User talk:Bjelleklang/Archive 6

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Wikidata weekly summary #58

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • What should be done with the property stable Version?
  • Sex Ratios in Wikidata, Wikipedias, and VIAF
  • The Ropebridges: Authority Control in Wikidata
• Events/Press
  • A lot of Wikidata-related submissions have been accepted for Wikimania
  • Treffen der Redaktion Chemie
  • upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Amsterdam
  • upcoming: Linked Data in Business
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • d:Help:Lua is now the place for all things Lua on Wikidata
  • Item d:Q13000000 is Devarakonda, a village in India.
  • The geographic relation "exclave of" is the property with the ID 500.
  • English Wikipedia discussion closes allowing for use of Wikidata
  • Template to display a tree based in Wikidata data
  • Deployed new bugfixes on wikidata.org including a fix for pages not being added to the watchlist automatically plus the first version of the RDF exort
  • The ability to include data using the property label is planned to be deployed on English Wikipedia on Monday and all others on Wednesday (You can then for example use {{#property:logo image}} in addition to {{#property:P154}}.)
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: exclave of, enclave within, HURDAT identifier, ISO standard, home port, general manager, ISO 15924, Swedish county code, BNFC Thesaurus, cause of death, brother-in-law (sister's husband), honorific prefix, academic degree, birth name, interleaves with, state, phase, powerplant, interaction, part concerned, armament, scheduled service destination, type of orbit, temporal range start, temporal range end, Swedish municipality code, located on island, consists of
  • {{Property|123}} can be used on Wikidata to get the label of the given property (P123) in the readers language. {{label|Q123}} does the same for items.
• Development
  • Simplified the inclusion syntax (this is one way how you access data from Wikidata in a Wikipedia article - the other one is via Lua)
  • Result of the external codebase review has been published
  • Worked on implementation of editable time values in frontend
  • Selenium tests for false edit-conflicts and old-revision-view
  • Jenkins setup improvements
  • Made many improvements to the unit test configuration and bootstrapping code in Ask, Diff, DataValues, WikibaseQueryEngine and WikibaseDatabase
  • Automatic class loading based on PSR-0 convention in Ask, Diff and WikibaseQueryEngine
  • Added new array comparison code and started work on merging diffs together in Diff
  • Progress on the SQLStore
  • Improved many unit tests by removing unneeded dependencies they had
  • Bug fixing
  • Made property parser function code more robust
  • Worked on EntityPerPage rebuild script, to enable it to run for Wikidata to fill in missing entities in the wb_entity_per_page table
  • Making the Settings system more robust, preparing split of client and repo settings
  • Work on RDF mapping and serialization
  • Work on content negotiation for Special:EntityData
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Determine statements to add to Wikidata based on Wikipedia categories
  • Map a Wikipedia infobox to Wikidata properties (advanced sample)
  • Select a rarely used property and add values to Wikidata: either manually, through "array properties", through a bot request, with Wikidata useful, or by operating your own bot
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • Hack on one of these

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Wikidata weekly summary #59

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press
  • Linked Data in Business
  • currently: Hackathon in Amsterdam
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • It is now possible to access data from Wikidata on the Wikipedias by using the property's label.
  • The time datatype can now be tested on the demosystem and should become available on Wikidata next week.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: catalog code (P528), runway (P529), diplomatic relation (P530), diplomatic mission sent (P531), diplomatic mission sent (P531), port of registry (P532), target (P533), streak color (P534), Find a Grave (P535), ATP id (P536), twinning (P537), fracturing (P538), Museofile (P539)
  • Newest task forces: Ship task force
  • d:Template:Constraint:Item allows to check if items using a given property also have other properties. To find items to fix, it links to one of Magnus' tools and to a daily report. Sample: items with property mother should also have main type (GND) with value person.
• Development
  • A lot of discussions and hacking at the MediaWiki hackathon on Amsterdam
  • Worked on content negotiation for the RDF export
  • Bugfixing for editing of time datatype
  • Added validation in the api for claim guids. This also resolves bug 48473, an exception being thrown in production, whenever a bot or api user requested a claim with an invalid claim guid
  • Improved error message popup bubbles to show HTML and parse the links correctly
  • Fixed bug 48679, to hide the view source tab for item and property pages
  • Testing on Diff extension and SQLstore
• Open Tasks for You
  • Add statements to Wikidata: either manually, through "array properties", through a bot request, with Wikidata useful, or by operating your own bot
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • Hack on one of these

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Wikidata weekly summary #60

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press
  • Deutschlandfunk interview about Wikipedia, Wikidata and more
  • Hackathon in Amsterdam
  • Linked Data in Business
  • Upcoming: Arts, Humanities and Complex Networks
  • Upcoming: SemTechBiz
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The time datatype is now available allowing you to enter dates in Wikidata (this also includes a short rundown of what the developers are going to work on next)
  • 5 students are working on projects related to Wikidata as part of Google Summer of Code 2013
  • prototype of a multilingual map using Wikidata
  • Many Wikimedia wikis got a new account creation and login page - among them Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: venue (P540), office contested (P541), officially opened by (P542), oath made by (P543), torch lit by (P545), docking port (P546), commemorates (P547), version type (P548), MGP ID (P549), chivalric order (P550), residence (P551), handedness (P552), social media account on (P553), social media address (P554), doubles record (P555), crystal system (P556), DiseasesDB (P557), unit symbol (P558), terminus (P559), direction (P560), NATO reporting name (P561), central bank/issuer (P562), ICD-O (P563), singles record (P564), crystal habit (P565)
  • Newest task forces: Tennis task force, Taxonomy task force, Iranian Persian task force, Medicine task force
• Development
  • Made good progress on moving the sitelinks on Wikidata too when a page on Wikipedia is moved (bugzilla:36729 - currently the bug with most votes)
  • Fixed some bugs in the time value user interface
  • Worked on coordinate value support
  • Worked together with Wikimedia Foundation ops staff on Apache configuration changes to enable “pretty urls” for item pages. (e.g. https://en.wikidata.org/wiki/New_York_City goes to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60 in the future)
  • Added MediaWiki setting wgLogAutopatrol to allow wikis the option to disable logging of autopatrol actions
  • Improved EntityPerPage rebuild script, which is needed to fix the situation where some Wikipedia articles can't access data from Wikidata (bugzilla:48506)
  • Fixed bug in SetQualifiers API module; Moved both SetQualifiers and RemoveQualifiers out of experimental mode
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • Hack on one of these

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Wikidata weekly summary #61

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Please use the next week to review the discussions about sourcing of statements (d:Wikidata:Requests for comment/References and sources and Discussion on the Project Chat)
• Events/Press
  • Arts, Humanities and Complex Networks
  • SemTechBiz
  • WMF metrics and activities meeting
  • "Exakter und aktueller" Bessere Daten für Wikipedia durch Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Large donation by Yandex for further development of Wikidata (press coverage here and here among others)
  • en:Template:Infobox road and simple:Template:Infobox road now have the ability to use Wikidata for the map field
  • Denny writes about Wikidata and the truth
  • Average edits per page has passed 4
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: basionym (P566), hangingwall (P567), footwall (P568), date of birth (P569), date of death (P570), foundation/creation date (P571), date of scientific description (P574), discovery date (P575), date of dissolution (P576), date of publication (P577), Sandbox-TimeValue (P578), IMA status (P579), start date (P580), end date (P582), as of (P585), IPNI author ID (P586), MMSI (P587), coolant (P588), point group (P589), GNIS (P590), EC Number (P591), ChEMBL (P592), Homologene ID (P593), Ensembl ID (P594), IUPHAR ID (P595), in the direction of (P596), WTA ID (P597), commands (P598), ITF ID (P599), Wine AppDB-ID (P600), MedlinePlus ID (P604), NUTS (P605), first flight (P606)
  • Newest task forces: Catalunya task force
• Development
  • Worked on globe coordinate editing
  • Reviewed and merged code for SetSiteLink special page
  • EditEntity API refactoring (Info: EditEntity API’s EXCLUDE parameter will be dropped - see here)
  • First steps towards being able to add sitelinks for the first sister-project (WikiVoyage)
  • Improved the Travis CI continuous integration setup
  • Made the DataValue component installable via Composer
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • Hack on one of these

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Wikidata weekly summary #62

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Noteworthy Stuff
  • Geocoordinates can now be entered in Wikidata and language links can now be edited without JavaScript
  • The folks at OCLC did a great intro video to Wikidata and VIAF/authority files
  • And here's some interesting analysis on the most unique Wikipedias according to Wikidata
  • Magnus updated his tool to add missing properties to an item
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: battle/war (P607), exhibition history (P608), terminus location (P609), exhibition history (P608), terminus location (P609), highest point (P610), religious order (P611), mother house (P612), OS grid reference (P613), CHRC (P616), yard number (P617), source of energy (P618), spacecraft launch date (P619), spacecraft landing date (P620), spacecraft decay date (P621), spacecraft docking/undocking dates (P622), crew photo (P623), guidance system (P624), coordinate location (P625), Sandbox-GeoCoordinateValue (P626), IUCN-ID (P627)
  • If you're interested in a specific topic then the task forces are a good place to find like-minded people. Can't find one for your interest? Start one!
• Development
  • More progress on supporting links to sisterprojects
  • Fixing issues with geocoordinate datatype that popped up after deployment
  • Selenium tests for time and geocoordinate interface
  • EditEntity Refactoring (added parameter “new”)
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • Hack on one of these

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Wikidata weekly summary #63

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Final vote on the "Guidelines for sourcing statements" till June 24.
  • Work started on a policy regarding information about living people
  • Feedback needed on a proposal by the development team for how to support Wiktionary
  • RfC about sockpuppetry guidelines
  • RfC about personal names
• Events/Press
  • Wikidata, le Wikipédia que vous utiliserez bientôt tous
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: E number (P628), edition of (P629), Paris city digital code (P630), structural engineer (P631), cultural properties of Belarus reference number (P632), Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec identifier (P633), captain (P634), ISTAT ID (P635), route of administration (P636), Protein ID (P637), PDB ID (P638), RNA ID (P639), Léonore ID (P640), sport (P641), of (P642), Genloc Chr (P643), Genloc Start (P644), Genloc End (P645), Freebase identifier (P646), drafted by (P647), Open Library identifier (P648), NRHP (P649), RKDartists (P650), BPN (P651), UNII (P652), PubMed Health (P653), direction relative to location (P654)
• Development
  • Worked on site-link group editing to make it possible to link to sisterprojects
  • Further work on input validation
  • Further work on handling invalid data gracefully
  • Use Serializers for generating API results
  • Finished selenium tests for TimeUI and CoordinateUI
  • Changed globe coordinate value input to use backend coordinate parser
  • Fixed issues with data type definitions not being available in the frontend
  • Wrote a little hack so that on statements with a long list of values you will always be able to see the name of the property of the current section you are in (since the label moves when scrolling the page)
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment"
  • Hack on one of these

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Wikidata weekly summary #64

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Development team published a proposal how to make use of Wikidata for Commons
  • Community proposal for how Wikidata could support Wikisource
  • RfC on source items and supporting Wikipedia sources
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • d:User:Byrial is creating database reports that are useful to find issues in the current data
  • Denny created a map of all geocoordinates currently in Wikidata (normal and huge version - updated daily)
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: RTECS number (P657), RefSeq (P656), translator (P655)
• Development
  • The Wikidata bug report with the most votes was closed (bugzilla:36729 - updating the link on Wikidata automatically when a page on Wikipedia is moved)
  • Wikipedia pages will soon have a link named "Data item" in the toolbox section of the sidebar that links to the Wikidata item that is connected to the page (bugzilla:49105 - You can already see it on the main page of test2.wikipedia.org for example.)
  • Calendar names displayed for time values can now be translated (bugzilla:49080)
  • Added serializers for the Ask query language
  • Buuuugfixes and testing
  • Refactoring
  • Worked on better handling of bad values (= values that don't fit the datatype they should have)
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier for newcomers
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Hack on one of these

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Wikidata weekly summary #65

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Alternative proposal for Wiktionary support
  • RfC on the sourcing requirements for bots
  • Project chat discussion about creating a new Requests for mergers page
  • One of our Google Summer of Code students is looking for feedback on mockups for Wikidata mobile
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: MeSH Code (P672), Mouse Genome Informatics ID (P671), street number (P670)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikivoyage deployment planned to start July 22nd, see the coordination page here
  • Addshore joins the Wikidata development team as an intern (project chat)
  • Byrial creates Statistics showing the namespaces used in item site links
  • Proposal for a new Wikimedia Foundation Sister project called 'Global Economic Map' that could use Wikidata at its core (on meta.)
• Development
  • Very rough and tentative timeline for the next month of development: mw:Roadmap#Wikidata deployment
  • Continued work on validation and handling of partially invalid data
  • Breaking change for 'wbeditentity' in the API fixing (bugzilla:49526) - when creating new items the 'new' parameter must now be given
  • Improved handling of broken UTF-8 encoding
  • Made it possible to enter the direction in a geocoordinate also at the beginning now (for example 52°31′N 13°23′E can soon also be entered as N 52°31′ E 13°23′)
  • Introduced PropertyInfoStore for quick access to meta-info about properties
  • Deserialization of Description objects in Ask
  • Lots of bugfixing
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier for newcomers
  • Update and expand Wikidata:Contribute to provide more information for newcomers
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Hack on one of these

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 16:39, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #66

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • A request for comment on defining administrator activity
  • A request for comment on image properties
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • A personal note and secret from Denny Vrandečić (WMDE)
  • Denny's map gets an upgrade, take a look at the amazing visualisations!
  • Browser search plugins for wikidata have beeen created.
  • Byrial's database reports have been updated from the 2013-07-10 dump! These can be seen here.
• Development
  • Support for badges in the process of being added to the DataModel.
  • Created further UI mockups for Wikidata Mobile.
  • Front end performance improvements in a few areas (including multiple edits on pages).
  • The bug in wbeditentity where aliases were removed has been fixed.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: eMedicine (P673), a list of (P674), Google Books identifier (P675), lyrics by (P676), ÚSOP code (P677), incertae sedis (P678), ZVG number (P679), molecular function (P680), cell component (P681), biological process (P682), ChEBI ID (P683), ortholog (P684), NCBI Taxonomy ID (P685), Gene Ontology ID (P686)
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier for newcomers
  • Update and expand Wikidata:Contribute to provide more information for newcomers
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Hack on one of these

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 14:40, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #67

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • A request for comment for exclusion criteria in wikipedia namespace.
  • Images for the Main Page proposed and discussed on project chat.
  • Discussion on Wikivoyage notability and changes to WD:N.
  • Request for comment on sockpuppetry guidelines closes.
• Events/Press
  • Watson has received the Feigenbaum Prize which has been donated to Wikimedia and Wikidata.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Kemler ID (P700), Disease Ontology ID (P699), Pubmed ID (PMID) (P698) , Ex taxon author(s) (P697)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The fourteen-millionth item, about Huangjue, a village in China, is created.
  • 239 Million language links removed from the Wikipedias, almost 5GB of text. (2012 vs 2013).
  • Saskia joins the Wikidata team to analyze the proposals for Wiktionary in Wikidata.
  • Wikivoyage deployment planned to start July 23rd, see the coordination page here.
• Development
  • Wmf11 has been deployed to test.wikidata.org!
  • Wikidata is moving from a Squid to a Varnish cache system!
  • Search ranking has been improved ready for the next deployment where Wikivoyage support will also be added.
  • Optional title normalization added to 'wbgetentities'
  • Fixed broken XML result for wbeditentity.
  • Fixed broken link to anchor in sitelinks section.
  • Templates no longer parsed in labels.
  • Technical documentation improved for Ask and WikibaseQueryEngine.
  • Work started on EntitiesByPropertyValue API module.
  • Work on ChangeOps and API module edit summaries.
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier for newcomers
  • Update and expand Wikidata:Contribute to provide more information for newcomers
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
  • Hack on one of these

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 15:15, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #68

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New UI Mockup suggested for Wikidata Mobile. Please give feedback.
• Events/Press
  • Next office hour on August 26
  • upcoming: COSCUP
  • upcoming: Wikimania (including hackathon)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata learns to travel - language link support for Wikivoyage has been enabled and it was concluded that Wikivoyagers are pretty awesome
  • There is now a gadget you can use to see a map of a geocoordinate on Wikidata
  • Picture of the week could use some more input
  • Top 20 items on Wikidata that are covered in a lot of Wikipedias? Here you go.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Dodis (P701), encoded by (P702), found in taxon (P703), Ensembl Transcript ID (P704), Ensembl Protein ID (P705), located on terrain feature (P706), Satellite bus (P707), diocese (P708), Historic Scotland ID (P709), participant (P710), Strunz 8 (P711), Strunz 9 (P712), Strunz 10 (P713), Dana 8th edition (P714), Drugbank ID (P715), JPL Small-Body Database identifier (P716), Minor Planet Center observatory code (P717), Canmore ID (P718), Notable Incident (P719)
  • Newest task forces: Global Economic Map task force
• Development
  • When a page is moved on Wikipedia or Wikivoyage the link on Wikidata is now updated (bugzilla:36729)
  • Ranking of the search results has been improved
  • Worked on URL data type
  • Added coveralls.io support for most of our components (test coverage)
  • Fixed some minor bugs related to site-links editing
  • Fixed bugzilla:52023, where multiple anon warning bubbles are displayed at once
  • Worked on SpamBlacklist to filter URL values in Wikibase
  • Improved handling of corrupt data from the database
  • Made tests more reliable
  • Made regular undo via the API work with Wikibase
  • Worked on Time value formatter
  • Error handling for ByPropertyValue API module
  • Work on implementing QueryEntity
• Open Tasks for You
  • Add some data about Hong Kong and related things. Denny promises nice visualizations ;-)
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment".
  • Hack on one of these.

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Response to your query

Hi Bjelleklang - I'm not sure if you noticed, however I responded to your message on my talk page yesterday morning. The relevant SPI is this one.--Jezebel'sPonyo^{bons mots} 16:00, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #69

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Request for comment on defining CheckUsers.
  • Request for comment on class ⇄ instance relationship in Wikidata
  • The d:Wikidata:Global Economic Map task force is starting its property list. Please go there to propose important properties about economics for countries, regions or companies.
• Events/Press
  • Next office hour on August 26
  • COSCUP this weekend, Taipei (August 3-4, 2013)
  • Wikimania is nearly here!, Hong Kong (August 7-11, 2013)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The list of interwiki links has been updated with more infomation and now also includes wikivoyage!
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: removed feature, introduced feature, Parent company
  • Newest task forces: Global Economic Map task force
• Development
  • Custom edit-summaries added for the majority of API modules
  • Started working on implementation for ordering qualifiers in the JavaScript user interface
  • ChangeOps for wbsetclaimvalue, wbcreateclaim, wbremoveclaims and refactoring of wbremoveclaim
  • Fix handling of '0' value in API response
  • Solved bugs related to copyright notice
  • Some minor UI speed improvements
  • EditEntity refactored
  • Test cases improved
  • Further work on URLs
  • Work on implementing QueryEntity
• Open Tasks for You
  • Add some data about Hong Kong and related things. Denny promises nice visualizations ;-)
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment".
  • Hack on one of these.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 16:06, 2 August 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #70

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Request for comment on Property proposal organisation reform to a more Model
  • Request for comment on VCards for Wikivoyage
  • Requests for bot approval has many requests that need further discussion!
  • Many property proposals still need input!
• Events/Press
  • Wikimania continues! If you are around make sure you come and say Hi!
  • Wikidata meetup in the chapters village on Saturday at 1 PM at Wikimania.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Following numerous discussions we are happy to present the new version of the proposal that would lead to Wikidata supporting structured data for the Wiktionaries.
  • There are now only an estimated 1,000,000 articles remaining with inter language links, down from the previous 26,000,000!
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: LAU (local administrative unit), Sikart (identifier in SIKART), symptoms (the possible symptoms of a medical condition)
  • Frequently used for cities and other places, P17 ("country") indicates the sovereign state an item relates to. There now at least 100 items for most present day sovereign states. Leading is China (Q148) with 607,817 items, followed by Iran (!794) with 105,875 items and the United States of America (Q30) with 99,243 items. China rose from just 5266 items a month ago.
• Development
  • Changeops implemented for all Api modules
  • All Api modules now have better auto comments and custom summaries
  • Work on claim ordering started
  • Work on refactoring Api Tests
  • Bug Fixes!!
• Open Tasks for You
  • Add some data about Hong Kong and related things. Denny promises nice visualizations ;-)
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment".
  • Hack on one of these.

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Naik Foundation

Hi,

I am aware that you have deleted the page of Naik FOundation, currently we have a number of press releases on the internet show casing the work of the foundation, one such article is -

1. http://www.ameinfo.com/accenture-naik-foundation-provide-iftar-meals-351240
2. http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/govt-mulling-using-asha-nss-workers-lab-testing-of-food-113080101318_1.html
3. http://www.mid-day.com/news/2013/apr/220413-19000-teachers-to-benefit-from-vipassana-course.htm
4. http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-08-01/india/40961130_1_mdm-food-safety-fssai
5. http://netindian.in/news/2013/08/01/00025399/pallam-raju-reviews-mid-day-meal-scheme-high-level-meeting — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rambo 123 (talk • contribs) 07:53, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
6. http://education.oneindia.in/news/2013/08/02/hrd-minister-pallam-raju-presides-over-mid-day-meal-scheme-005971.html
7. http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=97531
8. http://www.rina.in/news/hrm-presides-over-mid-day-meal-scheme/

these are different news papers in India, and in the UAE, where the foundation has shown presence in multiple location not just in india but also in the UAE. Please can you review and see if you can allow this content to be on wikipedia?

thanks, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rambo 123 (talk • contribs) 07:18, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #71

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • COSCUP (Wikidata intro slides)
  • Wikimania (State of Wikidata presentation, Tech behind Wikidata presentation, Wiktionary discussion)
  • Wikidata babel multi-language easter egg
  • The Occitan Wikipedia and Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikivoyage is scheduled to get access to Wikidata data (aka phase 2) on August 26th.
  • Listen to and watch beautiful Wikidata edits
  • To support the inclusion of geographical coordinates in Wikidata, just about two months a new data type came available and d:Property:P625 "coordinate location" was created. Already 565,000 pairs of coordinates are now available on WikiData. Compare this to 870,000 coordinates on English Wikipedia or 1,500,000 items with d:Property:P17 "country", likely to have coordinates. Have a look at them on a map.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: approved by (P790), ISIL ID (P791), chapter (P792), Key event (P793), as (P794), distance along (P795), geo datum (P796), executing authority (P797), mission design series designation (P798), air ministry specification (P799), work (P800), notable work (P801), student (P802), professorship (P803), GNIS Antarctica ID (P804), subject of (P805). Italian cadastre code (P806) In Addition new properties to describe mushrooms were created: hymenium type (P783), mushroom cap shape (P784), hymenium attachment (P785), stipe character (P786), spore print color (P787), mushroom ecological type (P789), edibility (P789). These will allow to build the data for a mushroom infobox (as w:Template:Mycomorphbox).
  • Newest task forces: Physics task force
  • Wikidata helped remove 240,000,000 language links from Wikipedia's wiki text.
• Development
  • Want to get an overview of what Pragun, our Google Summer of Code student working on Wikidata for mobile, is doing? Check here
  • Worked on simple special page to make a query (bugzilla:52385)
  • Worked on ability to move qualifiers
  • Started improving API and Special Page tests
  • Fixed links to Special:SetSiteLink in non-JavaScript interface (bugzilla:51914)
  • ChangeOps, custom summaries and autocomments for SetStatementRank API module
  • Fixed displaying “0” as label/description in autocomments
  • Some minor fixes for rare crashes of editing UI
  • Worked on moving Selenium tests to Cucumber
• Open Tasks for You
  • See if you can connect some of these Wikivoyage pages to their item on Wikidata.
  • Check if some of the items on this and this list can be merged. But be careful to only merge if they are really about the same topic! Help about merging is at d:Help:Merge.
  • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
  • Hack on one of these.

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Currency converter

Hello,

Hows the currency conversion bot going along? Are you working on it or not?

Leave me a ping when you reply.

TheOriginalSoni (talk) 19:36, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #72

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Discussion started about improving the RfC process
  • d:Wikidata:Requests for comment/References and sources has been closed
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Report from Wikimania
  • Wikidata meets Incubator
  • Office hour on 26th
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Average edits per page is nearly 5 now.
  • Wikivoyage is still scheduled to get access to data on Wikidata (aka phase 2) on August 26.
  • Developers are working hard to also make the URL datatype available by August 26 but there are factors that are not in their hands so it might have to be delayed until the next deployment in 2 weeks. URL as a datatype will soon be available on test.wikidata.org. Please give it some thorough testing and report bugs.
  • Outsch! (Help collect and fix paper cuts.)
• Did you know?
  • 20 undescribed monsters
  • Newest properties: separated from (P807), code Bien de Interés Cultural (P808), WPDA id (P809), academic minor (P811), academic major (P812), date retrieved (P813), IUCN protected areas category (P814), ITIS TSN (P815), decays to (P816), decay mode (P817)
• Development
  • Prepared deployment of phase 2 on Wikivoyage
  • Worked on ability to sort qualifiers and references inside a statement
  • Started work on an api module to merge items
  • Worked on special page to query for items with one specific property and value
  • Cleaned up code for handling recent change entries from Wikidata in the clients (Wikipedia/Wikivoyage)
  • Worked on generic script for populating sites table and better integration with WMF process for creating new wikis
  • Setup new git repo for WikibaseMobile skin and extension
  • Fixed SetClaim api module to properly mark bot edits in recent changes and advised pywikipedia maintainers about adding support for the module. SetClaim can be used to create claims with references in a single edit.
  • Reviewed code for Google Summer of Code students
  • Updated doxygen documentation
• Open Tasks for You
  • Report a paper cut (see above).
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Hack on one of these.

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Wikidata weekly summary #73

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Request for comment on Geo Coordinates for people
  • Request for comment on reuse of data from DBpedia
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • State of the Map (September 6-8, 2013)
  • Recent office hour logs now availible.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Abraham, Denny and Lydia sat down for an evening trying to capture what Wikidata is about in a video.
  • Deployment! Wikivoyage now has access to the wikidata dataset and various other bugs have also been fixed (including the copyright warning)!
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: interchange station (P833), public holiday (P832), parent club (P831), Encyclopedia of Life (P830), OEIS ID (P829), possible causes (P828), BBC programme identifier (P827), tonality (P826), dedicated to (P825), Meteoritical Bulletin Database ID (P824)
  • Newest task forces: Wikidata:País Valencià task force
• Development
  • Work on allowing API module editentities to edit claims
  • Work on entity / item redirects
  • Work on support for moving qualifiers in API and Frontend
  • Adding coordinates to diff display and improving diff display code
  • Allowing site groups for language links on clients to be configurable (needed for commons)
  • EntityId changes, we are now working on 0.5!
  • Show snaktype in summary for novalue and somevalue snaks
  • Further work on merge module for the API
  • Wrote missing tests for various jQuery widgets
  • Work on value formatters
  • Continue on moving tests to cucumber
  • Bug fixes for coordinates following the latest deployment
• Open Tasks for You
  • Report a paper cut (see above).
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Hack on one of these.

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Synthwave.94

You seem to have placed a "hold" on the unblock request at Synthwave.94. Did you ever get a response to the checkuser request? Kuru (talk) 21:55, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #74

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Saskia has finished her analysis of the different Wiktionary proposals and projects
  • Oversight nomination for Ajraddatz
  • Request for input by ontology experts
  • Help Sven compile a list of major accomplishments of Wikidata to date
  • RfC about the Guidelines for the RfC process
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • State of the Map
  • Dbpedia-Wikidata workshop
  • 10 questions about VIAF, Wikidata and the world
  • Wikidata quality and quantity
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Potentially useful Coursera course about metadata and information started
  • URL datatype needs more testing
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: GSS code (2011) (P836), BioLib ID (P838), IMSLP ID (P839), narrative set in (P840), Paleobiology Database Identifier (P842), SIRUTA code (P843), UBIGEO code (P844). A set of properties to build calenders: public holiday (P832), day in year for periodic occurrence (P837) and feast day (P841). A proposal for "reoccurring date in machine readable format" is still under review.
• Development
  • mlazowik has put in more work to getting support for batches (featured article and so on) to Wikidata
  • Jeroen gave a presentation on clean functions
  • More work on the URL datatype to make it ready for deployment
  • Continuous work on cucumber & moving browser tests to saucelabs/cloudbees
  • Simple query special page
  • DataValues reorganization
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment".
  • Hack on one of these.

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Further help

http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Hydrosacks

Thank you so much for helping out,

Please see link above,

Regards

Jake — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.149.168.185 (talk) 12:07, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

Brigantes/ Viking heritage

I am both Viking, berserker and Brigantes blood line. How do we show the out come of this type of warrior. I do have actual heritage proof, need help to verify. I have been so far unstoppable, except by taught behavior of emotional restriction. I am Irish, I am Norseman. for sureties to both. From a scientific view would this have a certain stubbornness to my interactional behavior with others. as well as my insight on certain afflictions, with authoritarian figures.  I would rather die standing, than to live life on my knee's.

Brigantes/ Viking heritage

I am both Viking, berserker and Brigantes blood line. How do we show the out come of this type of warrior. I do have actual heritage proof, need help to verify. I have been so far unstoppable, except by taught behavior of emotional restriction. I am Irish, I am Norseman. for sureties to both. From a scientific view would this have a certain stubbornness to my interactional behavior with others. as well as my insight on certain afflictions, with authoritarian figures.  I would rather die standing, than to live life on my knee's.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.219.1.248 (talk) 12:18, 13 September 2013 (UTC) 

Wikidata weekly summary #75

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • State of the Map
  • Dbpedia-Wikidata workshop
  • Slides for a Wikidata intro in French and English
  • Speaker needed for a Wikidata talk in Slovakia
  • Blog post by Denny: A categorical imperative?
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The URL datatype is now available. Go and add all the sources ;-)
  • Sourcerer gadget by Magnus to help you add URLs from Wikipedia articles for claims
  • Wikimedia Commons is scheduled to get interwiki links via Wikidata on 23rd of September
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Saskatchewan Register of Heritage Property identifier (P845), Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (P846), United States Navy aircraft designation (P847), Japanese military aircraft designation (P849), World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850), ESRB rating (P852), CERO rating (P853), URL (P854), Sandbox-URL (P855), official website (P856), CNKI (P857), ESPN SCRUM ID (P858), sponsor (P859), e-archiv.li ID (P860), premiershiprugby.com ID (P861), Operational Requirement of the UK Air Ministry (P862), InPhO identifier (P863), ACM Digital Library author identifier (P864), BMLO (P865), Perlentaucher (P866), ROME Occupation Code (P867), foods traditionally associated (P868), instrumentation (P870), printed by (P872), phase point (P873), UN class (P874), UN code classification (P875), UN packaging group (P876), NFPA Other (P877), avionics (P878), pennant number (P879), CPU (P880), Variable type (P881), FIPS 6-4 (US counties) (P882), FIPS 5-2 (code for US states) (P883), State Water Register Code (Russia) (P884), origin of the watercourse (P885), LIR (P886), based on heuristic (P887), JSTOR (P888), Mathematical Reviews identifier (P889), Request for Comments number (IETF) (P892), Social Science Research Network (P893)
  • Newest task forces: Occupations and professions task force
• Development
  • Breaking change to the API in the last deployment
  • Started work on number data type
  • Worked on simple query special page
  • Worked more on moving (ordering) of qualifiers
  • Worked on JSON dumps
  • Continued working on allowing editentities API module to allow editing of claims
  • Continued work on the merge items API module
  • Worked on fixing the way Claim GUIDs are used throughout the code
  • Worked on TableDefinitionReaders for Database component
  • Unified and improved rendering of property values in summaries, diffs, wiki-pages, etc.
  • Continued moving to new browsertests framework
  • Bugfixes on autosummaries
  • Worked with GSoC student on mobile skin
  • Worked on refactoring of how we serialize and provide data about used entities on a page (e.g. entity pages or certain special pages) to the frontend
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment".
  • Hack on one of these.

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Wikidata weekly summary #76

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • upcoming: UK Wikidata Training
  • Magnus blogged about the Wikidata Query tool
  • Gerard did an interview with Emw about the heady stuff of Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • 30 percent of all items are categorized in 6 large groups (main type (GND) (P107)). Most are items about geographic features (1.7 million items), some of these already have coordinates (0.5 million). Items about persons are fairly frequent too (1.3 million), many already with gender (0.9 million), a few with DOB (0.05 million) or DOD (0.04 million). Other groups include: creative works (305,000), terms, organizations, and events.
  • The first 2 Wikidata oversighters are elected, Ajraddatz and Rschen7754. Please contact the email at the above page, and do not post requests onwiki. Two more candidates are running: Stryn and Sven Manguard.
  • Neat new gadget to semi-automatically import labels, aliases and descriptions based on Wikipedia article introductions
  • New search backend on testwikidata needs testing
  • Commons is still scheduled to get interwiki links via Wikidata on Monday and can also be tested on test.wikidata.org
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: GSRR rating, filming location, USK rating, notation, facility, South African municipality code, topic's main category, Nova Scotia Register of Historic Places identifier, PEGI rating, AMG Game ID, Libris, PORT identifier
• Development
  • Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a software developer with a focus on frontend development with Java Script to work on Wikidata among other things. Apply!
  • Paper Cut: Display the ID of an item or property page next to the label (bugzilla:53462)
  • Paper Cut: Fix value field not loading for some properties (bugzilla:53157)
  • Paper Cut: Work on supporting non-earth globes in the UI (bugzilla:54097)
  • Worked on quantity data type implementation in backend and frontend
  • Work on a build and release tool for the Wikidata software
  • More work on sorting of references and qualifiers
  • Work on database schema modification functionality to be used by the query store
  • Prepare deployment for Wikimedia Commons (including improving script for populating sites table, adding support for Wikimedia Commons)
  • Work on making entity data available in the Mobile Wikibase skin
  • new Cirrus Search (Elastic Search) backend enabled on test.wikidata.org
  • Finished up cucumber tests for sitelinks
  • Hotfixes for coordinates autosummaries
  • Worked on simplifying process of defining wb.fetchedEntities
  • Finished working on wbeditentity
  • Worked on MySQL and SQLite table definition readers
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment".
  • Hack on one of these.

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Ben Lamb (actor)

You participated in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ben Lamb (actor) back in January. The notability of this person has increased since that discussion. The page has been temporarily restored to User:Davidwr/Ben Lamb (actor). Please discuss whether it should be kept or not on User talk:Davidwr/Ben Lamb (actor). davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 00:47, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #77

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • upcoming: UK Wikidata Training
  • What can Wikidata, the collaboratively edited knowledge base, do for Wikipedia?
  • “Allow me to reintroduce myself,” say those in Wikidata and VIAF
  • Importing data from the Polish Wikipedia
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Denny's last day on the development team was today. He has a few closing remarks in this blog post.
  • Wikimedia Commons now gets language links via Wikidata
  • Stryn's request for oversight flag
  • Individual Engagement Grants Proposal: Understanding Wikidata
  • Terminator now also has most linked-to items with no label in language X
  • Draft for Wikidata support of Wikiquote
  • Open position for a JavaScript developer to work on Wikidata - please spread the word
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: KSH code, FishBase species identifier, work location, Commons gallery, heritagefoundation.ca ID, PMCID, city served, type of electrification, color space, activating neurotransmitter, anatomical location, postsynaptic connection, presynaptic connection, possible treatments, possible examinations, magnetic ordering, main topic of creative work, Spanish subject headings for public libraries, SOC Occupation Code, NOC Occupation Code, GRAU index
• Development
  • Said Good Bye to Denny - *sob*
  • Improved layout for commons sitelink table
  • More work on sorting
  • Worked on statements UI tests
  • Fixed failing QUnit tests
  • Deployed new code and updated sites for Commons deployment
  • Fixed a number of small bugs
  • Code review for Google Summer of Code student projects
  • Work to automate creating deployment branches and builds of Wikibase with its dependencies
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment".
  • Hack on one of these.

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Wikidata weekly summary #78

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • 3 Individual Engagement Grants related to Wikidata are looking for feedback and endorsements: Understanding Wikidata, Wikidata Toolkit and Wikintelligence
  • Request for Comments on linking Wikimedia Commons
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • UK Wikidata training
  • Pushing Wikidata to the Next Level
  • Hello, Good-bye at Wikidata
  • Google Summer of Code 2013 - Let's Mobilize Wikidata! - A Summary
  • Wikidata Query updates
  • Blog: Wikidata qualifiers
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Tempo-spatial display (events in Wikidata on a map)
  • Canned queries (for queries that help find missing information)
  • Wikidata Browse (pretty slideshow of random Wikidata items, their pictures, labels in various languages and statements)
  • Wikidata generic tree (displays a tree of data in Wikidata)
  • We've crossed ID 15000000: d:Q15000000 (Category:Sternorsidis)
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Code of nomenclature, programmer, theme music, inspired by, GHS precautionary statements
• Development
  • Finished initial version of the build tool (= tool that creates one tarball/git repository from all our extensions and their dependencies for deployment)
  • Continued work on numbers data type
  • Continued work on Formatters (for autosummaries, diffs, etc)
  • Fixed RDF serialization issue
  • Merged merge API module
  • Finished up database schema updating code
  • Added validation for precision in globe coordinate value
  • Finished and released Diff extension version 0.9
  • Polishing work on Wikibase QueryEngine
  • Some cleanup of EntityView
• Open Tasks for You
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Hack on one of these.
• Note from Lydia about the future of the weekly summaries
  • I've been compiling the weekly summaries for Wikidata for the past 1.5 years. It is time to give this into the hands of a few capable community members now that I have moved on to product management. Starting next week I will not be compiling the weekly summaries anymore. I am happy to help anyone who wants to take over get up to speed of course. Please contact me if you'd like to take this over.

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Wikidata weekly summary #79

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Discussion over how Property metadata should be stored within Wikidata
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Wikidata sends goodies to Google Summer of Code 2013 volunteers
  • A Wikidata interview with Lydia
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Statistics about sourcing on Wikidata
  • Help the development team prioritise!
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Wikivoyage banner, RSL identifier, ISIN
• Development
  • Added index removal and addition support to Wikibase Database
  • Improved initialization code of Wikibase Query
  • Added database setup code to Wikibase Query
  • Added schema updating support to Wikibase QueryEngine
  • Added SimpleQuery special page to Wikibase Query. This page allows users to find entities by a property value pair
  • Formatters for snaks/values are now used throughtout Wikibase
  • Some progress on DecimalValues and QuantitiyValues
  • Started work to include the data type of snaks in the JSON dumps
  • Worked on cleaning up inconsistent handling of Claim GUIDs vs hashes.
  • Implemented more convenient user interface for Special:SimpleQuery.
  • MergeAPI module and claim editing from wbeditentity to be deployed
  • Further work on a build step to make deployment easier
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment".
  • Hack on one of these.

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Wikidata weekly summary #80

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Discussion over the implementation of 'showcase items'
  • Requests for comment over restructuring user rights
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Lydia gives a talk at Latinoware about Wikidata
  • Talk at UCBerkeley about Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • This week the 80 millionth edit was made to Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: street address, e-mail, guest of honor, MusicBrainz label ID, burial plot reference, Austrian municipality key, streaming media URL, MycoBank taxon name identifier, IPNI taxon name identifier, Tropicos taxon name identifier, MSW species identifier, section, verse, or paragraph, ISBN-10, IBNR identifier, full text available at, ISCO code, NSZL identifier, BNE identifier, NLI (Israel) identifier
  • Newest task forces: International relations task force
• Development
  • Further development on WikibaseDatabase
  • IE8 is working again
  • JSON socumentation created and merged
  • Lots of work carried out on the quantity datavalues
  • Papercut: mouseover input suggestions messes up input. Fixes bug 44896
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
  • Respond to a "Request for Comment".
  • Hack on one of these.

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Wikidata weekly summary #81

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Discussion over whether to split three properties into six more specific ones
  • Closed: Exclusion criteria for Wikipedia: namespace items
  • Closed:Place of property documentation
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Gerard wrote about Wikipedia's place as a source within Wikidata
  • Semantic MediaWiki Conference (SMWCon) will be held next week, Monday to Wednesday, in Berlin.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Echo has been enabled on Wikidata
  • Magnus created some queries for Wikidata
  • Wikidata is 1 year on October 29th! Stay tuned for some 'surprises'
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Philippine Standard Geographic Code, IOC country code, MusicBrainz area ID, BAG-code for Dutch villages, code for weekend and holiday homes (Sweden), Pastoratkod (Sweden), code for parishes in the Church of Sweden, Civil parish code/ATA-code in Sweden, Minor urban area code in Sweden, Urban area code in Sweden, tributary, described in URL, catalogue, category combines topics, neurological function
• Development
  • Lazowik worked on API support for editing badges
  • Bene added a keyboard shortcut to get from an article to the item it is connected to on Wikidata (bugzilla:46538)
  • Bene worked on a table of content for items (bugzilla:44876)
  • Bene improved Special:ItemDisambiguation (bugzilla:55466)
  • Bene added ftp as an allowed protocol for the URL datatype (bugzilla:54103)
  • Linked sitelinks in diffs (bugzilla:53471)
  • Cleaned up and added tests in client that are necessary for improving the recent changes integration and for supporting enhanced changes
  • Worked on the user interface for simple queries
  • Worked on the user interface for the numbers datatype
  • Continued work on ordering statement groups in the user interface
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
  • Improve some road items in your country by adding some statements to them.
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
  • Hack on one of these.

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Wikidata weekly summary #82

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Wikidata celebrates its first birthday!
  • Wikidata presentation at the Open Knowledge Workshop Day on November 4th by Wikimedia Suomi
  • Interview with Magnus, a Wikimedia tool creator
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • record held, the one-thousandth property, is created.
  • Wikidata could be a multilingual picture dictionary
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Lattes Platform number, NTA PPN identifier, PTBNP identifier, MusicBrainz Place ID, NLR (Romania) identifier, engine configuration, belongs to jurisdiction, record held, ARICNS, dmoz, scan file, NFPA Reactivity, NFPA Fire, NFPA Health, function/mission, elected holder, voice recording, spoken text audio
  • Newest task forces: Railways task force
• Development
  • Create and remove claim diffs will now show a diff for the WHOLE claim, bug 53142
  • Sitelinks in diffs now have a link to the article
  • ByPropertyLists now also accept lower case propertyids as keys instead of just uppercase
  • WikibaseDatabase extension released to version 0.1
  • Entity descriptions are now included in the search index text
  • Sitelink titles are also included in search index text
  • Further developments on Quantities
  • Fixed the hiding of the remove button when adding a new statement
  • Serialization options have been cleaned up
  • Escape titles on revision history and diff pages
  • Further work on Query and QueryEngine
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
  • Improve some road items in your country by adding some statements to them.
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
  • Hack on one of these.

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Wikidata weekly summary #83

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Closed: Restructure of minor user rights
  • Lua enhancements discussion
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Wikidata IRC Office hour on Wednesday November 13th in #wikimedia-office
  • On November 10th, Gerard Meijssen will discuss Wikidata at the Wikimedia Diversity Conference
  • Lydia makes a guest appearance at the Metric and activities meeting to discuss Wikidata's growth
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikisource deployment planned to start January 13th, 2014, see the coordination page here
  • Magnus discusses Wikidata items and Wikipedia entries
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: BIBSYS identifier, Arts & Architecture Thesaurus ID, criterion used, including, excluding
  • Newest task forces: Athletics task force
  • You can now thank users for their contributions on Wikidata
• Development
  • Sitelinks in diff views now link to the article
  • Bene* worked on adding a table of contents to item pages (bugzilla:44876)
  • More work on badges by mlazowik
  • Creating and removing claims with references and qualifiers now show full diffs
  • Fixed invalid diffs which display 'diff=0' as a parameter (bugzilla:49434)
  • Fixed cases where diff pages arew caches and display in incorrect languages (bugzilla:55667)
  • Added ability to ignore conflicts in merge items API module
  • Worked on adding the datatype in the json output
  • Fix validation of wbsetreference
  • Wikibase Query now listens to entity changes of Wikibase Repo
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
  • Improve biology, help out the Molecular biology task force.
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
  • Hack on one of these.

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Wikidata weekly summary #84

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Closed: Geocoordinates on people
  • Instances of human
  • Dimensions and units for the quantity datatype
  • Discussion started by Tom Morris over Wikidata and Wikinews
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Digitale Bibliothek 2013 is taking place, November 21st to November 22nd
  • Wikidata office hour logs are available here
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Magnus creates a Wikidata search add-on for Wikipedia
  • Freebase-Wikidata mappings are produced by Google
  • The Wikidata IRC channel is moving from #wikimedia-wikidata to #wikidata.
  • Magnus and the Wikidata created redlink lists
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: feed URL, language regulatory body, BAV (Vatican Library) identifier, asteroid taxonomy
  • Newest task forces:
• Development
  • Added a keyboard shortcut to get from an article to its associated item on Wikidata (bugzilla:bug 46538)
  • Fixed bugzilla:49434 (Support diff=0 in Wikibase)
  • Worked on Lua improvements including bugzilla:54324 (sequence in Lua should start with 1)
  • Started making improvements to the loading time of items
  • Started creating a special page to show the items with the most sitelinks (bugzilla:46217)
  • More work on ranks for statements
  • Worked on putting the datatype into the JSON output
  • Worked more on support for enhanced changes format in client
  • Cleaned up code that handles Wikibase entries in client recent changes
  • Added tests for recent changes formatting code in MediaWiki code
  • Updated Wikibase to maintain compatibility with changes in Universal Language Selector
  • Removed many deprecates method usages related to EntityId
  • Improved Special:SetSiteLink page
  • Removed obsolete EntityCache code from Wikibase Client
  • Removed obsolete SearchEntityArtefacts script from Wikibase Repo
  • Updated usages of EntityId to usages of ItemId and PropertyId where applicable
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
  • Create a mineral species, help out the Mineralogy task force by forming new new statements today!
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
  • Hack on one of these.

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Wikidata weekly summary #85

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Improve handling of deleted items and labels in archives
  • Closed: Commons links
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • An interview with Denny Vrandečić
  • WikiCon 2013
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Reasonator now supports cities and locations
  • The quantities datatype is available for testing
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: main food source, GHS signal word, Digital Rights Management system, legal citation, light characteristic of a lighthouse, crew member, donated by, awarded by, doctoral thesis, SUDOC catalog (editions only), SBFI occupation code, SBC-2010 occupation code, CNO-11 occupation code, KldB-2010 occupation code
• Development
  • Refactored Api output
  • Collect tasks for Google Code In
  • Make wbeditentity accept serialization with the id and type keys
  • Start setting up ‘automated’ part of the Wikidata build script
  • Released version 1.0 of the Ask library https://github.com/wmde/Ask
  • Fixed dependency injection issue in Wikibase Query
  • Started work on providing a new serialization library that does not have the design issues of the current data model serialization code and can be used as standalone PHP library
  • Moved quantity data type out of experimental and enabled on https://test.wikidata.org
  • Improved Wikibase Lua code
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
  • Improve some road items in your country by adding some statements to them.
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
  • Hack on one of these.

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Wikidata weekly summary #86

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Showcase items - take 2
  • Verified statements
  • Closed: VCards for Wikivoyage
  • Closed: Image properties
  • Closed: Proposals for the 'Place' related properties
  • Closed: Source items and supporting Wikipedia sources
  • Closed: Constraint violation technical bases
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • The Wikidata Concept Cloud
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Quantities datatype is available for testing
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: ZDB identifier, sockets supported, film editor, type of kinship, relative, manager/director, Dewey Decimal Classification, honorific suffix
  • Newest task forces: Sports results task force
• Development
  • Ranks are nearing completion (bugzilla:49120)
  • Quantities got some more love (improved diff, added scientific notation and simple localisation and made it possible to show/not show + for positive values - bugzilla:54318)
  • Ordering of statement groups is nearing completion
  • Avoid loading all referenced items in EntityView to improve loading time of items
  • Finalizing the inclusion of data types in JSON output
  • Fixed 2 XML errors on test.wikidata.org ready for deployment
  • Started work on a Wikibase-independent serialization component for DataValues
  • Worked on making Lua arrays start with 1 instead of 0 (bugzilla:54324)
  • Released the Datavalues library
  • Improved enhanced changes code in core, to better allow Wikibase (and Flow) to support that format
  • Defined permissions for Simple Queries
  • First Google Code-In task completed (meaning Special:SetSitelink now retains POSTed infomation after an error so you don't have to enter it again)
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
  • Improve some road items in your country by adding some statements to them.
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
  • Hack on one of these.

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Wikidata weekly summary #87

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Change the resysopping process
  • Inactive administrators
  • Open RfBs: The Anonymouse
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Gerard blogs about the Italian Wikipedia search updates (See the Polish Wikipedia's update too)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Italian and Polish Wikipedia now display Wikidata results in their searches
  • A few new features which require your testing!
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: NCL identifier, Catholic Hierarchy ID, discovery method, Sycomore ID, SWB editions, IDEO Job ID, ZDB identifier
  • Newest task forces: Periodicals task force
  • Showcase items: Douglas Adams, ethanol
• Development
  • Finalized localization of quantity values
  • Worked on support for scientific notation in quantities
  • More work on improving diffs
  • Worked on ranks and grouping of statements of the same rank
  • Improved performance of AuthorityControl gadget by a factor of 5
  • Finished work on initial version of ordering of statements
  • Bene* finished the API part of badges support (user interface part is still needed)
  • Database performance improvements
  • Released DataValues Serialization 0.1 https://github.com/DataValues/Serialization/
  • Released Ask Serialization 1.0 https://github.com/wmde/AskSerialization
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
  • Improve some road items in your country by adding some statements to them.
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 21:22, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #88

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Guidelines about ordering
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Succu becomes the first non-bot user with more than 1000000 edits in Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: ResearcherID, Portuguese Job Code CPP-2010, PSH id, medical condition
  • Newest task forces: Political geography task force
  • Showcase items: Barack Obama, Hubble Space Telescope
  • Fun Fact: Q12345 is Count von Count (ah ah ah)
• Development
  • Made improvements to lower database load
  • Deployed ordering, ranks and a table of contents and fixed issues with those after deployment (mainly performance-related)
  • Worked on preventing import of wikitext into item and property namespace
  • Started working on a new DataModel serialization component which will be usable loose from Wikibase. Both authors and people analysing dumps will thus finally have the deserialization task solved for them.
  • Started working on a version of DataModel that works with the new DataValues components
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
  • Use the rails, help out the Railways task force!
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
  • Hack on one of these.

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Wikidata weekly summary #89

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Discussion over the notability of the new Draft namespace on the English Wikipedia
  • Discussion over the notability of template documentation items
  • RfC: Notability of item for all special pages
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikisource is still scheduled to get language links via Wikidata on January 14th
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: NLM ID, NDL editions
  • Showcase items: Douglas Adams
  • Fun Fact: The Mayan calendar (Q2012) did not correctly predict the end of the world nor the end of Q items as Wikidata (Q2013) went on to host Wikipedia links this year.
• Development
  • Happy Holidays from the dev team! Have a great time and continue being awesome ;-)
  • Improved and added a lot of tests
  • Worked on displaying qualifiers in the non-JavaScript UI
  • No longer displaying the table of contents from item/property pages if there would be less than 3 entries in it
  • Caching and database improvements
  • Worked on preventing the import of wikitext into the main and property namespace
  • More work on quantities UI
• Open Tasks for You
  • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
  • Use the rails, help out the Railways task force!
  • Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
  • Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
  • Hack on one of these.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 13:12, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #90

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Discussion over handling of items
  • RfC: Interwiki links for subpages (Notability based discussion)
  • Closed: Inactive administrators
  • Closed: Bot policy
  • Closed RfA: Matěj Suchánek (Successful)
  • Open RfA: GerardM
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Add the file and translate namespaces to the list of namespaces excluded from Wikibase Client's linking functionality and enable the "Add links" dialog for pages without language links on commons. (#58903)
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: chromosome, produces
• Development
  • Redesign and improvement of toollabs:bene/itemsbycat/. You can also use short urls like toollabs:bene/itemsbycat/enwiki/Wikidata.
  • Worked on reorganizing our git repositories and splitting quite a few of them
  • Worked more on parser cache to be able to cache more content (this failed during the last deployment)
  • Some progress on redirects
  • Tests, tests, tests
  • Vacations \o/
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the Public holiday (P832) propery
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Help translate on of Bene*'s tools!

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Wikidata weekly summary #91

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Discussion about the RfD process
  • Discussion about Notability of Wikisource on Wikidata
  • Open RfAs: Lymantria, Lavallen
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikidata reached 100000000 edits
  • d:User:Dexbot is the first bot to reach 10000000 edits
  • Wikisource is due to receive Wikidata Phase 1 on January the 14th
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: none
  • Newest task forces: MediaWiki task force
  • Showcase items: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Q309988)
  • Fun Fact: According to Wikidata, this is the year of 2004 (Q2014)
• DevelopmentWord from John
  • To give this section some life, since the development team had their holidays last week meaning nothing really got done (let them have one week off at least), I'll say a few words. 2014 is a new year and thus a new start, over the last year Wikidata celebrated its first birthday which brought reflection over what Wikidata had accomplish. Therefore I want to use the start of 2014 to reflect what Wikidata can do. For my personal over view see this page. For the summary, while it is meant to be a weekly simple update, I feel this can be used a lot more effective to put across not only what happened on Wikidata but things about Wikidata on other wikis, I am hoping to start a section over this within the next few weeks. If you have any suggestions for the summary, feel free to drop me a message at meta or Wikidata. Thanks.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the Public holiday (P832) propery
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

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Wikidata weekly summary #92

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Discussion over Wikisource's notability within Wikidata
  • Make Symmetric & Inverse Property addition automatic and bidirectional
  • Closed RfAs: Lymantria (Successful), Lavallen (Successful)
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Presentation about Wikidata at Aldil, Lyon, France
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikisource is deployed to testwikidata
  • A group of students is working on suggestions to make it easier to add missing information. They published a status report and a rough first demo.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: track gauge, pathogen transmission process, CVR, ERA Journal ID
  • Newest task forces: Manga and Anime task force
  • Showcase items: Douglas Adams
  • Fun Fact: Does not exist (Q404)
  • Wikidata's presence: The Dutch Wikipedia have a category for coordinating coordinates on Wikidata (Categorie:Wikipedia:Coördinaten niet op Wikidata)
• Development
  • Adrian Lang joins the team
  • Cirrus Search is now the default search on Wikidata and should improve d:Special:Search's handlich of special characters for example
  • Made the “in other languages” box also show up for people who have not configured a babel box (bugzilla:49079)
  • No longer showing a table of content when it has less than 3 items in it to prevent it from showing up on property pages (bugzilla:58422)
  • More performance improvement work
  • Finishing touches on quantities datatype user interface
  • Display qualifiers in non-Java Script user interface
  • Prevented import of wikitext into the main namespace (bugzilla:47070)
  • Split the DataValues component into more clearly defined libraries and switched Wikibase over to use these
  • Switched Wikibase to use Wikibase DataModel 0.6
  • Changed development and installation workflows to make use of the dependency manager Composer (more details)
  • Made tests run with less warnings (especially in Firefox)
  • Started replacing wikibase.fetchedEntities with a proper entity store
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the Public holiday (P832) propery
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!

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Wikidata weekly summary #93

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events
  • upcoming: FOSDEM
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikisource now gets its language links via Wikidata
  • Reasonator gets extended functionality
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: PlantList-ID, Danemark Job Code (DISCO-08), Instruction Set, Thailand central administrative unit code, student of, archive URL
  • Showcase items: ethanol
  • Fun Fact: A Space Odyssey (Q2001)
• Development
  • Enabled language links for Wikisource
  • Move more part of an item page from JS to HTML to improve performance and non-JS interface
  • Database performance improvements
  • Work on forward compatibility for new entity types
  • Introducing the EntityStore service to improve modularity
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:22, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #94

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Discussion about using 'instance of' specific for animals
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Next Wikidata IRC office hour on Monday, February 3rd
  • FOSDEM
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Wikidata Development Plan for 2014+ has been published
  • Wikidata stats now also includes statistics for ranks
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: ICTV virus ID, rector, fictional analog of, writable file format, readable file format, place made
  • Showcase items: Cactaceae
• Development
  • Daniel and Katie took part in the MediaWiki Architecture Summit in San Francisco
  • Bugzilla:60027 Add language to label and description field to make it less likely that people enter a label or description in a wrong language
  • Bugzilla:58394 Avoid throwing out of bounds error when adding new claims
  • Bugzilla:50570 API now reveals qualifier hashes
  • Bugzilla:57213 API now reveals data type ids
  • Bugzilla:57754 Die if wbeditentity tries to clear from an old revision id
  • Bugzilla:55795 Add API option to show snaks in a list rather than grouped by property
  • Refactor of ChangeOp remove functionality
  • Continued to move parsing and validating of values from the frontend into the backend to improve performance and make the non-JS user interface more useful
  • Finished the Wikidata build script (We use it to pull together code from various git repositories into a single one for deployment)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 23:57, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #95

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Discussion over P31 as a qualifier
  • Open RfA: Sjoerddebruin
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata is at FOSDEM in Brussels, Februrary 1st-2nd
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Quantities released on Wikidata!
  • Wikisource phase 2 coming Februrary 25th.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: attendance, refractive index, electronegativity, proportion, sandbox-quantity, number of pages, number of platforms , flattening, floors above ground, number of cylinders, masts, number of speakers, g-factor, orbital eccentricity, gross tonnage, total produced, redshift, Mohs' hardness, ELO rating, atomic number, LibraryThing work identifier, EUL control number, capacity, population, Human Development Index, from narrative, launch contractor, valvetrain configuration, KOATUU identifier
• Development
  • Deployed quantities to Wikidata! :)
  • Made patch to make wbmergeitems more reliable Bugzilla::55960
  • Wikidata edit permissions now included in wikimedia OAuth edit groups
  • Moved Diff repo to Github
  • Work put into make the frontend use backend formatters through the api
  • Refactoring of the ValueView extension
  • MergeItems special page merged as an experimental feature
  • Our easy RDF fork is now included using composer
  • Fixed wbmergeitems issues
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

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Wikidata weekly summary #96

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Discussion over the naming of people
  • Discussion over population
  • Successful RfA: Sjoerddebruin
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • See the office hours logs at meta
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • See the FOSDEM slides
  • Thiemo joins the Wikidata development team
• Development
  • More work on badges by Bene*
  • Lots of Lua improvements by hoo (separate announcement with details soon)
  • Created backend Time parsers (yet another necessary step towards doing more in the backend instead of in Java Script in the frontend)
  • Automatic builds created, tested and deployed to beta labs every day!
  • Investigate Elastic Search as possible backend for queries
  • Made Wikibase Query work with our new component structure
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 22:37, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

Help with translations in Norwegian

Hi Bjelleklang, As mentioned earlier today on IRC, I would highly appreciate your help to translate and proofread a few texts in Norwegian.

Here are direct links to the texts:

• Banner text: (needs proofreading in Bokmal and some more translation work in Nynorsk)

https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&language=nb&group=Centralnotice-tgroup-FR2014_translations&action=proofread&filter=translated%7C%21reviewer%3A3969796%7C%21last-translator%3A3969796

• Email to sent to past donors (needs proofreading in Bokmal and translating in Nynorsk)

https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-Fundraising%2FTranslation%2FEmail+1&language=nb&filter=translated&action=proofread

• Unsubcribe page (needs proofreading in Bokmal and translating in Nynorsk)

https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-Fundraising%2FTranslation%2FEmail+unsubscribe&language=nb&action=proofread&filter=translated

• Thank you email (needs proofreading in bokmal and translating in Nynorsk)

https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-Fundraising%2FTranslation%2FThank+you+email+20131202&language=nb&action=proofread&filter=translated

• Second email to past donors (needs translating in both Bokmal and Nynorsk)

https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-Fundraising%2FTranslation%2FEmail+2&language=nb&action=proofread&filter=

I would highly appreciate your help on this. Please feel free to contact me on my talk page, IRC or by email jrobell@wikimedia.org if you have any questions.

Tusen takk! Jrobell (talk) 13:55, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

I should also add that when you go through the text in 'preview mode', please click on the checkbox on the right hand side of the text to mark the text as proofread. If there is something you would like to change, simply change the text and click 'save translation'. THANK YOU! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jrobell (talk • contribs) 14:36, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #97

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Let's redesign Wikidata's interface
• Reasonator
  • By hovering over a wikilink you will see the first paragraph.
  • The "personal settings" allow you to import your Babel info from Wikidata. This can be used to restrict the random items you will get.
  • The first iteration of "on the fly" text generation for English. It works for "humans" and, is completely based on the available Wikidata information.
  • You can now add labels in your language from within Reasonator. Technically oAuth is used. It now takes just one click to add a label in your language.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: IAAF ID, Lagrangian point
  • Showcase items: Vesta (Q3030)
• Development
  • Wrote performance tests so we can track performance improvements better
  • Did a code review of all gadgets that are enabled by default in Wikidata. Found and fixed a performance bottleneck.
  • Work on making the interface more responsive, e. g. live preview when editing labels and updating the watchlist star when saving.
  • Started refactoring and fixing issues with automatically created summaries that are, for example, created by bots via API calls.
  • Fixed an issue with OAuth on Wikidata because of permissions
  • Started code review of the code the student team is working on for suggestions
  • Discussed updates to the data model document to be able to update it to the actual implementation
  • Did a technical debt analysis and design review of Wikibase.git, with initial focus on WikibaseLib
  • Got (backend) EntityStore on the way, so we can test API modules without touching the database
  • Further work on TimeParsers move to the backend
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

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SKILLED group

hardly think the truth is vandalism, can you explain? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pborobokas (talk • contribs) 10:59, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

SKILLED group employee

Bjelleklang, last warning. You people are in court at the moment. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pborobokas (talk • contribs) 11:15, 22 February 2014 (UTC)