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Wikidata weekly summary #218[rediger kildetekst]
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Since Pokémon is all the rage at the moment here is a short reminder that we have WikiProject Pokémon for them
- TIB is looking for a Wikimedian in Residence in the Open Science Lab
- The code for the Primary Sources Tool has been moved from the Google to the Wikidata organisation on github.
- The ISCB competition for 2016 has been announced
- Use Wikipedia “article main images” to find candidate images for Wikidata
- StrepHit fact extraction agent v.1.1-beta has been released
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: GCatholic church ID, GoodReads book ID, QUDT unit ID, Queensland Heritage Register ID, National Library of Wales Archives and Manuscripts, EU River Basin District code, right to vote, GoodReads author ID, title of chess player, BVPH ID
- Query examples: letters with more than two forms (source), metro stations (source), railway incidents (source), pyramids in Egypt (source), women described as wife and men described as husband (source), neuroinformatics coauthor network (source), nationalities of people with an article in the Bavarian Wikipedia (source), Irish general elections and their winners (source), types of historical monuments (source), Alpine four-thousanders (source), Alpine peaks (source), language statements that point to a country instead of a language (source)
- Newest database reports: list of people who died on their birthday
- Development
- Map layers are coming soon to the Query Service
- A lot of clean-up under the hood for the user interface
- More interviews with editors in preparation for automated list generation
- Fixed a bug where forms on the mobile site looked broken (phabricator:T138413)
- More work on Citoid integration for easier reference adding
- Added Cape Verdean Creole (phabricator:T127435)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
The Signpost: 21 July 2016[rediger kildetekst]
- Discussion report: Busy month for discussions
- Featured content: A wide variety from the best
- Traffic report: Sports and esports
- Arbitration report: Script writers appointed for clerks
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Wikidata weekly summary #219[rediger kildetekst]
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: marriageable age, age of consent, age of candidacy, age of majority, partition coefficient water/octanol, software quality assurance, IBSF ID, FIL ID, has grammatical case, GOST 7.67 cyrillic, Taekwondo Data ID, aircraft registration prefix, DSBE ID, Snapchat username, UNDP country code, UIC numerical country code, UIC alphabetical country code, ARLHS Lighthouse ID, Maritime identification digits, wheel arrangement, LBT person ID, patronym or matronym, host, habitat, Spenserians person ID, SNAP ID
- Query examples: most cited Danish people (source), most self-citing authors (source), topics of series (source), human settlements, north of the Arctic Circle (source), poles of inaccessibility (source), people with the same family and given name (source), compositions for organ and orchestra/compositions for organ and anything else (source), people with a statement with start time / end time qualifiers over 100 years apart (source), causes of death for noble people (source), long-running noble families (source)
- Numbers on Wikidata:Database reports/without claims by site for some projects decreased (e.g. dewiki), remained consistently low (e.g. nlwiki), or recently increased to new highs (e.g. enwiki).
- Development
- Finished first rough prototype for structured data on Commons. Wanted to sent out announcement on Friday but one configuration issue is still unsolved. Should be solved in the next 1 or 2 days.
- We are adding a "no match found" message to the suggester that you get when selecting an item or property while adding a new statement for example (phabricator:T140085)
- When a query result contains a mathematical expression it will soon be rendered correctly (phabricator:T137784)
- Added support for Haida (hai) for monolingual text values (phabricator:T138131)
- Finalized the infographic on data flow. For off-wiki usage and For on- wiki usage.
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
