Hi everyone,

Here is the weekly summary with all the stuff leading up to christmas, now with 100% more me after leaving Lydia to do these for a few weeks :)

Discussions[edit https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Status_updates/2014_12_20&action=edit§ion=1 ]

- Open RfAs: Petr Matas https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Petr_Matas - Closed RfAs: Jared Preston https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Jared_Preston (Successful)

Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage[edit https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Status_updates/2014_12_20&action=edit§ion=2 ]

- Welcome Freebase! - Freebase announcement - Wikidata announcement https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Tool_for_adding_references_and_data_to_Wikidata - Wikiproject https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Freebase - Primary sources tool https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Primary_sources_tool - Heise - Venturebeat - Gigaom - Wikidata for Research – presenting the team and a first sketch of the workplan

Other Noteworthy Stuff[edit https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Status_updates/2014_12_20&action=edit§ion=3 ]

- New features! Language fallbacks, property data type and performance improvements https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#new_code_deployed_-_language_fallbacks_and_property_datatype - New tree of life based on Wikidata data

Did you know?[edit https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Status_updates/2014_12_20&action=edit§ion=4 ]

- Newest properties: subproperty of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1647, mandatory qualifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1646, NIST/CODATA ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1645, EgliseInfo ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1644 - Newest WikiProjects https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProjects: Freebase https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Freebase, Sled dog racing https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Sled_dog_racing - Showcase items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items: lion (Q140 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q140)

Development[edit https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Status_updates/2014_12_20&action=edit§ion=5 ]

- ~=[,,_,,]:3 - Enabled other projects sidebar feature as default on Italian Wikipedia - Deployed new code to Wikidata, including performance improvements, language fallback, and property data type - Fixed some small issues that popped up after deployment - Ongoing work on performance improvements (batched label lookup) - Ongoing work on the JavaScript widgets needed for the planned redesign - Ongoing work on the WikibaseJavaScriptApi extension that was split from the Wikibase code base - Finished tree of life - Some more work on support for units - Closed/checked even more ‘testme’ bugs on Phabricator - Wikidata Query has gotten a number of stability fixes. To increase availability and performance we now have multiple instances of it with a load balancer in front of it. - The data for the entity suggester has been updated. Suggestions when adding new statements should be even better now.

You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R Monthly Tasks[edit https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Status_updates/2014_12_20&action=edit§ion=6 ]

- Hack on one of these https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/R8GRzX1eH0tb/#R. - 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_items