Here's your summary of what happened around Wikidata over the past 2 weeks. Enjoy!

Discussions

• Provide your input on article placeholders based on Wikidata
• new RfC: CoI editing
• Anonymous artists at wiki project visual arts

Events/Press/Blogs

• We need to start talking about scaling Wikidata over the next months and years: Scaling Wikidata: success means making the pie bigger
• The next big step for Wikidata—forming a hub for researchers
• wikidata4research4all
• There was a well-attended Wikidata meetup at 31C3

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikidata Query now runs on multiple, load-balanced, self-restarting servers. Thanks to Yuvi for the help.
• Vandals suck. Don't know how to help us fight them? Here are two pages to get you started: Wikidata:Vandalism and Wikidata:Abuse filter.
• The Wikidata BEACON generator was updated by Magnus. It now uses all properties with “formatter URL”, so always up-to-date with target URLs. It is faster, too.
• Number of visual artworks on Wikidata by institution

Did you know?

• Newest properties: Terminologia Histologica (TH), Terminologia Embryologica (TE), ICD-9-CM, operations and procedures key (OPS), ICD-10-PCS, central government debt as a percent of GDP, AniDB identifier, main property, awarded for work, Pokémon browser number, inscription, quote, subtitle, BBC Your Paintings artwork identifier, has vertex figure, index case of, number suspected, number probable, number confirmed, general formula, this taxon is source of, Route number, LAC identifier, CONA, ATCvet, TGN, Chess Club ID, Chess Games ID, Cycling Database ID, ProCyclingStats ID, DOI Prefix, Alexa rank, has index case, related property, number of faces, MPAA film rating, unveiled by, station number, wing configuration, TERYT municipality code, referee, YouTube video identifier, BBF identifier, Korean Movie Database ID, Dictionary of Welsh Biography ID
• Showcase items: Iggy Azalea, Helsinki

Development

• Happy new year! :) It'll be a great one for Wikidata!
• Have you filed bugs in the past? Awesome! It'd be super helpful if you have a look at your old bugs and see if they are still relevant. You can find them at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/authored/ (make sure you're logged in on Phabricator)

You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here

Monthly Tasks

• Hack on one of these.
• Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
• Help develop the next summary here!
• Contribute to a Showcase item

Anything to add? Please share! :)

Cheers
Lydia

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