Wikidata:Status updates/2013 11 22
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2013-11-22.
Discussions edit
Events/Press/Blogs edit
Other Noteworthy Stuff edit
- Reasonator now supports cities and locations
- The quantities datatype is available for testing
Did you know? edit
- Newest properties: main food source, GHS signal word, Digital Rights Management system, legal citation, light characteristic of a lighthouse, crew member, donated by, awarded by, doctoral thesis, SUDOC catalog (editions only), SBFI occupation code, SBC-2010 occupation code, CNO-11 occupation code, KldB-2010 occupation code
Development edit
- Refactored Api output
- Collect tasks for Google Code In
- Make wbeditentity accept serialization with the id and type keys
- Start setting up ‘automated’ part of the Wikidata build script
- Released version 1.0 of the Ask library https://github.com/wmde/Ask
- Fixed dependency injection issue in Wikibase Query
- Started work on providing a new serialization library that does not have the design issues of the current data model serialization code and can be used as standalone PHP library
- Moved quantity data type out of experimental and enabled on https://test.wikidata.org
- Improved Wikibase Lua code
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 edit
- Create a mineral species, help out the Mineralogy task force by forming new new statements today!
- The Occupations and professions task force now has a page dedicated to bots, to provide info about the ongoing task being processed by bots, and about the tasks that need to be adopted by a bot. Do you own one of those nice creatures ? Please come and help us. We also need non technical brainstorming to see what can be automated.
- 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! :)