Heya folks :)

Here’s your summary of what happened around Wikidata over the last week. The wiki version is at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2013_03_29

= Development = * The first 11 Wikipedias can now include data from Wikidata in their articles: http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/03/27/you-can-have-all-the-data/ (If you want to see it in action see the infobox at http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torino) * Worked on automatic summaries for statements * Worked on making properties accessible from the client using their label so you can use {{#property:executive director}} instead of {{#property:p169}} for example * Made qualifiers ready for the next deployment (Please test. See details further down.) * Selenium tests for qualifiers * Fixed some issues related to QUnit testing * Worked on improved handling and code design of multiple snak lists in the UI (qualifiers, references)

You can follow our commits at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions... and view the subset awaiting review at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions/...

You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1&list_id=151540&...

= Discussions/Press = * Denny wrote down how we’re planning to support queries on Wikidata: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Queries Feedback welcome. * Proposal for a vandalism policy: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Vandalism * Now that improvements for references have been deployed here’s a discussion on the best way to use them: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Sources (You can see an example of how it could be used in the source for “CAS registry number” on http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q153) * Should Wikidata have featured items? http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Featured_Items * RFC about restricting the ability to create properties to some users: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Restrict_creation... * Heise.de reporting about deployment of phase 2 on the first 11 Wikipedias: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Wikipedia-Datenfundus-Wikidata-geht-i... * Report about a collaboration event between Wikipedians and archeologists: http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/03/28/die-digitalen-romer-wikidata-trifft-arch...

= Events = see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events

* Newline 2013

= Other Noteworthy Stuff = * We’re currently carefully monitoring performance after the deployment of phase 2 on the first 11 Wikipedias. There seem to be a few small issues. As soon as they are resolved we'll deploy on English Wikipedia. All other Wikipedias are planned to follow very soon after that. * Bye and a big thank you to Anja, Silke, Jens and John who are leaving the development team at the end of the month and will work on other cool things. You’ll be missed! * Ever had any doubt about the possibilities of Wikidata? Talk to Wiri: http://toolserver.org/~magnus/thetalkpage/ * We worked on reducing the time it takes for Wikidata edits to show up in the Wikipedias and made some progress. Daniel posted an analysis: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2013-March/001940.html * We started running a script on the database in order to make search on Wikidata case-insensitive. This should be finished in a few days and then search should be more useful. * In addition to the above we have rolled out a new search box that suggests items. This should also make finding things on Wikidata a lot easier for you. * We’re making some progress with Internet Explorer 8 support but there are a lot of issues with it (some outside our control). It’s unclear at the moment how much we can improve it still without spending an unjustified amount of time on it. You can follow the progress at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44228 * Edits are now auto-confirmed for users with more than 50 edits and account age 4 days: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46461 * Do you need old-style interwiki links for a sister project for example? http://toolserver.org/~legoktm/cgi-bin/wikidata/copypaste.py is for you * The Wikimedia Foundation applied as a mentoring organisation for Google Summer of Code again. We have proposed some Wikidata projects for students to take up if the Foundation is accepted again: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GSoC At least 2 other organisations that applied also propose Wikidata ideas. More details on that once we know which organisations are accepted. * Denny hacked together a tree of life based on data from Wikidata: http://simia.net/treeoflife/ * Wikidata was added to wikipulse http://wikipulse.herokuapp.com/ * A template to retrieve data from Wikidata if no local value is set: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8478926

= Did you know? = * If you need to merge two items http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Merge explains how

= Open Tasks for You = * See note at the end of this weekly summary * Help test qualifiers (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Data_model_primer#Qualifiers - see also example statements there) on http://wikidata-test-repo.wikimedia.de/wiki so we can roll it out with the next release * Did you file a bug report for Wikidata or did someone else do it for you? Please take a minute to check if it is still valid. (Thanks for filing it btw!) * Add some missing descriptions to those items with the same label? http://toolserver.org/~magnus/wd_terminator.php?list * Hack on one of these: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&...

Anything to add? Please share! :)

Could I have 2 mins of your time? As I’ll be working on some other projects for Wikimedia Germany as well from now on the time I can spend on Wikidata will be reduced. This means I’ll have to figure out what is useful to spend time on. If you’re reading this could you let me know for example on this discussion page: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikidata/Status_updates/2013_03_29 ? Also if you have ideas how to improve the weekly summaries please post them.

Cheers Lydia

-- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata

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