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

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Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager for Wikidata

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