Hey folks :)

Here's what happened around Wikidata this week. You can view it at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/201... in your language if a translation is available.

Discussions

- Second UI designs are now up for comments https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:UI_redesign_input - Discussion about predecessor and successor timelines https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Preceded_by_.2F_Predecessor_and_Succeeded_by_.2F_Successor

Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage

- Wikidata intro and QA http://www.passageenseine.org/Passage/PSES-2014, June 29th in Paris - Open Hack Day https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fringe/Open_Data_Hack, 5th and 6th of July, London

Did you know?

- Newest properties: contains settlement https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1383, coincident with https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1382, bridgehunter.com ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1381, uglybridges.com ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1380, China railway TMIS station code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1378, MTR station code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1377, capital of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1376, NSK identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1375, daily ridership https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1373, binding of software library https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1372, ASI Monument ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1371, ihsi identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1370, Iranian National Heritage registration number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1369, LNB identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1368, BBC Your Paintings https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1367, replaced by https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1366, replaced https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1365, ITTF ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1364, points/goal scored by https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1363, TLS https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1362, Anime News Network ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1361

Development

- Redirects are moving slow because they touch so much of our and the core code base, but they are coming closer! - Final touches on the monolingual data type and UI - Fixed some smaller but nasty bugs in the UI like not being able to change only the rank - Finally improved the most confusing error messages and hints you get to read when using the Wikibase client or repo - The Wikibase DataModel JavaScript component (which moved to it’s own repository) reached version 0.2.0 - Continued working on the QueryEngine component (the foundation for queries)

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

Cheers Lydia