Hey folks :)

Here's your summary of all the good stuff that happened around Wikidata over the last week.

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

- Had a great hackathon for GLAM and Wikidata in Amsterdam last weekend https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/glamdata - IRC office hour about structured data on Commons (logs https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2014-11-20 ) - Building a periodic table using Wikidata http://lambdazen.blogspot.se/2014/11/building-periodic-table-using-wikidata.html - Lydia will be speaking at internetdagarna in Stockholm on Monday

Other Noteworthy Stuff

- Wikimedia Commons will get Phase 2 on December 2nd https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-November/005011.html - The Sum of all Paintings http://sum.bykr.org - new app to nicely display data related to artwork - Institutions on Commons without an item on Wikidata https://tools.wmflabs.org/commonsedge/commons_institutions_without_wikidata_item.php - Wikidata descriptions being used to help clarify search results in the Wikipedia mobile app https://twitter.com/aharoni/status/534292798430650369 - WikidataTodo https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/ now shows you tasks to be done on Wikidata related to a specific country as well - VisualEditor coming as a beta feature https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#VisualEditor_coming_to_this_wiki_as_a_Beta_Feature - Statements on properties are getting closer to the finish line. You could help figure out which properties to use for describing and classifying properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Property_metadata .

Did you know?

- Newest properties: MarineTraffic Port ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1624, MarineTraffic Ship ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1623, drives on the https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1622, detail map https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1621, plaintiff https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1620, date of official opening https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1619, squad number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1618, BBC Things identifer https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1617, SIREN number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1616, CLARA-ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1615, History of Parliament ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1614, IRC channel https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1613, Commons Institution page https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1612

Development

- When a page is deleted on a client (Wikipedia, etc) its sitelink is now removed automatically from its Wikidata item - Reworked the automatic precision detection for coordinates - The long planned split of the code base into two independent Wikibase Repo and Client extensions is getting closer pretty fast these weeks - Made good progress on making the sitelinks section much more compact and moving it into the right-hand sidebar - While still reworking lots of details that slightly changed in DataModel 2.0 we already started working on a possible DataModel 3.0 - More performance optimizations in the form of more advanced label lookup implementations - Implemented file-based cache of SiteStore to improve performance - Bug fixes - Updated the property suggester with new data! :)

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://old-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_items

Anything to add? Please share! :)

Cheers Lydia