Wikidata:Status updates/2016 01 09
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-01-09.
Discussions edit
- Successful request for adminship: Innocent bystander
Events/Press/Blogs edit
- The Reference Wars
- Teaching machines to make your life easier – quality work on Wikidata
- Wikidata references from Microdata
- Building applications around Wikidata (a beer example)
- From Freebase to Wikidata: the great migration has been accepted for the industry track of WWW2016
- Gene Wiki and Wikidata: an overview of 2015
- Past: 32C3 in Hamburg
- Past: Wikimedia Developer Summit
Other Noteworthy Stuff edit
- A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning
- The deadline for submissions for Wikimania has been extended to 17th. Get your talk proposals in!
- IUCN statuses have been removed from taxoboxes in Czech Wikipedia in order to display sourced Wikidata data. Check it out with Comodo dragon, lion, Siamese fighting fish or any of almost 3,000 articles.
- Migrating identifier properties to new identifier datatype
- Listeria lists can now show arbitrary SPARQL results
- Mix'n'match has new catalogs like UNESCO's Atlas of languages in danger
- Initial plans for MetaPipe, a collaborate metadata tool
Did you know? edit
- Newest properties: BugGuide ID, elibrary.ru organisation ID, member of the deme, ComLaw ID, Persons of Ancient Athens, IBU biathlete identifier, Mackolik.com footballer ID, Australian National Shipwreck Database Shipwreck ID number, dblp identifier, Species Profile and Threats Database ID, KNAW past member identifier, nominee, GeoNames feature code, MAME ROM, Encyclopædia Britannica contributor identifier, Turkish Football Federation manager ID, Turkish Football Federation player ID, transfermarkt manager id, transfermarkt footballer id, metasubclass of, homoglyph, stage reached, conversion to standard unit, literal translation, transliteration, language, narrator, number of seasons, voltage, PORT person ID, Panarctic Flora ID, gender of a scientific name of a genus, J. Paul Getty Museum artist id, Thyssen-Bornemisza artist id, takeoff roll, expected completeness, RePEc Short-ID, grid global research id, Xeno-canto species ID, service ribbon image, Berlin cultural heritage ID, FIE identifier
- Newest WikiProjects: Broadcasting
- New feature/gadget requests: disambiguator tool, tool to move statements from one item to another
Development edit
- Attending the Wikimedia Developer Summit
- Are you a student looking for a thesis topic with impact? There might be some around Wikidata for you. Get in touch with Lydia if interested.
- More work on moving identifiers to their own section and having a separate datatype for them
- Fixed the problem where you could add links to non-existing files on Commons (phabricator:T87263)
- We're adding a "latest" link for the JSON dumps (phabricator:T72247)
- Fixed a bug in the monolingual text datatype when changing the language (phabricator:T95419)
- More work on making it possible to show all languages for a given item without the label lister gadget
- Security review for the ArticlePlaceholder is done \o/
- References in the ArticlePlaceholder are now shown more similar to how they are shown in a regular article (at the bottom)
- SPARQL queries display directly when link to query.wikidata.org is opened
Monthly Tasks edit
- 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!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Anything to add? Please share! :)