Hey folks :) Here's your short summary of what's been happening around Wikidata over the past week.
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - How many female scientists are there on Wikipedia? This time with SPARQL! <http://ashtree.eu/wordpress/mais-combien-y-a-t-il-de-femmes-scientifiques-sur-wikipedia-this-time-with-sparql/> (French) - Wikidata Enpoint SPARQL and the paintings of Goya Wikidata's SPARQL endpoint and the paintings of Goya <http://zone47.com/dozo/wikidata-enpoint-sparql-et-les-peintures-de-goya> (French) - Upcoming: 3rd Birthday \o/ (Please don't forget to register <https://www.eventbrite.de/e/wikidatas-3-geburtstag-wikidatas-3rd-birthday-registration-18899772729> if you're coming to the party.) - More wrapups of Wikiconference USA including slides: [1] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-October/007355.html>, [2] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-October/007358.html> Other Noteworthy Stuff - Magnus overhauled the Wikidata Game! <http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=362> Sweeeeeet! Now includes one where you can match an author and a publication <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/distributed/#game=9>. And it has stats <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/distributed/#mode=stats>. - Mix'n'match got skyscrapers to match up <https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/?mode=catalog_details&catalog=106> for you. - Sitelinks and P569 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jura1/sitelinks_and_P569> compares various Wikipedias by the proportion of items with date of birth ( Property:P569 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P569>) - Catalan Wikipedia match up all of their articles to items on Wikidata <https://twitter.com/AmicalWikimedia/status/655022833140154368>. Congrats! Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: periapsis <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2244>, apoapsis <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2243>, Florentine musea catalogue ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2242>, reason for deprecation <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2241> Development - Worked on adding auto-completion for item and property prefixes to the SPARQL query editor (so you can search by label when entering a query) - Wrote maintenance script for changing some properties from datatype string to upcoming datatype identifier - More work on birthday present - More work on the article placeholder to get it ready for a first demo - Prepared patch for also publishing JSON dumps with bzip2 compression - Further improved edit summaries we show on Wikipedia etc - Prepared for giving Wikispecies, Meta and Mediawiki access to the sitelinks on Wikidata on 20. of October 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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