Wikidata:Status updates/2014 08 16

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2014-08-16.

Discussions

• Open RfOS: John F. Lewis

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Help choose which banner will be featured on the new Main page! Click here to view the two banner candidates and leave your feedback before August 20th 16:00 UTC.
• Wikidata Translate, a Wikidata-based Google translator open source clone.

Did you know?

• Newest properties: journey destination, score method, grave picture, present in work, Fide ID, Norsk filmografi ID, Jewish Encyclopedia ID, plea, collection size
• Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Movies

Development

• Finished a large number of new features and got them ready for roll-out. More in this email.
• Wikibase made a big step forward to finally switch to DataModel 1.0.
• Improved support for entity IDs bigger than 2 billion (32 bit integer).
• We had to adapt Wikibase to some major changes (more major than usual, partly caused by discussions at Wikimania) in MediaWiki core: The default Vector skin became its own component and the ResourceLoader got some small but important updates.
• Continued work on refactoring code of the user interface to make it ready for new design
• Wrote a script to get number of users having wikidata in their recent changes/watchlist from the database

See current sprint items for what we’re working on next.

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