“ No longer English only, but every Wikipedia will be exposed in this way. Freebase, SEO and Wikidata Office hour on IRC covering overall status/development, Freebase and admin inactivity criteria RfC. You can read the log. Other Noteworthy Stuff Magnus wrote a short tour of Wikidata's tool ecosystem. A first version of the Primary Sources Tool has been released. It'll help with migrating Freebase data and more. Italian Wikipedia's quality festival is focusing on interwiki links and Wikidata this month. Help them out? Lots of new databases have been added to Mix n Match. ”

“ Added language code fr-ca for monolingual text input (phabricator:T151186) Added an additional normalization for page titles when linking pages on Wiktionary via Cognate (phabricator:T172987) The API will not only output the hashes for qualifier snaks, but also for main snaks as well as references snaks (phabricator:T174692) . Note that hashes (other than IDs) are not meant to be stable identifiers, and should not be stored for a longer time. Snak hashes will also appear as part of CSS classes in entity pages (phabricator:T171725) You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. ”

“ Find Wikidata items without an image around a location, then find free images on Flickr taken nearby. EventZoom.net extended with OpenStreetMap support, increasing the options for visualizing historical events from Wikidata. Did you know? Newest properties: Find A Grave cemetery ID, German cattle breed ID, Erdős number, worldfootball.net ID, AllMovie artist ID Development Soon the edit summary for edits through the API will also contain the automatic edit summary that you are used to for edits done through the website. ”

“ Wikipedia will follow on Thursday. Starting Tuesday we will deploy a new beta feature on the clients. It will allow you to show links to other sister projects in the sidebar based on the links in Wikidata. Planning for structured data support for Commons is starting to pick up speed. Get involved: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/multimedia/2014-August/000774.html Also maybe attend the office hour? ”

“ See http://www.eagle-network.eu Added a hook point to allow 3rd party users (like the EAGLE project) of Wikibase to control what goes into the search index Started work on a widget that lets you edit badges right in the item instead of going to the special page Use checkboxes instead of a multiselect to edit badges on d:Special:SetSiteLink Work on hhvm-related issues in Wikibase and temporarily disabled the beta feature on Wikidata until fixes are deployed for the issues. Deployed new code on test.wikidata! ”

“ GSRR rating, filming location, USK rating, notation, facility, South African municipality code, topic's main category, Nova Scotia Register of Historic Places identifier, PEGI rating, AMG Game ID, Libris, PORT identifier Development Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a software developer with a focus on frontend development with Java Script to work on Wikidata among other things. ”

“ There are a number of task forces that take care of specific jobs or topics on Wikidata You can get database dumps to play with There are a lot of stats about Wikidata on http://stats.wikimedia.org Open Tasks for You Hit a random item and add a missing source? Hack on one of these Based on feedback for last week’s call for comments we will continue this newsletter. However more community help will be needed. From now on they’ll be drafted at d:Wikidata:Status updates/Next and your help is very welcome. ”

“ There's now also a #100wikidays challenge on Wikidata, aptly named #100wikidatadays! It is a personal challenge in which a person very significantly improves (at least) one Wikidata items per day, for 100 days in a row. There was already a version of the challenge on various Wikipedias, on Commons and on Wikisource - now on Wikidata as well. Participate and make Wikidata shine! ”

“ Wikidata attempts to answer the question here. Work in progress. Did you know? Newest properties: MCN code, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Anime News Network anime ID, Anime News Network manga ID, Anime News Network company ID, Anime News Network person ID, FSK film rating, PolSys ID, Righteous Among The Nations ID, USDA NDB number, lesarchivesduspectacle ID, INEGI locality identifier Development The Wikidata Quality extension (constraint reports per item) was deployed. ”

“ You have a bunch of names etc. and want to find Wikidata items with those labels/aliases? Try relabel! SourcererBot is adding lots of references to existing statements on several thousand items. Mix-n-Match has new catalogs including the National Library of Australia. Deaths at Wikipedia are a series of reports comparing items at Wikidata with death-by-year-categories of Wikipedia. For the years since 2000, only about 15% of items at Wikidata lack d:Property:P570 (date of death) . 93% of items about people have a gender set now. Want to make both Wikidata and Inventaire better? ”

“ RFC about "labels in uncommon language variants" RFC to create "Items for Wikimedia projects besides Wikipedia" 7 users requesting access to the oversight permission Other Noteworthy Stuff Bugfixes were deployed on wikidata.org. The ones you probably care about are: when clicking "edit links" on a Wikipedia article the user is automatically taken to the language links part of the item. ”

“ Discussions Request for comment on Property proposal organisation reform to a more Model Request for comment on VCards for Wikivoyage Requests for bot approval has many requests that need further discussion! Many property proposals still need input! Events/Press Wikimania continues! If you are around make sure you come and say Hi! Wikidata meetup in the chapters village on Saturday at 1 PM at Wikimania. Other Noteworthy Stuff Following numerous discussions we are happy to present the new version of the proposal that would lead to Wikidata supporting structured data for the Wiktionaries. ”

“ Wikidata intro session for Wikipedians at Lokal K in Cologne Upcoming: Wikidata editing at Wikimedia Germany in Berlin Upcoming: Office hour on 31st of March (Topics include Freebase migration, dev update, admin inactivity criteria) Other Noteworthy Stuff Freebase is going read-only at the end of the month and we expect an influx of new people. There is now an FAQ to answer their most common questions. We now have (improved) landing pages for partners at d:Wikidata:Data donation and d:Wikidata:Data access. Could use some help with making them easier to read and more visual. ”

“ Discussions Wikiquote notability Belongs to jurisdiction Events/Blogs/Press Cambridge revisited II documents how you can query Wikidata and put the results on a map. Cambridge revisited V shows that maps have popups with texts generated on Wikidata statements and labels. The architecture of the Wikimedia storage of the meta data of media files discusses that integration of Commons is a subset of what we can achieve when we consider the whole of media files. ”

“ Integrating an authority mapping into Wikidata and learning lessons for KOS mappings by Joachim Neubert Other Noteworthy Stuff If you are interested in Structured Data on Commons, and helping out as a Wikidata contributor, please consider joining the new Structured Commons community focus group! ”

“ Database performance improvements Released DataValues Serialization 0.1 https://github.com/DataValues/Serialization/ Released Ask Serialization 1.0 https://github.com/wmde/AskSerialization Open Tasks for You Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about. Improve some road items in your country by adding some statements to them. Help fix formatting and value issues for a property. Build a bot for one of the "bot requests". ”

“ CTRL+ click and middle click on a search result in the entity selector now opens the result in a new tab. Further progress on redirects Fixed a number of annoyances with the entity selector Continued work on mockups for new user interface Investigated what issues come up if we make wikidata.org its own client. Things look good so we will probably enable it soonish. ”

“ OpenSym Monitoring the Gender Gap with Wikidata Human Gender Indicators An Empirical Evaluation of Property Recommender Systems for Wikidata and Collaborative Knowledge Bases Mapping street names to Wikidata entities they refer to and enriching OpenStreetMap with linked data Other Noteworthy Stuff The removal of Persondata from the English Wikipedia is completed. ”

“ Discussions Discussion about Atheism and the religion property. Discussion about the Verifiability of data as a policy. Events/Blogs/Press Upcoming: Wikimania. There will be several talks and workshops related to Wikidata. Say hi at the "Ask Us Anything" session for Wikidata if you're there. Other Noteworthy Stuff A new database report lists people categorized as dead in Wikipedia, but lacking Property:P570 (date of death) . It's updated several times during the day. There are about 20 to 30 new entries each day. ”

“ Software of the KDE community (source) Films starring more than one future head of government (source) Timeline of prominent Women Computer Scientists (source) Newest database reports: list of episodes of Borgen Development Significantly (on average to 1/4th) reduced the number of changes from Wikidata showing up on the watchlists and recent changes on Wikipedias and the other sister projects. This way changes that do not affect an article should no longer show up. We're still holding off roll-out to Commons, Cebuano, Waray-Waray and Armenian Wikipedia because of scalability concerns. ”

“ 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. ”

“ Went through all the feedback we got for improving watchlist integration on Wikipedia and co and posted our assesment Put the infrastructure for creating Turtle-Beta dumps in place. All new Wikidata dumps will be in https://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikidatawiki/entities/ from Monday on (the old * directory will be kept around and receive new json dumps for backwards compatibility) . Reduced size of entities pages by removing no longer needed data (to make the UI faster) . Fixed bug that sometimes caused dates and other types of values to be cut short when quickly saving. ”

“ Language links can be maintained on Wikidata now. Access to the data will follow. Welcome, sister! Wikidata now has cross-wiki notifications as a beta feature. You can enable it in your preferences. Once enabled you will see notifications you received on the other Wikimedia wikis. A major German newspaper used Wikidata's data for their Oscar coverage Amir is making progress on vandalism detection but needs your help. He also set up an IRC feed for unpatrolled edits with a high likelihood of being vandalism. Property:P1367 ("BBC Your Paintings artist-ID") has become "Art UK artist identifier". ”

“ Wikimedia Conference in Berlin Wikidata meetup how to train new Wikidata trainers Structured Data on Commons and GLAM pilots session Wikibase workshop in Antwerp, Belgium, April 23-25 WikiWorkshop, a forum bringing together researchers exploring all aspects the Wikimedia projects, in Lyon, April 24th. ”

“ Finishing touches on storing statements on Forms No longer checking constraints on the property example statements (phabricator:T183267) More work on caching constraint check results so we can roll out constraint checking for all logged in users Monthly Tasks Add labels, in your own language (s) , for the new properties listed above. Comment on property proposals: all open proposals 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. ”