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Wikidata weekly summary #216
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Europeana280 Art History Challenge has finished
- The life and times of Mr Herbert Ellerby: Linking Llandudno, Lancashire, and Moggill, Australia
- Wikidata auf der GPN
- Past: PSESHSF (You can sign up to be notified about more Wikidata workshops in France)
- Past: Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon
- Upcoming: office hour on IRC
- Upcoming: State of the Map US in Seattle - http://stateofthemap.us/
- Upcoming: Wikimedia UK AGM with Wikidata training
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- There is now a 100wikidatadays challenge based on the 100wikidays challenge for Wikipedia. The goal: convert 100 templates to make use of Wikidata over the course of 100 days.
- Tobias started writing a tutorial on how to write infoboxes that make use of Wikidata's data and could use your help expanding it.
- Thiemo wrote a user script to pre-fill "date retrieved" in a reference with the current date. Please test and let us know what you think ont he linked page. If you like it it can become a gadget.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: British Book Trade Index ID, Plarr ID, warheroes.ru ID, Dailymotion channel ID, Munk's Roll ID, Catalogus Professorum Rostochensium ID, CageMatch tag team ID, Pleiades place type identifier, parliamentary term
- Query examples: Ancestors of Guðni Jóhannesson (note the last names), movies with Bud Spencer (source), largest cities per country (source), longest river of each continent (source), rivers in Antarctica (source), continents (source), and some other continents (source), places with continent Antarctica more than 3000 km north of south pole (source), files used as “image” in more than 10 items (source), monuments historiques in Loire-Atlantique (source), music composers by birth place (source), places of whorship (source), teachers with most students (source), buildings in more than one country (source), sandwiches (source), composers and their most-used tonality (source), former capitals (source), list of suicide attacks (source), birthplaces of people named Antoine (source), places that are below 10 meters above sea level (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Etymology, Knowledge Organization Systems
- Newest external tools: Navel Gazer (users statement addition counts)
- Development
- More groundwork for Commons. We can now save a statement in the new MediaInfo entity type \o/ (Some minor issues still with the demo system but should be solved next week.)
- Fixed a display issue with description tooltips in recent changes. Thanks Matěj Suchánek! (phabricator:T89663)
- Refactored quite some of the sitelinks-related JavaScript code (phabricator:T127056 and gerrit:294687. This may break some existing gadgets and user scripts temporarily.
- Updated the graphic representing the data model in Wikidata: long, medium, short
- Fixed problem with editing statements on Wikidata, after last week's deployment (phabricator:T138974)
- Started interviews to find user needs and workflows for automated list generation (phabricator:T139284)
- Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
The Signpost: 04 July 2016
- News and notes: Board unanimously appoints Katherine Maher as new WMF executive director; Wikimedia lawsuits in France and Germany
- Op-ed: Two policies in conflict?
- In the media: Terrorism database cites Wikipedia as a source
- Featured content: Triple fun of featured content
- Traffic report: Goalposts; Oy vexit
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- A daily email summary of notifications could be sent even when there were no notifications from the wiki. Now no email will be sent if there is no activity. [1]
Changes this week
- The "⧼citoid-citefromidtool-title⧽" button in the visual editor's toolbar will move into the "Insert" menu except for Wikipedias, Wikibookses and Wikiversities. This is to make it less prominent on wikis that don't use it as much. [2]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 July. It will be on all wikis from 7 July (calendar).
Meetings
- You can take part in the next office hour for Wikidata on IRC on July 8 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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19:45, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
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