Hey folks :)

Here's your weekly dose of Wikidata updates:

Discussions

- Do you want to see constraint violation reports and referencing improved? Please provide input https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-October/004778.html .

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

- IRC office hour about structured data on Commons (log https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2014/wikimedia-office.2014-10-16-18.00.log.html ) - hackathon around scholarly articles on Wikidata (etherpad with notes https://etherpad.mozilla.org/XKHt30NgcO) - Blog post about the meeting to discuss structured data on Commons in Berlin http://blog.wikimedia.de/2014/10/14/transatlantic-work-on-structured-data-in-berlin/

Other Noteworthy Stuff

- Clusters of humans and species on Wikidata http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=232 - New parameter in the template Property documentation: subject item; see [this example edit https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Property_talk:P496&diff=164022076&oldid=163111143] for how to use it - New tool: Linked Items https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/linked_items.php. Returns sorted, de-duped list of Q values from a Wikipedia page, or chunk of wiki-text. Thank you, Magnus https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Magnus_Manske! - Wikidata annotation tool is looking for feedback https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_annotation_tool/project_completion_report - Wikidata: A Free Collaborative Knowledgebase http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2014/10/178785-wikidata/fulltext#.VD67l7hTfME.twitter by Denny and Markus has been published. It gives a very nice non-technical overview of Wikidata. - Magnus re-wrote Wiki ShootMe https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikishootme/ to now use Wikidata.

Did you know?

- Always wanted to know which topics have amazing articles on Wikimedia projects across many languages? Here you go! https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/Badge_statistics - Newest properties: At the Circulating Library ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1564, MacTutor id (biographies) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1563, allmovie identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1562, number of survivors https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1561, given name version for other gender https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1560, name in native language https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1559, tempo marking https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1558, manifestation of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1557, zbMATH author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1556, Executive Order number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1555

Development

- Improvements to sitelink editing usability - Released Wikibase DataModel 2.0 - Profiling and performance improvements in Wikibase and Wikibase DataModel - Implementing LabelLookup, which is needed to improve performance of EntityId formatting. This will lead to improved item page loading times. - Added new featured list and recommended article badges. - Remove most usage of class aliases to be compatible with HHVM (dependencies of bugzilla:71295 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71295)

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

Anything to add? Please share! :)

Cheers Lydia