Hey folks :)
Here's what happened around Wikidata this week:
Discussions
- Discussion over the naming of
people<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Name_of_perso…
- Discussion over
population<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Populatio…
- Successful RfA:
Sjoerddebruin<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permis…
Events
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- See the office hours logs at
meta<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2014-…
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- See the FOSDEM
slides<https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16VDTk9Lo9YU-Q-lj68984o8cG…
- Thiemo joins the Wikidata development team
Development
- More work on badges by Bene*
- Lots of Lua improvements by hoo (separate announcement with details
soon)
- Created backend Time parsers (yet another necessary step towards doing
more in the backend instead of in Java Script in the frontend)
- Automatic builds created, tested and deployed to beta labs every day!
- Investigate Elastic Search as possible backend for queries
- Made Wikibase Query work with our new component structure
See current sprint
items<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=218716&reso…
for
what we’re working on next.
You can view the commits currently in review
here<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(+project:mediawiki/extensions/W…
and
the ones that have been merged
here<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(+project:mediawiki/extensions/W…
.
You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata
here<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1&list_id=1…
Monthly Tasks
- Fix a format or content
violation<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Constr…
for
the belongs to jurisdiction
(
P1001)<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1001>
property
- Hack on one of
these<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer…
.
- 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 -
http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
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