Hey folks :)

Here is the summary for what happened around Wikidata over the past two
weeks. Sorry I couldn't send out a summary last week. Traveling and the
developer summit messed with my schedule.

Discussions

   - Successful request for adminship: Innocent bystander
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Innocent_bystander>

Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>

   - The Reference Wars <http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=378>
   - Teaching machines to make your life easier – quality work on Wikidata
   
<http://blog.wikimedia.de/2016/01/02/teaching-machines-to-make-your-life-easier-quality-work-on-wikidata/>
   - Wikidata references from Microdata
   <http://addshore.com/2015/12/wikidata-references-from-microdata/>
   - Building applications around Wikidata (a beer example)
   
<http://addshore.com/2016/01/building-applications-around-wikidata-a-beer-example/>
   - From Freebase to Wikidata: the great migration
   
<http://www2016.ca/program/industry-track.html#from-freebase-to-wikidata-the-great-migration>
   has been accepted for the industry track of WWW2016
   - Gene Wiki and Wikidata: an overview of 2015
   <http://sulab.org/2016/01/gene-wiki-and-wikidata-an-overview-of-2015/>
   - Past: 32C3 in Hamburg
   - Past: Wikimedia Developer Summit
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit_2016>

Other Noteworthy Stuff

   - A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning
   <http://www.r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-1/>
   - The deadline for submissions for Wikimania has been extended to 17th.
   <https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions> Get your talk
   proposals in!
   - IUCN statuses <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P141> have been
   removed from taxoboxes in Czech Wikipedia in order to display sourced
   Wikidata data. Check it out with Comodo dragon
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cs:Varan_komodsk%C3%BD>, lion
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cs:Lev>, Siamese fighting fish
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cs:Bojovnice_pestr%C3%A1> or any of
   almost 3,000 articles.
   - Migrating identifier properties to new identifier datatype
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-January/007951.html>
   - Listeria lists can now show arbitrary SPARQL results
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikidata_list/doc>
   - Mix'n'match <https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/> has new catalogs
   like UNESCO's Atlas of languages in danger
   - Initial plans for MetaPipe, a collaborate metadata tool
   <https://artturimatias.github.io/metapipe/>

Did you know?

   - Newest properties
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: BugGuide ID
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2464>, elibrary.ru organisation
   ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2463>, member of the deme
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2462>, ComLaw ID
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2461>, Persons of Ancient Athens
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2460>, IBU biathlete identifier
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2459>, Mackolik.com footballer
   ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2458>, Australian National
   Shipwreck Database Shipwreck ID number
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2457>, dblp identifier
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2456>, Species Profile and
   Threats Database ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2455>, KNAW
   past member identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2454>,
   nominee <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2453>, GeoNames feature
   code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2452>, MAME ROM
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2451>, Encyclopædia Britannica
   contributor identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2450>, Turkish
   Football Federation manager ID
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2449>, Turkish Football
   Federation player ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2448>, transfermarkt
   manager id <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2447>, transfermarkt
   footballer id <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2446>, metasubclass
   of <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2445>, homoglyph
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2444>, stage reached
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2443>, conversion to standard
   unit <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2442>, literal translation
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2441>, transliteration
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2440>, language
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2439>, narrator
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2438>, number of seasons
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2437>, voltage
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2436>, PORT person ID
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2435>, Panarctic Flora ID
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2434>, gender of a scientific
   name of a genus <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2433>, J. Paul
   Getty Museum artist id
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2432>, Thyssen-Bornemisza
   artist id <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2431>, takeoff roll
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2430>, expected completeness
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2429>, RePEc Short-ID
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2428>, grid global research id
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2427>, Xeno-canto species ID
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2426>, service ribbon image
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2425>, Berlin cultural heritage
   ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2424>, FIE identifier
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2423>
   - Newest WikiProjects
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects>:
   Broadcasting
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Broadcasting>
   - New feature/gadget requests: disambiguator tool
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2015/12#Disambiguator_tool_request>,
   tool to move statements from one item to another
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2015/12#Tool_to_move_statements_fom_one_item_to_another_item>

Development

   - Attending the Wikimedia Developer Summit
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit_2016>
   - Are you a student looking for a thesis topic with impact? There might
   be some around Wikidata for you. Get in touch with Lydia
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lydia_Pintscher_%28WMDE%29> if
   interested.
   - More work on moving identifiers to their own section and having a
   separate datatype for them
   - Fixed the problem where you could add links to non-existing files on
   Commons (phabricator:T87263 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87263>)
   - We're adding a "latest" link for the JSON dumps (phabricator:T72247
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T72247>)
   - Fixed a bug in the monolingual text datatype when changing the
   language (phabricator:T95419 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T95419>)
   - More work on making it possible to show all languages for a given item
   without the label lister gadget
   - Security review for the ArticlePlaceholder is done \o/
   - References in the ArticlePlaceholder are now shown more similar to how
   they are shown in a regular article (at the bottom)
   - SPARQL queries display directly when link to query.wikidata.org is
   opened

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

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