Hey folks :) Here's the summary of what's been happening around Wikidata over the past week. If you are working on something interesting or have seen someone else do something cool please do not hesitate to add it to the next weekly summary via the link in the last section of this email. Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Lakokat <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Lakokat> Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Wikidata/Wikibase Json Dump Reader <http://www.bn2vs.com/blog/2015/11/08/wikidata-wikibase-json-dump-reader/> - Wikidata project to tackle language barriers in scientific reserach <http://factor-tech.com/big-data/20486-wikidata-project-to-tackle-language-barriers-in-scientific-research/> - Semantic Cities <http://cii.oii.ox.ac.uk/2015/11/05/semantic-cities/> - Q167545: Wikidata celebrated its third birthday <http://blog.wikimedia.de/2015/11/05/q167545-wikidata-celebrated-its-third-birthday/> - Slides from talk at UCSD on "Open biomedical knowledge using crowdsourcing and citizenscience" <http://www.slideshare.net/andrewsu/open-biomedical-knowledge-using-crowdsourcing-and-citizen-science> - Past: semwebpro (slides <http://slides.com/raphaellelapotre/deck#/>) - Past: ODI Summit - Past: MozFest (etherpad <https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/Data-is-beautiful-whats-Wikidata>) - Upcoming: WikiConference Seoul <http://con2015.wikimedia.kr> Other Noteworthy Stuff <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_Birthday_Illustration_II.jpg> Highlights of 3 years of Wikidata by Madgalena Wiegner - List of Wikipedia articles without an image where Wikidata has one <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/wp_no_image/index.html> - Want to use data from Wikidata to enrich data in your own application? S wrote a good start. <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Presenting_Wikidata_knowledge> - Commons misconceptions and how to avoid them <http://schoolofdata.org/handbook/courses/common-misconceptions/> by School of Data Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: charted in <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2291>, Danish parish code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2290>, venous drainage <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2289>, lymphatic drainage <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2288>, CRIStin ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2287>, arterial supply <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2286>, periapsis date <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2285>, price <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2284>, uses <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2283>, Groeningemuseum work PID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2282>, iTunes album ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2281>, Austrian Parliament ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2280>, ambitus <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2279>, Member of the Hellenic Parliament ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2278>, Magdeburger Biographisches Lexikon <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2277>, UEFA player code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2276>, World Health Organisation International Nonproprietary Name <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2275>, Heidelberg Academy for Sciences and Humanities member ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2273>, Hederich article <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2272> - Ever noticed ranks <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Ranking>? Development - Worked on the tests for the ArticlePlaceholder - Finished the create article button for the ArticlePlaceholder page - From Monday on a bzip2 compressed version of the beta Wikidata TTL dumps will be published along the gzip one - Getting close to make it possible to add the main value of a statement and its reference at the same time - Worked on adding a new section to item and property pages for identifiers - Did backend work for making identifiers useful in our machine-readable outputs (by actually linking them instead of just giving the identifier string) - more work needed - Fixed a bug where dates would have English months on non-English wikis (phabricator:T116503 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116503>) - Fixed a bug when editing labels on mobile (phabricator:T117184 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117184>) - Worked more on making search work on mobile - Worked on a fix for a visual glitch in the table of content on mobile (the box is bigger than its content) 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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