Wikidata:Status updates/2013 11 29

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2013-11-29.

Discussions

• Showcase items - take 2
• Verified statements
• Closed: VCards for Wikivoyage
• Closed: Image properties
• Closed: Proposals for the 'Place' related properties
• Closed: Source items and supporting Wikipedia sources
• Closed: Constraint violation technical bases

Events/Press/Blogs

• The Wikidata Concept Cloud

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Quantities datatype is available for testing

Did you know?

• Newest properties: ZDB identifier, sockets supported, film editor, type of kinship, relative, manager/director, Dewey Decimal Classification, honorific suffix
• Newest task forces: Sports results task force

Development

• Ranks are nearing completion (bugzilla:49120)
• Quantities got some more love (improved diff, added scientific notation and simple localisation and made it possible to show/not show + for positive values - bugzilla:54318)
• Ordering of statement groups is nearing completion
• Avoid loading all referenced items in EntityView to improve loading time of items
• Finalizing the inclusion of data types in JSON output
• Fixed 2 XML errors on test.wikidata.org ready for deployment
• Started work on a Wikibase-independent serialization component for DataValues
• Worked on making Lua arrays start with 1 instead of 0 (bugzilla:54324)
• Released the Datavalues library
• Improved enhanced changes code in core, to better allow Wikibase (and Flow) to support that format
• Defined permissions for Simple Queries
• First Google Code-In task completed (meaning Special:SetSitelink now retains POSTed infomation after an error so you don't have to enter it again)

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

• Create a mineral species, help out the Mineralogy task force by forming new statements
• 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! :)