Hi everyone,
You can view the latest summary at
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/2014_08_16.
Discussions
- Open RfOS: John F. Lewis
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Oversight/John_F._Lewis>
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Help choose which banner will be featured on the new Main page! Click
here to view the two banner candidates
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Portal_Redesign/Banner#Candidates>
and
leave your feedback before August 20th 16:00 UTC.
- Wikidata Translate <https://tools.wmflabs.org/hay/wdtranslate>, a
Wikidata-based Google translator open source clone.
Did you know?
- Newest properties: journey destination
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1444>, score method
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1443>, grave picture
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1442>, present in work
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1441>, Fide ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1440>, Norsk filmografi ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1439>, Jewish Encyclopedia ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1438>, plea
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1437>, collection size
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1436>
- Newest WikiProjects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProjects>: WikiProject Movies
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Movies>
Development
- Finished a large number of new features and got them ready for
roll-out. More in this email
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-August/004328.html>
.
- Wikibase made a big step forward to finally switch to DataModel 1.0.
- Improved support for entity IDs bigger than 2 billion (32 bit integer).
- We had to adapt Wikibase to some major changes (more major than usual,
partly caused by discussions at Wikimania) in MediaWiki core: The default
Vector skin became it’s own component and the ResourceLoader got some small
but important updates.
- Continued work on refactoring code of the user interface to make it
ready for new design
- Wrote a script to get number of users having wikidata in their recent
changes/watchlist from the database
See current sprint items <http://sb.wmflabs.org/p/wikidata/> for what we’re
working on next.
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 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>