This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2013-04-05.

Development

The first year is over. Thank you everyone for being amazing and helping to build Wikidata and making it more than we could possibly have hoped for already. <3
Put a lot of work into improved support for Internet Explorer 8
Worked on improving recent changes code in client
Finished valueview refactoring. Created new extension “ValueView”
Implemented string formatter

You can follow Template:Wdchanges and view the subset Template:Wdreview.

You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here

Discussions/Press

Events

see Events

upcoming: GLAM-Wiki 2013

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Deployment of phase 2 on English Wikipedia is currently planned for April 8. The remaining Wikipedias are scheduled for April 10. As usual this might change if we run into problems along the way.
There is now a page showing the current lag for changes propagating to the Wikipedias so they can show up in watchlists and recent changes for example. This should ideally be in the range of a few minutes. Right now it is higher because of some abnormally high bot activity but decreasing. Should be down to a few minutes soon.
There’s now a badge you can add to Wikipedia articles to indicate there is data about it on Wikidata
We hit Q10000000
A Wikidata item in the wild ;-)

Did you know?

There are a number of task forces that take care of specific jobs or topics on Wikidata
You can get database dumps to play with
There are a lot of stats about Wikidata on http://stats.wikimedia.org

Open Tasks for You

Hit a random item and add a missing source?
Hack on one of these

Based on feedback for last week’s call for comments we will continue this newsletter. However more community help will be needed. From now on they’ll be drafted at d:Wikidata:Status updates/Next and your help is very welcome.

Anything to add? Please share! :)

Wikidata:Status updates/2013 04 05

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