Heya folks :)
Here's your summary of what happened around Wikidata over the last week.
= Development = * The first year is over. Thank you everyone for being amazing and helping to build Wikidata and making it more than we could possibly have hoped for already. <3 * Put a lot of work into improved support for Internet Explorer 8 * Worked on improving recent changes code in client * Finished valueview refactoring. Created new extension “ValueView” * Implemented string formatter
You can follow our commits at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions... and view the subset awaiting review at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions/...
You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?emailcc1=1&list_id=151540&...
= Discussions/Press = * RFC for defining the bureaucrats role on Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Defining_bureauc... * RFC about statements for items related to software: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Softwarestatement...
= Events = see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events
* upcoming: GLAM-Wiki 2013
= Other Noteworthy Stuff = * Deployment of phase 2 on English Wikipedia is currently planned for April 8. The remaining Wikipedias are scheduled for April 10. As usual this might change if we run into problems along the way. * There is now a page showing the current lag for changes propagating to the Wikipedias so they can show up in watchlists and recent changes for example: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:DispatchStats This should ideally be in the range of a few minutes. Right now it is higher because of some abnormally high bot activity but decreasing. Should be down to a few minutes soon. * There’s now a badge you can add to Wikipedia articles to indicate there is data about it on Wikidata: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikidata * We hit Q10000000: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10000000 * A Wikidata item in the wild: http://goo.gl/maps/DyrsA ;-)
= Did you know? = * There are a number of task forces that take care of specific jobs or topics on Wikidata: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Task_forces * You can get database dumps to play with: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_download * There are a lot of stats about Wikidata at http://stats.wikimedia.org/
= Open Tasks for You = * Hit a random item and add a missing source? http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Random * Hack on one of these: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=need-volunteer%2C%20&...
Based on feedback for last week’s call for comments we will continue this newsletter. However more community help will be needed. From now on they’ll be drafted at http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next and your help is very welcome.
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers Lydia
-- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata
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