Hey folks :) Here's your summary of what's been happening around Wikidata last week. I am a bit behind on schedule for the weekly summaries and would appreciate help with sending them out on time.
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Past: WikiCon in Dresden - Upcoming: office hour on IRC <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-September/007052.html> Other Noteworthy Stuff - The grant proposal "StrepHit: Wikidata Statements Validation via References <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/StrepHit:_Wikidata_Statements_Validation_via_References>" is looking for endorsements - Wikidata and it's dumps are now described <https://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikidatawiki/entities/dcatap.rdf> according to the DCAT-AP standard. You can add your language by translating the general <https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=tsint-dcatap&filter=%21translated&action=translate> and the Wikidata specific messages <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/MediaWiki:DCAT.json>. - A follow-up to the Wikidata for research proposal has begun to be drafted <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Wikidata_for_research/GIF_proposal> by the University of Haifa and the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin - Community page <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service> for the new SPARQL query service, including a subpage for interesting or illustrative queries <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/queries>, and a board for suggestions <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/suggestions> and discussions. - Wikibooks now has access to the data on Wikidata - English Wikipedia and a few more got arbitrary access <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Arbitrary_access> - Mix'n'match <https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/?> got new catalogs including Open Library authors and AcademiaNet's excellent female authors - The LinkedWiki <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LinkedWiki> extension now supports Wikidata (demo <http://daap.eu/wiki/Demo_Wikidata> ) Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: FISA ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2091>, Power of 10 athlete ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2090>, Library of Congress JukeBox ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2089>, CrunchBase organisation ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2088>, CrunchBase person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2087>, CDD Public ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2086>, Nikkaji <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2085>, ZINC ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2084>, Leadscope ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2083>, M.49 code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2082>, BLDAM object ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2081>, AcademiaNet <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2080>, fabrication method <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2079>, user manual link <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2078>, pressure <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2077>, temperature <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2076>, speed of sound <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2075>, internetmedicin.se ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2074>, range <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2073>, CDB Chemical ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2072>, Mémoire des hommes <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2071>, Fellow of the Royal Society <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2070>, magnetic moment <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2069>, thermal conductivity <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2068> Development - Started writing default Lua modules for the Article Placeholder - Excluded the Topic namespace from Special:UnconnectedPages - Fixed a bug where an item link on normal wiki pages was sometimes prepended by a label (in a random language) - Worked on the remaining blockers for redirecting users on mobile devices to the mobile version of the site - Fixed an issue where people had login issues when trying to connect an article to an item on the client - Worked on removing some more places that don't have language fallback yet - Worked more on making meaningful edit summaries show up in the client watchlist and recent changes You can see all open tickets 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 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(s), 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.
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