Wikidata:Status updates/2015 12 26

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2015-12-26.

Events/Press/Blogs

• Ongoing: 32C3
• Upcoming: Wikimedia Developer Summit
• Upcoming: StrepHit IEG project kick-off seminar
• Upcoming: Office hour on IRC
• Upcoming: FOSDEM (Lucie will give a talk about the ArticlePlaceholder extension)
• Registration and scholarship applications for the Wikimedia Hackathon in Israel are open
• Don't forget your talk submissions for Wikimania 2016. Lydia can help if needed.
• Getting CAS registry numbers out of WikiData
• The quality of SMILES strings in Wikidata

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Paper: Wikidata: A platform for data integration and dissemination for the life sciences and beyond
• The Wikidata for Research proposal has now been published in a journal
• New tool to turn string claims to monolingual claims
• Johl built a card game about German politicians using Wikidata

Did you know?

• Newest properties: number of awards, Prosopographia Attica, Structurae person ID, stage classification, sports disciplines competed in, personal best, substrate of

Development

• Some small bugfixes and tweaks.
• Enjoying the holidays and editing on Wikidata. Hope you are too :)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

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.

Anything to add? Please share! :)