Wikidata:Status updates/2013 10 04

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2013-10-04.

Discussions

• 3 Individual Engagement Grants related to Wikidata are looking for feedback and endorsements: Understanding Wikidata, Wikidata Toolkit and Wikintelligence
• Request for Comments on linking Wikimedia Commons

Events/Press/Blogs

• UK Wikidata training
• Pushing Wikidata to the Next Level
• Hello, Good-bye at Wikidata
• Google Summer of Code 2013 - Let's Mobilize Wikidata! - A Summary
• Wikidata Query updates
• Blog: Wikidata qualifiers

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Tempo-spatial display (events in Wikidata on a map)
• Canned queries (for queries that help find missing information)
• Wikidata Browse (pretty slideshow of random Wikidata items, their pictures, labels in various languages and statements)
• Wikidata generic tree (displays a tree of data in Wikidata)
• We've crossed ID 15000000: d:Q15000000 (Category:Sternorsidis)

Did you know?

• Newest properties: Code of nomenclature, programmer, theme music, inspired by, GHS precautionary statements

Development

• Finished initial version of the build tool (= tool that creates one tarball/git repository from all our extensions and their dependencies for deployment)
• Continued work on numbers data type
• Continued work on Formatters (for autosummaries, diffs, etc)
• Fixed RDF serialization issue
• Merged merge API module
• Finished up database schema updating code
• Added validation for precision in globe coordinate value
• Finished and released version 0.9 of the Diff library
• Polishing work on Wikibase QueryEngine
• Some cleanup of EntityView

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

You can view the commits currently in review here and the ones that have been merged here.

You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here

Open Tasks for You

• Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
• Hack on one of these.

Note from Lydia about the future of the weekly summaries

I've been compiling the weekly summaries for Wikidata for the past 1.5 years. It is time to give this into the hands of a few capable community members now that I have moved on to product management. Starting next week I will not be compiling the weekly summaries anymore. I am happy to help anyone who wants to take over get up to speed of course. Please contact me if you'd like to take this over.

Anything to add? Please share! :)