Hey folks :) Here are the important things that happened around Wikidata over the last week. Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Upcoming: Office hour on IRC on Friday <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-January/005222.html>. You should come :) - Past: London Wikidata Meetup 2 - We had a meetup with nine people: - set up Wikidata:WikiProject UK and Ireland <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_UK_and_Ireland> (sound recording of meeting available) - Upcoming: Open Data Day, 21st February 2015 - For generic wiki, see International Open Data Day <http://wiki.opendataday.org/2015/City_Events> - Open Data Camp UK <http://odcamp.org.uk/posts/>, Saturday/Sunday 21st/22nd February 2015 Other Noteworthy Stuff - We just crossed 14000 active users (over the last month). Thank you all! Did you know? - Newest properties: Gray's Anatomy 1918 subject <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1698>, Total valid votes <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1697>, inverse of <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1696>, NLP identifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1695> - Newest WikiProjects <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProjects>: Food <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Food>, UK and Ireland <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_UK_and_Ireland>, Suisse <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Suisse> - Newest gadgets: ExportClaims <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Petr_Matas/ExportClaims.js>, *Mark as patrolled* from list of changes <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Petr_Matas/Mark_as_patrolled.js> Development - The sitelink section has been reworked. This will go live on Wikidata on Tuesday. The sitelinks will then be slimmer and they will appear in a sidebar on the right side if there is enough space. - More performance improvements when parsing an item page, ~%15 faster for some pages :) - Titan was selected as the graph DB to implement a Wikidata query service running in production <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-tech/2015-January/000706.html> - Fixed adding links to ru.wikinews.org which was broken by its change to HTTPS-only - Worked on redesigning the header area (label, description, alias, in-other-languages box) - Polished d:Wikidata:Data access <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Data_access> and d:Wikidata:Database download <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_download>. Could still use some more work though if you have time. - Enabled PHP_CodeSniffer with Mediawiki rules and some additional ones to make us aware of more code issues - We no longer log some common 404 errors in the exception log You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R> Monthly Tasks - Hack on one of these <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/R8GRzX1eH0tb/#R>. - Help fix these items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:The_Game/Flagged_items> which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game. - Help develop the next summary here! <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next> - Contribute to a Showcase item <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items> Anything to add? Please share! :) Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.