Hi everyone,
Here is the lastest weekly summary:
Discussions[edit https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Status_updates/2014_10_11&action=edit§ion=1 ]
- Open RfA: Nikosguard https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Nikosguard
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage[edit https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Status_updates/2014_10_11&action=edit§ion=2 ]
- Upcoming IRC office hour about structured data on Commons https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours
Other Noteworthy Stuff[edit https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Status_updates/2014_10_11&action=edit§ion=3 ]
- All human genes are now wikidata items, for example: Here is one (of approximately 40,000) called "spinocerebellar ataxia 37" - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18081265. Blog post about this to appear here: http://blog.wikimedia.de/tag/wikidata/ - Want to be kept up-to-date on structured data on Commons? There is now a new newsletter https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Structured_data_for_multimedia you can subscribe to. - Interested in some statistics about the data on Wikidata? Check Wikidata Stats https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/stats.php every now and then. (Thanks Magnus for moving it to the new dump format.)
Did you know?[edit https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Status_updates/2014_10_11&action=edit§ion=4 ]
- Newest properties: UBERON ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1554, Yandex.Music ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1553, has quality https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1552, Exceptionnal heritage of Wallonia ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1551, Orphanet ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1550,demonym (monoligual text) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1549, maximum Strahler number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1548
Development[edit https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Status_updates/2014_10_11&action=edit§ion=5 ]
- Spent the week with the WMF multimedia team and volunteers to get more clarity about structured data on Commons. We'll be asking for feedback on a lot of stuff over the next weeks. The main info hub is taking shape at Commons:Structured data https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data. - More fixes for the switch to HHVM - Looked into possible performance improvements. Some of them will be taken into the next sprint. - Battled a handful of nasty issues on the live-site - Wikibase DataModel 1.1 was released
Monthly Tasks
- 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