Wikidata:Status updates/2015 09 19

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2015-09-19.

Events/Press/Blogs

• Past: WikiCon in Dresden
• Upcoming: office hour on IRC

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The grant proposal "StrepHit: Wikidata Statements Validation via References" is looking for endorsements
• Wikidata and its dumps are now described according to the DCAT-AP standard. You can add your language by translating the general and the Wikidata specific messages.
• A follow-up to the Wikidata for research proposal has begun to be drafted by the University of Haifa and the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
• Community page for the new SPARQL query service, including a subpage for interesting or illustrative queries, and a board for suggestions and discussions.
• Wikibooks now has access to the data on Wikidata
• English Wikipedia and a few more got arbitrary access
• Mix'n'match got new catalogs including Open Library authors and AcademiaNet's excellent female authors
• The LinkedWiki extension now supports Wikidata (demo)

Did you know?

• Newest properties: FISA ID, Power of 10 athlete ID, Library of Congress JukeBox ID, CrunchBase organisation ID, CrunchBase person ID, CDD Public ID, Nikkaji, ZINC ID, Leadscope ID, M.49 code, BLDAM object ID, AcademiaNet, fabrication method, user manual link, pressure, temperature, speed of sound, internetmedicin.se ID, range, CDB Chemical ID, Mémoire des hommes, Fellow of the Royal Society, magnetic moment, thermal conductivity

Development

• Started writing default Lua modules for the Article Placeholder
• Excluded the Topic namespace from Special:UnconnectedPages
• Fixed a bug where an item link on normal wiki pages was sometimes prepended by a label (in a random language)
• Worked on the remaining blockers for redirecting users on mobile devices to the mobile version of the site
• Fixed an issue where people had login issues when trying to connect an article to an item on the client
• Worked on removing some more places that don't have language fallback yet
• Worked more on making meaningful edit summaries show up in the client watchlist and recent changes

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

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!
• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Anything to add? Please share! :)