Hey folks :) Here's your summary of what's been happening around Wikidata over the past week. Enjoy!
Discussions - Open request for adminship: HakanIST <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/HakanIST> Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Past: Open Science Meetup <http://www.meetup.com/Berlin-Open-Science-Meetup/events/228087017/>, Berlin - Slides for "Wikidata for biomedical knowledge integration and curation" talk <http://www.slideshare.net/goodb/2016-bd2k-bgoodwikidata> - Wiki Workshop 2016 <http://snap.stanford.edu/wikiworkshop2016/> could use some researchy Wikidata submissions Other Noteworthy Stuff - How much does a Wikipedia use Wikidata data? Stats are in the total entity usage flags graph here <https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/wikidata-entity-usage-project> (select project at the top left) - How many statements does the average item or property on Wikidata have? Here <https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/wikidata-datamodel-statements> are the stats. - What are the most viewed pages on Wikidata? <https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/wikidata-top-page-views> - We still need your help with classifying edits to build better anti-vandalism tools. We're halfway done by now. <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-January/008052.html> - Andrew updated his maps <https://twitter.com/generalising/status/694507683811069952> - We crossed edit 300,000,000! - Graph example: matrices <https://angryloki.github.io/wikidata-graph-builder/?property=P279&item=Q44337&direction=reverse&iterations=7> - Taxonomy of WikiProject municipalities of Germany <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Municipalities_of_Germany/Taxonomy> is completed. Feedback welcome. - Last call for comments on the new process for showcase items at d:User:Harmonia Amanda/Showcase items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Harmonia_Amanda/Showcase_items>. Please review and comment on the associated talk page. Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: Box Office Mojo studio ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2531>, Box Office Mojo franchise ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2530>, ČSFD film ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2529>, Richter magnitude scale <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2528>, moment magnitude scale <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2527> Development - Search now works on mobile - Groundwork for adding new entity types to move us forward with support for structured data on Commons. (Other entity types are Item and Property. We'll need Mediainfo for Commons.) - Daniel summarized upcoming changes for new datatypes <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-February/008140.html> - Investigated further options for performance improvement ( phabricator:T125502 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125502>) - Indexing labels in elastic properly (phabricator:T125500 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125500>) - More work on cleaning up language codes (phabricator:T125063 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125063>, phabricator:T124757 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124757>) 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 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Categories> -- 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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