Hey folks :)

Here's your fresh serving of Wikidata news for the week.

Discussions

- Notability of itemshttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Notability_%26_early_creation_of_Wikidata_items - Organisation of statements, sitelinks and external identifiershttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Organizing_statements,_sitelinks,_and_external_identifiers

Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogshttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage

- Media Hack Days, Berlin http://www.mediahackday.com/ March 22nd-23rd - Ateliers Wikidatahttps://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Ateliers_Wikidata#Bordeaux_22.2F03.2F2014, Bordeaux, France March 22nd-23rd

Other Noteworthy Stuff

- Happy Pi Day https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q179736 - paper by Denny Vrandečić and Markus Krötzschhttp://korrekt.org/page/Wikidata

Did you know?

- Newest properties: NLC authoritieshttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1213 , Atlas ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1212, fuel systemhttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1211 , supercharger https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1210, ID (General Administration of Press and Publication)https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1209 , ISMN https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1208, NUKAT authoritieshttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1207

Development

- Changed the {{property}} parser function and Lua’s mw.wikibase.entity.formatPropertyValues to only return the statements ranked as preferred or if none are available the ones ranked as normal (This will probably go live on April 25th.) - Worked on improving page load time further by reducing the number of reloads during page loading - Made diffs for time and geocoordinates more complete and prettier - Continued research for user interface redesign - Tpt worked on optionally showing links to other sister projects in the client’s sidebar (bugzilla:54374https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54374 ) - Wrote a fix for Wikidata changes not showing up in the client’s watchlist (bugzilla:62149https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62149 ) - Updated a major chunk of our inline code documentation - Continued discussing technical details about how coordinates should be stored in Wikibase

See current sprint itemshttps://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=218716&resolution=---&resolution=LATER&resolution=DUPLICATE&emailtype1=substring&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&bug_status=ASSIGNED&email1=wikidata for what we’re working on next.

You can view the commits currently in review herehttps://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(+project:mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/Diff+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/DataValues+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseSolr+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/Ask+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseQuery+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseDatabase+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseQueryEngine+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseDataModel+)+status:open,n,z and the ones that have been merged herehttps://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(+project:mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/Diff+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/DataValues+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseSolr+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/Ask+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseQuery+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseDatabase+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseQueryEngine+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseDataModel+)+status:merged,n,z .

You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata herehttps://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 Monthly Tasks

- Fix a format or content violationhttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Constraint_violations/P640 for the Léonore ID (P640) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P640 property - Hack on one of thesehttps://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 develop the next summary here!https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next - Contribute to a Showcase itemhttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase

Anything to add? Please share! :)

Cheers Lydia