Hi everyone,

In a change to the 2015 tradition (which broke 2014 tradition), here's the weekly update being published by me. Here's the summary of everything Wikidata over the past week and a thanks to Lydia for doing this for the past few weeks :)

Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage[edit https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Status_updates/2015_02_21&action=edit§ion=1 ]

- Asking ever bigger questions with Wikidata - Wikidata4Research meetup in Berlin https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Wikidata_for_research/Meetups/2015-02-23-Berlin

Other Noteworthy Stuff[edit https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Status_updates/2015_02_21&action=edit§ion=2 ]

- As announced Wikibooks is getting access to Wikidata for their sitelinks on 24th. Coordination at d:Wikidata:Wikibooks https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikibooks - ViziData - Update on data quality project - Update on structured data for Commons - Using mw.wikibase.getEntity in a Lua module? - Number of visual artworks items by property (type, genre, creator...) on Wikidata

Did you know?[edit https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Status_updates/2015_02_21&action=edit§ion=3 ]

- Newest properties: pinyin transliteration https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1721, posthumous name https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1720, temple name https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1719, courtesy name https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1718, SANDRE ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1717, brand https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1716 - Showcase items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Showcase_items : Montblanc https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q761735

Development

- Still looking for an awesome frontend developer to join the team - Met with Nik and Stas from WMF in Berlin for a week to move query functionality forward. Made good progress on evaluating backends and languages - Worked on RDF mapping/export - Introduced mw.wikibase.renderSnak(s) for rendering arbitrary Snaks in Lua. This can be used for rendering for example qualifiers or references. - Made it so that links in the “other projects” sidebar are alphabetically ordered - Made the diff views for dates easier to read - Continued work on the planned Wikibase View component - Continued work on header redesign - Worked on a new special page that lets you set label, description and aliases in one page - Fixed all browsertests to use new header section and adjusted them to use phantomjs

You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R Monthly Tasks

- Hack on one of these https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/R8GRzX1eH0tb/#R. - Help fix these items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:The_Game/Flagged_items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game. - d:Wikidata:Glossary https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Glossary could use some serious simplification to make it easier to understand. Can you help? - 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_items - Help translate https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats or proofread pages in your own language!