Here's what happened around Wikidata this week.

You can view it at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/2014_06_28 in your language if a translation is available.

Discussions

• Second UI designs are now up for comments
• Discussion about predecessor and successor timelines

Events/Press/Blogs

• Wikidata intro and QA, June 29th in Paris
• Open Hack Day, 5th and 6th of July, London

Did you know?

• Newest properties: contains settlement, coincident with, bridgehunter.com ID, uglybridges.com ID, China railway TMIS station code, MTR station code, capital of, NSK identifier, daily ridership, binding of software library, ASI Monument ID, ihsi identifier, Iranian National Heritage registration number, LNB identifier, BBC Your Paintings, replaced by, replaced, ITTF ID, points/goal scored by, TLS, Anime News Network ID

Development

• Redirects are moving slow because they touch so much of our and the core code base, but they are coming closer!
• Final touches on the monolingual data type and UI
• Fixed some smaller but nasty bugs in the UI like not being able to change only the rank
• Finally improved the most confusing error messages and hints you get to read when using the Wikibase client or repo
• The Wikibase DataModel JavaScript component (which moved to it’s own repository) reached version 0.2.0
• Continued working on the QueryEngine component (the foundation for queries)

See current sprint items for what we’re working on next.

You can view the commits currently in review here and the ones that have been merged here.

You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here

Monthly Tasks

• Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
• Hack on one of these.
• Help fix these items which has been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
• Help develop the next summary here!
• Contribute to a Showcase item

Cheers

Lydia

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Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager for Wikidata

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