Here is this weeks summary;
Discussions
- RfC: Developer user
group<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/New_us…
Events
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- There will be a German handbook on Wikidata and authority control.
Feedback and proofreading is very welcome until next week at
https://hshdb.github.io/normdaten-in-wikidata/2014-05-06.html
Development
- Attending the MediaWiki hackathon in Zurich
- Work on finalizing the JSON dumps
- More work on simple queries to get them ready for performance and
security review and a first release
- Legoktm created an API module to retrieve the current dispatch stats
status
- Fixed an issue with iferror when using the property parser function (
bugzilla:55347 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55347>)
- Show correct data in the in other languages box for older revisions (
bugzilla:63309 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63309>)
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 academic degree (P512) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P512>
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>