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The Signpost: 30 September 2015
- Recent research: Wiktionary special; newbies, conflict and tolerance; Is Wikipedia's search function inferior?
- Tech news: Tech news in brief
Wikidata weekly summary #178
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: code.talks (slides on migrating Freebase to Wikidata)
- Past: Wikidata:Mobilizing Open Cultural Data (videos, slides)
- Upcoming: Wikidata's 3rd birthday. We will have a party and you should come! (announcement, program and other details, IMPORTANT: sign up so we know how many people to expect)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- There are now almost 5000 articles in Czech Wikipedia which include an infobox without parameters, only with data from Wikidata.
- Input request about editing Wikidata from clients like Wikipedia
- Freebase to Wikidata: results of Tpt's internship have been published
- Articles without a Wikidata item can now be filtered by category tree. (example for chemists on enwiki)
- Wikidata:Units attempts to list available units and properties they can be used with
- Constraint reports can now check if units are within a user defined list: e.g. report for mass (P2067)
- WikiProject Economics needs more participants to organize all the new properties.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Georgian national system of romanization, Hepburn romanization, membership, YerelNet village ID, prize money, radius, vapor pressure, kinematic viscosity, combustion enthalpy, vaporization enthalpy, NDF-RT ID, half-life, sublimation temperature, wing area, power output, Kunstindex Danmark artwork, decomposition point, RXNO Ontology, size of team at finish, size of team at start, boiling point, melting point
- Development
- Changed the default RDF flavor to include all statements (phabricator:T101837)
- Started to work on creating new articles from scratch from the article placeholder
- Continued work on the Lua libraries of the default Article Placeholder layout
- Started the research on client editing with an input page
- More work on making the mobile view fit for being enabled per default for mobile users
- Changed our JavaScript coding style to be more in line with MediaWiki core’s
- In edit mode, the label is now displayed for units instead of a URL
- Added a new “YearMonthDay” date parser that supports many edge cases where all other date parsers fail
- More work on passing full edit summaries to the client wikis.
- 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.
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The Signpost: 07 October 2015
- Op-ed: Walled gardens of corruption
- Traffic report: Reality is for losers
- Featured content: This Week's Featured Content
- Arbitration report: Warning: Contains GMOs
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
Wikidata weekly summary #179
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: WikiCon USA (slides)
- Ongoing: World Health Summit (slides)
- Upcoming: ODI Summit with a session on the gene-related efforts on Wikidata
- Don't forget to sign up if you are coming to Wikidata's third birthday party.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Discussion has started on English WikiProject Football about using Wikidata for player squad templates (example) and player club history (example). Needs more input on best practices and commitment to update data.
- A command line client to the SPARQL query service has been released
- Query example: popularity of the given name Adolf
- MoMa artists have been added to Mix'n'match
- Books without authors on Wikidata are now down to 12.5K from 25K since drive began. You can help get it down even further.
- Number of articles that are not connected to a Wikidata item on Catalan Wikipedia has been brought down significantly. How about yours?
- This Month in GLAM has Wikidata coverage
- Interested in British politics? WikiProject British Politicians has some stats to show where you can help out
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: median lethal dose, first aid measures, official symbol, units used for this property, external subproperty, external superproperty, volume for quantity, semi-major axis, cash, explosive velocity, torque, Max TDP, maximum thrust, metallicity, market capitalization, discharge, spectral line, decay width, gyromagnetic ratio, flux, household wealth, real gross domestic product growth rate, net worth, cruise speed, radial velocity, proper motion, parallax, longitude of ascending node, angular distance, position angle, relative to, SourceForge project, average shot length, Spotify track ID, Discogs release ID, Spotify album ID, minimum explosive concentration, upper flammable limit, lower flammable limit, dipole moment, electric charge, autoignition temperature, (average) gradient, production volume, students count, Soccerbase manager id, PSS-Archi architect id, Soccerbase player id, endangeredlanguages.com ID, NILF author id, C-SPAN identifier of a person, BiblioNet publisher identifier, BiblioNet author identifier, BiblioNet publication identifier, Wiki Loves Monuments ID, DLI, history of topic, ISO 9:1995, Finnish Ministers database ID, Finnish MP ID, Kansallisbiografia ID, ACM Classification Code (2012), solvent, solubility, drug used for treatment, medical condition treated
- Development
- You'll now get redirected to the mobile view automatically on mobile devices (example)
- Made it possible to use more entities on a page via Lua without running into Lua's memory limit
- Added the Article Placeholder extension’s results to the search result page (this is one of a few remaining blockers before we can put it on a testsystem for you to try out and give feedback)
- Added option to create a new article from Article Placeholder
- More work on the new datatype for properties
- More work on making meaningful edit summaries on the client. Found a few remaining bugs during testing.
- More work on a birthday present :D
- 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.
The Signpost: 14 October 2015
- WikiConference report: US gathering sees speeches from Andrew Lih, AfroCrowd, and the Archivist of the United States
- News and notes: 2015–2016 Q1 fundraising update sparks mailing list debate
- Traffic report: Screens, Sport, Reddit, and Death
- Featured content: A fistful of dollars
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
Wikidata weekly summary #180
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Events/Blogs/Press
- How many female scientists are there on Wikipedia? This time with SPARQL! (French)
- Wikidata Enpoint SPARQL and the paintings of Goya Wikidata's SPARQL endpoint and the paintings of Goya (French)
- Upcoming: 3rd Birthday \o/ (Please don't forget to register if you're coming to the party.)
- More wrapups of Wikiconference USA including slides: [1], [2]
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Magnus overhauled the Wikidata Game! Sweeeeeet! Now includes one where you can match an author and a publication. And it has stats.
- Mix'n'match got skyscrapers to match up for you.
- Sitelinks and P569 compares various Wikipedias by the proportion of items with date of birth (Property:P569)
- Catalan Wikipedia match up all of their articles to items on Wikidata. Congrats!
- Did you know?
- Development
- Worked on adding auto-completion for item and property prefixes to the SPARQL query editor (so you can search by label when entering a query)
- Wrote maintenance script for changing some properties from datatype string to upcoming datatype identifier
- More work on birthday present
- More work on the article placeholder to get it ready for a first demo
- Prepared patch for also publishing JSON dumps with bzip2 compression
- Further improved edit summaries we show on Wikipedia etc
- Prepared for giving Wikispecies, Meta and Mediawiki access to the sitelinks on Wikidata on 20. of October
- 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.
The Signpost: 21 October 2015
- Editorial: Women and Wikipedia: the world is watching
- In the media: "Wikipedia's hostility to women"
- Special report: One year of GamerGate, or how I learned to stop worrying and love bare rule-level consensus
- Featured content: A more balanced week
- Arbitration report: Four ArbCom cases ongoing
- Traffic report: Hiding under the covers of the Internet
- Technology report: Tech news in brief
Wikidata weekly summary #181
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Derived properties, Are colors instance-of or subclass-of color
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Poof it works - using wikidata to build Wikipedia articles about genes
- Wikidata, SPARQL and huskies (French)
- Wikidata, SPARQL and elected dynasties (French)
- The birth and death of German playwrights
- Distributed stats
- Past: Wikidata training at Wikimedia UK
- Upcoming: Wikidata's 3rd birthday \o/ (on 29th)
- Upcoming: SemWeb.Pro in Paris
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- There's a new Wikidata taxonomy browser
- Meta, MediaWiki and Wikispecies now have access to sitelinks on Wikidata. Welcome to Wikidata, sisters!
- Harvest templates. New tool to copy data from templates to Wikidata.
- Number of articles that are not connected to a Wikidata item on Italian Wikipedia has been brought down significantly. How about yours?
- The Wikidata Game now has a primary sources game and one to match Wikispecies pages to Wikidata items
- The National Gallery of Arts was added to Mix'n'match
- Some more query examples: Dracula movies and their actors, movies with links to videos
- Did you know?
- Development
- ctrl-space now enables autocomplete for labels on http://query.wikidata.org . Should make it easier for you to find the right items and properties.
- Worked on birthday present :)
- From Monday on a bzip2 compressed version of the Wikidata json dumps will be published, along with the gzip compressed version.
- Made it possible to get from the search results page to the article placeholder. This was one of the last holdups for a first demo version.
- 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.
Education noticeboard application
Hi there :) in August of this year I placed this Online Ambassador application on the Education Noticeboard. Since then, my own and none of the other applications by users have been seen to - do you know what's going on? Thanks 
samtar {t} 16:33, 31 October 2015 (UTC)