Here is the latest weekly summary covering all things Wikidata. You can read the summary in your language at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/2014_08_02

Discussions

• Open RfAs: Gabbe

Events/Press/Blogs

• List of Wikidata talks at Wikimania 2014

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikidata's new Main page is almost ready to go live, but is still in need of a visually-appealing banner! Got an idea for an eye-catching design that represents what Wikidata's all about? Submit proposals before August 11 at d:Wikidata:Portal Redesign/Banner
• Wikidata's tours are now translatable. You may help translating at d:Wikidata:Tours/Items andd:Wikidata:Tours/Statements.

Did you know?

• Newest properties: published in
• Showcase items: Kleinmachnow

Development

• Created CLI script to import entities into the QueryEngine store (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Querycli.jp)
• More work on redirects (should be good to deploy on August 19th)
• More work on the monolingual datatype
• Started work on rewriting the sitelinks part of the user interface (that’s the first coding steps of getting us a new user interface design)
• Final touches on badges (should be good to deploy on August 19th)

See current sprint items for what we’re working on next.

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