Hey folks :)

Here's what happened around Wikidata this week:

Discussions

- Discussion over the naming of peoplehttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Name_of_person - Discussion over populationhttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Population - Successful RfA: Sjoerddebruinhttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator/Sjoerddebruin

Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogshttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage

- See the office hours logs at metahttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2014-02-03

Other Noteworthy Stuff

- See the FOSDEM slideshttps://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16VDTk9Lo9YU-Q-lj68984o8cGLZDwTDVUfazsB4V1GQ/edit - Thiemo joins the Wikidata development team

Development

- More work on badges by Bene* - Lots of Lua improvements by hoo (separate announcement with details soon) - Created backend Time parsers (yet another necessary step towards doing more in the backend instead of in Java Script in the frontend) - Automatic builds created, tested and deployed to beta labs every day! - Investigate Elastic Search as possible backend for queries - Made Wikibase Query work with our new component structure

See current sprint itemshttps://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=218716&resolution=---&resolution=LATER&resolution=DUPLICATE&emailtype1=substring&emailassigned_to1=1&query_format=advanced&bug_status=ASSIGNED&email1=wikidata for what we’re working on next.

You can view the commits currently in review herehttps://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(+project:mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/Diff+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/DataValues+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseSolr+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/Ask+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseQuery+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseDatabase+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseQueryEngine+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseDataModel+)+status:open,n,z and the ones that have been merged herehttps://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/(+project:mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/Diff+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/DataValues+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseSolr+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/Ask+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseQuery+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseDatabase+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseQueryEngine+OR+project:mediawiki/extensions/WikibaseDataModel+)+status:merged,n,z .

You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata herehttps://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

- Fix a format or content violationhttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Constraint_violations/P1001 for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001)https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1001 property - Hack on one of thesehttps://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 develop the next summary here!https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next - Contribute to a Showcase itemhttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase

Anything to add? Please share! :)

Cheers

Lydia