Hey folks :) Here's your summary of what's 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> - Ongoing: 32C3 <https://events.ccc.de/congress/2015/wiki/> - Upcoming: Wikimedia Developer Summit <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit_2016> - Upcoming: StrepHit IEG project kick-off seminar <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-December/007898.html> - Upcoming: Office hour on IRC <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-December/007918.html> - Upcoming: FOSDEM <https://fosdem.org> (Lucie will give a talk about the ArticlePlaceholder extension) - Registration and scholarship applications for the Wikimedia Hackathon in Israel are open <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2015-December/001314.html> - Don't forget your talk submissions for Wikimania 2016 <https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions>. Lydia <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lydia_Pintscher_%28WMDE%29> can help if needed. - Getting CAS registry numbers out of WikiData <http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.de/2015/12/new-edition-getting-cas-registry.html> - The quality of SMILES strings in Wikidata <http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.de/2015/12/the-quality-of-smiles-strings-in.html> Other Noteworthy Stuff - Paper: Wikidata: A platform for data integration and dissemination for the life sciences and beyond <http://www.swat4ls.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/SWAT4LS_2015_paper_38.pdf> - The Wikidata for Research proposal has now been published in a journal <http://rio.pensoft.net/articles.php?journal_name=rio&id=7573> - New tool to turn string claims to monolingual claims <https://tools.wmflabs.org/pltools/addlingue/> - Johl built a card game about German politicians using Wikidata <http://blog.johl.io/blog/2015/12/23/bundestagsquartett/> Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: number of awards <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2422>, Prosopographia Attica <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2421>, Structurae person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2418>, stage classification <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2417>, sports disciplines competed in <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2416>, personal best <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2415>, substrate of <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2414> Development - Some small bugfixes and tweaks. - Enjoying the holidays and editing on Wikidata. Hope you are too :) 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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