Wikidata:Status updates/2015 06 27

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2015-06-27.

Events/Press/Blogs

• Past: Ateliers Wikidata
• Upcoming: Wikimania. There will be several talks and workshops related to Wikidata. Say hi at the "Ask Us Anything" session for Wikidata if you're there.
• Reductionism

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Which geographic areas do different Wikipedias cover? How does it compare to Wikidata? Markus has a beautiful answer
• Wikiproject Molecular Biology and AskPlatypus are shortlisted for the OpenData Award \o/ This is the award Wikidata won last year.
• Paper on vandalism on Wikidata. Lydia is in touch with them to figure out how to best use the insights for us.
• Reasonator got some updates: it is now using external ID formatter URLs, has monolingual string support and better social network links

Did you know?

• Newest properties: number of children, MovieMeter movie identifier, MovieMeter director ID, Foursquare venue ID, BoxRec ID, Biblioteca Nacional de Chile catalogue number, sortkey, properties for this type, patron, Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, Google Scholar ID, Dutch Senate person ID, Trismegistos ID, Wikisource index page
• Newest External tools: Wikidata Compare
• Showcase items: none. Yours next week?

Development

• Jonas joined the team and Adam is back \o/
• Deployed arbitrary access to ruwiki and cswiki
• Machine readable versions (in various formats) of Wikibase entities will be advertised in their page heads as alternate link. (phabricator:T96298)
• Fixed property label on item pages not scrolling anymore (phabricator:T94588)
• More work on getting the Wikibase Quality extensions ready for release. The part doing constraint violation checks should go to test.wikidata.org next week. The part doing checks against 3rd party databases will still take a bit longer but is also shaping up nicely.
• Made it possible to create items even when another user is mass-creating items (phabricator:T103796)
• Bene* worked more on making Wikidata work nicely on mobile
• Fixed weird issue with cursor jumping around in sitelink input field (phabricator:T103489)
• Fixed an issue where it was not possible to edit a statement after you removed its only reference (phabricator:T103603)
• Lydia will be traveling for much of July. Expect her to be a bit less responsive during that time.

You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here.

Monthly Tasks

• Hack on one of these.
• Help develop the next summary here!
• Contribute to a Showcase item

Anything to add? Please share! :)