This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2013-07-05.

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Wikivoyage deployment planned to start July 22nd, see the coordination page here.
Addshore joins the Wikidata development team as an intern (project chat).
Byrial creates Statistics showing the namespaces used in item site links.
Proposal for a new Wikimedia Foundation Sister project called 'Global Economic Map' that could use Wikidata at its core (on meta.)

Newest properties: MeSH Code (P672), Mouse Genome Informatics ID (P671), street number (P670)

Very rough and tentative timeline for the next month of development: mw:Roadmap#Wikidata deployment.
Continued work on validation and handling of partially invalid data.
Breaking change for 'wbeditentity' in the API fixing (bugzilla:49526) - when creating new items the 'new' parameter must now be given.
Improved handling of broken UTF-8 encoding.
Made it possible to enter the direction in a geocoordinate also at the beginning now (for example 52°31′N 13°23′E can soon also be entered as N 52°31′ E 13°23′).
Introduced PropertyInfoStore for quick access to meta-info about properties.
Deserialization of Description objects in Ask.
Lots of bugfixing.
Began work on factoring out components of entity view into separate classes.
Made UI mockups for Wikidata mobile.

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

Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier for newcomers.
Update and expand d:Wikidata:Contribute to provide more information for newcomers.
Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
Respond to a "Request for Comment".
Hack on one of these.

Anything to add? Please share! :)