Hello everyone, here is the latest weekly update for everything going on
around Wikidata. This week a lot of development updates!
Discussions[edit<https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Sta…
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- Closed RfCs: Clarifying the requirement for property
creation<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Cla…
, Quality is
measurable<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Q…
, One vs. sereveral sitelink-item
correspondence<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comme…
, Property documentation
redux<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Proper…
and DBpedia import
process<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/DBpe…
- Open RfA:
Dexbot<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/A…
(adminbot)
Events
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
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- wrap-up blog post of the MediaWiki hackathon in
Zurich<http://blog.wikimedia.de/2014/05/13/thank-you-zurich-merci-vielmal-zueri-wikimedia-hackathon-zuerich-2014/>
- upcoming:
SMWCon<https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Spring_2014>
- upcoming: IRC office hour on
Moday<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours>
Other Noteworthy
Stuff[edit<https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Status_up…
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- Data access for Wikiquote will be enabled on June 10th. Coordination
and questions should go
tod:Wikidata:Wikiquote<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikiquote&…
.
- Superclasses
maps<https://tools.wmflabs.org/wp-world/wikidata/superclasses.php%3Flang…
shows
coordinates for a class of items on a map. Classes are coming from Wikidata.
- The EditItem
suggester<http://suggester.wmflabs.org/EditItemSuggestions/public/>
was
released. You give it a property and it will return a list of items likely
missing that property.
- The new duplicate item
finder<http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/dupe_finder.php> lists
items that should potentially be merged.
Did you
know?[edit<https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Status_up…
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- Newest task forces <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Task_forces>
: Wikidata:WikiProject
Mathematics<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Mathemati…
Development[edit<https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Sta…
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- We're looking for a PHP developer to join the dev team and work on
Wikidata <https://wikimedia.de/wiki/PHP_Backend_Developer_(f/m)>. Apply!
- Looking for a cool university project with impact? We have some of
them around Wikidata - not just for computer science students. Get in touch
with Lydia.
- Had a lot to think about and recap from the Zürich Hackathon, e.g.
things regarding search, suggestions as well as the user interface redesign
- Started doing mockups of the new user interface (Nothing to show yet,
sorry!)
- Setup an autogenerating code documentation instance on labs at
wbdoc.wmflabs.org. Hint: Submitting patches that make the inline code
documentation even better is a good starting point to get involved in coding
- Continued working on the wikiba.se site and FAQ
- Worked on new datatype monolingual text (basically a string with an
associated language)
- Reworked a hell lot of “change operations” code that’s responsible for
each and every edit as well as validating user input and API requests, for
example denying empty descriptions and finding and blocking unnecessary
duplications
- Checked all the new Beta features that the teams in San Francisco are
developing and made sure they work with Wikidata
- Our efforts to make Wikidata faster broke some gadgets so we helped
fixing them. Sorry for the breakage!
- Dug into odd display bugs with the MonoBook skin and attempted to fix
them (
bugzilla:64741<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64741>
)
- More testing on simple queries
- Tpt worked on making inter-project links in the sidebar a beta-feature
See current sprint
items<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=218716&reso…
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/W…
and
the ones that have been merged
here<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(+project:mediawiki/extensions/W…
.
You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata
here<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1&list_id=1…
Monthly
Tasks[edit<https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Status_up…
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- Fix a format or content
violation<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Constr…
for
the academic degree (P512) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P512>
property
- Hack on one of
these<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer…
.
- 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>