Wikidata:Status updates/2013 05 17

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2013-05-17.

Discussion

• What should be done with the property stable Version?
• Sex Ratios in Wikidata, Wikipedias, and VIAF
• The Ropebridges: Authority Control in Wikidata

Events/Press

• A lot of Wikidata-related submissions have been accepted for Wikimania
• Treffen der Redaktion Chemie
• upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Amsterdam
• upcoming: Linked Data in Business

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• d:Help:Lua is now the place for all things Lua on Wikidata
• Item d:Q13000000 is Devarakonda, a village in India.
• The geographic relation "exclave of" is the property with the ID 500.
• English Wikipedia discussion closes allowing for use of Wikidata
• Template to display a tree based in Wikidata data
• Deployed new bugfixes on wikidata.org including a fix for pages not being added to the watchlist automatically plus the first version of the RDF export (example).
• The ability to include data using the property label is planned to be deployed on English Wikipedia on Monday and all others on Wednesday (You can then for example use {{#property:logo image}} in addition to {{#property:P154}}.)

Did you know?

• Newest properties: exclave of, enclave within, HURDAT identifier, ISO standard, home port, general manager, ISO 15924, Swedish county code, BNFC Thesaurus, cause of death, brother-in-law (sister's husband), honorific prefix, academic degree, birth name, interleaves with, state, phase, powerplant, interaction, part concerned, armament, scheduled service destination, type of orbit, temporal range start, temporal range end, Swedish municipality code, located on island, consists of
• {{Property|123}} can be used on Wikidata to get the label of the given property (P123) in the readers language. {{label|Q123}} does the same for items.

Development

• Simplified the inclusion syntax (this is one way how you access data from Wikidata in a Wikipedia article - the other one is via Lua)
• Result of the external codebase review has been published
• Worked on implementation of editable time values in frontend
• Selenium tests for false edit-conflicts and old-revision-view
• Jenkins setup improvements
• Made many improvements to the unit test configuration and bootstrapping code in Ask, Diff, DataValues, WikibaseQueryEngine and WikibaseDatabase
• Automatic class loading based on PSR-0 convention in Ask, Diff, WikibaseDatabase and WikibaseQueryEngine
• Added new array comparison code and started work on merging diffs together in Diff
• Progress on the SQLStore
• Improved many unit tests by removing unneeded dependencies they had
• Bug fixing
• Made property parser function code more robust
• Worked on EntityPerPage rebuild script, to enable it to run for Wikidata to fill in missing entities in the wb_entity_per_page table
• Making the Settings system more robust, preparing split of client and repo settings
• Work on RDF mapping and serialization
• Work on content negotiation for Special:EntityData

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

• Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
• Determine statements to add to Wikidata based on Wikipedia categories
• Map a Wikipedia infobox to Wikidata properties (advanced sample)
• Select a rarely used property and add values to Wikidata: either manually, through "array properties", through a bot request, with Wikidata useful, or by operating your own bot
• Respond to a "Request for Comment"
• Hack on one of these

Anything to add? Please share! :)