Hey folks :) Here is all the important stuff that happened around Wikidata over the last week for you:
Discussions - Closed RfAs: Petr Matas <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Petr_Matas_2> (unsuccessful), Edoderoo <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Edoderoo> (successful) - Open RfAs: Eurodyne <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Eurodyne> Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Upcoming: MediaWiki Developer Summit <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Developer_Summit_2015> - Upcoming: FOSDEM <http://fosdem.org> - Upcoming: Wikidata for research meetup in February in Paris and Berlin <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Wikidata_for_research/Meetups> - Past: Meetup in Cambridge <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Cambridge/25> - Brainstorming for Wikimania talks related to Wikidata is happening at phabricator:T87334 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87334> and you can apply for a scholarship <https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships> - Wikidata - a year in numbers <http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.de/2015/01/wikidata-year-in-numbers.html> Other Noteworthy Stuff - Want to help out mapping schema.org and Wikidata properties? There is now a ticket for coordination <https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/280>. - The new Content Translation <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/20/try-content-translation/> tool uses Wikidata data to suggest the correct article to link to when translating a Wikipedia article to another language - Using GNOME Shell? There is a Wikidata search provider <https://github.com/6ahodir/wikidata-search-provider> for you. Did you know? - Newest properties: award shared with <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1706>, native label <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1705>, pollenizer <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1704>, pollination <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1703> - You can influence the languages shown in the "in other languages box" by adding a bable box to your user page like here <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lydia_Pintscher_%28WMDE%29>. Development - More work on header section redesign - Released Wikibase DataModel 2.5 <https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModel/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES.md#version-250-2014-01-20> - Broke and fixed JSON dumps - sorry! - Implemented entity change subscription service 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! :) 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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