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 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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