Wikidata:Status updates/2013 12 20

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2013-12-20.

Discussions

• Discussion over the notability of the new Draft namespace on the English Wikipedia
• Discussion over the notability of template documentation items
• RfC: Notability of item for all special pages

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikisource is still scheduled to get language links via Wikidata on January 14th

Did you know?

• Newest properties: NLM ID, NDL editions
• Showcase items: Douglas Adams
• Fun Fact: The Mayan calendar (Q2012) did not correctly predict the end of the world nor the end of Q items as Wikidata (Q2013) went on to host Wikipedia links this year.

Development

• Happy Holidays from the dev team! Have a great time and continue being awesome ;-)
• Improved and added a lot of tests
• Worked on displaying qualifiers in the non-JavaScript UI
• No longer displaying the table of contents from item/property pages if there would be less than 3 entries in it
• Caching and database improvements
• Worked on preventing the import of wikitext into the main and property namespace
• More work on quantities UI

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

• Use the rails, help out the Railways task force!
• Help fix formatting and value issues for a property.
• Build a bot for one of the "bot requests".
• Hack on one of these.
• Help develop the next summary here!

Anything to add? Please share! :)