[Wikidata-l] weekly summary 46

Heya folks :) Here's your weekly summary of everything fancy happening around Wikidata. It's was quite a week! The wiki version is at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2013_02_22 = Development = * Deployed new features and bugfixes including diffs for statements and the ability to enter items and properties by their ID: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#New_features_and_bugfixe… * Updated demo system (http://wikidata-test-repo.wikimedia.de/wiki/Testwiki:Main_Page) * Database maintainance (Wikidata was in read-only mode for a bit) * Implemented first version of a string data type * Worked on better error reporting from the API * Ported Lua function mw.wikibase.getEntity to Wikibase extension * Worked on making the search box suggest items and properties while typing * Improved the behaviour of the entity selector (thingy that lets you select items and entities) * Improved debugging experience in JavaScript when dealing with prototypical inheritance * Worked on cleanup of local entity store * Generalized generation of localizable edit summaries See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Current_sprint for what we’re working on next. You can follow our commits at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(status:open+project:mediawiki/extension… and view the subset awaiting review at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions… You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1&list_id=151540&am… = Discussions/Press = * Wikidata development will continue in 2013: http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/02/20/the-future-of-wikidata/ * Wikidata Phase 2 in Full Swing: http://semanticweb.com/wikidata-phase-2-in-full-swing_b35445 * RFC about the Wikidata API: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2013-February/001763.html * Lots of discussions about certain properties and how they should be used. Current state is at http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:List_of_properties and new ones are being discussed at http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal * RCF about amending the global bot policy for Wikidata: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Bot_policy * Proposed changes to Wikidata’s notability guidelines: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Proposed_guideline_chang… = Events = see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events * office hour including a report on the current status of Wikidata (log is at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2013-02-16) * upcoming: Wikipedia Day NYC = Other Noteworthy Stuff = * Deployment of phase 1 (language links) on all remaining Wikipedias and a small update on Wikidata are planned for March 6 * Great page for editors to learn about what phase 1 means for them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikidata * Cool tool visualizing family relations based on data in Wikidata: http://toolserver.org/~magnus/ts2/geneawiki/?q=Q1339 * “Restricting the World” (first in a series about some design decisions behind Wikidata): http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/02/22/restricting-the-world/ * List of most used properties: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Popular_properties * OmegaWiki is using Wikidata to get links to Wikipedia articles: http://omegawiki.blogspot.de/2013/02/using-wikidata-to-display-links-to.html * Nyan Nyan Wikidata Nyan Nyan http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata-Cat.gif * We’ve hit http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5000000 * Had a look at http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools lately? = Open Tasks for You = * Hack on one of https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&am… * Help translate http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Deployment_Questions * Help bring the content of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikidata to your Wikipedia Anything to add? Please share! :) Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.