Here is this weeks summary;

Discussions

- RfC: Developer user grouphttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/New_user_group_for_developers

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

- There will be a German handbook on Wikidata and authority control. Feedback and proofreading is very welcome until next week at https://hshdb.github.io/normdaten-in-wikidata/2014-05-06.html

Development

- Attending the MediaWiki hackathon in Zurich - Work on finalizing the JSON dumps - More work on simple queries to get them ready for performance and security review and a first release - Legoktm created an API module to retrieve the current dispatch stats status - Fixed an issue with iferror when using the property parser function ( bugzilla:55347 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55347) - Show correct data in the in other languages box for older revisions ( bugzilla:63309 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63309)

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/P512 for the academic degree (P512) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P512 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