Hey all,
Here is the latest update of everything happening around Wikidata!
You can view the summary in your language at:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/20…
Discussions[edit
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- Discussion about removing person data
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#removal_of_persondata>
- Discussion to increase the support votes required for successful RfAs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Increase_the_minimum_support_votes_for_WD:RFA>
Other Noteworthy Stuff[edit
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- Main Page redesign suggestions
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Portal_Redesign>
Did you know?[edit
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- Newest properties: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1415>, GUI toolkit or framework
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1414>, SFDb ID
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1413>, non-native language
spoken <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1412>, nominated for
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1411>, number of seats in
legislature <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1410>, Cycling
Archives Cyclist ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1409>, licensed
to broadcast to <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1408>
Development[edit
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- Finished setting up JSON dumps. If everything goes well, a first dump
will be available on Monday evening
- Worked on badges UI integration and made initial progress at making
them editable
- Did a lot of JavaScript refactoring in order to put Api related code
into an own component
- Made it possible to access data from Wikidata items on Wikidata itself
using Lua (not yet enabled)
- Fixed a bug that allowed creation of items with the same
label+description of another item
See current sprint items <http://sb.wmflabs.org/p/wikidata/> for what we’re
working on next.
You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here
<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>
Monthly Tasks[edit
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- Fix a format or content violation
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Constraint_violations/P850>
for
the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P850> property
- Hack on one of these
<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>
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- 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>