Hi Lydia and John,

I'd like to volunteer to help you with putting together the weekly summaries. Thanks for doing this helpful Wikidata information sharing thus far.

Welcome Jan Zerebecki again!

Cheers, Scott

http://scottmacleod.com Hey folks :)

Here's your summary of what happened around Wikidata over the past 2 weeks. Sorry for not sending one last week. John and I could use some help with putting the weekly summary together. Let us know if you want to help.

Discussions

- A new blocking policy https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Blocking_policy has been accepted https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/User_conduct_policies . - Proposal for an individual engagement grant to use Wikidata items for citations https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Tools_for_using_wikidata_items_as_citations needs your input - RfC: redirect vs. deletion https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Redirect_vs._deletion

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

- past: Open Government WikiHack organized by Wikimedia DC in Washington, DC - upcoming: Wikidata training organized by Wikimedia UK with Magnus in London https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=147&reset=1

Other Noteworthy Stuff

- With the deployment next Tuesday you will be able to edit all sitelinks at once as well as all fields of the "in other languages" box. This is an intermediate step towards the new user interface and will evolve further over the next weeks. You can see what is coming on Tuesday now already on test.wikidata.org. - WikiProject Names https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Names aims to improve name related data on Wikidata. Initial focus is on first names (given names). Half of items for first names still need cleaning up, but 15% of items for persons already have a given name defined.

Did you know?

- Newest properties: Stack Exchange tag https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1482, vici.org ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1481, sourcing circumstances https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1480, has contributing factor https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1479, has immediate cause https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1478, birth name (Monolingual text) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1477, title https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1476, Nupill Literatura Digital - Document https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1474, Nupill Literatura Digital - Author https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1473, Commons Creator template https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1472,monogram https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1543, cause of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1542, Cycling Quotient ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1541, male population https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1540, female population https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1539, number of households https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1538, contributing factor of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1537, immediate cause of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1536, used by https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1535, end cause https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1534, family name identical to this first name https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1533, country for sport https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1532, parents of hybrids https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1531, Glad identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1529, kulturnoe-nasledie.ru identifier https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1483 - Showcase items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items : Hessian Broadcasting Corporation https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23565 , Fishing Creek https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5455008

Development

- Jan Zerebecki has joined the Wikidata dev team. https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-September/004628.html - Worked on supporting statements on properties in WikibaseDataModelSerialization (bugzilla:66425 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66425) - Fixed broken xml api output (bugzilla:70531 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70531), as well as some inconsistencies in the xml format and added tests that should help avoid future breakage in the xml format - Finished performance improvements for badges - Worked on entity usage tracking - Pietro from the EAGLE project came to visit us, one of the first 3rd party users of Wikibase. See http://www.eagle-network.eu - Added a hook point to allow 3rd party users (like the EAGLE project) of Wikibase to control what goes into the search index - Started work on a widget that lets you edit badges right in the item instead of going to the special page - Use checkboxes instead of a multiselect to edit badges on d:Special:SetSiteLink https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:SetSiteLink - Work on hhvm-related issues in Wikibase and temporarily disabled the beta feature on Wikidata until fixes are deployed for the issues. - Deployed new code on test.wikidata! (to be deployed on wikidata on Tuesday), see mw:Wikidata_deployment#wmf.2F1.25wmf1 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_deployment#wmf.2F1.25wmf1 - Work on fixing empty maps in the JSON serialization, differentiate them from empty lists (fixed prerequisite bugzilla:70606 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70606) - Jeroen made a little video demonstrating how you can get a clone of Wikibase DataModel, set it up, and run it's tests: https://asciinema.org/a/12530

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