Heya folks :)

Here's what happened around Wikidata this week. The wiki version is at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2013_04_12


= Development =
* Got some external professional review of our code and architecture
and started working on their feedback
* Worked on reducing the dispatch lag (the time it takes for changes
on Wikidata to be sent to the Wikipedias for display in watchlist,
recent changes and to purge affected pages -
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:DispatchStats)
* Worked on using Redis for job queue to improve the lag situation even further
* Created new Wikibase Query extension for phase 3 functionality
* Autocomments & Autosummaries for SetClaim module
* Worked on the GeoCoordinate parser

You can view the commits currently in review at
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/%28+project:mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/Diff+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/DataValues+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseSolr+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/Ask+%29+status:open,n,z
and the ones that have been merged at
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/%28+project:mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/Diff+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/DataValues+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseSolr+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/Ask+%29+status:merged,n,z

You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata at
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1&list_id=151540&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org

= Events/Press =
* see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events
* right now: GLAM-WIKI 2013

= Discussion =

* The RFC about bureaucrats was closed:
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Defining_bureaucrats
* RfC about policy for translation admins:
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Adopt_metawiki_policy_for_translation_administrators
* We need feedback from contributors working on references addition or
having tried to add references to statements. Please comment about
your problems or your trials at
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Sources

= Other Noteworthy Stuff =
* Deployment of phase 2 on the remaining Wikipedias was delayed
because of a high lag of changes being propagated to the Wikipedias.

The lag has been reduced considerably now and is going down even more. 

The new date for deployment will not be next week because there are
other large changes on Wikimedia infrastructure scheduled that we do
not want to interfere with. It will hopefully happen very soon after
that though.
* Next code update on wikidata.org is planned for Wednesday. This
should include qualifiers
(http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Data_model_primer#Qualifiers)
and bugfixes.
* There will probably be a short outage/read-only for wikidata.org on
Tuesday (database is being switched to MariaDB)
* If you're a student and interested in coding on Wikidata consider
applying for Google Summer of Code:
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:GSoC
* There is a new user right: property creators
(http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_creators)
* There is now a page to request deletion of a property:
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Properties_for_deletion
* We now have [[Wikidata:Bureaucrats|Bureaucrats]]
* Reasonator was improved and extended
(http://toolserver.org/~magnus/ts2/reasonator/?q=92642
http://toolserver.org/~magnus/ts2/reasonator/?q=4504

= Open Tasks for You =
* Hack on one of
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&emailcc1=1&resolution=---&emailtype1=exact&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&email1=wikidata-bugs%40lists.wikimedia.org&list_id=162515
* Help draft the next weekly summary at
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next

Anything to add? Please share! :)


Cheers
Lydia

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