Wikidata:Status updates/2013 07 19

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2013-07-19.

Discussions

• A request for comment for exclusion criteria in wikipedia namespace.
• Images for the Main Page proposed and discussed on project chat.
• Discussion on Wikivoyage notability and changes to WD:N.
• Request for comment on sockpuppetry guidelines closes.

Events/Press

• Watson has received the Feigenbaum Prize which has been donated to Wikimedia and Wikidata.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• The fourteen-millionth item, about Huangjue, a village in China, is created.
• 239 Million language links removed from the Wikipedias, almost 5GB of text. (2012 vs 2013).
• Saskia joins the Wikidata team to analyze the proposals for Wiktionary in Wikidata.
• Wikivoyage deployment planned to start July 23rd, see the coordination page here.

Did you know?

• Newest properties: Kemler ID (P700), Disease Ontology ID (P699), Pubmed ID (PMID) (P698) , Ex taxon author(s) (P697),

Development

• Wmf11 has been deployed to test.wikidata.org!
• Wikidata is moving from a Squid to a Varnish cache system!
• Search ranking has been improved ready for the next deployment where Wikivoyage support will also be added.
• Optional title normalization added to 'wbgetentities'
• Fixed broken XML result for wbeditentity.
• Fixed broken link to anchor in sitelinks section.
• Templates no longer parsed in labels.
• Technical documentation improved for Ask and WikibaseQueryEngine.
• Work started on EntitiesByPropertyValue API module.
• Work on ChangeOps and API module edit summaries.

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

• Update, expand and translate one of the help pages to make it easier 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! :)