Wikidata:Status updates/2013 11 01

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2013-11-01.

Events/Press/Blogs

• Wikidata celebrates its first birthday!
• upcoming event: Wikidata presentation at the Open Knowledge Workshop Day on November 4th by Wikimedia Suomi
• past event: SMWCon
• Interview with Magnus, a Wikimedia tool creator

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• record held, the one-thousandth property, is created.
• Wikidata could be a multilingual picture dictionary

Did you know?

• Newest properties: Lattes Platform number, NTA PPN identifier, PTBNP identifier, MusicBrainz Place ID, NLR (Romania) identifier, engine configuration, belongs to jurisdiction, record held, ARICNS, dmoz, scan file, NFPA Reactivity, NFPA Fire, NFPA Health, function/mission, elected holder, voice recording, spoken text audio
• Newest task forces: Railways task force

Development

• Released WikibaseDatabase version 0.1
• Create and remove claim diffs will now show a diff for the WHOLE claim, bug 53142
• Sitelinks in diffs now have a link to the article
• ByPropertyLists now also accept lower case propertyids as keys instead of just uppercase
• Entity descriptions are now included in the search index text
• Sitelink titles are also included in search index text
• Further developments on Quantities
• Fixed the hiding of the remove button when adding a new statement
• Serialization options have been cleaned up
• Escape titles on revision history and diff pages
• Further work on Query and QueryEngine

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

• Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
• Improve some road items in your country by adding some statements to them.
• Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
• Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
• Hack on one of these.

Anything to add? Please share! :)