Hey folks :)
Here is the weekly summary of what happened around Wikidata over the last week:
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Past: Internetdagaarna in Stockholm - Past: Hacks/Hackers in Berlin - Picture this! http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=241 - Wikidata identifiers and the ODNB - where next? http://www.generalist.org.uk/blog/2014/wikidata-identifiers-and-the-odnb-where-next/ - Wikidata and identifiers - part 2, the matching process http://www.generalist.org.uk/blog/2014/wikidata-and-identifiers-part-2-the-matching-process/ - IRC office hour on Wednesday https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Commons will get access to the data on Wikidata on Tuesday - Statements on properties and language fallbacks are coming https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#statements_on_properties_and_first_language_fallbacks_are_coming - VisualEditor is now available as a beta feature to make editing of project and help pages easier
Did you know?
- Newest properties: China Vitae ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1631, Formatter URL https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1630, subject item https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1629, equivalent property https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1628, SIL code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1627, Thai cultural heritage ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1626, has melody https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1625, MarineTraffic Port ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1624, drives on the https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1622, detail map https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1621, plaintiff https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1620, date of official opening https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1619, squad number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1618, BBC Things identifer https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1617
Development
- Moved the sitelink section into a sidebar (if the page is too narrow it will float below the statement section like it is now) - Wrapping up work on injecting LabelLookups into EntityView (should boost performance) - Implemented new notification bar to replace the notification bubble we had before - Fixed more issues with geocoordinates - Wrapping up work on client side usage tracking (important for arbitrary access) - Making language fallback work for referenced entities (via LabelLookup) - Transformations for pass XML dumps got merged, should fix phabricator:T74348 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T74348 - Enabled Statements on Properties on http://test.wikidata.org for testing - JSON dumps will no longer contain redirects from the week after next week on - Improved performance of client’s other projects sidebar - Worked on bug triage (looking at the testme bugs) - Replaced the custom Wikidata Jenkins continuous integration slaves with regular ones - Fixed error in DataModel that was noticed by DataModelSerializer tests - Input on mw:Wikibase/Indexing https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/Indexing
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_items
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers Lydia