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
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Lydia Pintscher -
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Product Manager for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
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