Here's your summary of what happened around Wikidata last week. Hope you had a great weekend.

Events/Press/Blogs

• Wikidata turned 2 on Wednesday! Have a look at the notes from the community and development team and add your note. Also don't forget to check out all the cool presents (a painting, speed improvements, a huge load of unconnected articles that you can help connect via the Wikidata Game, WikidataLDF, a recent changes visualisation)!
• Wikidata II

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikidata is nominated for 2 Open Data Awards! \o/ Magnus and Lydia will attend the award ceremony next week. Keep your fingers crossed for us.
• Wikidata as the central hub for open life science data
• What is Wikipedia about? Great data viz based on Wikidata
• Super Lachaise, a mobile app based on Wikidata for a cemetery in Paris
• Random items without statements
• Tutorial: How to make a “descendants of” timeline using Wikidata
• Updated statistics on the topics with most highly-rated articles on Wikipedia

Did you know?

• Less than 23% of @wikidata items have no statement. Down from ~53% a year ago.
• Newest properties: deepest point, Desa code of Indonesia, Slovene Cultural Heritage Register ID, Catalan object of cultural interest ID, Municipality code of Brazil, Pleiades identifier, MalaCards ID, natural product of taxon, official blog, University of Barcelona authority ID, Beilstein Registry Number, Gmelin Number

Development

• Worked around memory corruption in zend PHP
• HHVM beta feature is enabled again for Wikidata
• Fixes for various breaking changes in mediawiki core
• Work on language fall backs for new serialization code
• Work on fixing XML dumps
• Work on making Special:Version correct again for Wikidata extensions
• Implemented LabelLookup to improve performance further
• Worked more on remaining tasks for simple queries
• Poked remaining tasks for statements on properties
• Further improvements to the usability and workflow of sitelink editing
• Wrote browser tests for authority control gadget

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

Anything to add? Please share! :)

Cheers

Lydia, who is slightly jet-lagged after returning from a trip to California

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