Heya folks :)

Here's your chance to catch up with all things Wikidata of the past week.

Noteworthy Stuff

- Wikisource will receive access to the data in Wikidata on February 25th. Planning is taking place at Wikidata:Wikisourcehttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikisource . - 1 week left to give initial input for the user interface redesignhttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:UI_redesign_input

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- Newest properties: impact factorhttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1169 , Municipality code (Denmark)https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1168 , USB ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1167, Home worldhttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1165 , Cardinality of the group https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1164 , Internet media type https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1163, Bluebook abbreviation https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1162, Z39.5 abbreviation https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1161, ISO 4 abbreviation https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1160, CODENhttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1159 , landing site https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1158, US Congress Bio identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1157, Scopus Source ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1156, Scopus Affiliation ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1155, Scopus EIDhttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1154 , Scopus Author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1153, IPTC Media Topic https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1152, topic's main portal https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1151, Regensburg Classification https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1150, Library of Congress Classification https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1149 , neutron number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1148 - Fun Fact: Wikidata has reached 30 million statementshttp://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/stats.php

Development

- Refactored the suggestions drop-downs when entering properties for better performance - Fixed a misdirected arrow in left-to-right languages (bugzilla:61308https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61308 ) - Worked on an Apache redirect issue (bugzilla:54273https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54273 ) - Found and started fixing an issue that asked users for additional languages they don't want according to their Babel box (bugzilla:61446https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61446 ) - Table-of-contents link to the statements section of an item was broken - Kept poking TimeParsers - Made WikibaseDatabase feature complete for use with WikibaseQueryEngine - Work on caching javascript config variables in parser cache - Investigate using ElasticSearch as term index backend to take some load of the most-used database table

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/P604 for the MedlinePlus ID (P604) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P604 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 . - Contribute to a Showcase itemhttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase - Help develop the next summary here!https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next

Anything to add? Please share! :)

Cheers

Lydia