Wikidata:Status updates/2015 11 28

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2015-11-28.

Discussions

• Open request for adminship: Koavf

Events/Press/Blogs

• Past: Wikipedia and Wikidata editathon (EditatónAlicia) in Mexico
• Past: Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland
• Past: Wikidata Editathon at the National Library of Wales
• Past: Ubuntu Conference, Paris
• Is Wikidata the new Rosetta Stone?
• WordLift 3.0: A brief semantic story – part 1
• Workshop i Wikidata

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Your help is needed with the most important constraint violations.
• New daily report on Mix'n'match
• Daily updated list of people who's birthday is today
• French Wikisource is using images from Wikidata for their author page headers and more now (example)
• New catalogs have been added to Mix'n'match
• A new author language game has been added to the Wikidata distributed game.
• Mix’n’match now creates a new, pre-filled Wikidata item when no matching one can be found (by humans!), where possible
• Workflow sketch for the OA Signalling project
• example of a Listeria list created from a SPARQL query

Did you know?

• Newest properties: Australian Stratigraphic Units Database ID, Roman agnomen, Roman cognomen, production code, NMHH film rating, time to altitude, online service, intended public, Roman nomen gentilicium, Roman praenomen, Classification of Instructional Programs code, UNESCO endangered language ID, has list, statistical unit, applies to taxon, number of graves, Speedskatingbase.eu ID, Stuttgart Database of Scientific Illustrators ID, period, YSO ID, Elonet movie ID, AGORHA event identifier, AGORHA work ID, playing range image, AGORHA person/institution ID, indigenous to, CESAR person ID, BoardGameGeek ID, Musopen composer ID, SFDb-identifier of group, SFDb-identifier of soundtrack, SFDb-identifier of company, SFDb movie ID, Norwegian organization number, Dictionary of Art Historians

Development

• Worked on (and for now finished) a new, prettier layout for the ArticlePlaceholder-generated pages
• Made improvements to page size by removing a lot of unneeded comments in the HTML
• Worked more on putting identifiers into their own section and linking them properly without a gadget
• Looked into making it possible to edit more languages without the labellister gadget
• Worked on improving the ranking of search results on Special:Search

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! :)