Wikidata:Status updates/2014 02 07

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2014-02-07.

Discussions

• Discussion over the naming of people
• Discussion over population
• Successful RfA: Sjoerddebruin

Events/Press/Blogs

• See the office hours logs at meta

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• See the FOSDEM slides
• Thiemo joins the Wikidata development team

Development

• More work on badges by Bene*
• Lots of Lua improvements by hoo (separate announcement with details soon)
• Created backend Time parsers (yet another necessary step towards doing more in the backend instead of in Java Script in the frontend)
• Automatic builds created, tested and deployed to beta labs every day!
• Investigate Elastic Search as possible backend for queries
• Made Wikibase Query work with our new component structure

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

Monthly Tasks

• Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
• Hack on one of these.
• Help develop the next summary here!
• Contribute to a Showcase item

Anything to add? Please share! :)