Heya folks :)
Here's what happened around Wikidata last week. Enjoy!
Discussions
- Wikiquote
notability<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Wikiquote…
- Belongs to
jurisdiction<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment…
Events
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- Cambridge revisited
II<http://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
V<http://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
files<http://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
Data<http://www.spaghettiopendata.org/it/page/benvenut-sod14>14>,
Bologna. March 28th - 30th
- GLAM
Treffen<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/de:Wikipedia:GLAM/Projekte_2014>14>,
Bremen. March 29th - 30th
Did you know?
- Newest properties: Riksdagen
person-id<https://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:62149<https://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
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
- Fix a format or content
violation<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Constr…
for
the *original language (P364)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property_talk:P364>* 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>
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers
Lydia
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Lydia Pintscher -
http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
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Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.