Wikidata:Status updates/2014 03 14

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2014-03-14.

Discussions

• Notability of items
• Organisation of statements, sitelinks and external identifiers

Events/Press/Blogs

• Media Hack Days, Berlin March 22nd-23rd
• Ateliers Wikidata, Bordeaux, France March 22nd-23rd

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Happy Pi Day
• paper by Denny Vrandečić and Markus Krötzsch

Did you know?

• Newest properties: NLC authorities, Atlas ID, fuel system, supercharger, ID (General Administration of Press and Publication), ISMN, NUKAT authorities

Development

• Changed the {{property}} parser function and Lua’s mw.wikibase.entity.formatPropertyValues to only return the statements ranked as preferred or if none are available the ones ranked as normal (This will probably go live on March 25th.)
• Worked on improving page load time further by reducing the number of reloads during page loading
• Made diffs for time and geocoordinates more complete and prettier
• Continued research for user interface redesign
• Tpt worked on optionally showing links to other sister projects in the client’s sidebar (bugzilla:54374)
• Wrote a fix for Wikidata changes not showing up in the client’s watchlist (bugzilla:62149)
• Updated a major chunk of our inline code documentation
• Continued discussing technical details about how coordinates should be stored in Wikibase

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

Monthly Tasks

• Fix a format or content violation for the Léonore ID (P640) property
• Hack on one of these.
• Help develop the next summary here!
• Contribute to a Showcase item

Anything to add? Please share! :)