Hey folks :)
Here's your overview of what was important around Wikidata this week:
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Wikidata at Wikimania 2014 in London http://blog.wikimedia.de/2014/08/19/wikidata-at-wikimania-2014-in-london/ - "Growing items" https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Lounge/Growing_items by User:Micru https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Micru, an essay about modelling concepts and understanding items
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The new Main page will go live early next week! See the announcement at Project chat https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Project_chat#The_new_Main_page_is_coming.21 for more details and to leave any last comments - It will be possible to show the badges like "Featured Article" stored on Wikidata in the sidebar of the clients (Wikipedia, Wikisource, ...) starting Tuesday. Wikipedia will follow on Thursday. - Starting Tuesday we will deploy a new beta feature https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Other_projects_sidebar on the clients. It will allow you to show links to other sister projects in the sidebar based on the links in Wikidata. - Planning for structured data support for Commons is starting to pick up speed. Get involved: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/multimedia/2014-August/000774.html Also maybe attend the office hour?
Did you know?
- Newest properties: list of monuments https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1456, list of works https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1455, legal form https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1454, catholic.ru ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1453, motto https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1451, Sandbox Monolingual text https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1450, nickname https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1449, official name https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1448, Sports Reference ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1447, people missing https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1446, fictional universe described in https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1445 - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProjects: Wikidata:WikiProject Structured Data for Commons https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Structured_Data_for_Commons
Development
- Deployed lots of new features https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-August/004413.html like badges, access to language links for Wikinews and Wikidata, the monolingual text data type and redirects! - Working hard on making the new UI a reality, mainly refactoring the UI widgets right now. Covers a lot of ground and will take some time. - More work on HHVM issues that need to be fixed before Wikidata can switch to it.
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
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers Lydia