Hey everyone :) Here's your summary of what happened around Wikidata over the past week.
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Ongoing: Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Perth, 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 - Ambrosiani created a map of museums in Sweden <http://aron.ambrosiani.se/museums/>, colored after what information is available on Wikidata (source code <https://github.com/Ambrosiani/museums-wikidata>) - Dormant string properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Dormant_properties> wake-up effort in progress - We have a new page to discuss and coordinate data partnerships and imports <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Partnerships_and_data_imports> - WikiProject Medicine has a new page related to information about Zika <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Medicine/Zika> - Magnus hacked up a Knowledge Engine, to discover information cross-project <https://tools.wmflabs.org/magnustools/ke.html> - WDFIST <https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/wdfist/index.html> is the first of Magnus' tool to let you convert WDQ to SPARQL with one click - Autolist <https://tools.wmflabs.org/autolist/> now supports SPARQL - Mix'n'match <https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match> has new catalogs: WomenWriters and UNESCO Global Geopark Network - A new datatype for mathematical expressions is now available <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties?datatype=math> - Wikidata Toolkit 0.6.0 has been released <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-February/008169.html> - Hay created a new property browser <https://tools.wmflabs.org/hay/propbrowse/> - Analysis of how lifespans change over time, using Wikidata data for people with enwp article <https://public.tableau.com/profile/danosirra#%21/vizhome/ProfileofpeoplefeaturedonWikipedia/ProfileofpeopleonWikipedia> Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: Sandbox-Mathematical expression <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2535>, defining formula <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2534>, WomenWriters ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2533>, lowest atmospheric pressure <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2532> Development - Work on first prototype for Commons support - specifically by making it possible to have more entity types than just Item and Property ( phabricator:T125822 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125822>) - UI performance work (loading time of entities, things should be faster when editing statements) (phabricator:T125391 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125391>, phabricator:T125503 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125503>) - Work on properly linking identifiers - Removed a bunch of language codes from monolingual text ( phabricator:T125063 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125063>) - Work on RDF export of mathematical expression datatype ( phabricator:T126349 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126349>) - Fixed a bug where the uniqueness of label+description wasn't checked properly (phabricator:T121395 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121395> ) - Moved the repository for WikidataBuildResources from Github to gerrit ( phabricator:T111173 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111173>) - Made search work properly on mobile (phabricator:T85368 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85368>) - Released Wikibase DataModel 5.0 (phabricator:T125636 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125636>) 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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