Wikidata:Status updates/2013 11 15

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2013-11-15.

Discussions

• Closed: Geocoordinates on people
• Instances of human
• Dimensions and units for the quantity datatype
• Discussion started by Tom Morris over Wikidata and Wikinews

Events/Press/Blogs

• Digitale Bibliothek 2013 is taking place, November 21st to November 22nd
• Wikidata office hour logs are available here

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Magnus creates a Wikidata search add-on for Wikipedia
• Freebase-Wikidata mappings are produced by Google
• The Wikidata IRC channel is moving from #wikimedia-wikidata to #wikidata.
• Magnus and the Wikidata created redlink lists

Did you know?

• Newest properties: feed URL, language regulatory body, BAV (Vatican Library) identifier, asteroid taxonomy

Development

• Added a keyboard shortcut to get from an article to its associated item on Wikidata (bugzilla:46538)
• Fixed bugzilla:49434 (Support diff=0 in Wikibase)
• Worked on Lua improvements including bugzilla:54324 (sequence in Lua should start with 1)
• Started making improvements to the loading time of items
• Started creating a special page to show the items with the most sitelinks (bugzilla:46217)
• More work on ranks for statements
• Worked on putting the datatype into the JSON output
• Worked more on support for enhanced changes format in client
• Cleaned up code that handles Wikibase entries in client recent changes
• Added tests for recent changes formatting code in MediaWiki code
• Updated Wikibase to maintain compatibility with changes in Universal Language Selector
• Removed many deprecated method usages related to EntityId
• Improved Special:SetSiteLink page
• Removed obsolete EntityCache code from Wikibase Client
• Removed obsolete SearchEntityArtefacts script from Wikibase Repo
• Updated usages of EntityId to usages of ItemId and PropertyId where applicable

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

• Create a mineral species, help out the Mineralogy task force by forming new new statements today!
• Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
• Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
• Hack on one of these.

Anything to add? Please share! :)