[Wikidata-l] weekly summary #126 - Wikidata

29 Sep 2014

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

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