Wikidata:Status updates/2013 09 13
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This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2013-09-13.
Events/Press/Blogs[edit]
- State of the Map
- Dbpedia-Wikidata workshop
- Slides for a Wikidata intro in French and English
- Speaker needed for a Wikidata talk in Slovakia
- Blog post by Denny: A categorical imperative?
Other Noteworthy Stuff[edit]
- The URL datatype is now available. Go and add all the sources ;-)
- Sourcerer gadget by Magnus to help you add URLs from Wikipedia articles for claims
- Wikimedia Commons is scheduled to get interwiki links via Wikidata on 23rd of September
Did you know?[edit]
- Newest properties: Saskatchewan Register of Heritage Property identifier (P845), Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (P846), United States Navy aircraft designation (P847), Japanese military aircraft designation (P849), World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850), ESRB rating (P852), CERO rating (P853), URL (P854), Sandbox-URL (P855), official website (P856), CNKI (P857), ESPN SCRUM ID (P858), sponsor (P859), e-archiv.li ID (P860), premiershiprugby.com ID (P861), Operational Requirement of the UK Air Ministry (P862), InPhO identifier (P863), ACM Digital Library author identifier (P864), BMLO (P865), Perlentaucher (P866), ROME Occupation Code (P867), foods traditionally associated (P868), instrumentation (P870), printed by (P872), phase point (P873), UN class (P874), UN code classification (P875), UN packaging group (P876), NFPA Other (P877), avionics (P878), pennant number (P879), CPU (P880), Variable type (P881), FIPS 6-4 (US counties) (P882), FIPS 5-2 (code for US states) (P883), State Water Register Code (Russia) (P884), origin of the watercourse (P885), LIR (P886), based on heuristic (P887), JSTOR (P888), Mathematical Reviews identifier (P889), Request for Comments number (IETF) (P892), Social Science Research Network (P893)
- Newest task forces: Occupations and professions task force
Development[edit]
- Breaking change to the API in the last deployment
- Started work on number data type
- Worked on simple query special page
- Worked more on moving (ordering) of qualifiers
- Worked on JSON dumps
- Continued working on allowing editentities API module to allow editing of claims
- Continued work on the merge items API module
- Worked on fixing the way Claim GUIDs are used throughout the code
- Worked on TableDefinitionReaders for Database component
- Unified and improved rendering of property values in summaries, diffs, wiki-pages, etc.
- Continued moving to new browsertests framework
- Bugfixes on autosummaries
- Worked with GSoC student on mobile skin
- Worked on refactoring of how we serialize and provide data about used entities on a page (e.g. entity pages or certain special pages) to the frontend
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[edit]
- Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
- Respond to a "Request for Comment".
- Hack on one of these.
Anything to add? Please share! :)