Hey folks :) Here's your weekly dose of Wikidata updates:
Discussions - Do you want to see constraint violation reports and referencing improved? Please provide input <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-October/004778.html> . Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - IRC office hour about structured data on Commons (log <https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2014/wikimedia-office.2014-10-16-18.00.log.html> ) - hackathon around scholarly articles on Wikidata (etherpad with notes <https://etherpad.mozilla.org/XKHt30NgcO>) - Blog post about the meeting to discuss structured data on Commons in Berlin <http://blog.wikimedia.de/2014/10/14/transatlantic-work-on-structured-data-in-berlin/> Other Noteworthy Stuff - Clusters of humans and species on Wikidata <http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=232> - New parameter in the template Property documentation: subject item; see [this example edit <https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Property_talk:P496&diff=164022076&oldid=163111143>] for how to use it - New tool: Linked Items <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/linked_items.php>. Returns sorted, de-duped list of Q values from a Wikipedia page, or chunk of wiki-text. Thank you, Magnus <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske>! - Wikidata annotation tool is looking for feedback <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_annotation_tool/project_completion_report> - Wikidata: A Free Collaborative Knowledgebase <http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2014/10/178785-wikidata/fulltext#.VD67l7hTfME.twitter> by Denny and Markus has been published. It gives a very nice non-technical overview of Wikidata. - Magnus re-wrote Wiki ShootMe <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikishootme/> to now use Wikidata. Did you know? - Always wanted to know which topics have amazing articles on Wikimedia projects across many languages? Here you go! <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/Badge_statistics> - Newest properties: At the Circulating Library ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1564>, MacTutor id (biographies) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1563>, allmovie identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1562>, number of survivors <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1561>, given name version for other gender <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1560>, name in native language <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1559>, tempo marking <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1558>, manifestation of <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1557>, zbMATH author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1556>, Executive Order number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1555> Development - Improvements to sitelink editing usability - Released Wikibase DataModel 2.0 - Profiling and performance improvements in Wikibase and Wikibase DataModel - Implementing LabelLookup, which is needed to improve performance of EntityId formatting. This will lead to improved item page loading times. - Added new featured list and recommended article badges. - Remove most usage of class aliases to be compatible with HHVM (dependencies of bugzilla:71295 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71295>) See current sprint items <http://sb.wmflabs.org/p/wikidata/> for what we’re working on next. You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1&list_id=151540&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org> Monthly Tasks - Hack on one of these <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515> . - 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> 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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