Hi everyone, In a change to the 2015 tradition (which broke 2014 tradition), here's the weekly update being published by me. Here's the summary of everything Wikidata over the past week and a thanks to Lydia for doing this for the past few weeks :)
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>[edit <https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Status_updates/2015_02_21&action=edit§ion=1> ] - Asking ever bigger questions with Wikidata - Wikidata4Research meetup in Berlin <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Wikidata_for_research/Meetups/2015-02-23-Berlin> Other Noteworthy Stuff[edit <https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Status_updates/2015_02_21&action=edit§ion=2> ] - As announced Wikibooks is getting access to Wikidata for their sitelinks on 24th. Coordination at d:Wikidata:Wikibooks <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikibooks> - ViziData - Update on data quality project - Update on structured data for Commons - Using mw.wikibase.getEntity in a Lua module? - Number of visual artworks items by property (type, genre, creator...) on Wikidata Did you know?[edit <https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Status_updates/2015_02_21&action=edit§ion=3> ] - Newest properties: pinyin transliteration <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1721>, posthumous name <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1720>, temple name <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1719>, courtesy name <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1718>, SANDRE ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1717>, brand <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1716> - Showcase items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items> : Montblanc <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q761735> Development - Still looking for an awesome frontend developer to join the team - Met with Nik and Stas from WMF in Berlin for a week to move query functionality forward. Made good progress on evaluating backends and languages - Worked on RDF mapping/export - Introduced mw.wikibase.renderSnak(s) for rendering arbitrary Snaks in Lua. This can be used for rendering for example qualifiers or references. - Made it so that links in the “other projects” sidebar are alphabetically ordered - Made the diff views for dates easier to read - Continued work on the planned Wikibase View component - Continued work on header redesign - Worked on a new special page that lets you set label, description and aliases in one page - Fixed all browsertests to use new header section and adjusted them to use phantomjs 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. - d:Wikidata:Glossary <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Glossary> could use some serious simplification to make it easier to understand. Can you help? - 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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