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Wikidata weekly summary #380
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
moveClaim allows you to move or copy claims from one item to another. This is especially useful when splitting items, or creating lots of similar items.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Seventh birthday of Wikidata: you can start thinking about organizing a meetup in your area to celebrate the birthday, or about a present for the community!
The first draft of
the program of the WikidataCon is now available. The content of the three main session rooms will be live-streamed and recorded for people who cannot participate in the conference.
Because of a database switch, Wikidata will be in read-only more on September 10th at 05:00 UTC, for max. 30min (
phab:T230762)
Recent tool:
@Wikidatabot, a Telegram bot that allows you to search for something on Wikidata from Telegram
New game:
Wikidata Mall, a Telegram management simulation game where content is generated from Wikidata
Wikidata got a high-resolution logo, thanks to
Odder (
phab:T230120)
New monolingual code languages are added, thanks to
Jon Harald Søby: TLI (Tlingit), clc (Tsilhqotʹin), alc (Kawésqar), kld (Gamilaraay), peo (Old Persian)
Fixed a bug in constraint violations indicator that was not showing up sometimes (
phab:T227866)
Make Lua's function mw.wikibase.entityExists return true for redirects (
phab:T192462)
Reviewed and followed up on highlighting statements when using "#P" in URL (
phab:T178745)
Wikidata Bridge: saving the Wikidata edit when submitting (
phab:T226999)
Showing the label for the Property instead of the id (
phab:T227759)
Overcoming a conceptional oversight between mediawiki and standard language codes (
phab:T231833)
Upcoming:
Wikidata Zurich Training in
Zurich on the weekend of November 2-3. There will be presentations and hands-on sessions on editing, querying and coding for Wikidata.
Namescript fills in labels, descriptions and aliases of items about names, making it easier to create such items (you only need to provide a few statements).
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the
current talk page.
Wikidata weekly summary #380
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
moveClaim allows you to move or copy claims from one item to another. This is especially useful when splitting items, or creating lots of similar items.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Seventh birthday of Wikidata: you can start thinking about organizing a meetup in your area to celebrate the birthday, or about a present for the community!
The first draft of
the program of the WikidataCon is now available. The content of the three main session rooms will be live-streamed and recorded for people who cannot participate in the conference.
Because of a database switch, Wikidata will be in read-only more on September 10th at 05:00 UTC, for max. 30min (
phab:T230762)
Recent tool:
@Wikidatabot, a Telegram bot that allows you to search for something on Wikidata from Telegram
New game:
Wikidata Mall, a Telegram management simulation game where content is generated from Wikidata
Wikidata got a high-resolution logo, thanks to
Odder (
phab:T230120)
New monolingual code languages are added, thanks to
Jon Harald Søby: TLI (Tlingit), clc (Tsilhqotʹin), alc (Kawésqar), kld (Gamilaraay), peo (Old Persian)
Fixed a bug in constraint violations indicator that was not showing up sometimes (
phab:T227866)
Make Lua's function mw.wikibase.entityExists return true for redirects (
phab:T192462)
Reviewed and followed up on highlighting statements when using "#P" in URL (
phab:T178745)
Wikidata Bridge: saving the Wikidata edit when submitting (
phab:T226999)
Showing the label for the Property instead of the id (
phab:T227759)
Overcoming a conceptional oversight between mediawiki and standard language codes (
phab:T231833)
Upcoming:
Wikidata Zurich Training in
Zurich on the weekend of November 2-3. There will be presentations and hands-on sessions on editing, querying and coding for Wikidata.
Namescript fills in labels, descriptions and aliases of items about names, making it easier to create such items (you only need to provide a few statements).