This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2013-04-12.

Development edit

Got some external professional review of our code and architecture and started working on their feedback
Worked on reducing the dispatch lag (the time it takes for changes on Wikidata to be sent to the Wikipedias for display in watchlist, recent changes and to purge affected pages)
Worked on using Redis for job queue to improve the lag situation even further
Created new Wikibase Query extension for phase 3 functionality
Autocomments & Autosummaries for SetClaim module
Worked on the GeoCoordinate parser

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

Events/Press edit

The RFC about bureaucrats was closed
RfC about policy for translation admins
We need feedback from contributors working on references addition or having tried to add references to statements. Please comment about your problems or your trials at d:Help:Sources

Deployment of phase 2 on the remaining Wikipedias was delayed because of a high lag of changes being propagated to the Wikipedias. The lag has been reduced considerably now and is going down even more. The new date for deployment will not be next week because there are other large changes on Wikimedia infrastructure scheduled that we do not want to interfere with. It will hopefully happen very soon after that though.
Next code update on wikidata.org is planned for Wednesday. This should include qualifiers and bugfixes.
There will probably be a short outage/read-only for wikidata.org on Tuesday (database is being switched to MariaDB)
If you're a student and interested in coding on Wikidata consider applying for Google Summer of Code.
There is a new user right: property creators
There is now a page to request deletion of a property
We now have Bureaucrats
Reasonator was improved and extended (1 2)

Anything to add? Please share! :)