Wikidata:Status updates/2013 11 08

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2013-11-08.

Discussions

• Closed: Restructure of minor user rights
• Lua enhancements discussion

Events/Press/Blogs

• Wikidata IRC Office hour on Wednesday November 13th in #wikimedia-office
• On November 10th, Gerard Meijssen will discuss Wikidata at the Wikimedia Diversity Conference
• Lydia makes a guest appearance at the Metric and activities meeting to discuss Wikidata's growth

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikisource deployment planned to start January 13th, 2014, see the coordination page here
• Magnus discusses Wikidata items and Wikipedia entries

Did you know?

• Newest properties: BIBSYS identifier, Arts & Architecture Thesaurus ID, criterion used, including, excluding
• Newest task forces: Athletics task force
• You can now thank users for their contributions on Wikidata

Development

• Sitelinks in diff views now link to the article
• Bene* worked on adding a table of contents to item pages (bugzilla:44876)
• More work on badges by mlazowik
• Creating and removing claims with references and qualifiers now show full diffs
• Fixed invalid diffs which display 'diff=0' as a parameter (bugzilla:49434)
• Fixed cases where diff pages are cached and display in incorrect languages (bugzilla:55667)
• Added ability to ignore conflicts in merge items API module
• Worked on adding the datatype in the json output
• Fix validation of wbsetreference
• Wikibase Query now listens to entity changes of Wikibase Repo

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

• Improve biology, help out the Molecular biology task force.
• 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! :)