Heya folks :)

Here's what happened around Wikidata last week. Enjoy!

Discussions

- Wikiquote notabilityhttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Wikiquote_notability - Belongs to jurisdictionhttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Property:_belongs_to_jurisdiction

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

- Cambridge revisited IIhttp://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2014/03/wikidata-cambridge-revisited-ii.html documents how you can query Wikidata and put the results on a map. - Cambridge revisited Vhttp://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2014/03/reasonator-cambridge-revisited-v.html shows that maps have popups with texts generated on Wikidata statements and labels. - The architecture of the Wikimedia storage of the meta data of media fileshttp://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2014/03/commons-and-wikidata-architecture-of.html discusses that integration of Commons is a subset of what we can achieve when we consider the whole of media files. - Spaghetti Open Datahttp://www.spaghettiopendata.org/it/page/benvenut-sod14, Bologna. March 28th - 30th - GLAM Treffenhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/de:Wikipedia:GLAM/Projekte_2014, Bremen. March 29th - 30th

Did you know?

- Newest properties: Riksdagen person-idhttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1214

Development

- Continued making the UI faster - Fixed Wikidata changes not showing up in the watchlist on the client (Wikipedia, etc.) (bugzilla:62149https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62149 ) - Decided to turn off the inoperable wikidata.org language subdomains for now to reduce confusion - Created initial version of Wikibase Internal Serialization component - wbEntity and wbUsedEntities JavaScript variables are now cached in the parser cache - Ongoing refactoring to get rid of the previously used numeric ID numbers in favor of prefixed IDs - Made wbsearchentities aware of previously unquoted percent characters - Put some time into fixing longstanding oddities that made the developers cry from time to time - Worked on reducing internal usage of EntityContent, in preparation for redirect support - Worked on performance issues with JSON dump generation (hopefully we can start generating dumps soon)

See current sprint itemshttps://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 herehttps://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 herehttps://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 herehttps://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 violationhttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Constraint_violations/P364 for the *original language (P364) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property_talk:P364* property - Hack on one of thesehttps://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 develop the next summary here!https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next - Contribute to a Showcase itemhttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase

Anything to add? Please share! :)

Cheers Lydia