Wikidata:Status updates/2015 09 05
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This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2015-09-05.
- Wikimedia Grafana graphs of Wikidata profiling information
- Past: Wikimedia Science Conference (blog posts: Liberating Science Daily With, and To, Wikidata, Wikidata, Wikipedia, and #wikisci)
- Past: Wikidata workshop in Rennes
Other Noteworthy Stuff
[edit]- New date for the next Arbitrary access rollout has been set: 16th of September.
- Support for units on Wikidata is coming on Wednesday (9th of September).
- A new version of Kian has been released
- The Wikidata Game has got a new mode: Books without author.
- A new IEG proposal needs your review and support. You can also submit your own until the 29th of September.
- >8K Fellows of the Royal Society have been added to mix’n’match
- You can have a look at the spiffy new mobile view
- Want to work with the data in Wikidata? There is a new release of the Wikidata Toolkit for you.
- Your help is needed with the most important constraint violations.
- A new noticeboard has been created to help with classification issues: d:Wikidata:Classification noticeboard
Did you know?
[edit]Development
[edit]- Worked on search on the mobile site
- Started working on automatically linking identifiers without a gadget and the new datatype for identifiers
- We have a new Special page to query badges (finally!) After the next update it will be at Special:PagesWithBadges on Wikipedia and others
- Fixed some of the remaining known issues with unit support to make it ready for rollout on Wednesday
- Continued with making it possible to show meaningful edit summaries in the watchlist and recent changes on Wikipedia and others
- Made change dispatching faster (This is what makes Wikipedia and others aware of changes happening on Wikidata)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
Monthly Tasks
[edit]- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Anything to add? Please share! :)