Wikidata:Status updates/2016 04 16
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-04-16.
Discussions edit
- Closed request for comments: Reforming the property creation process, Improve bot policy for data import and data modification
Events/Press/Blogs edit
- Past: office hour on IRC (log)
- Past: ISB2016 (slides)
- Past: WWW2016 - Freebase to Wikidata migration (slides)
- Past: CUNY Wikidata intro (slides)
- National Library of Wales: Our Wikidata Visiting Scholar
- New TSRI Project Helps Researchers Build a Biomedical Knowledgebase
- Yle <3 Wikidata - using Wikidata for concept tagging
Other Noteworthy Stuff edit
- ArticlePlaceholder is going live on the first small Wikipedias on May 11th and could use your help
- Wikimedia Commons will get the arbitrary access feature on April 26th
- The Europeana Art History Challenge has started
- Magnus made a handy user-script for duplicating items, for when a new item has similar property values to an existing one. See for instance, this set of edits for a second version of an artwork.
- Listeria now has a status page
- PetScan has now the option "Has no statements" to find items without statements for a category at Wikipedia (sample: en:Category:United States geography stubs) or an entire language version (sample: "sowiki").
Did you know? edit
- Newest properties: production statistics, DNZB, PASE name, this zoological name is coordinate with, Australian Geological Provinces Database Identifier, Tate artist identifier, ResearchGate institute ID
- Newest WikiProjects: d:Wikidata:WikiProject Museums
- Query examples: items named after their shape (source), recent events (source), assemblies by number of seats (source), characters portrayed by most actors (source)
Development edit
- Query results for the query service are now cached by default for 60 seconds (phabricator:T126730)
- Finishing touches on easier input of geocoordinates and dates (sneak peek)
- Finishing touches on easier manipulation of SPARQL queries (sneak peel - should go live later today)
- Significantly reduced the write access to the database to make sure we're not frying the poor servers unnecessarily (phabricator:T124737)
- Getting ArticlePlaceholder ready for first deployment
- More work on first prototype for structured data support for Wikimedia Commons
- Cleaned up icons for selecting rank and value type (phabricator:T129033#2217402)
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! :)