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/extension…
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&am…
= Discussions/Press =
* RFC for defining the bureaucrats role on Wikidata:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Defining_bureau…
* RFC about statements for items related to software:
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Softwarestatemen…
= 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&am…
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
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