Wikidata:Status updates/2013 02 22

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2013-02-22.

Development

• Deployed new features and bugfixes including diffs for statements and the ability to enter items and properties by their ID
• Updated demo system
• Database maintainance (Wikidata was in read-only mode for a bit)
• Implemented first version of a string data type
• Worked on better error reporting from the API
• Ported Lua function mw.wikibase.getEntity to Wikibase extension
• Worked on making the search box suggest items and properties while typing
• Improved the behaviour of the entity selector (thingy that lets you select items and entities)
• Improved debugging experience in JavaScript when dealing with prototypical inheritance
• Worked on cleanup of local entity store
• Generalized generation of localizable edit summaries

See current sprint items for what we’re working on next.

You can follow Template:Wdchanges and view the subset Template:Wdreview.

You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here

Discussions/Press

• Wikidata development will continue in 2013
• Wikidata Phase 2 in Full Swing
• RFC about the Wikidata API
• Lots of discussions about certain properties and how they should be used. Current state is at d:Wikidata:List of properties and new ones are being discussed at d:Wikidata:Property proposal
• RCF about amending the global bot policy for Wikidata
• Proposed changes to Wikidata’s notability guidelines

Events

see Events

• office hour including a report on the current status of Wikidata (log)
• upcoming: Wikipedia Day NYC

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Deployment of phase 1 (language links) on all remaining Wikipedias and a small update on Wikidata are planned for March 6
• Great page for editors to learn about what phase 1 means for them
• Cool tool visualizing family relations based on data in Wikidata
• “Restricting the World” (first in a series about some design decisions behind Wikidata)
• List of most used properties
• OmegaWiki is using Wikidata to get links to Wikipedia articles
• Nyan Nyan Wikidata Nyan Nyan
• We’ve hit d:Q5000000
• Had a look at d:Wikidata:Tools lately?

Open Tasks for You

• Hack on one of these
• Help translate Wikidata/Deployment Questions
• Help bring the content of en:Wikipedia:Wikidata to your Wikipedia

Anything to add? Please share! :)