Hey folks :)

Here's your summary of what 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

- past: OpenSym - upcoming: IRC office hour about structured data for Wikimedia Commons https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours

Other Noteworthy Stuff

- New Main Page and other new features https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-August/004461.html - Breaking changes for gadgets https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-August/004492.html - Badges support via Wikidata has been rolled out to Wikipedia and other sister projects. If the icons shown are not the ones your project would like please request a change here https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Badges#Requests_for_different_icons .

Did you know?

- Newest properties: NIEA building ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1460, Cadw Building ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1459, color index https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1458, absolute magnitude https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1457

Development

- Deployed more new stuff \o/ (in other projects sidebar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Other_projects_sidebar; new internal serialization format; showing badges on the Wikipedias and other sister projects; Special:GoToLinkedPage https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:GoToLinkedPage) - Added a new “item-redirect” permission - Continuous work and reviews for the new JavaScript user interface - DataModel 1.0 will be more strict when adding Claims or Statements to Entities. Quite some tests needed to be made compatible - Adopted to recent API changes (getPossibleErrors and others got dropped) - Replaced hundreds of class name aliases in the code with the actual class names - Attended OpenSym

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

Anything to add? Please share! :)

Cheers Lydia