Wikidata:Status updates/2015 08 01

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2015-08-01.

Discussions

• Open requests for Oversight: Sjoerddebruin
• Enable Flow on Wikidata?

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Early version of a reconcile API for Wikidata by Magnus
• PagePile: a new tool by Magnus
• Mix-n-Match got a number of new catalogs and now shows a thin red line in front of a catalog that does not yet have a property on Wikidata
• 1.700 biographical items without gender, but with image. Go go go!
• Interested in art movements? Check out this

Did you know?

• Newest properties: MoMA artwork id, Facebook ID, cuisine, Cooper-Hewitt Person ID, Exif make, Exif model, IPNI publication ID, ZooBank publication ID, ZooBank author ID, Catalogus Professorum Halensis, NALT id
• Showcase items: László Krasznahorkai (Q512062)

Development

• Minor fixes to property edit mode
• Some fixes for the cucumber test errors
• Released Wikibase DataModel 4.0
• Released Wikibase DataModel Services 1.0
• Continued work to migrate away from old serializers in Wikibase Lib to those in WikibaseDataModelSerialization.
• Working on scripts for importing entities from another Wikibase instance (e.g. Wikidata), so that development instances can have some sample data.
• Fixed the counting of references
• Changed style of the Entitytermsview inputs
• Entity Selector displays alias in brackets behind label

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
• Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Anything to add? Please share! :)