Hey folks :)
Here is your weekly summary for the past week around Wikidata.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Wikidata Game now has a 'Commons Categories' game
Did you know?
- Newest properties: At the Circulating Library ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1564>, MacTutor id (biographies)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1563>, allmovie identifier
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1562>, number of survivors
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1561>, given name version for
other gender <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1560>, name in
native language <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1559>, tempo
marking <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1558>, manifestation of
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1557>, zbMATH author ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1556>, Executive Order number
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1555>
Development
- Made significant performance improvements (to be rolled out next week)
- Worked on usability improvements to the editing of sitelinks
- When you link to an image on Wikimedia Commons in a statement it will
now show up in “global usage” there.
- Made the phpunit tests for Wikibase much faster
- Wikibase phpunit tests on travis pass with hhvm now
- Fixed label/description uniqueness constraint checks
- Work on entity usage tracking
- Year formatter now shows the year instead of the unformatted ISO
string in case of a precision mismatch
- Diff and old revision pages don’t run the JavaScript UI any more,
should be much faster now
- Introduced a Changers concept to the JavaScript frontend, wrapping the
API and entityStore functionality
- Identified issue causing content in the old serialization format to be
included in XML dumps
See current sprint items <http://sb.wmflabs.org/p/wikidata/> for what we’re
working on next.
You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1&list_id=151540&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org>
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515>
.
- Help fix these items
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:The_Game/Flagged_items> which
have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next>
- Contribute to a Showcase item
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase>
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers
Lydia
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Lydia Pintscher -
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Product Manager for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
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