Discussions[edit]

• Open request for adminship: Nikki

Events/Press/Blogs

• Right now: Wikimania

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Magnus made some new tools:
  • list of scientists on Wikidata born after 1950 with no image, grouped by employer. Check your university!
  • list of scientists on Wikidata born after 1950 with no ORCID iD, grouped by employer. Ditto!
  • an InfoBitt replacement
  • a tool you can use to match up Wikipedia articles without an item to either an existing item or a create a new one if none exists
  • plus Mix'N'Match got new datasets you can help match up with Wikidata
• CPDL ID (P2000) was created.
• Some presentations at WikiMania related to Wikidata have detailed slides online:
  • WikiProject Sum of All Paintings
  • Templates are dead! Long live templates!, technical presentation on the function and future of template syntax
  • Future of structured documents: VisualEditor, Citations and Wikidata, oh my!

Did you know?

• Newest properties: CPDL ID, UNESCO language status, UCI code, Facebook Places ID, parliament.uk bio link, medical specialty, AllMusic composition ID, TeX string, Plazi ID, LPSN URL, species kept, Encyclopaedia Metallum artist ID,Delarge ID
• Newest WikiProjects: Linguistics

Development

• Attending Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City right now, meeting awesome people that already use or want to know everything about Wikidata.
• After the next deployment, redirects will be automatically created when merging items.
• Special:UnconnectedPages can now be queried via the query API, thanks to Ladsgroup.
• Migrating away from an older serializer to the DataModel Serialization component.
• Worked on a new time parser that can parse formats like M/D/Y, Y M D and so on.
• Fixed a bug where a value could not be edited when save failed.
• Made the snak type, badge and rank selectors position themselves after resizing the browser window and introduced a possibility to collapse the sitelinks sections.
• Worked on a change in editing to be able to edit a statement and it’s references in one step.

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