Wikidata:Status updates/2014 07 19

This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2014-07-19.

Discussions

• Discussion about removing person data
• Discussion to increase the support votes required for successful RfAs

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Main Page redesign suggestions

Did you know?

• Newest properties: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ID, 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

Development

• Finished setting up JSON dumps. If everything goes well, a first dump will be available on Monday evening
• Worked on badges UI integration and made initial progress at making them editable
• Did a lot of JavaScript refactoring in order to put Api related code into an own component
• Made it possible to access data from Wikidata items on Wikidata itself using Lua (not yet enabled)
• Fixed a bug that allowed creation of items with the same label+description of another item

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 have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
• Help develop the next summary here!
• Contribute to a Showcase item