Hey folks :) Here's your summary of what's been happening around Wikidata over the last week:
Discussions - Open RfA: Haplology <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Haplology> Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - upcoming: Wikidata for Wikipedians at Lokal K in Köln in 17th of March <https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lokal_K/Kalender> - upcoming: Wikidata editathon in Berlin on 24th of March <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Berlin> Other Noteworthy Stuff - Help flesh out landing pages for partners <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Landing_pages_for_partners> - Update on the Wikidata query service progress <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-tech/2015-March/000740.html> - The automatic description API <https://tools.wmflabs.org/autodesc/> can now generate infoboxes (currently, "person" and "artwork" on en.wp) - Wikidata Skim <https://tools.wmflabs.org/hay/wdskim/index.php?prop=P170&item=Q167654&language=en&withimages=on> gives you very simple query functionality - Meet Kian, the first neural network to serve Wikidata <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-March/005537.html> Did you know? - Newest properties: Information Center for Israeli Art artist identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1736>, Comedien.ch identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1735>, oath of office date <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1734>, Steam ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1733> - Showcase items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items>: Symphony No. 7 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q260957> Development - Fixed edit buttons sometimes not showing up because of caching - Added mailto to the allowed protocols in the URL data type - Worked on updating the data model documentation - Worked on client wiki subscription/notification mechanism - Improved handling of scientific notation for quantity values - Reworked a lot of code related to time parsing and formatting, e.g. proper support for language independent parsing of YYYY-MM-DD ordered dates - Continued working on the new Special:SetLabelDescriptionAliases 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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