Hey folks :) Here's your summary of what's been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Sex and artists <http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=278> - VIAF is Moving to Wikidata <http://outgoing.typepad.com/outgoing/2015/03/moving-to-wikidata.html> - Upcoming: IRC office hour on Tuesday <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-March/005668.html> - Upcoming: Editathon in the pre-program of the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2015/Wikidata_Editathon> Other Noteworthy Stuff - The next steps for the header redesign and bugfixes are live <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-March/005703.html> - New tool by Magnus that lets you add reference URLs with a single click <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/sourcery.html> - An update from Freebase <https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/freebase-discuss/EhROV7ZnLrk/discussion> (which is going read-only on Tuesday!) - The tours <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tours> are working again thanks to Bene* and Lucie - Effort to define a biomedical relationship ontology for Wikidata <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:ProteinBoxBot/2015_relations_ontology_sprint> - Eventzoom.net <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-March/005706.html> - displaying history from Wikidata on maps Did you know? - Newest properties: ABoK number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1806>, Word Health Organisation International Nonproprietary Name <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1805>, Danish National Filmography ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1804>, Masaryk University person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1803>, EMLO person identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1802>, Commemorative plaque image <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1801>, Wikimedia database name <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1800>, Maltese Islands National Inventory of Cultural Property identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1799>, ISO 639-5 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1798>, International Standard Industrial Classification code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1796>, Smithsonian American Art Museum: person/institution thesaurus id <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1795>, bureau du patrimoine de Seine-Saint-Denis ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1794>, format as a regular expression <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1793>, category of associated people <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1792>, category of people buried here <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1791>, BioStor author identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1790>, chief operating officer <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1789>, DVN identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1788> - Newest WikiProjects <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProjects>: Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_DNB> - Newest gadgets: Image search can find photos for the new "commemorative plaque image <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1801>" property - There is a SpecialPage to easily get to the Wikidata item for a given Wikipedia article <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ItemByTitle> and another one to get to the Wikipedia article for a given Wikidata ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:GoToLinkedPage>. Development - Deployed new code to Wikidata \o/ (and fixed a few issues that popped up) - Made good progress on RDF export (needed for example for queries) - Did more performance groundwork for arbitrary access - Students working on improved constraint reports and checking against 3rd party databases are making good progress - Looked into improving suggestions - Worked on making dispatching changes from Wikidata to Wikipedia and co more robust - Removed backwards compatibility from mw.wikibase.getEntity(), to be deployed April 7 and 8. See also here <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-February/005450.html> . - Improved support for right-to-left languages, e.g. in the sitelinks view - Created a unit test framework for special pages You can see all open bugs 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 fix these items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:The_Game/Flagged_items> which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game. - 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 multi-lingual labels 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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