Hey folks :) Here's the summary of exciting things that have 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> - Past: Editathon at MACBA <https://twitter.com/CatalanMuseums/status/577103895278809088> - Past: Wikidata intro session for Wikipedians at Lokal K in Cologne - Upcoming: Wikidata editing at Wikimedia Germany in Berlin <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Berlin> - Upcoming: Office hour on 31st of March <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-March/005668.html> (Topics include Freebase migration, dev update, admin inactivity criteria) Other Noteworthy Stuff - Freebase is going read-only at the end of the month and we expect an influx of new people. There is now an FAQ <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:FAQ/Freebase> to answer their most common questions. - We now have (improved) landing pages for partners at d:Wikidata:Data donation <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Data_donation> and d:Wikidata:Data access <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Data_access>. Could use some help with making them easier to read and more visual. - Lots of improvements around MixNMatch <https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match>. It has a new catalog overview page <https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/?mode=catalog_details&catalog=1>. ~340K IDs have been matched so far with it and it now has an FAQ for institutions wanting to get their identifiers linked in Wikidata - There is a fancy new tool to help with patrolling edits on Wikidata <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#New_patrol_tool> - First screenshot of the primary sources tool <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Primary_sources_tool> that'll help with migrating data from Freebase and enriching it with references has been leaked ;-): 1 <https://twitter.com/tomayac/status/578663253712220160> and 2 <https://twitter.com/tomayac/status/578664074101288961> - DBpedia converts Wikidata data to the DBpedia ontology <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-March/005612.html> - Another 3rd-party SPARQL endpoint has been set up for testing <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-March/005683.html> Did you know? - Newest properties: art-name <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1787>, posthumous name <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1786>, temple name <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1785>, courtesy name <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1782>, school of <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1780>, possible creator <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1779>, forgery after <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1778>, manner of <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1777>, circle of <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1776>, follower of <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1775>, workshop of <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1774>, attributed to <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1773>, USDA plant identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1772>, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1771>, LMI code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1770>, denkXweb identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1769>, place name sign <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1766> - Newest WikiProjects <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProjects>: Municipalities of Germany <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Municipalities_of_Germany> - Newest gadgets: Image search <http://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/wdfist/> supports the new "place name sign" <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1766> property Development - Fixed property suggestions on empty items - Updated database for property suggestions with newest correlations so you should get better suggestions - Updated various documentation - Continued working on RDF export (among other things a requirement for query functionality) - Polishing in the user interface 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! Anything to add? Please share! :) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Categories> 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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