Hey folks :)
Here's 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
- Upcoming office hours for Commons (Nov 20th) and Wikidata (Dec 3rd). More details on the office hour page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours. - GLAM/Wikidata hackathon in Amsterdam
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Help make sure these items https://tools.wmflabs.org/autolist/autolist1.html?q=CLAIM%5B31%3A17442550%5D have labels in your language
Did you know?
- Newest properties: NATO code for grade https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1611
Development
- Work on reviving the tree of life built from Wikidata data - Added a "featured portal" badge (Q17580674) - Improved the performance of getting labels and sitelinks in Lua (and decreased the memory usage) - Did groundwork on applying page deletions to the repo - Refactor initialization of EntityView so that we can use batched label lookup for improved performance. - Added IRC to available protocolls for the URL datatype - Improved calendar model display
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