> The Content Translation tool now automatically connects translated articles to Wikidata. (Thanks Content Translation developers!) Previously translated but unconnected articles have been connected by a bot. (Thanks Amir!)
... And thanks also to Hoo and Aude for the help! -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore 2015-06-07 18:16 GMT+03:00 Lydia Pintscher <[email protected]>: > Hey folks :) > > Here's what has been happening around Wikidata over the past week for you: > Discussions > > - RfC on usage of Wikidata on German-language Wikipedia > > <https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/Nutzung_von_Daten_aus_Wikidata_im_ANR> > > Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> > > - Past: Pigsonthewing and aude were at State of the Map US to talk > about Wikidata/OpenStreetMap cooperation and more > - Past: Lucie and Marius gave an intro to Wikidata at > Gulaschprogrammiernacht in Karlsruhe (slides > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_Workshop_-_GPN_2015.pdf>) > - Upcoming: Office hour on IRC on 19th > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-June/006376.html> > > Other Noteworthy Stuff > > - The English-language Wikipedia has decided to deprecate Persondata > > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28proposals%29/Archive_122#RfC:_Should_Persondata_template_be_deprecated_and_methodically_removed_from_articles.3F> > in favour of Wikidata. > - New tool by Magnus to make it easier to add references > <http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=310> > - The results are in for the Wikimedia Foundation's board election > <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/05/board-election-results/>. One > name should sound familiar to you ;-) > - Addshore created new maps of the geocoordinates on Wikidata > <https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/606086887820955649>. More coming. > - Sylvain made an overview of the overlap in topics that the biggest > Wikipedias have <https://gist.github.com/Ash-Crow/ae1a3ae8318994afe45d> > . > - Wikidata has passed German Wikipedia in number of items with images > (743850 dewp articles vs. 804885 items) - now only second to > English-language Wikipedia. > - Catalan Wikipedia is moving Taxon IDs to Wikidata. > - Zolo did a comparison > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Zolo/Wikipedia_content> of > English/French/German/Chinese and Cebuano Wikipedias in terms of main types > of articles. Biographies were compared by period, nationality and > occupation. > - Connectivity > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/Connectivity> statistics > were updated. > > Did you know? > > - Newest properties: DMS V > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1930>, Clinvar Accession > Number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1929>, Vaccine > Ontology ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1928>, VIOLIN ID > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1925>, vaccine for > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1924>, participating team > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1923>, first line > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1922>, URI pattern for RDF > resource <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1921>, Commonwealth > War Graves Commission burial ground identifier > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1920>, Ministry of Education > of Chile school ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1919> > - Newest gadgets: Mark as patrolled > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-Mark_as_patrolled> by > User:Petr > Matas <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Petr_Matas> > > Development > > - Italian Wikipedia and all remaining Wikisource projects now have > arbitrary access. The rollout will continue. The schedule for the next > projects is at d:Wikidata:Arbitrary access > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Arbitrary_access>. > - The Content Translation tool now automatically connects translated > articles to Wikidata. (Thanks Content Translation developers!) Previously > translated but unconnected articles have been connected by a bot. (Thanks > Amir!) > - Code review of the extensions written by a team of students to > improve the constraint reports and make it possible to automatically check > our data against other databases. A first version will go live soon pending > further codereview and fixes. > - Two new methods have been added to the lua library provided by > Wikibase: wikibase.resolvePropertyId > > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase_Client/Lua#mw.wikibase.resolvePropertyId> > and wikibase.entity:getBestStatements > > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase_Client/Lua#mw.wikibase.entity:getBestStatements> > . > - Further work on making unserializable values editable in the UI > (This can happen for example if a property is deleted.) > - Made the Wikidata JSON dumps available on Labs in the standard dumps > location there (/public/dumps). > - Worked on automatically creating a redirect when merging items via > the API. > - Rewrote the script that generates a map image based on > geocoordinates in Wikidata. (Result see above.) > - Released Wikibase DataModel 3.0 > > 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! > - Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed > above. > > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > >
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