Here is the latest summary of what has been happening around Wikidata! As always, feedback is appreciated.
Discussions
- Wikidata participation in Wiki Loves Pride https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Wikidata_participation_in_Wiki_Loves_Pride - Discussion: Delete as a new user group https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Delete_as_own_usergroup - RfC: Refining "part of" https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Refining_%22part_of%22 - Open RfAs: Calak https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Calak , Andre Engels https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Andre_Engels - Closed RfAs: Taketa https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Taketa (successful) Jiangui67 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Jianhui67 (successful) 555 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/555 (successful)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The preview gadget https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-Preview.js has been rewritten and now comes with a completely new user interface. You can enable it here https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets . - Wikiquote received access to the data on Wikidata (aka phase 2) on Tuesday. - Try out the new Wikidata Property Browser https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-June/004013.html. - The Merge gadget https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-Merge.js has been updated. It is now faster and only one edit per merge is performed.
Did you know?
- Newest properties: original spelling https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1353, ranking https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1352, number of points/goals scored https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1351, number of matches played https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1350, ploidy https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1349,AlgaeBase URL https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1348, military casualty classification https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1347, winner https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1346, number of victims https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1345, participated in https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1344, described by source https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1343, number of seats https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1342 - Newest task forces https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Task_forces : Sports task forces https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Sports_task_forces
Development
- Continued with the implementation of redirects. There are a lot of corner cases to work out... - Created new data value handlers for quantities and geo coordinates, bringing queries closer - Moved browser tests to a new repository at https://github.com/wmde/WikidataBrowserTests to make the main Wikibase repo smaller and cleaner - Fixed a bunch of issues with the monobook skin - Made some more jQuery 1.9 compatibility fixes - More cleanup for the coming switch to WikibaseDataModel 1.0. - Icinga Dispatch Lag monitoring scripts, including IRC notifier bot, have been tested and are ready for Ops implementation. This should give us quicker notifications in case the notifications to Wikipedia and co about changes on Wikidata are slow again. - Enabled data access for Wikiquote
See current sprint items https://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 here https://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 here https://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 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
- 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 . - Help fix these items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:The_Game/Flagged_items which has 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