Hey everyone :) Here's your summary of what has 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> - Past: office hour on IRC with review of the past quarter, outlook on the next and discussion (log <http://bots.wmflabs.org/%7Ewm-bot/logs/%23wikimedia-office/20160121.txt> ) - Right now: Magnus Manske Day <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10995651>! Thank you for all you are doing to make Wikidata truly shine! We owe you a ton. - Upcoming: FOSDEM <https://fosdem.org/2016/> - Upcoming: Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Australia and Indonesia <https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Wikidata_Tour_Down_Under> by Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pigsonthewing>). Also social meetups. Other Noteworthy Stuff - Magnus has a script that lets you drag statements from Wikipedia articles <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew7oGEhtTPI> - Changes in how authentication in MediaWiki is handled are being rolled out (and more coming). [1] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-January/084501.html> Ordinary users and gadgets / user scripts should not be affected but bots may need to be adjusted. pywikibot already supports [2] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/OAuth> OAuth authentication, though bot operators need to set that up for their bot. - Littar won second prize in Danish Library Center app competition <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-January/008014.html> - Wikidata Graph Builder <https://angryloki.github.io/wikidata-graph-builder/> - Help with matching up Wikipedia articles and Wikidata items. Here for example women on dewiki. <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/duplicity.php?cat=Frau&mode=list&wiki=dewiki> - You can give input on WMF's strategy <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Strategy/Community_consultation> - Looking for small Wikipedias to try the ArticlePlaceholder <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-January/008004.html> - Mix'n'match <https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/?> got new catalogs (for example UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Reserves and FAST) - Wikimedia Sverige got a $300.000 grant for the Connected Open Heritage project on Wikidata <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2016-January/081294.html> - French Wikipedia now has modified fr:Modèle:Bibliographie <https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod%C3%A8le:Bibliographie> to use Wikidata Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: Ramsar Sites Information Service ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2525>, SEED number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2524>, victory <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2522>, female form of label <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2521>, UNESCO Biosphere Reserve url <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2520>, Scope.dk person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2519>, Scope.dk film ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2518>, category for recipients of this award <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2517>, Australian Wetlands Database Australian Ramsar site number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2516>, costume designer <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2515>, Jamendo artist ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2514>, Jamendo album ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2513>, spin-off <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2512>, MSK Gent work PID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2511>, National Discography of Italian Song ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2510>, Movie Walker film ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2509>, KINENOTE film ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2508>, Corrigendum / Erratum <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2507>, INSEE canton code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2506>, carries <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2505>, Norwegian municipality number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2504>, Genealogical Gazetteer (GOV) ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2503>, classification of <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2502>, results <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2501>, level below <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2500>, level above <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2499>, Biographical Dictionary of Women <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2498>, Latvian National Address Register identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2497>, Latvian toponymic names database identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2496>, Latvian cultural heritage register identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2494>, OM institution ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2493>, MTMT author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2492>, Radzima.org ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2491>, page at OSTIS Belarus Wiki <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2490>, page at hram.by <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2489>, page at Belarus Globe website <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2488>, page at website of Belarus Geocenter <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2487>, Fashion Model Directory brand ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2486>, Fashion Model Directory photographer ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2485>, NCES School ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2484>, NCES District ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2483>, SABR ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2482>, Eliteprospects.com player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2481>, IHO Hydrographic Dictionary (S-32) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2480>, SPDX identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2479>, Railways Archive event ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2478>, TBRC Resource ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2477>, HNI person/institution ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2476>, NAVA ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2475>, CDLI ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2474>, Asset of Local Relevance ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2473>, ACMA Register of Radiocommunications Licences Client Identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2472>, Models.com ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2471>, Talouselämän vaikuttajat ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2470> - Query example: List of countries by age of the head of government <https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%20%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20p%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20q%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fqualifier%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20v%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fstatement%2F%3E%0A%23by%20Jura1%2C%202016-01-18%0A%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fage%20%3Fcountry%20%3FcountryLabel%20%3FhgovernmentLabel%20%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fcountry%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ3624078%20.%20%0A%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%3Fcountry%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ3024240%7D%0A%20%20%3Fcountry%20p%3AP6%20%3Fstatement%20.%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%3Fstatement%20v%3AP6%20%3Fhgovernment%20.%20%0A%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fstatement%20q%3AP582%20%3Fx%20%7D%20%20%0A%20%20%3Fhgovernment%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fdob%20.%20BIND%28YEAR%28now%28%29%29-YEAR%28%3Fdob%29%20as%20%3Fage%29%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3Fage%3E%3D65%29%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%2Cen%22%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%7D%20%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fage%29%0A> - Newest database reports: Missing properties by number of sitelinks/P26 (spouse: item or novalue) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/top_missing_properties_by_number_of_sitelinks/P26> Development - Investigated and fixed a critical bug in HHVM (phabricator:T124276 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124276>) - Investigated language support in MediaWiki and Wikibase to allow more languages in monolingual text and disallow some non-sense for label/descriptions/aliases (phabricator:T78006 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T78006>) - Fixed missing license info and broken links for Wikibase libraries on Special:Version - Working on improving scoring of search results on Wikidata, on Special:Search - Preparing to take the "in other projects" sidebar out of beta features, with the Wikimedia Commons link going to the Commons category ( phabricator:T103102 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103102>, phabricator:T94989 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T94989>) - Amir and Aaron are turning ORES <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:ORES> into an extension to make it easier for you to spot bad edits \o/ - Final touches on putting identifiers into their own section ( phabricator:T117421 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117421>) - Switching the in other languages box to be expanded by default for new people (phabricator:T92387 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92387>) - More experimenting with adding an image to the header area ( phabricator:T119493 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119493>) 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 27/029/42207.
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