Heya folks :)
We just enabled the time datatype \o/ This means it is now possible to create properties that can be used to indicate when something happened. A lot of time-related properties are already proposed (http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal) and should be created soon. It'll then for example be possible to indicate that Curiosity (http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q48485) was sent on its way to Mars on November 26, 2011. It'll of course also be possible to use this as a qualifier to indicate when a certain statement was valid for example. As usual please let me know about any issues you're seeing after this update.
As many of you have asked me what comes next here's a quick overview: We'll be working on more datatypes. Geocoordinate, number, url, monolingual text, multilingual text and numbers with units are left. Geocoordinate is being worked on right now. Then ordering of statements is planned and then ranks (to indicate that a statement is deprecated or preferred). In parallel to all this queries (phase 3 basically) are being worked on.
Cheers Lydia
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