Hey everyone,
Here is the weekly summary;
Discussions
- Open RfAs: FakirNL
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/FakirNL>
, Josve05a
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Josve05a>
- Wikidata:Tours
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Wikidata:Tours>
- RfC: Open datasets
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/How_to_deal_with_open_datasets>
(Meta)
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Slides from WikiConference USA <http://filbertkm.github.io/slides/>
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The seventeenth million item is made
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17000000> then delete as a dupe. So
seventeenth
million plus 2 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17000002> anyone?
Development
- More work on mockups for new user interface design. Hope to have
something publishable soon.
- More work on monolingual text datatype
- Fixed lots of small bugs when editing statements like bugzilla:65398
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65398>
- Made progress on globe precision issues (bugzilla:65535
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65535> and bugzilla:64887
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64887>)
- Cleaned up installation instructions
- Tagged version 1.0 of Wikibase Internal Serialisation
<https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseInternalSerialization/blob/master/README.md>
and Wikibase Datamodel Serialisation
<https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModelSerialization/blob/master/README.md>
See current sprint items
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=218716&resolution=---&resolution=LATER&resolution=DUPLICATE&emailtype1=substring&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&bug_status=ASSIGNED&email1=wikidata>
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/Wikibase+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/Diff+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/DataValues+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseSolr+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/Ask+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseQuery+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseDatabase+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseQueryEngine+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseDataModel+)+status:open,n,z>
and
the ones that have been merged here
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(+project:mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/Diff+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/DataValues+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseSolr+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/Ask+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseQuery+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseDatabase+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseQueryEngine+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseDataModel+)+status:merged,n,z>
.
You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1&list_id=151540&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org>
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 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>