Wikidata:Status updates/2015 01 24
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2015-01-24.
Discussions edit
- Closed RfAs: Petr Matas (unsuccessful), Edoderoo (successful)
- Open RfAs: Eurodyne
Events/Press/Blogs edit
- Upcoming: MediaWiki Developer Summit
- Upcoming: FOSDEM
- Upcoming: Wikidata for research meetup in February in Paris and Berlin
- Past: Meetup in Cambridge
- Brainstorming for Wikimania talks related to Wikidata is happening at phabricator:T87334 and you can apply for a scholarship
- Wikidata - a year in numbers
Other Noteworthy Stuff edit
- Want to help out mapping schema.org and Wikidata properties? There is now a ticket for coordination.
- The new Content Translation tool uses Wikidata data to suggest the correct article to link to when translating a Wikipedia article to another language
- Using GNOME Shell? There is a Wikidata search provider for you.
Did you know? edit
- Newest properties: award shared with, native label, pollenizer, pollination
- You can influence the languages shown in the "in other languages box" by adding a bable box to your user page like here.
Development edit
- More work on header section redesign
- Released Wikibase DataModel 2.5
- Broke and fixed JSON dumps - sorry!
- Implemented entity change subscription service
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!
Anything to add? Please share! :)