Wikidata:Status updates/2015 10 31
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2015-10-31.
Discussions edit
- How to add dates with undefined calendar (Julian or Gregorian)? is discussed on Project chat.
Events/Press/Blogs edit
- Wikidata turned 3! The party doubled as the award ceremony for the Land der Ideen prize.
- Page with state of the project editorial, message from the development team and greetings
- Images from the party
- Denny and Erik look back at the beginning of the project - the other recordings are still being cut but you can already see the uncut stream here
- Presents:
- Three presents for Wikidata's third birthday from Amir including artificial intelligence to find vandalism!
- Improved query.wikidata.org by the dev team
- Preview of the Article Placeholder by Lucie (bachelor student of the dev team)
- Special:Nearby by the dev team
- Donation of CC World University & School (WUaS) to CC Wikidata to celebrate its 3rd birthday! by Scott_WUaS
- Your name in Wikidata Morse code from TMg
- Help organize the Wikidata related sessions at Wikimania 2016
- Past: Open Access Week
- Past: DINI Jahrestagung (slides)
- Past: Tehran SFD (video)
- Upcoming: ODI Summit
- Upcoming: SWAT4LS
- Modeling the social network of movie actors of the 1920s and 1930s with Wikidata
- Looking for…science fiction movies on the Linked Data Cloud
Other Noteworthy Stuff edit
- Italian Wikipedia matched up nearly all of their articles to items on Wikidata. Congrats!
- Bene updated the Tours. Please help translate them here.
- The Distributed Game now has a Kian module suggesting statements to add
- Andrew made maps of missing images on Wikidata: South Africa, India, Australia, world
- Nikki imported dates of birth and death for more than 40,000 persons from Japanese Wikipedia.
- Example query: French people with an article on English Wikipedia but not French Wikipedia
- Example query: paintings without dimension (add some?)
- Example query: people or things born or created on the same day of the year as Wikidata
- We passed 15M items.
- Happy 10th anniversary to Semantic MediaWiki! We wouldn't be where we are today without you.
- All 8,860 fellows of the Royal Society have been matched to Wikidata items
Did you know? edit
- Newest properties: Wikidata property sample, Emporis building complex ID, Orsay Museum artist ID, Politifact Personality Identifier, Fashion Model Directory ID, mix'n'match catalogue ID, ISOCAT id, draft, beam, ionization energy, ITU-T network identifier, mobile country code, frequency of event
- Newest External tools: Top missing P31 by number of sitelinks list the items with most sitelinks lacking instance of or subclass of
Development edit
- Worked on birthday presents (Special:Nearby, article placeholder demo system and improvements to query.wikidata.org)
- Wes, Stas, Dan and James from the WMF came over to talk through current work around Wikidata and plans for the future
- Further poked at editing references at the same time as rest of the statement
- Investigated where we can push next to improve performance
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! :)