Here is the latest summary of everything happening around Wikidata!

Read the summary in your language at <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/2014_07_05>

Discussions

• A question from an intern

Events/Press/Blogs

• Open Hack Day, 5th and 6th of July, London

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikidata got 10 times easier to use with the entity suggester
• Lydia needs your help with some selfies (already uploaded ones are at c:Category:Wikidata selfies)
• Wikidata the Game has a new game: occupation
• As part of the Outreach Program for Women d:User:User:Thepwnco is continuing improving all help pages to help new users understand Wikidata better. At the same time w:User:Discoveranjali is helping with social media outreach and creating presentations workshops about Wikidata.

Did you know?

• Newest properties: replaced by structure, State Catalogue of Geographical Names (Russia), Linguasphere code, NCI ID,Glottolog code, proxy, ComicBookDB ID, Index Fungorum ID

Development

• Upcoming API change (wblinktitle)
• Deployed entity suggester.
• More work on redirects. They are taking shape. Done with much of the groundwork. We've seen the first one! :D
• Continued work on user interface redesign mockups
• Monolingual text datatype is also taking shape but needs more user interface love to make it intuitive.
• Investigated making Wikidata.org its own client so you can for example get access to better Lua functions for access to an item's label on a discussion page. Outcome: Should be possible but needs some more work.
• Fixed bugs

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

You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here

Monthly Tasks

• Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
• Hack on one of these.
• Help fix these items which has been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
• Help develop the next summary here!
• Contribute to a Showcase item