Hey folks :)
Here is your weekly summary for the past week around Wikidata.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Wikidata Game now has a 'Commons Categories' game
Did you know?
- Newest properties: At the Circulating Library ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1564, MacTutor id (biographies) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1563, allmovie identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1562, number of survivors https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1561, given name version for other gender https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1560, name in native language https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1559, tempo marking https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1558, manifestation of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1557, zbMATH author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1556, Executive Order number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1555
Development
- Made significant performance improvements (to be rolled out next week) - Worked on usability improvements to the editing of sitelinks - When you link to an image on Wikimedia Commons in a statement it will now show up in “global usage” there. - Made the phpunit tests for Wikibase much faster - Wikibase phpunit tests on travis pass with hhvm now - Fixed label/description uniqueness constraint checks - Work on entity usage tracking - Year formatter now shows the year instead of the unformatted ISO string in case of a precision mismatch - Diff and old revision pages don’t run the JavaScript UI any more, should be much faster now - Introduced a Changers concept to the JavaScript frontend, wrapping the API and entityStore functionality - Identified issue causing content in the old serialization format to be included in XML dumps
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