Hi everyone, You can view the latest summary at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/2014_08_16. Discussions - Open RfOS: John F. Lewis <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Oversight/John_F._Lewis> Other Noteworthy Stuff - Help choose which banner will be featured on the new Main page! Click here to view the two banner candidates <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Portal_Redesign/Banner#Candidates> and leave your feedback before August 20th 16:00 UTC. - Wikidata Translate <https://tools.wmflabs.org/hay/wdtranslate>, a Wikidata-based Google translator open source clone. Did you know? - Newest properties: journey destination <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1444>, score method <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1443>, grave picture <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1442>, present in work <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1441>, Fide ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1440>, Norsk filmografi ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1439>, Jewish Encyclopedia ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1438>, plea <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1437>, collection size <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1436> - Newest WikiProjects <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProjects>: WikiProject Movies <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Movies> Development - Finished a large number of new features and got them ready for roll-out. More in this email <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-August/004328.html> . - Wikibase made a big step forward to finally switch to DataModel 1.0. - Improved support for entity IDs bigger than 2 billion (32 bit integer). - We had to adapt Wikibase to some major changes (more major than usual, partly caused by discussions at Wikimania) in MediaWiki core: The default Vector skin became it’s own component and the ResourceLoader got some small but important updates. - Continued work on refactoring code of the user interface to make it ready for new design - Wrote a script to get number of users having wikidata in their recent changes/watchlist from the database 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 - 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 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>