Wikidata:Status updates/2014 12 06

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2014-12-06.

Events/Press/Blogs

• IRC office hour (log)
• Wikidata for research - a grant proposal anyone can edit

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikimedia Commons now has access to the data on Wikidata
• Statements on properties are now live
• Sneak peek at a prototype for checking Wikidata's data against 3rd party databases
• The Game has a new mode: alma mater
• Work is ongoing for a bot job to tag thousands of objects in OpenStreetMap with the equivalent Wikidata ID
• Resolver finds Wikidata items for a given identifier (VIAF, GND, IMDB, ...)
• English-Wikipedia now has a template, RedQ, which puts a Wikidata link next to red links for subjects which have no Wikipedia article in any language, This should prevent duplicate Wikidata items from being created when an article is written, and assist Wikipedia editors to find relevant facts and sources. Please copy it to other-language Wikipedias.

Did you know?

• Newest properties: working title, undercarriage
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Wikidata for research aims to integrate Wikidata more closely with research, and to this end, a grant proposal is being drafted.

Development

• Started work on units
• More work on evaluating options for querying
• Implemented Property DataType (for relationships between properties)
• Improvements to get by with fewer memcache request on clients
• Work on file-based cache of the SiteStore
• Work on improved label lookup performance
• Wrapping up work on usage tracking

You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here

Monthly Tasks

• Hack on one of these.
• Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
• Help develop the next summary here!
• Contribute to a Showcase item

Anything to add? Please share! :)