience functions for rendering arbitrary Snaks. This is useful for displaying references or qualifiers. ( phabricator:T76213 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76213>) 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! :) 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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