Hello everyone.
Here is the latest weekly summary covering all things Wikidata. You can
read the summary in your language at
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Status_updates/20…
Discussions
- Open RfAs: Gabbe
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Gabbe>
Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events>/Press/Blogs
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage>
- List of Wikidata talks at Wikimania 2014
<https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata_Events>
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikidata's new Main page is almost ready to go live, but is still in
need of a visually-appealing banner! Got an idea for an eye-catching design
that represents what Wikidata's all about? Submit proposals before August
11 at d:Wikidata:Portal Redesign/Banner
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Portal_Redesign/Banner>
- Wikidata's tours are now translatable. You may help translating at
d:Wikidata:Tours/Items
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tours/Items> and
d:Wikidata:Tours/Statements
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tours/Statements>.
Did you know?
- Newest properties: published in
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1433>
- Showcase items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items>
: Kleinmachnow <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104192>
Development
- Created CLI script to import entities into the QueryEngine store (
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Querycli.jp
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Querycli.jpg>)
- More work on redirects (should be good to deploy on August 19th)
- More work on the monolingual datatype
- Started work on rewriting the sitelinks part of the user interface
(that’s the first coding steps of getting us a new user interface design)
- Final touches on badges (should be good to deploy on August 19th)
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>