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
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Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager for Wikidata

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