Wikidata:Status updates/2021 07 05

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This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2021-07-05.

Discussions[edit]

  • Open request for adminship:

Events[edit]

Press, articles, blog posts, videos[edit]

Tool of the week[edit]

  • User:Nikki/AnchorLinks.js is a userscript that adds a small link before property labels and statement values on entity pages to provide a clickable/copiable link to that section of the page.

Other Noteworthy Stuff[edit]

  • A job opening for a fullstack developer to work on integrating Wikidata with expert-curated knowledge on invasion biology

Did you know?[edit]

Development[edit]

  • Mismatch Finder: We continued the work on building the basic store that in the future will hold mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases/websites/catalogs/... These mismatches will then be used in the Mismatch Finder website and other tools to easily review them.
  • Improved the namespace behavior of the CommonsLink constraint so that it now produces less false positives (phab:T237920)
  • Working on adding a magic word to allow pages to be excluded from Special:UnconnectedPages on Wikipedias and co (phab:T97577)
  • Language names in Scots (sco) were updated (phab:T285076)
  • A task to complete language names in Dutch (nl) is being filled (phab:T231748)
  • A language code for an undetermined Mixtec language is being determined (phab:T155419)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Monthly Tasks[edit]