Wikidata:Status updates/2014 07 12

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2014-07-12.

Discussions

• Improving the FAQ
• Should we link to restricted access databases?

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Two new GuidedTours (aka interactive tutorials) have been released—we now have one on editing items and one on editing statements! Both tours are available from the Wikidata:Tours portal and feedback can be left on the talk page at Wikidata_talk:Tours. The work was a combined effort of User:Bene* and Outreach Program for Women intern User:Thepwnco.
• We passed another milestone \o/ 10 million items now have an "instance of" or "subclass of" statement making it easy to tell what the item is about.
• Last week to add some selfies. We need more!
• Items with no image around you? Here you go! (change the number in the URL and click toggle markers) Thanks Magnus!

Did you know?

• Newest properties: GUI toolkit or framework, SFDb ID, non-native language spoken, nominated for, number of seats in legislature, Cycling Archives Cyclist ID, licensed to broadcast to, MusicBrainz series ID, script directionality, World Glacier Inventory ID, original combination, Foundational Model of Anatomy ID, bug report page, FCC Facility ID, convicted of

Development

• Bene* worked with the dev team this week. He pushed forward support for storing badges (eg featured article) on Wikidata and implemented the first two guided tours.
• CTRL+ click and middle click on a search result in the entity selector now opens the result in a new tab.
• Further progress on redirects
• Fixed a number of annoyances with the entity selector
• Continued work on mockups for new user interface
• Investigated what issues come up if we make wikidata.org its own client. Things look good so we will probably enable it soonish. This will mean you can link Wikidata pages in items and access the data in them on other pages on Wikidata.

See current sprint items for what we’re working on next.

You can see all open bugs related to Wikidata here

Monthly Tasks

• Fix a format or content violation for the World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850) property
• Hack on one of these.
• Help fix these items which has been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
• Help develop the next summary here!
• Contribute to a Showcase item