Wikidata:Status updates/2015 05 09
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2015-05-09.
Discussions edit
- Open request for adminship: Mbch331
- New request for comments: Notability policy overhaul
- Closed requests for comments: Conflict of Interest (no consensus), Speedy vs Regular deletion (stale)
Events/Press/Blogs edit
- A study has been published about how Wikidata can help significantly improve the quality of medical content on Wikipedia. This is why we do Wikidata! \o/
- MusicBrainz is migrating to Wikidata for Wikipedia links
- Past: Open Data for Academics - some media available on Wikimedia Commons.
- Upcoming: OuiShare Labs Camp in Paris
- Upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Lyon
Other Noteworthy Stuff edit
- The Wikidata Visualization Challenge has started. You can enter your submission until June 1 (23:59 CEST).
- Denny has published a proposed breakdown of tasks for Wiktionary support incl mockups. Please read and comment.
- The Wikidata Menu Challenge has started and goes on to May 27. Add labels, images and pronunciation audio to a list of around 290 items to help show off the power of Wikidata at a food festival.
- Dynamic lists on Wikipedia based on Wikidata data
- The Frick Collection and the Brooklyn Museum both have their paintings on Wikidata now.
- The most distant known galaxy EGS-zs8-1 (Q19860435) has been discovered and added to Wikidata.
- Reasonator has been restyled, to work better on mobile devices. It also has an enhanced display on first names (exsample: Paul)
- Woah! Volcanos! (Help match the Smithonian's volcano identifiers with Wikidata) ;-)
Did you know? edit
Development edit
- Access to data from arbitrary items is coming to the first wikis on Monday \o/ It'll be Dutch Wikipedia and French Wikisource.
- Sneak peek at the current state of development for showing constraint violations on statements
- Hovercards also show the target's label and ID now. (Try them by turning them on in the beta features section of your preferences.)
- Continued working on RDF export
- More work on making it possible to add a reference right away when adding a statement (and allowing the full statement incl references to be edited at the same time)
- Did more work to make usage tracking possible on multilingual wikis (namely Commons)
You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here.
Monthly Tasks edit
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language, for the new properties listed above.
Anything to add? Please share! :)