Hey folks :)

Here's your update on what has been happening around Wikidata last week.
Enjoy!

Discussions

   - Closed RfAs: Eurodyne
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Eurodyne>
   (unsuccessful)
   - Open RfAs: BlackBeast
   
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/BlackBeast>

Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>

   - Past: MediaWiki Developer Summit
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Developer_Summit_2015>
   - Past: FOSDEM <http://fosdem.org>
   - Upcoming: ArtBytes hackathon
   <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/artbytes-3-hackathon-tickets-15166279751>

Other Noteworthy Stuff

   - ATOM feeds for changes in Wikidata Query results. Define your own to
   keep an eye on changes in specific topics
   <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/wdq_feed.php>
   - Overview of the number of visual artworks items on Wikidata by creator
   (>5 items) <http://www.zone47.com/crotos/creators.php>
   - The Wikidata Free Image Search Tool
   <https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/wdfist/> can now also search Commons
   (not just follow language links)

Did you know?

   - Newest properties: British Museum person-institution
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1711>, Sächsische Biografie
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1710>, equivalent class
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1709>, LfDS object ID
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1708>, DAAO identifier
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1707>
   - Newest WikiProjects
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProjects>: Authority control
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Authority_control>

Development

   - Fixed diffs not showing old ranks, qualifiers and references on the
   left side (phabricator:T87096 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87096>)
   - Worked on several date and time related issues, like incorrect padding
   of the year to 11 instead of 16 digits (phabricator:T87764
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87764>)
   - Further work on header section redesign (phabricator:T75654
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T75654>)
   - Started redesign of statements section (phabricator:T87316
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87316>)
   - Introduced a hint showing the language when a language fallback is
   used on an item or property (phabricator:T85105
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85105>)
   - Working on splitting a Wikibase View component out of the Wikibase
   Repo code base
   - Currently testing how PHPCS and PHPMD can help raising Wikibase’ code
   quality
   - Released Wikibase DataModelSerialization 1.3
   <https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModelSerialization#130-2015-01-28>
   with language fallback support

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.
_______________________________________________
Wikidata-l mailing list
Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l

Reply via email to