Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin on March 31st
- Upcoming: Datensummit in Berlin, April 29th. We're looking for Wikidata editors to help :)
- Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop in Rennes, March 22nd
- A successful Wikidatathon about women's history in Puri, India
- Wikidata as information source to support the Dutch elections
- Quora: Adding Locations via Wikidata
- Quora: Identifying Topics about People
- How to quickly generate word analogy datasets with Wikidata by Finn Arup Nielsen
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Deadline for submitting a presentation for Wikimania 2017 is March 30th: discuss about ideas or ask for help
- SWAT4LS 2016 poster Linking Wikidata to the Semantic Web
- Mix’n’match interface update
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: FFA ID, European Athletics ID, All-Athletics.com ID
- Query examples:
- Development
- Fixing a bug on the save button (phab:T159244)
- Fixing a bug with the link to the Query Service on an ember query (phab:T156013)
- More work on Federation (phab:T157442, phab:T158169)
- Fixing a bug on geoformats (phab:T158772)
- Fixing a bug on the treemap view (phab:T160320) Thanks EdouardHue for the patch!
- More groundwork on Lexemes (phab:T157791)
- Show thumbnails in commons suggester (phab:T160319)
- Fixing a bug on coordinate (phab:T153429)
- Applying WikimediaUI color palette to Wikibase (phab:T151194)
- Writing spec for technical data model for Wiktionary support (phab:T150785)
- Working on providing API for constraint check (phab:T102757)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!