Wikidata:Status updates/2016 01 23

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2016-01-23.

Events/Press/Blogs

• Past: office hour on IRC with review of the past quarter, outlook on the next and discussion (log)
• Right now: Magnus Manske Day! Thank you for all you are doing to make Wikidata truly shine! We owe you a ton.
• Upcoming: FOSDEM
• Upcoming: Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Australia and Indonesia by Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing). Also social meetups.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Magnus has a script that lets you drag statements from Wikipedia articles
• Changes in how authentication in MediaWiki is handled are being rolled out (and more coming). [1] Ordinary users and gadgets / user scripts should not be affected but bots may need to be adjusted. pywikibot already supports [2] OAuth authentication, though bot operators need to set that up for their bot.
• Littar won second prize in Danish Library Center app competition
• Wikidata Graph Builder
• Help with matching up Wikipedia articles and Wikidata items. Here for example women on dewiki.
• You can give input on WMF's strategy
• Looking for small Wikipedias to try the ArticlePlaceholder
• Mix'n'match got new catalogs (for example UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Reserves and FAST)
• Wikimedia Sverige got a $300.000 grant for the Connected Open Heritage project on Wikidata
• French Wikipedia now has modified fr:Modèle:Bibliographie to use Wikidata

Did you know?

• Newest properties: Ramsar Sites Information Service ID, SEED number, victory, female form of label, UNESCO Biosphere Reserve url, Scope.dk person ID, Scope.dk film ID, category for recipients of this award, Australian Wetlands Database Australian Ramsar site number, costume designer, Jamendo artist ID, Jamendo album ID, spin-off, MSK Gent work PID, National Discography of Italian Song ID, Movie Walker film ID, KINENOTE film ID, Corrigendum / Erratum, INSEE canton code, carries, Norwegian municipality number, Genealogical Gazetteer (GOV) ID, classification of, results, level below, level above, Biographical Dictionary of Women, Latvian National Address Register identifier, Latvian toponymic names database identifier, Latvian cultural heritage register identifier, OM institution ID, MTMT author ID, Radzima.org ID, page at OSTIS Belarus Wiki, page at hram.by, page at Belarus Globe website, page at website of Belarus Geocenter, Fashion Model Directory brand ID, Fashion Model Directory photographer ID, NCES School ID, NCES District ID, SABR ID, Eliteprospects.com player ID, IHO Hydrographic Dictionary (S-32), SPDX identifier, Railways Archive event ID, TBRC Resource ID, HNI person/institution ID, NAVA ID, CDLI ID, Asset of Local Relevance ID, ACMA Register of Radiocommunications Licences Client Identifier, Models.com ID, Talouselämän vaikuttajat ID
• Query example: List of countries by age of the head of government
• Newest database reports: Missing properties by number of sitelinks/P26 (spouse: item or novalue)

Development

• Investigated and fixed a critical bug in HHVM (phabricator:T124276)
• Investigated language support in MediaWiki and Wikibase to allow more languages in monolingual text and disallow some non-sense for label/descriptions/aliases (phabricator:T78006)
• Fixed missing license info and broken links for Wikibase libraries on Special:Version
• Working on improving scoring of search results on Wikidata, on Special:Search
• Preparing to take the "in other projects" sidebar out of beta features, with the Wikimedia Commons link going to the Commons category (phabricator:T103102, phabricator:T94989)
• Amir and Aaron are turning ORES into an extension to make it easier for you to spot bad edits \o/
• Final touches on putting identifiers into their own section (phabricator:T117421)
• Switching the in other languages box to be expanded by default for new people (phabricator:T92387)
• More experimenting with adding an image to the header area (phabricator:T119493)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Monthly Tasks

• Hack on one of these.
• Help develop the next summary here!
• Contribute to a Showcase item
• Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Anything to add? Please share! :)