I am finally back from my month of traveling and slowly fighting through my backlogs. If you're waiting for something urgent from me please poke me otherwise I'll get to it over the next days.

Below are the weekly summaries for the last two weeks.

Cheers and hugs

Lydia

Discussions

• Successful request for adminship: Nikki
• Open request for oversightership: Sjoerddebruin
• Closed request for comments: Administrative divisions and populated places, Given names and surnames

Events/Press/Blogs

• Wikidata, coming soon to a menu near you!
• Past: Wikimania

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Upload of 4.2M new statements from Freebase in the Primary Sources tool.

Did you know?

• Newest properties: NALT id, Instagram username, Twitter username, Revised Romanisation, CPDL ID, UNESCO language status, UCI code, Facebook Places ID

Development

• Continued migrating away from an older serializer to the DataModel Serialization component.
• Released Wikibase DataModel Serialization 1.7.0
• Depreacting the parameter ungroupedlist in the api modules GetClaims and GetEntities
• Tweaking the sitelink input
• Changing the display of item selector results

You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here.

Monthly Tasks

• Hack on one of these.
• Help develop the next summary here!
• Contribute to a Showcase item
• Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Discussions

• Open requests for Oversight: Sjoerddebruin
• Enable Flow on Wikidata?

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Early version of a reconcile API for Wikidata by Magnus
• PagePile: a new tool by Magnus
• Mix-n-Match got a number of new catalogs and now shows a thin red line in front of a catalog that does not yet have a property on Wikidata
• 1.700 biographical items without gender, but with image. Go go go!
• Interested in art movements? Check out this

Did you know?

• Newest properties: MoMA artwork id, Facebook ID, cuisine, Cooper-Hewitt Person ID, Exif make, Exif model, IPNI publication ID, ZooBank publication ID, ZooBank author ID, Catalogus Professorum Halensis, NALT id
• Showcase items: László Krasznahorkai (Q512062)

Development

• Minor fixes to property edit mode
• Some fixes for the cucumber test errors
• Released Wikibase DataModel 4.0
• Released Wikibase DataModel Services 1.0
• Continued work to migrate away from old serializers in Wikibase Lib to those in WikibaseDataModelSerialization.
• Working on scripts for importing entities from another Wikibase instance (e.g. Wikidata), so that development instances can have some sample data.
• Fixed the counting of references
• Changed style of the Entitytermsview inputs
• Entity Selector displays alias in brackets behind label

You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here.

Monthly Tasks

• Hack on one of these.
• Help develop the next summary here!
• Contribute to a Showcase item
• Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Anything to add? Please share! :)

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

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