Hey folks :)

Here's your summary of what's been happening around Wikidata over the last week:

Discussions

• Open RfA: Haplology

Events/Press/Blogs

• upcoming: Wikidata for Wikipedians at Lokal K in Köln in 17th of March
• upcoming: Wikidata editathon in Berlin on 24th of March

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Help flesh out landing pages for partners
• Update on the Wikidata query service progress
• The automatic description API can now generate infoboxes (currently, "person" and "artwork" on en.wp)
• Wikidata Skim gives you very simple query functionality
• Meet Kian, the first neural network to serve Wikidata

Did you know?

• Newest properties: Information Center for Israeli Art artist identifier, Comedien.ch identifier, oath of office date, Steam ID
• Showcase items: Symphony No. 7

Development

• Fixed edit buttons sometimes not showing up because of caching
• Added mailto to the allowed protocols in the URL data type
• Worked on updating the data model documentation
• Worked on client wiki subscription/notification mechanism
• Improved handling of scientific notation for quantity values
• Reworked a lot of code related to time parsing and formatting, e.g. proper support for language independent parsing of YYYY-MM-DD ordered dates
• Continued working on the new Special:SetLabelDescriptionAliases

You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here.

Monthly Tasks

• Hack on one of these.
• Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
• Help develop the next summary here!
• Contribute to a Showcase item
• Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!

Anything to add? Please share! :)

Cheers

Lydia

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