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WikiProject Christianity Newsletter (May 2013)
ICHTHUS |
May 2013 |
Membership report
The parent Christianity WikiProject currently has 363 active members. We would like to welcome our newest members, Pleonic, MJWilliams1998, Iloilo Wanderer, Jkadavoor, Sir Ian and McBenjamin. Thank you all for your interest in this effort. We would be able to achieve nothing here without the input of all of you. If any members, new or not, wish any assistance, they should feel free to leave a message at the Christianity noticeboard or with me or other individual editors to request it.
From the Editor
This month we hear the news that the Bible is to be made into a film after outstanding success of a biblical miniseries on the History Channel, and we have seen the release of Iraqi Pastor Ali Hamzah from his confinement in Iraq.
After last month's spotlight on the Jesus work group, the flagship article, Jesus, was nominated for Good Article status after much work from FutureTrillionaire and History2007, and provisionally passed by the reviewer, although they have requested a second opinion. Our many thanks for the hard work that has gone into restoring this article to a quality piece of work.
This month the second largest denomination of Christianity, the Eastern Orthodox Church, celebrates Easter and the death and resurrection of the Son of God Jesus Christ.
P.S. Please click here to add the new Christianity noticeboard to your watchlist to follow the latest discussions relevant to WikiProject Christianity and subprojects.
By Gilderien
Church of the month
Wells Cathedral was this month promoted to GA status. Rodw has appealed for any help project members can give to improve this article for a FA nomination.
Contest of the month
No particular contest this month. I am however getting rather close to getting together a more or less complete set of articles relating to different areas of Christianity which can be found in recent reference sources on the broad topic of Christianity, and about various subtopics, which I hope to have finished in the next few weeks. I wonder what the rest of you might think of, maybe, making the contests of future months be basically directed at filling in the gaps of our existing coverage of topics, like those topics given significant coverage in specialized reference works which we don't yet have content on, and giving the thanks, and rewards, whatever they might be, to those who create and develop such content.
By John Carter
Featured content and GA report
Since the last report;
Featured report; Madonna in the Church, by Ceoil, Truthkeeper88, and Johnbod was promoted to Featured Article status. Crucifixion and Last Judgement was promoted to featured picture status, after nomination by Crisco 1492.
Wells Cathedral, by Rodw, Robert of Ghent, by User:Ealdgyth, Christianity in Medieval Scotland, by Sabrebd, and Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, also by Sabrebd were promoted to GA status.
Also these past months, the DYKs on the main page included Lectionary 311, by Leszek Jańczuk; Herr Christ, der einig Gotts Sohn, by Gerda Arendt; Whalsay Parish Church, by Ipigott, Rosiestep, Nvvchar, Dr. Blofeld; Interpretatio Christiana, by Altenmann; First Congregational Church, Salt Lake City, by Orlady; Church of King Charles the Martyr, Royal Tunbridge Wells, by The C of E; First Church in Albany (Reformed), by Daniel Case; Pope Anastasius II, by AbstractIllusions; Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Palma, by Dr. Blofeld, Ipigott, Rosiestep; Colan Church, by Rosiestep, Nvvchar, Ipigott; Notre Dame Cathedral, Papeete, Bloom6132, Church of St. Wenceslaus (New Prague, Minnesota), by Elkman; St. Joseph Catholic Church (San Antonio, Texas), by Gilliam; Doubting Thomas, by Johnbod; Robert of Ghent, by Ealdgyth; and Holy Trinity Church, Holdgate, by Peter I. Vardy. Our profoundest thanks and congratulations to all those involved!
Christian art
Spotlight
SPOTLIGHT
This month, we turn our attention to the Encyclopedic articles sub-group, which aims to provide "a collection point for lists of articles contained in other reference sources relating to Christianity, which could serve as a basis for developing our own content". Created by John Carter, it is primarily a list of links, red or otherwise, for subjects which have an article in the reference works listed therein. This serves as a very useful list if any project members are "stuck for what to do" and there remains lots of potential for articles developed from this list.
By Gilderien
Calendar
This coming month (end-April through end-May) includes Easter Sunday for the Eastern Orthodox Church. Other major feasts in the next month include those of Matthias the Apostle, The Venerable Bede, and Empress Helena.
Help requests
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Wikidata weekly summary #56
- Development
- Worked with students on their Google Summer of Code proposals
- Worked on time data type editing in the frontend
- Worked on improving the DataTypes system
- Working on better Continuous Integration strategy
- Moving Selenium tests to Cloudbees & Saucelabs
- Catching up with Selenium tests
- Events/Press
- Hypertext 2013
- upcoming: Treffen der Redaktion Chemie
- Discussions
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Bugfixes were deployed on wikidata.org. The ones you probably care about are:
- when clicking "edit links" on a Wikipedia article the user is automatically taken to the language links part of the item. Hopefully it is now more obvious how to change the links.
- fixed a few cases where edit conflicts where detected in error
- added automatic edit summaries for adding qualifiers and claims
- fixed wrong revision being shown in div history
- Translators can now sign up to receive translation notifications at d:Special:TranslatorSignup
- Visual query interface for Wikidata
- 3 Wikimania submissions that could use your vote at the bottom: State of Wikidata, The Technology Behind Wikidata, Ask Us Anything About Wikidata
- Bugfixes were deployed on wikidata.org. The ones you probably care about are:
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Recorded at (studio), Supporting actor/actress, Palissy identifier, Filmaffinity number, input device, Volume (collections), Historic Places identifier, CELEX number, country calling code, local dialing code, eight banner register, lakes on river, dan/kyu rank, legislated by
- Newest task forces: Pokémon task force, Cultural heritage task force, Space task force
- Open Tasks for You
Capital Kings
I fixed Capital Kings with references and made better, just wanted to let you know.HotHat (talk) 09:22, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: April 2013
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Wikidata weekly summary #57
- Development
- Implemented basic editing of Time values
- Worked on advanced editing of Time values (having a preview, defining precision and calendar model while editing the value)
- Work on RDF mapping/export
- ~=[,,_,,]:3
- Solving issues with WMF Jenkins
- Migrating Selenium test from RSpec to Cucumber
- Events/Press
- Interview on dradio.de
- PHP Unconference Europe 2013
- PHP Days 1013 Berlin
- Treffen der Redaktion Chemie
- Discussions
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: ISO 4217, CBDB ID, ORCID, country of origin, ICD-10, ICD-9, OMIM ID, orbit diagram, provisional designation (astronomy), currency symbol description, chairperson, Unicode character, MeSH ID, archives at, IMA Number
- Newest task forces: Baseball
- Open Tasks for You
Wikidata weekly summary #58
- 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
- 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
Wikidata weekly summary #60
- 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
Wikidata weekly summary #61
- 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
Wikidata weekly summary #62
- 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
Wikidata weekly summary #63
- 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
- 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
- Discussions
- 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
WikiProject Christianity Newsletter (July 2013)
ICHTHUS |
July 2013 |
From the Editor
WP:X has gained another Featured Article, Gospel of the Ebionites, by Ignocrates. The Gospel of the Ebionites is the name scholars give to an apocryphal gospel that supposedly belonged to a sect known as the Ebionites. It consists of seven short quotations discovered in a heresiology known as the Panarion, written by Epiphanius of Salamis, and its original title remains unknown. The text is a gospel harmony composed in Greek, and is believed to have been written during the middle of the 2nd century.
St Mihangel's Church, Llanfihangel yn Nhowyn was promoted to Good Article status, as was two other welsh churches, St Enghenedl's Church, Llanynghenedl, and St Peter's Church, Llanbedrgoch.
The main page also featured several DYK hooks for articles in our project, namely Bob Fu, List of places of worship in Tandridge (district), Catholic Press, Garendon Abbey, St. John's Episcopal Church (Jersey City, New Jersey), Pargev Martirosyan, Praskvica Monastery, Heather Preceptory, St. Augustin, Coburg, Longleat Priory, St Mihangel's Church, Llanfihangel yn Nhowyn, St Enghenedl's Church, Llanynghenedl, Christianization of Moravia, Christianization of Bohemia, Repton Abbey, St Peter's Church, Llanbedrgoch, Medingen Abbey, Elmhurst Christian Reformed Church, St. James on-the-Lines, and Leopold Karl von Kollonitsch.
Church of the month
St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery is part of Saint Sophia's Cathedral, Kiev in Ukraine. It is a functioning monastery that dates back to the Middle Ages.
Membership report
The parent Christianity WikiProject currently has 367 active members. We would like to welcome our newest members, Newchildrenofthealmighty, Evenssteven, Kerna96, and FutureTrillionaire. If any members, new or not, wish any assistance, they should feel free to leave a message at the Christianity noticeboard or with me or other individual editors to request it.
Focus on...
THE
HISTORICAL JESUS
When did Jesus live? When did he die? How do we know? We do, in fact, have excellent information about the time intervals for the life and death of Jesus. As in other people who lived and died in the first century, this gives an approximate date range, but still, give or take 3-4 years and we have pretty good estimates confirmed by a number of really diverse sources, ranging from inscriptions in Delphi to Roman and Jewish sources. The Chronology of Jesus article discusses how a wide variety of Christian, Jewish and Roman sources are used to establish the time-frame for the life and death of Jesus.
And all of his data fits together. For instance, the chronology of Paul had been discussed based on the Book of Acts long ago, then the Delphi Inscription is found in the 20th century in the Temple of Apollo. And guess what.. it confirms it and totally dates his trial in Corinth, which helps reaffirm the date of the crucifixion of Jesus. The same date range is independently estimated from the writings of Josephus on the Baptist's death. And it fits Isaac Newton's astronomical models for the crucifixion date as well as the independent lunar calculations of Humphreys. As that article shows, all these dates just fit together.
From the bookshelf
This two volume book (with a very apt title) is gem-filled with scholarly research. Paul Maier's article in the first volume is a classic study on the chronology of Jesus and provides a useful summary of a number of issues.
Did you know...
- ... that the Russian journalist Nicolas Notovitch who in 1894 originated the story that there was evidence at the Hemis monastery that an adult Jesus had traveled to India, later confessed to fabricating his evidence?
Calendar
This month (July) contains the feast days of Mary Magdalene, and James, son of Zebedee.
Help requests
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Wikidata weekly summary #65
- 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
Wikidata weekly summary #66
- Discussions
- 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
IRC office hours for wiki-mentors and Snuggle users
Hi. We're organizing an office hours session with the Teahouse to bring in mentors from across the wiki to try out Snuggle and discuss it's potential to support mentorship broadly. The Snuggle team would appreciate it if you would come and participate in the discussion. We'll be having it in #wikimedia-office connect on Wed. July 17th @ 1600 UTC. See the agenda for more info. --EpochFail(talk • work), Technical 13 (talk), TheOriginalSoni (talk) 17:20, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #67
- 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?
- 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
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Wikidata weekly summary #68
- 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.