Hey folks :) Here's the summary of the last week around Wikidata. Enjoy!
Discussions - Open RfA: Aldnonymous <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Aldnonymous> - RfC: Review of "change datatype to monolingual" actions for some properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Review_of_%22change_datatype_to_monolingual%22_actions_for_some_properties>, Adopt Help:Classification as an official help page <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Adopt_Help:Classification_as_an_official_help_page> Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Redirects on Wikidata <http://addshore.com/2015/04/redirects-on-wikidata/> Other Noteworthy Stuff - Tool by Magnus to find wrong nationalities on Wikidata <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/wrong_nationality.html> - Where am I? <https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/whereami.html> (figuring out your location based on geocoordinates in Wikidata) - Map of French national parks <https://jsfiddle.net/EdouardHue/yudh3139/4/embedded/result/> - Histropedia published 5 query generator spreadsheets <https://drive.google.com/templates?q=wikidata> - Wikimedia's monthly GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) newsletter now includes a Wikidata report. The draft for the first edition, covering April <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2015/Contents/Wikidata_report>, may be edited and your contributions will be welcome. Did you know? - Newest properties: Baseball-Reference.com minor league player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1826>, Baseball-Reference.com major league player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1825>, road number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1824>, BAnQ ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1823>, DSH object ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1822>, Open Food Facts food category slug <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1821>, Open Food Facts food additive slug <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1820>, genealogics.org personID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1819>, Kaiserhof ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1818>, addressee <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1817>, National Portrait Gallery (London) person identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1816>, RSL book's identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1815>, name in kana <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1814> Development - Made label, description and aliases special pages easier to use - Bene* created a new Special:ListProperties special page to list properties by data type - Expanded our set of automated browser tests - Made language fallbacks work in more situations and more consistently. In particular, the entity selector now uses language fallback. This should benefit especially people who want to use Wikidata in a variant such as en-gb. - Continued work on the planned DataModel 3.0 release - Continued discussing and documenting future calendar model support - Continued work on our RDF generator - Continued work on usage tracking for labels on multilingual sites - Addshore worked on various issues regarding redirects - Addshore worked on a special page to turn an item into a redirect - Work on showing entity labels in edit summaries on history pages - Implemented change dispatching based on the new usage tracking mechanism - Fixed issue with page deletions on some Wikipedias not being reported to Wikidata - More work on straightening out date formatting and parsing - Fixed handling of scientific notation for quantity values - Term box: fixed bug causing stale info to be show, and another bug causing babel languages to be ignored sometimes. - Implemented access to other arbitrary items via the #property parser function - Bene* implemented check to make sure two properties can not have the same alias only differing in capitalization - Bene* worked on improving the mobile version 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 labels, in your own language, 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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